Runaways Volume One is an 18 issue collection and start of the "Runaways" Series. All teenagers at some point in their young lives believes their parents are the worst people in the world. Runaways tells the story of a team of six kids who discover their parents are actually a group of supervillians; thus the beginning of an exciting adventure.
Synopsis[]
In Pride & Joy, six young friends discover their parents are all secretly super-powered villains! Finding strength in one another, the shocked teens run away from home and straight into the adventure of their lives - vowing to turn the tables on their evil legacy.[1] In Teenage Wasteland, the Runaways find a kindred spirit in a daring young stranger and welcome him into their fold. But will this dashing young man help the teenagers defeat their villainous parents... or tear them apart?[2] Plus: who do you send to catch a group of missing, runaway teenage super-heroes? Marvel's original teen runaway crimefighters, Cloak and Dagger, make their first major appearance in years! In The Good Die Young, the world as we know it is about to end, and the Runaways are the only hope to prevent it! Our fledgling teenage heroes have learned how their parents' criminal organization began, and now they must decide how it should end. As the Runaways' epic battle against their evil parents reaches its shocking conclusion, the team's mole stands revealed, and blood must be shed. Which kids will still be standing when the smoke finally clears?[3]
Issue Guide[]
| Cover | Chapter Title | Publication Date | Writer(s) / Penciler(s) | Issue # | |
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Pride and Joy, Chapter One | April 16th, 2003 | Brian K. Vaughan / Adrian Alphona | Vol 1 #1 | |
| What if you discovered your parents were super-villains? This issue kicks off the Runaways, the critically acclaimed series of a group of teenagers trying to do right where their parents wronged." | |||||
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Pride and Joy, Chapter Two | August 10th, 2003 | Brian K. Vaughan / Adrian Alphona | Vol 1 #2 | |
| "After discovering that their parents are super-villains, the Runaways make their escape to make sense of it all...but they end up making an even more startling discovery." | |||||
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Pride and Joy, Chapter Three | September, 2003 | Brian K. Vaughan / Adrian Alphona | Vol 1 #3 | |
| "The Runaways discover...a dinosaur!? What have their parents been keeping from the Runaways?!" | |||||