March 2024 Catalog Highlights (For May/July Release)

We went through the 1,000+ February 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
Archie Comics Judgment Day #1 – In a world overrun with demons, Archie Andrews is on a quest to cleanse Riverdale of all wicked-kind. Harnessing the destructive power of a captive fiend, he will have to destroy corrupted and possessed versions of the people closest to him. Questioning his own morality and forced to make difficult sacrifices, are Archie’s efforts truly good, or the work of pure evil? Traverse the most horrifying version of Riverdale yet in the first Archie Premium Event.

Bear Pirate Viking Queen #1 – From Sean Lewis (King Spawn) comes a blood-splattered story of conquest. Bears. Pirates. Vikings. And Queens-all battling for their claim to determine what the world will become. Rendered in stunning watercolor by artist Jonathan Marks Barravecchia, it’s a gorgeous story of the blood spilled to make countries. And what’s cooler than bears, pirates, vikings, and queens??? With 72 stunning pages, it’s sure to be one of the most beautiful and thought-provoking books of the year.

Beyond the Pale #1 – War correspondent Hetta Sawyer is looking into the disproportional loss of black soldiers in the Vietnam War. Leads say losses are especially high at Firebase Tartarus, with most of them simply gone missing, their fate unknown. Something sinister is happening at Tartarus, and Hetta intends to uncover the truth. A new eldritch horror.

Blood and Fire #1 – In 16th Century Japan, after centuries of rule, the central government has lost control, plunging the country into a bloody civil war. As warlords seek power and territory, a lone samurai takes a stand against the chaos. But the price of peace will be blood and fire!

Canto: A Place Like Home #1 – Fan favorite series Canto returns.

Crocodile Black #1 – Awesome looking series from Phillip Kennedy Johnson

Deadpool Wolverine WWIII #1 – The most intensely mismatched team-up in comics and pop culture – the best there is and the merc with the mouth – undergoes a radical change as we kick off a three-part, globe-spanning saga for the ages! The mysterious DELTA believes in change. Change is good. But as he sets his sights on DEADPOOL, and WOLVERINE is caught up in the plot, is the third time really the charm, or the curse? Get ready for WWIII to erupt on the scene with the wildest duo

Deliver Us From Evil #1 – Blood Moon Comics – A betrayal as old as Time itself. Only in the future can you save the past. When the bad-luck magic of hellblazer blend with the conspiracies of the X-files…Who can Deliver us from Evil? The creative genius of sold out hit comic THESE DAMN KIDS, Peter Breau, crafts a plot for issue one of Deliver Us From Evil is probably best perused with the lights on and a stiff drink to hand. Indeed, it’s difficult to imagine a reader experiencing a more disturbing twenty-two-page periodical as they’re brutally thrown into the chaos-filled world of the mysterious Mister Lazar.

Doom #1 – Hickman writing. Doom goes on a quest to harness more power than any human has ever wielded before in order to try to stop Galactus from bringing about the death of the universe!

Get Fury #1 – Garth Ennis writing Nick Fury. It’s 1971, there is a war raging in Vietnam, and Nick Fury has been captured by the Viet Cong. At this moment, they don’t quite understand that they have in their possession a man who knows enough secrets to damage the United States beyond comprehension. The C.I.A., however, DOES realize this and they can’t risk their enemy getting those secrets, so they dispatch the most deadly man in the U.S. Army – LT. FRANK CASTLE.

Hellverine #1 – Hellverine returns.

Into the Unbeing Part One #1 – A group of climate scientists working in a remote base camp on the Australian outback discover an impossible landform. They venture inside expecting the unexpected, and the titular Unbeing delivers. True to the traditions of cosmic horror, they discover an anomalous environment that defies everything they think they know about the world.

Scarlet Witch #1 – Scarlet Witch series reboots with the same creative team as previously.

Space Ghost #1 – Space Ghost returns to comics. One of the most striking character designs in super heroes returns.

Star Wars Phantom Menace 25th Ann Special #1 – CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PHANTOM MENACE WITH AN ALL-NEW STORY! Explore the earliest days and secret inner life of ANAKIN SKYWALKER with never-before-seen, revelatory stories set before, after and between the scenes of the classic movie! Featuring the dream of a JEDI, the gift of a TUSKEN RAIDER, the heart of a GUNGAN, the ache of a mother and the horror of a hero!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Black White & Green #1 – taking the characters back to their origins in black-and-white independent comics

The Boy Wonder #1 – The young prince Damian Wayne was raised to be the heir to the fearsome League of Assassins–to follow in the footsteps of his deadly mother, Talia, and the Demon’s Head himself, his grandfather Ra’s al Ghul. But everything changed when his father, the Batman, reclaimed him and brought him back to Gotham City. As Robin, young Damian suddenly discovered he was merely one of a number of princes, preceded in the role by his brothers Nightwing, Red Hood, and Red Robin…and Damian doesn’t care to be merely anything. But when his father is forced to leave the city on urgent business, and a rash of abductions is accompanied by whispers of a demon stalking Gotham’s dark alleys, Damian will find himself battling alongside his adoptive brothers–and in the process, learning what the mantle of Robin really means! Visionary writer/artist Juni Ba makes his mark on the timeless story of Batman and Robin, synthesizing the characters’ complex history into an accessible and heartrending fairy tale!

