We went through the 1,000+ August catalog items to pick out the potentially best and brightest comics. Take a look below to see what is on tap:
New Series
DC K.O. #1 – DC Mortal Kombat style tournament event book.
DC’S MAJOR 2025 EVENT IS HERE! SCOTT SNYDER AND JAVIER FERNANDEZ WELCOME YOU TO THE SLUGFEST OF THE CENTURY! The Heart of Apokolips has transformed Earth into a hellscape in preparation for the return of Darkseid! The end of the DC Universe is here! The Justice League’s only chance to defeat Darkseid is to enter a deadly tournament, an epic and over-the-top battle royale that will surprise you! The World’s Greatest Heroes fight to become the champion to enter the ring against Darkseid, but there’s a catch…the closer you get to the Heart of Apokolips, the more it corrupts you, changes you into something dangerous. Which DC character has what it takes to make it to the end? Who is willing to do what it takes to win it all, even if it means taking down their friends and family? You want to get nuts? Let’s get nuts!
AUTHOR IMMORTAL #1
A story about the stories that shape us — and the power they still hold. Hector Ramirez is a failed writer who gets the opportunity of a lifetime: to help reboot the fantasy book series that defined his childhood. But when he discovers the original author has mysteriously vanished into his fictional world, Hector is pulled into a realm where stories are alive, and some are willing to kill to stay in control. A literary fantasy for fans of Locke & Key, The Magicians, and Saga with an oversized 40-page debut issue. The Author Immortal is a bold new ongoing series about legacy, imagination, and reclaiming the power of storytelling.
CRANIACS #1 – From the guys who brought you the Garbage Pail kids trading cards, a new comic in the world of the hit trading card series Craniacs.
Debut comic based on the hit Craniacs trading cards created by lead Garbage Pail Kids card artist Joe Simko and Topps senior executive Ira Friedman! Craniacs TV series in active development from animation studio Titmouse (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)! Innovative reading experience! Read the story of RETROVIA then turn and flip to read about FUTERRA. Two stories that meet in the middle, which leads onto issue #2. Written by Sholly Fisch (Batman, Superman, Scooby-Doo), with stunning artwork by Garbage Pail Kids artist Joe Simko. Two planets collide forming one world. Two distinct skull-faced societies split down the middle. One side is wild & stone age named RETROVIA; the other side is systematic & ultra-futuristIc named FUTERRA.
DISAVOWED #1 – Billed as GI Joe meets The Boys. I like the sounds of that.
Brought to you by the creative mind of Josh Blaylock (G.I.Joe, Mercy Sparx) and series artist Pop Mhan (He-Man, Nightwing), this thrilling debut issue features a stellar lineup of comic talent including contributions from Michael Golden, Tim Seeley, Steve Kurth, Dave Johnson, Adam Riches, Travis Hymel, Carlos Badilla, Shawn Depasquale, Brian Sauer and Sveta Shubina! Brace yourself for a thrill ride of action and antics that’s being hailed as G.I. JOE meets THE BOYS as the legends of yesteryear collide with the realities of today in THE DISAVOWED!THE STORY:Matthew Howzer never knew his father—a decorated soldier who died in combat. But family stories say he wasn’t part of any ordinary unit. He served in The United Five, a poorly kept government secret and the stuff of mid-’90s internet conspiracy lore. Their mission: stop Komodo, a grandiose cult turned terrorist faction claiming to wield knowledge from another realm—power capable of reshaping the world. That secret war ended in 1989, with heavy losses on both sides, including Matthew’s father.Driven by a relentless obsession to learn more about his father’s fate, Matthew enlists in the military and uncovers a truth far more brutal, bizarre, and debaucherous than any conspiracy theory could have imagined. Now, after decades in the shadows, The United Five have returned—not as the world’s hidden protectors, but to stop the very heroes it once called its own.Because the greatest threat isn’t Komodo anymore. It’s The Disavowed.
EC OUTLAW SHOWDOWN #1 – new EC title
VENGEANCE RIDES AGAIN!As the sun settles high above this bone-dry stretch of mesa, wipe the blood from your boot heels and place your wagers as Oni Press and EC Comics raise their pistols . . . to pump six cylinders of hot lead and cold hearts into OUTLAW SHOWDOWN—EC’s FIRST GIANT-SIZED, 56-PAGE SPECIAL celebrating REVENGE and RETRIBUTION on the lawless frontiers of the Old West! Gunfighters, scoundrels, butchers, and bandits—they’ll all join us here to draw down on fate itself as coffin-bound creators John Arcudi (B.P.R.D.), Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Tony Moore (The Walking Dead), Ann Nocenti (Daredevil), and more rain hellfire and fury from the holsters on their hip. Plus: A newly remastered and authentically restored tale of hard-won Western justice from the EC vaults!SOME COMIC BOOK COMPANIES ASK YOU TO CHOOSE: DEATH OR GLORY? AT EC COMICS, WE SAY . . . WHY NOT BOTH?!
