More like a prologue and introduction, really.
What more can you ask for in a first chapter?

Welcome aboard, please keep all hands and feet within the plot at all times. Any readers found with insufficient postage will be returned to sender.

By the way, you can click on the book cover to see the back. Well, at least you will as soon as I make one. Ha-HAH.

We now meet our brave hero. What is to become of him?