The Walking Dead is an ongoing black-and-white comic book series created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore.   It focuses on Rick Grimes, a Kentucky deputy who is shot in the line of duty and awakens from a coma in a zombie apocalypse that has resulted in a state-wide quarantine. After joining with other survivors, including his loved ones, he gradually takes on the role of leader of a community as it struggles to survive the zombie apocalypse.

First issued in 2003 by publisher Image Comics, the comic is written by Kirkman with art by Moore (issues No. 1–6) and Charlie Adlard (issue No. 7 onward).[4] Moore continued to do the covers through issue No. 24.

The Walking Dead received the 2007 and 2010 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series at San Diego Comic-Con International. The series was adapted into the AMC television series The Walking Dead, which premiered in 2010. The television program loosely follows the storyline of the comic book. The franchise has also spawned multiple additional media properties, including video games , a companion television series , webisode series and various additional publications, including novels.

The series is periodically re-published in trade paperbacks which contain six issues each, hardcover books with twelve issues and occasional bonus material, omnibus editions of twenty-four issues, and compendium editions of forty-eight issues.

This listing is for one Walking Dead Compendium #1 2012 New York Comic Con Exclusive Red Foil Hardcover Edition. This hardcover Compendium collects issues #1-48 of THE WALKING DEAD.

It was limited to only 1500 copies.