Asylum Press Announces Long-Awaited Re-Release of Fearless Dawn: The Bomb

We are very excited to offer comic fans the origin story of renowned artist Steve Mannion’s signature character. Fearless Dawn: The Bomb will be a four issue limited series from Asylum Press. "Fearless Dawn has been around since the early 2000s in various forms, first appearing in Strange Battle Tales #1, a small press one-shot published by Big Ape Comics," explains publisher Frank Forte.

Steve Mannion had then published Fearless Dawn’s origin in a comic book entitled THE BOMB in the early 2000s. This was a 4-issue mini-series that Steve Mannion had self-published under the banner Atom Bomb Comics. The book had limited exposure as it was a POD (print on demand) book. "It took me a year to sell 100 issues... on foot...at local comic book shows and on eBay," says Steve Mannion. "I had to put an original drawing on them to sell 'em on eBay! My motto was..."Atom Bomb Comics...One fan at a time". It was very hard introducing a new character into the comic book market at the time. But I stuck with it, and we developed a small, loyal audience."

"When I saw Strange Pirate Tales and The Bomb, I knew I wanted to publish Fearless Dawn," says publisher Frank Forte, "That’s when we did the 4-issue color mini-series entitled Fearless Dawn, which we now sometimes call Fearless Dawn: the Belly of The Beast."

Asylum Press collected The Bomb into a trade paper back in 2010 and it quickly became a fan favorite, but because Asylum Press never titled it with “Fearless Dawn: The Bomb”, some fans didn't know it was part of the cannon. The Bomb TPB is long out of print and is hard to come by. With the new edition of Fearless Dawn: The Bomb #1, a new generation of comic book fans as well as older fans can read the origin story of the sexy and funny Fearless Dawn at the low introductory price of $4.99. The first issue is 32 pages and has 30 pages of comic content including the origin story, back up stories and character bios, so fans can get a glimpse of who’s who in the Fearless Dawn Universe.

Fearless Dawn: The Bomb #1 (of 4) can be preordered now and is scheduled to ship March 2023. Fearless Dawn: The Bomb will be a bi-monthly series.