DIE: Loaded #1

DIE returns for an epic new story of a dark fantasy adventure game gone horrifically right or wonderfully wrong. A year after their return from the hellish game world, the players gather for Chuck’s wake. They’ve finished with the game. The game isn’t finished with them. The three-time Hugo Award-nominated series is back in November. Get ready to roll initiative. Who’s going to DIE this time?

DIE: The Roleplaying Game Quickstart Edition #1

DIE returns with DIE: Loaded this month. The temptation to try the Origins Award-winning DIE RPG will be strong. We make it easy for you with this self-contained, comic-format quickstart. It gives you all the rules and characters you need to play, and includes a complete multi-session scenario to get you started. Just add dice, friends, and a desire to be sucked into a game.

Written and illustrated by the creators of the comic, Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, this is your gateway to making your own, bespoke DIE experience at home.

Poison Ivy 2025 Annual #1

A tale of times past! No matter what Pamela Isley does, mercy or slaughter, humanity seems dead set on betraying the Earth. Yet Ivy still refuses to let go of her own humanity in service of that which she claims to love. Hoping to discover a way forward, Poison Ivy sets out to find the living repository of all secrets — the Tree of Knowledge. But like those who have tasted the tree's fruit before her, Ivy learns far more than she bargained for.

Batman / Static: Beyond #1

In the not-so-distant future, young hero Terry McGinnis patrols the streets of Neo-Gotham as Batman Beyond, while Virgil Hawkins, a.k.a. Static, forges a new technological revolution in Dakota City with the introduction of the Q-Wave Energy Grid. Together alongside the Justice League Beyond, the heroes prepare for the Earth's induction into the interplanetary alliance known as the Cooperative. Everything seems to be going smoothly...until a new villain arrives on the scene and puts everything at risk. At the center of all the mayhem is the unlikely duo of Static and Batman Beyond, as they must work together to save the world before it's too late!

1776 #1

REVOLUTIONARY WARRIORS, ASSEMBLE! Calamity strikes when a mysterious force dares to tamper with the sacred threads of history. CAPTAIN AMERICA and his formidable squad of Marvel heroes leap into action! Their mission? To safeguard the founding of the United States of America! The fate of the nation hangs in the balance at the dawn of the Revolution, as these valiant heroes must navigate the treacherous waters of the past to ensure a future that remains untarnished.

Predator: Badlands #1

The official prequel, done in collaboration with director Dan Trachtenberg, to the new, eagerly anticipated film, PREDATOR: BADLANDS, is here!

A young Yautja warrior is given a seemingly simple task by his father: Retrieve a piece of technology from a derelict spaceship that crashed years ago.

Inside, however, an ancient and deadly threat lies in wait. Now the Predator will become the prey...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Godzilla #1

The Heroes in a Half-Shell are taking on the King of the Monsters!

Long before the organization was corrupted by Shredder, the Foot Clan’s original purpose was to save Japan from kaiju! Now, in the present day, Godzilla and its fellow monsters have reappeared. Not only is the Foot not prepared to stop them... it would seem Shredder himself is behind the attacks! The villainous ninja is attempting to use the kaiju to create a new mutagen — one that would give his henchman a massive upgrade.

Can the Turtles make it to Japan in time to stop this madness?! Join superstar writer Tim Seeley (Godzilla, Grayson, Revival) and incredible artist Fero Pe (Nightwatcher, TMNT x Stranger Things) in the biggest crossover of the year!

X-Men: Tales from the Age of Apocalypse #1

In 1995, Marvel shocked the comics-reading world, canceling all its blockbuster X-titles and replacing them with new series in the transformed reality of the Age of Apocalypse! These tales, by some of the era's leading creators, introduced fans to radically new versions of the heroes they loved — fighting for survival in a nightmarish dystopia where Charles Xavier is long dead! Professor X was killed twenty years in the past during a freak time-travel accident, and now the Darwinian conqueror Apocalypse rules with an iron fist — ruthlessly enforcing his dictum that only the strong shall survive! In the long shadow of En Sabah Nur, hidden among a downtrodden humankind, are a group of ragtag freedom fighters led by Xavier's oldest friend: Magneto! They're amazing, they're astonishing — but who are the X-Men?! Plus: What has become of iconic mutants Cyclops, Havok and Wolverine in this war-torn world?

