Days Gone Bye

Days Gone Bye collects issues 1-6 of the comic series The Walking Dead. Followed by Miles Behind Us.
Plot summary
Rick Grimes and his partner Shane are involved in a gunfight with an escaped convict. Rick gets shot and blacks out. He awakes one month later alone in an abandoned hospital. Grimes finds the hospital's cafeteria crowded with zombies, and barely escapes with his life. He returns to his home, only to find it abandoned and catches a shovel in the back of the head. When he awakes he discover that a young boy named Duane Jones had hit him, believing him to be a zombie. Duane's father Morgan explains about the zombie plague and how they have taken up in Rick's neighbor's house, hoping to ride it out.
After providing them with some weapons, Rick makes for Atlanta, believing his wife Lori and son Carl went there to find shelter. When Rick reaches Atlanta he becomes surrounded by zombies, but escapes thanks only to the aid of Glenn. Glenn leads Rick to an encampment outside the city, where he meets his family and Shane, plus several other survivors as well: Allen, his wife Donna and twin children Billy and Ben; Dale an older man whose RV is used by the group for a base; Jim; Carol and her daughter Sophia; and Amy with her sister Andrea.
Rick adapts quickly to life in the encampment, soon becoming its de-facto leader alongside Shane. He and Glenn daringly raid a gun store in the city, avoiding detection by rubbing pieces of a zombie on their clothes and skin to smell like a zombie. Rick also teaches the group to shoot and the training comes in handy when the camp is beset by zombies. Several survivors are bitten.
Afterward, Rick finds himself at odds with Shane. Rick argues that the camp is unsafe, but Shane wants to stay. Things come to a head when Rick confronts Shane in the forest while hunting. Rick suspects that Shane had an affair with Lori and now Shane feels that everything will be okay if he kills Rick after having Lori side up with Rick after an argument and slapping him across the face when he hit Rick. In an attempt to defend his father, Carl kills Shane.

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