Out of Alcatraz #1 from Oni Press Follows Real-Life Prison Break
By Liam McGuire
Feb. 21st, 2025
An exciting new comic tackles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the Postmodern era in Out of Alcatraz from Oni Press!
Out of Alcatraz #1 comes from Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man) and Tyler Crook (Harrow County) and stars reali-life convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin after they successfully break free from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Upon washing ashore in San Francisco, they’ll try to escape an ongoing manhunt and begin a life on the run!
Out of Alcatraz #1 features main cover art by Crook which homages the classic movie Vertigo. Variant covers come from Oliver Dominguez and Valeria Burzo, while Crook draws a 1:10 incentive variant, Massimo Carnevale draws a 1:20 cover, and Hayden Sherman does a 1:50 variant.
Born from one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, this taut and breathtaking original limited series launches with a double-sized, 48-page debut from Eisner Award-nominated writer Christopher Cantwell (Plastic Man No More, Briar) and Eisner Award-nominated illustrator Tyler Crook (Harrow County, The Lonesome Hunters)!Convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin have washed ashore in San Francisco after surviving their infamous escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in June 1962. They soon meet their gruff and disappointed handler, a mysterious young woman who's also running from something, and hope to quickly get their way north to the border-if they can even make it out of Modesto alive. As a dogged federal manhunt and chance encounters threaten the desperate convicts, everyone involved is about to discover the same bloodstained truth: life on the run is an even more hellish prison than Alcatraz could have ever been
Out of Alcatraz from Oni Press arrives at CaptCan Comics on Match 19th, 2025! Pre-order the series now to ensure you don't miss out!