January 2024 Catalog Highlights (For March April Release)

We went through the 1,000+ January catalog items to pick out the potentially best and brightest comics. Take a look below to see what is on tap:

New Series/#1’s
Animal Warriors of the Kingdom #1 – The Great Houses of the Animal Kingdom are in shambles. A tyrannical ruler has all but consolidated his complete control over the land and sea. With the impending fall of the last resistance stronghold, the flame of hope is almost extinguished. One last beacon of light is all that remains of the once robust resistance-a young ape named Pale, whose quest to mend the fractured trust between the great animal houses will be tested as he seeks to neutralize, Emperor Kah Lee!

Armored #1 – The launch of a new, spooky series legendary GOOSEBUMPS creator R.L. Stine calls ‘A fun read and a great new twist on old-fashioned horror’! Orphaned teen Andy’s parents disappeared mysteriously. Now, he’s just been adopted by a quaint family living in the countryside. What could go wrong? Screenwriter Michael Schwartz (ZOMBIE TOWN, GNOME ALONE) makes his comics debut alongside rising artist Ismael Hernandez, whose fully painted pages ‘…use colour brilliantly, in both modelling and storytelling’ according to industry titan Frank Quitely. Superstar artists Nick Pitarra and Jae Lee provide an instantly iconic covers for the debut issue GHOSTBUSTERS icon Dan Aykroyd says is ‘fear-packed, suspenseful…(it) entices us to continue reading more to come.’

Batman Dark Age #1 – New Batman series with Mike Allred art.

Blood Brothers Mother #1 – New series from DSTLRY. In the old American West, three children set off across the wild Texas frontier to rescue their mother-kidnapped by ruthless outlaws who gunned down their preacher father. Throughout their journey, they’ll face the harsh elements of an unforgiving landscape, deadly animals hungry for blood, merciless bounty hunters and so much more all in a relentless quest to rescue their family. Along the way, they’ll learn the terrible cost of revenge-not just in lives, but in how it stains a soul. While revenge may be satisfying in the moment, it leaves a yearning behind that lasts a lifetime. And once you taste it, nothing else is ever so sweet. In the tradition of The Searchers, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Blood Meridian comes a brutal new western series from writer BRIAN AZZARELLO and artist EDUARDO RISSO

Deadpool #1 – New Deadpool series, new character DEATH GRIP.

Deathstalker #1 – The cult-classic warrior-hero Deathstalker bursts into the comics scene from an all-star lineup of creators including Slash (Guns N’ Roses) and writer-director-creature-FX-wizard Steven Kostanski (Psycho Goreman, The Void)! Deathstalker finds himself once again caught between forces larger than himself-a virgin worshiping cult, a sorcerer hell-bent on saving the world through mad science, and the pissed-off army of the Abraxeon kingdomnot to mention his ex-lover, Princess Evie. Monsters, magic, and mayhem aboundcan’t a guy just swing his sword anymore?

Feral #1 – Cat version of Stray Dogs by Tony Fleecs and Trish Forstner

Fire in the Madhouse #1 – With the apocalypse underway, oligarchs from around the world gather at a secret military base on a remote island to board a titanic-sized submarine to ensure their survival. However, a claustrophobic horror-show ensues as an undetectable deep ocean parasite penetrates their ship and takes over the bodies and minds of the billionaires on board. Superstar artist Hernán Gonzalez returns and we’re presenting this issue in black & white for your eyes to gaze on this rising star!

The First Americans #1 (of 8) – At the end of the Ice Age 14,000 years ago and on the verge of starvation, a tribe of Paleo-Indians travel across across the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia into North America to hunt an elusive pack of mammoths; but when they fail to hunt down the beasts, the tribe must adapt to their new surroundings before becoming extinct in this new land.

