Dark Horse Presents Vol. 1 #34, Chris Warner Cover, CGC 9.6 (07), Dark Horse '89

1st appearance of Aliens vs. Predator in comics. Chris Warner cover.

Dark Horse Presents #34, published by Dark Horse Comics in November 1989, is the issue that introduced Aliens vs. Predator to comics. The short story running through this issue and the two that follow it, DHP #35 and #36, brought these two franchises together for the first time in any medium, predating the films by years and establishing the canonical template that every subsequent AVP story, game, and movie would draw from. For collectors of Dark Horse's foundational science-fiction work, this is the origin point.

The Aliens vs. Predator story in this issue functions as a prologue, part one of three, laying out the premise that would fuel an entire publishing line and eventually a franchise. Dark Horse Presents was the anthology series that incubated some of Dark Horse's most important properties throughout the late 1980s, and issue #34 sits among its most significant entries. The material was later reprinted in collected editions of the AVP series, but this is where it first appeared.

This copy grades CGC 9.6, a Near Mint+ slab with certification number 4554388007. High-grade copies of this issue are genuinely scarce; it was a mid-run anthology issue from 1989 with no expectation at the time that the AVP story would become what it became. A 9.6 represents exceptional preservation of a book that has had 35 years to circulate.