Collecting ASTONISHING X-MEN (1995) #1, FACTOR X #1, WEAPON X (1995) #1 and AMAZING X-MEN (1995) #1.

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Ghost Ships of Labrador #1

A town overrun by ghosts would be enough of a problem, but Hellboy has an even bigger problem on his hands when a fellow B.P.R.D. agent disappears amongst the paranormal chaos.

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Youngblood: Mass Market Edition #1

The Blood is back! Creator Rob Liefeld returns to write and draw the comic that started it all. The Team is summoned to a crisis in the Pacific as a mysterious vessel appears and a deadly nemesis is revealed!

Note: The mass market editions will have a few different interior pages than the original direct-to-consumer editions.

Note: Cover A originally sold polybagged with a trading card.

Gargoyles x Fantastic Four #1

DISNEY’S STONE GUARDIANS MEET MARVEL’S FIRST FAMILY! When the Manhattan Clan are invited on a tour of the world-famous Baxter Building — the high-tech home of the Fantastic Four — things quickly go from impressive to destructive when Coldsteel joins forces with the Dragon Man to unleash the terror that is Annihilus — trapping Franklin, Valeria, and Gnash in the Negative Zone in the process!

Now, both of these heroic extended families — enchanted stone and super-human alike — must team up in an all-out effort to save their children, their city, and their whole world from destruction!

Written by Gargoyles creator GREG WEISMAN and illustrated by celebrated artist GEORGE KAMBADAIS, the 40-page special features non-stop action and adventure, with cosmically iconic covers provided by LUCIO PARRILLO, DECLAN SHALVEY, AMANDA CONNER, MARK BAGLEY, and NICOLETTA BALDARI!

American Caper #1

A tale of two totally normal, completely damaged families in a world of corrupt businesses, inept local politicians, bungling criminals, and unfortunate leisurewear. We follow the fortunes of two neighbors on the point of collapse: a Mormon hit man and a gambling-addict lawyer, both intertwined in a real-estate deal gone wrong. Mix in a Mexican beauty queen on the run from her past, two escaped convicts in love, a Wall Street billionaire who has become a cowboy, and a maniac hell-bent on revenge. American culture has become a war about real estate, violence, and snake oil.

From the tax avoiders in the manicured wilderness of Wyoming to the thought police of liberal Brooklyn to the confused political and environmental battlegrounds of Florida, one thing is certain: This tragedy is someone else’s fault.

Colossal Kaya #1

Nathan Fox! James Harren! Mike Huddleston! Declan Shalvey! Ryan Stegman! Wes Craig teams up with some of the greatest artists in modern comics for a jam-packed SPECIAL. Wrap around cover by Wes Craig! Classic centrefold! A colossal 48 pages of story and extras! COLOSSAL KAYA is an exclusive single issue, not to be collected in a trade paperback and includes a 6-page introduction to the series, perfect for new readers. 

ThunderCats: Panthro #1

WHEN MONSTERS ATTACK! On a solo excursion beyond the boundaries of the Cat’s Lair, Panthro is enjoying the solitude of the wilderness and a brief respite from his responsibilities when he is set upon by a pack of giant, hostile creatures. For a warrior of his nature, this just became the best vacation ever! But as the battle is joined, the true intent behind the attack is revealed — and this secret could spell doom for all the Thunderans on Third Earth!

Acclaimed ThunderCats: Lost author ED BRISSON joins artist DAVE ACOSTA for an all-out slugfest starring the strongest of the ThunderCats in ThunderCats: Panthro #1 — featuring two-fisted covers from ACOSTA, SEBASTIAN PIRIZ, ROBERT QUINN, and WILL ROBSON!

