BOOM! Studios Reveals First Look At ‘Abbott: 1973’ #1, Set For January 2021

BOOM! Studios revealed a first look at Abbott: 1973 #1, the premiere issue of a new series from writer Saladin Ahmed and artist Sami Kivelä, with colorist Mattia Iacono and letterer Jim Campbell. Debuting in January 2021, this new five-issue series returns to the Hugo Award-nominated world of Abbott, as the eponymous unstoppable reporter tackles a new corruption taking over Detroit in 1973 and the supernatural threat behind it.

‘Elena Abbott is one of Detroit’s toughest reporters—and after defeating the dark forces that murdered her husband, she’s focused on the most important election in the city’s history. But when someone uses dark magic to sabotage the campaign of the prospective first Black mayor of Detroit, it becomes clear to Abbott that the supernatural conspiracy in her city is even greater than she ever imagined. Now Abbott must exhaust all her abilities as a reporter and a supernatural savior to rescue Detroit—but at what cost to her own life?’

Print copies of Abbott: 1973 #1, featuring cover art by Taj Tenfold, Raúl Allén, and Jenny Frison, will hit spinner racks on January 20, 2021.

Check out the variant covers and First Look preview art below.