Union Jack Ripper Blood Hunt #1 – Not much in the Blood Hunt storyline interests me, but I have always loved Union Jack. UJ returns to kill vampires in the UK.

Venom Separation Anxiety #1 – LONG LIVE… THE KING IN PURPLE! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN legend and VENOM co-creator DAVID MICHELINIE triumphantly returns to tell another all-new, heart-pounding, brain-eating tale set in EDDIE BROCK’S earliest days! This time, he’s teaming up with VENOM and DEATH OF THE VENOMVERSE artist extraordinaire GERARDO SANDOVAL! Venom has made a new enemy. And their bond will be tested like never before when a foe with the power to alter reality itself threatens to tear Eddie’s world apart, starting with his symbiote!

Whisper Queen #1 (of 3) – Image – CHIP ZDARSKY (NEWBURN, Batman) and KRIS ANKA (Across the Spider-Verse), the ALL-STAR TEAM behind THE WHITE TREES, return to the fantastical land of Blacksand! The royal guard has sent their most capable bounty hunters after the accomplices in the king’s murder! Javro, once the king’s most skilled assassin, must find the killers before they and the bounty hunters-including her son-are wiped out by the kingdom’s most feared specter: The Dark Whisper!

Ones to Watch

Amazing Spider-Man #50 – Green Goblin is back and crazy again. Solicited as a knock down fight. Great cover on the issue. Well worth the read. Greg Capullo has a good cover for the issue as well.

Wolverine #49 – This one has me torn. Wolverine loses his healing powers and ends up in a metal suit to fight Sabretooth. The suit makes its appearance here, the thing that gets me is they state “COLLECTORS’ NOTE: Featuring the full debut of the Adamantium Armor!” which makes me want to run.

Spider-Woman #7 – The winged female Captain America who was on the Captain America #2 New Champions Variant makes her first appearance here.

Theme of the Month

Black Costume Month – Marvel characters are getting alternate black costumes this month. Tons of titles and awesome cover artists on the books.

For the Cover

Action Comics #1065 (Ivan Talavera Variant) – Pretty awesome Supergirl cover by Ivan Talavera

Poison Ivy #22 (Cover B – Frank Cho Card Stock Variant) Frank Cho doing what he does best, gorgeous covers.

Notable Reprints
Amazing Spider-Man #256 Facsimile Ed – Seriously, if Marvel would just go back and do facsimiles of all the old series, ASM, Avengers, X-Men, DD, FF, I would be buying copies monthly. First appearance of Puma in this one.

Avengers Annual #10 (Facsimile Ed Foil Variant) – First appearance of Rogue gets a facsimile.

Crisis on Infinite Earths – DC is going back and giving the facsimile treatment to Crisis. First two issues are listed this month.

Military Comics #1 Facsimile Edition – Blackhawk’s first appearance from 1941.

Msh Secret Wars #6 Facsimile Ed – Marvel continues to reprint the Secret Wars books

Our Army at War #81 Facsimile Edition – First Sgt. Rock gets the facsimile treatment.

The Pick of the Month
All things Ultimate have been hot and Jonathan Hickman is being given free reign. Cannot pass this up.

Ultimates #1
Ultimates #1 (Bryan Hitch Variant)
Ultimates #1 (Iban Coello Foil Variant)
Ultimates #1 (Inhyuk Lee Ultimate Special Variant)
Ultimates #1 (Jonas Scharf Variant)
Ultimates #1 (Jtc Negative Space Vir Variant)
Ultimates #1 (Ryan Stegman Variant)
Ultimates #1 (Ryan Stegman Vir Variant)

THE ULTIMATES RETURN TO GREATNESS! Spinning out of Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli’s ULTIMATE UNIVERSE #1, rising stars Deniz Camp (CHILDREN OF THE VAULT, 20th Century Men) and Juan Frigeri (INVINCIBLE IRON MAN) assemble an all-new team of ULTIMATES in a series that kicks off the next chapter of the new Ultimate line. Six months ago, Tony Stark sent Peter Parker a radioactive spider to set him back on the course to become Spider-Man. Since then, Iron Lad (Stark), Captain America, Doom, Thor and Sif have begun to do the same for other lost heroes, building a network of super-powered heroes hungry for change. they must band together to destroy the Maker’s Council and restore freedom and free will to a world ruled from the shadows!