I Heart Skull-Crusher! Boom Studios. 18-year-old Trini will do anything to compete in her favorite sport, Screaming Pain Ball, alongside her longtime hero Skull-Crusher! But she can’t do it alone, and a gaggle of misfits is just what she needs to cross the American wastes and battle in Queen Mob’s deadly tournament. With Trini’s dreams of being just like Skull-Crusher on the line, do she and her friends have what it takes to win a coveted spot on their team? Breakout writer of DC’s Amazons Attack event and screenwriter Josie Campbell (Wonder Woman, She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power, My Adventures With Superman) along with rising star artist Alessio Zonno (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) bring sports action to post-apocalyptic America with comic relief and brevity at its brutal heart

Kayless #1 – In 1967, the CIA sent astronauts into space to investigate an astronomical anomaly. Unfortunately, before they could report their findings, they mysteriously vanished never to be seen again… That is until today, when one of those long missing astronauts, Scott Anders, crashes to earth and emerges, powerful, totally unscathed and hellbent on one purpose-to return to where he has been for all those decades. But where has he been? How did he gain his new invulnerability? What is the mysterious organization that stands in his way, determined to protect the secret of Kayless at all costs? The answers to these mysteries start here.

Kid Venom #1 – Kid Venom gets his own series.

Last Mermaid #1 – Series Premiere. A lone mermaid roams an endless wasteland on a quest beyond reason. To press ever onward, she must survive the interminable stretches between tiny pockets of water, the roaming bands of cybernetic cannibals, and the fearsome mutant beasts. What propels her forward to take such a risk?

Monsters Are My Business (And Business is Bloody) #1 From the co-creator of The Sixth Gun and Harrow County comes a new action horror comedy! Meet Tanner “Griz” Grisholm. Along with a shrewd necromancer who wants him dead and a chainsaw-wielding koala bear named Cuddles, as he wages a bloody war against nightmares from beyond time and space. It’s thankless work, but someone has to do it. And when a group of government contractors go missing in the nightmare landscape of the Flooded Zone, Griz stumbles into a mystery he may not be able to carve his way out of. His old biker pals, the Howling Gargoyles, are up to no good, and the memories might be too much for Griz to handle.

Morning Star #1 – LOOKOUT 1956. Kootenai National Forest, Montana. When smokejumper Nathan Garrett perishes in a raging wildfire, his surviving family’s hopes and happiness turn to ashes. Now, one year following Nathan’s death, wife, and mother of two, Jolene Garrett, takes her crumbling family to the Morning Star lookout seeking solace through closure–to scatter her husband’s remains. But something far beyond the reach of their wildest imaginings awaits the Garrett family in the Montana wilderness–something more powerful than their anguish and torment. Something that transcends space and time. No telephones. No electricity. No transportation. No escape.

Night People #1 – One press – From literary icon Barry Gifford-internationally renowned creator of Wild At Heart and cowriter of David Lynch’s neo-noir masterpiece Lost Highway-Night People is a pulsating roadmap of the American subconscious, where neon-lit Southern nights give way to lipstick, sweat, and blood, and the odd, innocent, and evil are all fellow travelers down an interstate of dark, elusive dreams. Adapted from Gifford’s acclaimed novel by breakout writer Chris Condon (That Texas Blood, The Enfield Gang Massacre) and a rotating cast of stunning artistic talents, follow an uneasy company of wanted criminals, cartel killers, and lost souls through four interlocking tales as they travel a path of intoxication, lust, and spontaneous violence from New Orleans to Egypt City, Florida, and back again.

Quantum #1 – The smash-hit new British anthology comic is now available through PREVIEWS! Quantum is a perfect bound, 52 page, US format color anthology, featuring 5 ongoing tales set in worlds that are not our own. Major Rakhana (Steve Tanner and Pete Woods), WesterNoir – Moon Cursed (Dave West, Jemma West, and Joseph Parangue), Memphis (David Morris), Whatever Happened To The World’s Fastest Man? (Dave West and Marleen Lowe) and The Clockwork Cavalier (Steve Tanner and Ed Machiavello).

Sam and Twitch Case Files #1 – Series Premiere. Your fan-favorite detectives are back in their new ongoing series, Sam and Twitch: Case Files. From the world of Spawn, acclaimed creator Todd McFarlane and artist Szymon Kudranski bring you a tale of murder, intrigue, and deception in this noir crime drama.

Scp Comics We Who Poke With Sticks – Step into an unassuming home, where ordinary objects surround you-furniture, teacups, toothbrushes. But you’re not here by chance. Your mission: identify the one item that could spell your doom, transform you into a nightmare, or whisk the room into another realm. Time is of the essence. Unravel the mystery or face dire consequences.

