Y The Last Man Book One TPB | Brian K Vaughan Pia Guerra Award-Winning Series
Y The Last Man Book One TPB | Brian K Vaughan Pia Guerra Award-Winning Series
- Y: The Last Man Book One - TPB
- Written by award-winning Brian K. Vaughan (Ex Machina, Lost)
- Art by Pia Guerra and José Marzan
- Cover by Massimo Carnevale
- Published by DC Vertigo (September 2014)
- 256 pages of epic storytelling
- Collects Y: The Last Man #1-10
- Features Yorick Brown and Ampersand
- Post-apocalyptic survival saga
- ISBN: 9781401251512
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