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	Cover of Incognito #1 (December 2008), art by Sean Phillips.
Publication information
Publisher	Icon Comics (imprint of Marvel Comics)
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Crime, superhero;
Publication date	December 2008
No. of issues	6 (first series); 5 (second series)
Creative team
Written by	Ed Brubaker
Artist(s)	Sean Phillips
Colorist(s)	Val Staples

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Incognito is a six-issue comic book limited series written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips. It was originally published by the Icon Comics imprint of Marvel Comics.^[1]^[2]

A second five issue miniseries, Incognito: Bad Influences, was released in late 2010.

The first series ran for six issues starting in December 2008, with a seven-month hiatus while the creators worked on another volume. It returned in November 2010 for five more issues. Each issue featured an article written by Jess Nevins on various pulp characters. The comic is set in a world where pulp science heroes and villains have existed since the early 19th century. The protagonist, Zack Overkill, is a former science villain in the Witness Protection Program who regains his super abilities through illegal drugs. He becomes a vigilante and faces threats from his past. In the second series, Zack becomes an agent for the SOS agency and goes undercover to bring back an infiltrated agent. The comic was collected into editions, and in 2017, a republished version was released by Image Comics. A film adaptation of "Incognito" was optioned by 20th Century Fox and later picked up by Columbia Pictures, with a screenplay by Daniel Casey and directed by Fede Álvarez.

Publication history

The first series was published in December 2008 and ran for six issues. The title took a seven-month hiatus while the creators worked on the third volume of Criminal. It returned in November 2010 and ran for another five issues.

Each issue featured an article written by Jess Nevins on the pulp characters The Shadow (#1), Doc Savage (#2), The Spider (#3), Operator No. 5 (#4), Fu Manchu (#5), and Zeppelin Pulps (#6).^[3] The articles in the second miniseries focused on The Phantom Detective (#1), G-8 (#2), Captain Future (#3), Nick Carter (#4), and Pulp Supervillains (#5).

Plot

The comic is set in a world in which larger-than-life pulp science heroes and villains have existed since the early 19th century. The original super was an escaped convict named Kenneth Lee who became Black Death. His powers came from a radioactive object which landed in New England over 200 years ago. Other notable supers include the descendants of the soldiers who were chasing him including the Doc Savage-esque "Professor Zeppelin" and the Shadow-esque "Lazarus". After World War II, the SOS agency created by Zeppelin has kept most stories about the supers out of the news, portraying them as freak weather events.

The comic deals with former science villain Zack Overkill, who is in the Witness Protection Program after giving testimony against Black Death. Zack is required to take a drug that eliminates his super abilities and delivers mail in an office.

To escape the boredom of a normal life, Zack experiments with illegal drugs. He discovers that they interfere with the power-blocking drug and he once again has his super strength. He begins wearing a mask again and searches for action in the streets and back alleys, acting as a vigilante rather than a supervillain. His actions reveal to Black Death that he is alive; several of Black Death's soldiers attempt to kill Zack for his testimony.

During the story, Zack learns about the origins of heroes and villains, and his own connection to Lazarus. After working with Professor Zeppelin's daughter Zoe, Zack decides to work with SOS to avoid boredom and Black Death's agents.

In the second series, Bad Influences, Zack is now an agent for the SOS, and given a new assignment: appear to go rogue so he can go underground and bring back an SOS agent who infiltrated Level 9, a science-villain organization. But while doing so, someone is using the identity of Lazarus to wipe out science villains. SOS incorrectly believes Zack had gone rogue, and he is imprisoned in the same prison as Black Death.

Collected editions


Title	Material collected	Published date	ISBN
Incognito	Incognito #1-6	December 2009	978-0785139799
Incognito: Bad Influences	Incognito: Bad Influences #1-5	July 2011	978-0785151555
Incognito: The Classified Edition	Incognito #1-6, Incognito: Bad Influences #1-5	September 2012	978-0785165743

In 2017 Incognito: The Classified Edition was republished by Image Comics.^[4]

Film adaptation

Incognito was optioned for a film by 20th Century Fox, with Robert Schenkkan penciled in as the screenwriter.^[5] The film was picked up by Columbia Pictures, with 10 Cloverfield Lane screenwriter Daniel Casey writing the script and Fede Álvarez directing.^[6]

