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Publisher
  
Image Comics

Format
  
Ongoing series

Writer
  
Jonathan Hickman

Publication date
  
2012–ongoing

Schedule
  
Monthly

Number of issues
  
25

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Artist
  
Nick Pitarra

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Creator(s)
  
Jonathan Hickman Nick Pitarra

Colorist(s)
  
Cris Peter; Rachelle Rosenberg; Jordie Bellaire

Similar
  
East of West, Nowhere Men, Thief of Thieves, Fatale, God Hates Astronauts

The Manhattan Projects is a graphic novel series co-created by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Nick Pitarra published by Image Comics. It is a story about an alternate history of the end of World War II in which the Manhattan Project was a front for other more esoteric science fiction ideas. The series is a monthly ongoing and began in March 2012 to much critical acclaim.

Contents

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The series was relaunched as Manhattan Projects: The Sun Beyond the Stars on March 11, 2015.

Characters

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  • Joseph Oppenheimer, an American physicist with multiple personalities; Robert Oppenheimer's evil twin brother
  • Albert Einstein, a German physicist and barbarian
  • Albrecht Einstein, a German physicist and alcoholic from an alternate reality
  • Richard Feynman, an American physicist and wormholer
  • Enrico Fermi, an extraterrestrial disguised as an Italian physicist
  • William Westmoreland, a US Army general and butcher
  • Harry Daghlian, an irradiated American physicist; the "Atomic Messiah"
  • Wernher von Braun, a German rocket scientist with robotic prosthetic limbs
  • Leslie Groves, a US Army general who constantly smokes cigars and prefers the use of bombs in combat
  • FDR: A.I., the artificial intelligence of the deceased American president, Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Lyndon B. Johnson, an American president from Texas
  • Harry S. Truman, a Freemason and American president
  • Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut and hero
  • Laika, a Russian space dog who can speak and is much smarter than people think
  • Helmutt Gröttrup, a German rocket scientist and slave
  • Dmitriy Ustinov, a Russian Minister of Defense
  • John F. Kennedy, an alcoholic, drug-addicted, womanizing American president

    • Collected editions

    The Manhattan Projects has been collected into the following trade paperbacks:

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    The Manhattan Projects The Manhattan Projects Digital Comics Comics by comiXology

    References

    The Manhattan Projects Wikipedia
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