Snaps #1 – In the dead of night, Doctor Keith Harris is startled by a visit from his shaken childhood friend, Oliver, who shows him disturbing photographs of an otherworldly entity attacking a homeless man. Oliver insists these abominations lurk unseen by human eyes, only captured through his camera’s lens, and worse still-they are everywhere! Together they’re about to discover the chilling reason why.

Spectregraph #1 – NEW SERIES DEBUT from DSTLRY! Modern masters JAMES TYNION IV and CHRISTIAN WARD join forces to bring you their next horror classic. A ghost story steeped in the decay of a century of capitalism. For years, the mansion has sat strangely, nestled into the coastline just a short drive north of Los Angeles. Rumors have haunted the place for years. Its owner a titan of American industry, with a strange fascination in the occult and the paranormal. For decades, the richest men and women in the country have whispered to each other, trying to understand what he was building alone in that mansion for all those years. And now finally, with his death, and his estate finally open for sale. They are eager to find out for themselves. Two of the most celebrated visionaries of the medium, multiple-Eisner Award winners James Tynion IV (THE NICE HOUSE ON THE LAKE, SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN, W0RLDTR33) and Christian Ward (BATMAN: CITY OF MADNESS, INVISIBLE KINGDOM) invite you into the world of SPECTREGRAPH, a haunting, cerebral horror novel that peels back the layers of America’s opulent wealth and uncovers the rot underneath. But be careful: once you enter, you may never leave. SPECTREGRAPH is perfect for fans of THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE & THE CONJURING.

Spider-Gwen #1 – TRAPPED IN THE 616…FOR GOOD! Welcome to New York! Gwen truly becomes a Ghost-Spider when she moves full time to the universe where Gwen Stacy died years ago. But why did she leave Earth-65? Why aren’t the other spiders supposed to know she’s here? Why isn’t she supposed to suit up? And who will get hurt when she does?

Spider-Man Shadow of Green Goblin #1 – NORMAN OSBORN WAS NOT THE FIRST GOBLIN! Norman Osborn is the GREEN GOBLIN you know. But he is NOT the ORIGINAL GOBLIN! Learn the shocking secrets of the PROTO-GOBLIN, and its dramatic connection to the Osborn family! What role does a young Peter Parker, who has not yet understood his great power and responsibility, play in this unfolding of events?

Star Wars Jango Fett #1 – New Jango Fett series.

True Horror Mysteries Babysitter Killer & Other Stories – Zenescope – Nearly 50 years ago, the youth of Oakland County, Michigan fell prey to the twisted whims of The Babysitter Killer, who abducted and murdered at least four children between 1976 and 1977. To this day, the killer has never been brought to justice. True Horror Mysteries pulls back the curtain on this and other crimes, taking a closer look at the victims’ stories along with those of the suspects linked to their stories.

Ultimate X-Men #1 – Visionary creator PEACH MOMOKO (DEMON DAYS, STAR WARS) creates a new generation of X-Men for an all-new universe! Hisako Ichiki is a teenage girl who just wants to live a normal life – go to school, hang out with her friends, ignore the political strife broiling over after the events of ULTIMATE INVASION – but life has other plans for her. In Japan, urban legends have sprung to life and brought some unusual new powers with them. Meet Armor, Maystorm and a group of new Ultimate X-Men the likes of which you’ve never seen before!

Weapon X-Men #1 – A MULTIVERSE OF LOGANS BANDS TOGETHER! In Original X-Men, you saw the Phoenix recruit the young X-Men to fix yet another time-displaced disaster. But now the threat is deadlier than ever and it’s time to call in the X-Men’s big gun. He’s the best there is at what he does, in every universe does it in…and this job is too big for just one of him. Wolverines from across the Multiverse converge to take on a foe even the Phoenix fears! But with friends like Zombie Wolverine, who needs enemies?

Web of Spider-Man #1 – 2024 is primed to be one of the biggest years in Spider-History and you’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg! In the pages of this one-shot, we’re going to lay out some of the biggest upcoming Spider-Stories and characters in the Spider-Verse through the beginning of 2025, and you aren’t going to want to miss this!