Notes

^ Ed Brubaker on Incognito, Newsarama, September 16, 2008
^ "Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips Go "Ingognito" at Marvel with a Teaser Preview Archived 2009-01-11 at the Wayback Machine (press release), Comic Book Resources, September 16, 2008
^ Extra Pulp: Ed Brubaker Talks "Incognito", Comic Book Resources, December 15, 2008
^ "INCOGNITO CLASSIFIED ED HC (MR) (MAY178200)". www.previewsworld.com. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
^ Fleming, Mike (April 29, 2010). "Fox Goes 'Incognito' For New Twist On Superhero Genre". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
^ Cabin, Chris (October 11, 2016). "'Don't Breathe' Director & '10 Cloverfield Lane' Writer Pairing for Sony's 'Incognito' Adaptation". Collider. Retrieved October 11, 2016.

References

Incognito at the Grand Comics Database
Incognito at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

[1] Ed Brubaker on Incognito, Newsarama, September 16, 2008

[2] "Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips Go "Ingognito" at Marvel with a Teaser Preview Archived 2009-01-11 at the Wayback Machine (press release), Comic Book Resources, September 16, 2008

[3] Extra Pulp: Ed Brubaker Talks "Incognito", Comic Book Resources, December 15, 2008

[4] "INCOGNITO CLASSIFIED ED HC (MR) (MAY178200)". www.previewsworld.com. Retrieved 2022-11-01.

[5] Fleming, Mike (April 29, 2010). "Fox Goes 'Incognito' For New Twist On Superhero Genre". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved April 29, 2010.

[6] Cabin, Chris (October 11, 2016). "'Don't Breathe' Director & '10 Cloverfield Lane' Writer Pairing for Sony's 'Incognito' Adaptation". Collider. Retrieved October 11, 2016.

