Runaways #1 was published by Marvel Comics on April 1, 2004, as part of a series that began in 2004. Brian K. Vaughan writes, and art comes from Adrian Alphona, Brian Reber and Craig Yeung. This 148-page issue features Nico Minoru, Molly Hayes, Chase Stein, Karolina Dean and Gertrude Yorkes, among 19 characters cataloged on VerseDB.