HAUNTED BOX #1 – For fans of Hellraiser
Iron Age Comics Presents: The Haunted Box. A black, white & blood quarterly horror anthology series in a premium format/magazine-sized comic book.A mysterious box provides exactly what you need to obtain your deepest desire in exchange for taking one life – and no one will ever find out. First appearance of the Blood Queen – a demonic trickster who delivers the Haunted Box. Follow along as each character decides whether or not to accept the box’s promise, and whether or not to pay the box its price….
HIGH STRANGENESS 1967 #1 – I like that this is attached to a production company.
SpectreVision, the genre-distorting production company co-founded by Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah, joins forces with Oni Press and a rotating cast of premier comics talents for an unprecedented excursion into HIGH STRANGENESS—a brand-new series influenced by real, documented cases of paranormal phenomena, to reveal the liminal spaces where reality and hallucination and science and mythology give way to cosmic wonder and existential terror . . . In the first double-sized, prestige format chapter: Writer, producer, and real-life experiencer Daniel Noah joins acclaimed writer Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine, That Texas Blood) and Ringo Award–winning artist Dave Chisholm (Plague House) for an unexpected encounter with the Men in Black . . . Chicago, 1967. Magazine writer Harry Kean is dispatched to rural Indiana to investigate the sudden disappearance of Becky Plume, a local teenager who stepped into the national spotlight with staggering photographic evidence of a recent UFO sighting. Frustrated to leave his developing stories in Chicago—and the wife he’s hoping to win back—Harry sets off to expose a hoax but instead finds himself in a labyrinth of high strangeness involving a missing girl, her boyfriend, a UFO, and some mysterious black-clad visitors circling at the perimeter of a mystery more vast than Harry could possibly imagine. Told across five interconnected, prestige-format issues that will interlock to reveal an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale, each chapter of HIGH STRANGENESS also includes a feature-length essay by podcaster and researcher Jim Perry (Euphomet) on the historical facts and documentary evidence underpinning the phenomena detailed in each issue.
SAVAGER #1 – Crazy looking small press book.
Panick Entertainment Presents: Savager. Nearly 100 years after Earth fell to cosmic parasites, seemingly only the SAVAGER — Riley Phillips, a former secret service agent fused with a deadly alien – remains. Alone and driven by vengeance, he roams the wasteland, guided only by the voice inside him. But when he discovers a living human, everything changes. Can a monster that was once a man become humanity’s last hope in this bloody post-apocalyptic Western?
SAVE NOW #1 – New Bad Idea book. Preview was cool that came out years ago.
New York Times bestselling writer Matt Kindt (BRZRKR) joins forces with Tomás Giorello (STAR WARS), the visionary artist behind PLANET DEATH, to present a masterclass in storytelling in this epic, action-packed sci-fi saga. Armed with the extraordinary ability to “save” any moment in his life and then go back and relive from that point forward again, world-famous superhero SAVER can rewrite his past, altering his actions time and time again until he gets things right. But with great power, also comes great pain. Cursed with only being able to travel backwards, never forwards, he is burdened by having to spend his relived life in agonizing real time. Travel back 6 days, and he must relive those days in full, aging all the while.After catching a glimpse at the impending apocalypse, Saver dedicates himself to averting global catastrophe, no matter the cost. But no matter how many times or how far back he goes, he can’t find a way to steer the world clear of armageddon.With no hope for the future, Saver retreats to live in the past, reliving the best year of his life in an endless self-indulgent loop. But when he learns he’s going to be a father, everything changes. He’s no longer trying to save the world. He’s fighting to save his daughter’s future.
SUPERNATURAL #1 – Once awesome tv show Supernatural returns to comics!