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-'''''Incognito''''' is a six-issue [[comic book]] [[Limited series (comics)|limited series]] written by [[Ed Brubaker]] with art by [[Sean Phillips]], It was published by the [[Icon Comics]] [[imprint (trade name)|imprint]] of [[Marvel Comics]].<ref>[http://www.newsarama.com/comics/090816-Incognito.html Ed Brubaker on Incognito], [[Newsarama]], September 16, 2008</ref><ref>[http://comicbookresources.com:8080/?page=article&id=18079 "Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips Go "Ingognito" at Marvel with a Teaser Preview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111102506/http://comicbookresources.com:8080/?page=article&id=18079 |date=2009-01-11 }} (press release), [[Comic Book Resources]], September 16, 2008</ref>
+'''''Incognito''''' is a six-issue [[comic book]] [[Limited series (comics)|limited series]] written by [[Ed Brubaker]] with art by [[Sean Phillips]]. It was originally published by the [[Icon Comics]] [[imprint (trade name)|imprint]] of [[Marvel Comics]].<ref>[http://www.newsarama.com/comics/090816-Incognito.html Ed Brubaker on Incognito], [[Newsarama]], September 16, 2008</ref><ref>[http://comicbookresources.com:8080/?page=article&id=18079 "Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips Go "Ingognito" at Marvel with a Teaser Preview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111102506/http://comicbookresources.com:8080/?page=article&id=18079 |date=2009-01-11}} (press release), [[Comic Book Resources]], September 16, 2008</ref>
 A second five issue miniseries, ''Incognito: Bad Influences'', was released in late 2010.
+The first series ran for six issues starting in December 2008, with a seven-month hiatus while the creators worked on another volume. It returned in November 2010 for five more issues. Each issue featured an article written by [[Jess Nevins]] on various pulp characters. The comic is set in a world where pulp science heroes and villains have existed since the early 19th century. The protagonist, Zack Overkill, is a former science villain in the Witness Protection Program who regains his super abilities through illegal drugs. He becomes a vigilante and faces threats from his past. In the second series, Zack becomes an agent for the SOS agency and goes undercover to bring back an infiltrated agent. The comic was collected into editions, and in 2017, a republished version was released by Image Comics. A film adaptation of "Incognito" was optioned by 20th Century Fox and later picked up by Columbia Pictures, with a screenplay by Daniel Casey and directed by Fede Álvarez.
 ==Publication history==
-The first series was published in December 2008 and ran for six issues. The title took a seven-month hiatus while the creaters worked on the third volume of ''[[Criminal (comics)|Criminal]]''.  It returned in November 2010 and ran for another five issues.
+The first series was published in December 2008 and ran for six issues. The title took a seven-month hiatus while the creators worked on the third volume of ''[[Criminal (comics)|Criminal]]''. It returned in November 2010 and ran for another five issues.
 Each issue featured an article written by [[Jess Nevins]] on the [[pulp magazines|pulp]] characters [[The Shadow]] (#1), [[Doc Savage]] (#2), [[The Spider]] (#3), [[Operator No. 5]] (#4), [[Fu Manchu]] (#5), and Zeppelin Pulps (#6).<ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=19180 Extra Pulp: Ed Brubaker Talks "Incognito"], [[Comic Book Resources]], December 15, 2008</ref> The articles in the second miniseries focused on [[The Phantom Detective]] (#1), [[G-8 (character)|G-8]] (#2), [[Captain Future]] (#3), [[Nick Carter (literary character)|Nick Carter]] (#4), and Pulp Supervillains (#5).
 ==Plot==
-The comic is set in a world in which larger-than-life pulp heroes and villains have existed since the early 19th century.  The original super was an escaped convict named Kenneth Lee who went by the name the Black Death. His powers came from [[Wold Newton family|a radioactive object which landed in New England over 200 years ago]]. Other notable supers include the descendants of the soldiers who were chasing him including the Doc Savage-esque "Professor Zeppelin," the Shadow-esque "Lazarus". After World War II, the SOS agency created by Zeppelin has kept most stories about the supers out of the news.
+The comic is set in a world in which larger-than-life pulp science heroes and villains have existed since the early 19th century. The original super was an escaped convict named Kenneth Lee who became Black Death. His powers came from [[Wold Newton family|a radioactive object which landed in New England over 200 years ago]]. Other notable supers include the descendants of the soldiers who were chasing him including the Doc Savage-esque "Professor Zeppelin" and the Shadow-esque "Lazarus". After World War II, the SOS agency created by Zeppelin has kept most stories about the supers out of the news, portraying them as freak weather events.
-The comic deals with former science villain Zack Overkill, who is in the [[Witness Protection Program]] after giving testimony against The Black Death.  Zack is required to take a drug that eliminates his super abilities and given a job delivering mail in an office.
+The comic deals with former science villain Zack Overkill, who is in the [[United States Federal Witness Protection Program|Witness Protection Program]] after giving testimony against Black Death. Zack is required to take a drug that eliminates his super abilities and delivers mail in an office.
