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Nat Turner Issue #1

A full-colour illustration depicting the hand of the titular character, Nat Turner, holding a sword against the backdrop of the moon in the night sky, with droplets of blood curving around the sword in an arc. There is also a spine design on the left side of the cover reminiscent of "little golden books" era hardcover story books, which is black with dark blue swirls (the same colour as the background behind the moon). There are two orange stickers for Strange Adventures comic shop on the cover.
A comic book adapting the real life accounts, journal entries, and court confessions of Nat Turner, an African citizen kidnapped and enslaved during the American slave trade during the early 1800's. Nat Turner would later become the leader of an insurrection in Southampton, Virginia. The entire comic is presented from start to finish with no spoken dialogue, with the story presented entirely through visual media.

The only text contained beyond the synopsis (which itself appears to have been scanned from a real life court document) on the reverse side of the front cover, the advertisements for proceeding books in the series on the final page, and the copyright information are excerpts from journal entries on pages 26 and 47, placed below, and to the left of the art panels depicted therein respectively.