PLANETARY #2 - DC COMICS (1999) 445311

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ENGLISH BOOK
An infamous and militantly radical Japanese writer/philosopher and
several acolytes land on the mysterious Island Zero, on the farthest
northwestern tip of the Japanese archipelago. The object of opposing
territorial claims by Japan and Russia, it is thus occupied by neither.
Sneering at such concerns, the arrogant "master storyteller" claims it
for Japan, but he and his followers find something unexpected -- the
immense, rotting carcasses of vaguely prehistoric monsters. They've also
caught the attention of Planetary, which has helped preserve the secret
since uncovering it years earlier. Jakita tells Snow that after the atomic bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima, there were reports of a storm -- or something -- which
resulted, five years later, in Island Zero being populated by monsters.
Radioactive mutants? Refugees from a door opened from a parallel earth?
Extra-terrestrial? No one is sure, but what is certain is that the
monsters never left the island, and died off by the mid-'70s. A small
armed defense and observation force was left on the island, which also
responds to the trespassers. Planetary arrives on the scene too late to
prevent the writer from unleashing a deadly nerve gas, killing everyone
all but Snow and Wagner. En route to the military station to gather
information, the two are awestruck by a giant, dragon-like creature
flying overhead. Evidently monsters still live on Island Zero after all.