White Boat #1 – NEW SERIES DEBUT from the acclaimed team behind Detective Comics and Night of the Ghoul comes a modern horror classic! White Boats are the mega-yachts that the super-rich use to traverse the globe-floating islands where your every desire can be fulfilled. And getting invited on board one should be a dream come true that is until the crew traps and transports you to a remote island where secret cults have existed for millennia, working on something called ‘The Human Project.’ Does the White Boat ship you to paradise or sink you into hell on earth? WHITE BOAT reunites Scott Snyder, the visionary writer who redefined comic book dread with Wytches and introduced Batman into a terrifying, cerebral era, with modern noir master Francesco Francavilla for a white-knuckle descent into Lovecraftian maritime madness! For fans of HEREDITARY, THE HOST, JURASSIC PARK & THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU.

X-Men 97 #1 – THE OFFICIAL PRELUDE TO THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED DISNEY+ SHOW! The X-Men are back – and the ’90s have never looked better! In this official prelude to the upcoming X-Men ’97, created in collaboration with the showrunners, discover what Storm, Jubilee, Wolverine and the rest of the beloved ’90s X-Men cast have been up to in the time before their return! Startling revelations here lead directly into the hotly anticipated new series – don’t miss out!

X-Men Forever #1 – HAUNTED HOUSE OF X! How can you kill a digital god? What do you do when the Phoenix is bleeding out into nothing? There’s been questions that have haunted you since the end of IMMORTAL X-MEN. Finally, some answers. There’s also been some questions that have haunted you since the START of IMMORTAL X-MEN. Finally, some answers too. Tying directly into the pages of the epic FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X and RISE OF THE POWERS OF X comes this story of revelation

Notable Reprints
Amazing Spider-Man #254 Facsimile Edition – Continuing a facsimile celebration of the early days of Spider-Man’s black costume – before he knew it was an alien symbiote out to bond with him forever! Luckily, the living suit has plenty of tricks and treats in store to help Spidey battle Jack O’Lantern! When the Hobgoblin’s battle wagon is hauled out of the Hudson River, the flaming-pumpkin-headed villain sets his sights on some grand theft auto – but there’s no way that the web-slinger will let one of his most fiendish foes get his hands on the secrets of another! A citywide chase begins, but how long can Jack O’Lantern evade a relentless Spider-Man? It’s one of the all-time great Marvel comic books, boldly re-presented in its original form, ads and all! Reprinting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #254.

Limited Collectors Edition #51 Facsimile Edition – Reprints Limited Collected Edition #51, which reprints classic Ras Al Ghul stories from Batman by Dennis O’Neil, Irv Novick Neal Adams, and Dick Giordano

Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars Facsimile Edition #4 – Beneath one hundred and fifty billion tons stands the Hulk – and he’s not happy! As Marvel’s facsimile treatment of the finest super-hero event of all continues, the villains of Battleworld destroy the heroes’ stronghold – and drop a mountain on them! Only a few heroes escape this fate: Thor is left to battle alone, while the Wasp is held captive by Magneto – and the X-Men propose a truce with their longtime foe! Meanwhile, Doctor Doom takes revenge on one of his evil allies! With most of the forces of good buried alive under an utterly unimaginable weight, can even the might of the Hulk keep them from death? It’s perhaps the Green Goliath’s finest hour in one of the all-time great Marvel comic books, boldly re-presented in its original form, ads and all! Reprinting MARVEL SUPER HEROES SECRET WARS #4.

Wolverine Claremont Buscema #1 Facsimile Ed – Reprint of the classic 1988 Wolverine #1.

One and Done
Pops Chocklit Shoppe of Horrors Fresh Meat – Archie Horror – Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe has been around for what feels like forever but how? In this thrilling horror anthology, we learn just how Pop’s infamous malt shop came to harbor such evils, and the cursed deals he makes to ensure his doors always stay open. From the full creative team that brought you last year’s successful Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe of Horrors, we learn the nefarious origin of the beloved hometown haunt, with stories filled with shady business deals, carnivorous plants, and the horrors of small business ownership.

Ones to Watch

Amazing Spider-Man #45 – The cover has me intrigued. Looks like Peter has turned lizard of symbiote. Plus the solicitation… While Peter was fighting the war, other parts of his life kept going on and the consequences will be felt here. Plus what mystery is bubbling up at Ravencroft?