-Trying to escape the boredom of a normal life, Zack experiments with illegal drugs.  It quickly becomes obvious they interfere with the power-blocking drug and he once again has his super strength. He begins wearing a mask again and searches for action in the streets and back alleys acting as a vigilante rather than a supervillain to avoid being arrested for violating his parole agreement.  His actions reveal to Black Death that he is alive.  Several of Black Death's soldiers attempt to kill Zack for his testimony.
+To escape the boredom of a normal life, Zack experiments with illegal drugs. He discovers that they interfere with the power-blocking drug and he once again has his super strength. He begins wearing a mask again and searches for action in the streets and back alleys, acting as a vigilante rather than a supervillain. His actions reveal to Black Death that he is alive; several of Black Death's soldiers attempt to kill Zack for his testimony.
-During the story, Zack learns the truth about the origins of the [[science hero]]es and villains, and his own connection to one of the first and greatest.  After working with Professor Zeppelin's daughter Zoe, Zack decides to work with SOS at least until Black Death stops trying to kill him.
+During the story, Zack learns about the origins of heroes and villains, and his own connection to Lazarus. After working with Professor Zeppelin's daughter Zoe, Zack decides to work with SOS to avoid boredom and Black Death's agents.
-In the second series, ''Bad Influences'', Zack is now an agent for the SOS, and given a new assignment: appear to go rogue so he can go underground and bring back an SOS agent who infiltrated Level 9, a science-villain organization.  But while doing so, someone is using the identity of Lazarus to wipe out science villains. SOS incorrectly believes Zack had gone rogue, and he is imprisoned in the same prison as Black Death.
+In the second series, ''Bad Influences'', Zack is now an agent for the SOS, and given a new assignment: appear to go rogue so he can go underground and bring back an SOS agent who infiltrated Level 9, a science-villain organization. But while doing so, someone is using the identity of Lazarus to wipe out science villains. SOS incorrectly believes Zack had gone rogue, and he is imprisoned in the same prison as Black Death.
 ==Collected editions==
+{| class="wikitable"
-The original mini-series was collected into a [[trade paperback (comics)|trade paperback]], which did  not include the extra articles:
+|+
+!Title
-*''Incognito'' (144 pages, November 2009, {{ISBN|0-7851-3979-6}})
+!Material collected
-*''Incognito: Bad Influences'' (2011, {{ISBN|978-07851-5155-5}})
+!Published date
+!ISBN
-A hardback collection was released that included both series, plus the extra articles:
+|-
+|''Incognito''
-* ''Incognito: The Classified Edition'' (368 pages, September 2012, {{ISBN|978-0785165743}})
+|''Incognito'' #1-6
+|December 2009
+|{{ISBNT|978-0785139799}}
+|-
+|''Incognito: Bad Influences''
+|''Incognito: Bad Influences'' #1-5
+|July 2011
+|{{ISBNT|978-0785151555}}
+|-
+|''Incognito: The Classified Edition''
+|''Incognito'' #1-6, ''Incognito: Bad Influences'' #1-5
+|September 2012
+|{{ISBNT|978-0785165743}}
+|}
+In 2017 ''Incognito: The Classified Edition'' was republished by [[Image Comics]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=INCOGNITO CLASSIFIED ED HC (MR) (MAY178200) |url=https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAY178200 |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=www.previewsworld.com |language=en}}</ref>
 ==Film adaptation==
-''Incognito'' was optioned for a film by [[20th Century Fox]], with [[Robert Schenkkan]] penciled in as the screenwriter.<ref>{{cite web|first=Mike|last=Fleming|url=http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/fox-goes-incognito-for-new-twist-on-superhero-genre/|title=Fox Goes 'Incognito' For New Twist On Superhero Genre|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=April 29, 2010|accessdate=April 29, 2010}}</ref> The film was picked up by [[Columbia Pictures]], with ''[[10 Cloverfield Lane]]'' screenwriter [[Daniel Casey (screenwriter)|Daniel Casey]] writing the script and [[Fede Alvarez]] directing.<ref>{{cite web|first=Chris|last=Cabin|url=http://collider.com/incognito-movie-fede-alvarez-daniel-casey/|title='Don’t Breathe’ Director & ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Writer Pairing for Sony’s ‘Incognito’ Adaptation|publisher=[[Collider (website)|Collider]]|date=October 11, 2016|accessdate=October 11, 2016}}</ref>
+''Incognito'' was optioned for a film by [[20th Century Fox]], with [[Robert Schenkkan]] penciled in as the screenwriter.<ref>{{cite web|first=Mike|last=Fleming|url=https://deadline.com/2010/04/fox-goes-incognito-for-new-twist-on-superhero-genre-36840/|title=Fox Goes 'Incognito' For New Twist On Superhero Genre|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=April 29, 2010|access-date=April 29, 2010}}</ref> The film was picked up by [[Columbia Pictures]], with ''[[10 Cloverfield Lane]]'' screenwriter [[Daniel Casey (screenwriter)|Daniel Casey]] writing the script and [[Fede Álvarez]] directing.<ref>{{cite web|first=Chris|last=Cabin|url=https://collider.com/incognito-movie-fede-alvarez-daniel-casey/|title='Don't Breathe' Director & '10 Cloverfield Lane' Writer Pairing for Sony's 'Incognito' Adaptation|publisher=[[Collider (website)|Collider]]|date=October 11, 2016|access-date=October 11, 2016}}</ref>
 ==See also==
-*''[[Sleeper (comics)|Sleeper]]''
+* ''[[Sleeper (comics)|Sleeper]]''
-*''[[Criminal (comics)|Criminal]]''
+* ''[[Criminal (comics)|Criminal]]''
-*''[[Fatale (Image Comics)|Fatale]]''
+* ''[[Fatale (Image Comics)|Fatale]]''
 ==Notes==
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 ==References==
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+* {{comicbookdb|type=title|id=21621|title=''Incognito''}}
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