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"The Manhattan Projects" is a science fiction comic book series published by Image Comics, written by Jonathan Hickman with art by Nick Pitarra. It presents an alternate history where the Manhattan Project was a front for a vast, secret organization researching fringe science and occult technologies. The series reimagines real-world scientists like J. Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein, and Wernher von Braun as deeply flawed, reality-altering individuals.
It caters to readers who enjoy dark, satirical science fiction.
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What is the alternate-history premise of The Manhattan Projects?
The comic imagines that the Manhattan Project's atomic bomb research was only a cover for stranger scientific programs. Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra turn real twentieth-century science into a dark, violent science fiction conspiracy. [Image Comics](https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/the-manhattan-projects)
Which real scientists appear in The Manhattan Projects?
The cast uses alternate versions of historical figures such as Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. Their fictional counterparts belong to a secret organization that treats atomic research, space travel, and fringe science as weapons.
How far does the main Manhattan Projects comic run?
Image's release archive runs through The Manhattan Projects issue 25, and the main story is collected in six volumes. The sixth volume also collects the four-issue Sun Beyond the Stars story.
What is The Sun Beyond the Stars?
The Sun Beyond the Stars is a four-issue Manhattan Projects spin-off about Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin after he becomes lost in space. It was written by Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Nick Pitarra, and its first issue was published in 2015. [Image Comics](https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/the-manhattan-projects-the-sun-beyond-the-stars-1)
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