Gray Lady #1

A year after a tragic accident on a snowy road, Samantha Ellis is still haunted by the loss of her son, Ben. Grief has unraveled her life, but when a mysterious psychic warns her that Ben is in danger, Sam's desperation transforms into fierce determination. A chilling blend of the Sixth Sense, and Ghost, the Gray Lady is a supernatural thriller that explores the unbreakable bond between a mother and her child, where hope, grief, and terror collide. From writers Mike Benson (Deadpool, Entourage) and Adam Glass (Supernatural, Suicide Squad) and artist Ken Lashley (Suicide Squad, Uncanny X-Men) comes the BEST horror by the industry's TOP creative talent!

Liquidator #1

When Aubrey Street arrives in 1891 looking for a feminist masterpiece that won’t be published for almost 100 years, she worries that 1981 might be rejecting her. Aubrey is a Liquidator, her job is to fix glitches in time. She just wishes she could fix the glitches in her life. In another part of Gilded Age New York, John Hawksmore plans to kill a servant girl whose life has been turned upside down by the book she found in her employer’s library. Somehow, all their lives are connected. They just don’t know it yet…

Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #1

PETER CANNON IS BACK — AND FISTS AND FEET WILL FLY! Dynamite’s millionaire martial artist returns in this all-new action-packed reimagining from enlightened author FRED VAN LENTE (Die!namite) and ascended artist JONATHAN LAU (Space Ghost)!

As a child, Peter Cannon grew up in the secluded culture of “The Awakened,” a isolated movement blending New Age psychology, Tibetan Buddhism, extreme fitness, and other esoteric disciplines. But when a mass suicide wiped out almost all of the Awakened’s followers, an orphaned and abandoned Peter was left to find his own way in the world.

Now, years later, the last surviving member of a mysterious mystical order arrives in New York City on a mission of revenge. His target? The renegade master who destroyed his clan — Peter Cannon! But taking out the fabled Lightning Vessel of the Awakened is easier said than done — especially considering that Cannon’s mind-and-body-perfected moves can collapse time and defy death itself!

Featuring harmoniously honed cover art by ROBERT QUINN, JONATHAN LAU, and DAVE ACOSTA, each issue of Peter Cannon Thunderbolt will also include a special Icon cover from master painter ALEX ROSS!

Night of the Cadillacs Origins: Blood World City #1

This is the comic book that launched the Ex Posse Universe! In the spirit of Lost Boys and Warriors, Night of the Cadillacs is a high-octane, genre-bending mix of horror, hard action, forbidden love, and street culture. Rival supernatural gangs come to earth on an overnight raiding mission to retrieve life-restoring blood from humans. While the gangs battle among themselves for prized Captives, a defiant and charismatic gangbanger breaks free from his crew to go on the run with a rebellious, 18-year old human girl to protect her from his predatory family.

Teether: Parental Guidance #1

ANCIENT EVIL IN A YOUNG, INNOCENT GUISE!

IT HUNGERS FOR FLESH AND SOULS!

David Hutchison serves up another big bite of his hit eldritch horror series!

Lost in the woods on a hunting trip, a man and his son encounter a mysterious girl living in the wild. When hideous creatures trap them in an abandoned cabin, a bloody fight for survival ensues as it becomes clear the girl and the creatures have an unknown connection...

Tomorrow Girl x Atomic Mouse #1

A spell gone wrong sends Tomorrow Girl to another world, where she meets its native hero, Atomic Mouse. The new allies must work together to stop an alien experiment run amok before it destroys an entire city!

Dog Supreme #1

"I am who I amàthe highest of stellar beingsàI am chief and the authority of all the planets in the universeàI am paramountàI am sovereign." Meet the most powerful of all cosmic corgis, Dog Supreme, ruling in his own special, where none can question or doubt him—except maybe for one little girl.

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