THE BROTHERS WINCHESTER RETURN! Get ready to hit the road again with Dean and Sam as they prowl the highways and byways of small-town America in search of demonic wrongdoing to put right! Set between the foundational first and second seasons of the landmark television series, this brand-new title from acclaimed author GREG PAK (Darth Vader, Lilo & Stitch) and preternaturally gifted artist EDER MESSIAS (Sam Wilson: Captain America) brings readers back to where the dark magic first began — and reveals a disturbing new threat that the bickering brothers will have to face before they can return to hunting down the demon who killed their mother.t In this first issue, the monster hunters must uncover the entity responsible for a series of mysterious fires in a decaying rust belt town — attacks that begin with a Windler Industries factory burning down, and then escalate to several Windler employees themselves going up in flames. But finding the malevolent force behind the otherworldly arsons may not be as straightforward as it might seem — especially once the suspiciously well-prepared CEO Steff Windler gets personally involved!
TEETHER PARENTAL GUIDANCE #1 – The sequel to Teether finally is being released.
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…
One and Done
ABSOLUTE EVIL #1 – Will we finally get a look at Absolute Joker? This issue promises new characters and a big twist
IT’S THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABSOLUTE UNIVERSE–AND ITS VILLAINS STAND UNITED! Without heroes…without protection…without restraint…there is only ABSOLUTE EVIL. The emergence of superheroes has caught the attention of the world…and it’s certainly caught the attention of the people who run it. Ra’s al Ghul, Veronica Cale, Elenore Thawne, Hector Hammond, and the mysterious Joker have worked at cross-purposes until now, but this growing threat requires new ways of thinking…and new partnerships. An insidious betrayal from within their ranks is imminent, and if they don’t take action, they’ll lose control of a planet that was built to be their playground! Superstars Al Ewing and Giuseppe Camuncoli join forces to kickstart the next era of Absolute Universe stories…with several shocking new character reveals, and one big unmissable twist!
GI JOE COLD SLITHER (ONE SHOT) – The greatest cartoon hair metal band filled with the Dreadnoks. Cheesy fun.
The Greatest Band Ever Reunites to Rock and Rule the World. Discover the true (well, kinda) story of what happened to Cold Slither through the eyes of the band themselves (who were, of course, not the Dreadnoks on an undercover mission). But as Cobra is topping the charts and dominating the world, can G.I. Joe find a way to change the tune? Tim Seeley (_Rogue, Local Man) and Juann Cabal (Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man) _present the most unexpected new comic book of the year!
New Characters
ABSOLUTE BATMAN #13 – Absolute Catwoman makes her first appearance.
Notable Reprints
ACTION COMICS #252 FACSIMILE EDITION – First appearance of Supergirl.
THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF SUPERGIRL! Witness the astounding origin of the Woman of Tomorrow in this classic tale from yesterday–as Supergirl, Kara Zor-El, makes her first appearance! All this and a story revealing the criminal creation of that monstrous mechanical menace, Metallo! Also available in Foil
ARCHIE FACSIMILE #9 (BETTY AND VERONICA #40) – Archie always had it so rough. There are also two Dan Decarlo Variants, Betty Retro Art and Veronica Retro Art
You’ll be CHASING after this special issue! Betty and Veronica spread some joy…before turning on one another! Add in a tropical fish, Jughead eating Christmas decorations, and you’ve got a totally normal day in Riverdale! All this and more timeless tales from the world of Archie in BETTY & VERONICA #40 from 1959, faithfully reprinted in a full-facsimile edition!
DETECTIVE COMICS #40 FACSIMILE EDITION – The Origin of Clayface!
Dave Stevens Watch
ALTER EGO #197 – Dave Stevens is super hot with collectors. This mag may be of interest since it has a famous Air Boy cover
Alter Ego #197 presents the incredible inside story of HILLMAN PUBLISHING—1940 to 1953—by MARK CARLSON-GHOST! Thrill to the adventures of AIRBOY—aviatrix VALKYRIE—THE HEAP—SKYWOLF, et al.! With classic art by KIDA, SCHROEDER, LEAV, INFANTINO, ZOLNEROWICH, and some of comics’ finest artists! Plus FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) and MICHAEL T. GILBERT visits Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt! Featuring a stunning Valkyrie/Airboy cover by DAVE STEVENS! Edited by ROY THOMAS.
For the Cover
ASCENCIA #29 – We have featured this crazy wraparound of the murder of Ronald McDonald numerous times. Problem is, it never came out. So now it is finally rescolicited, but now in multiple versions…
HARLEY QUINN X ELVIRA #1 CVR E MARK SPEARS VAR – Harley is admiring Elvira’s assets on this one.
SUPERMAN UNLIMITED #6 CVR B MARK SPEARS CARD STOCK VAR – I haven’t liked a bunch of the DC Spears covers, but this one works well and the costume is already in his color palette.
Ones to Watch
Mark Spears Monsters: The Monster and the Wolf #1 Blind Bag Pretty much anything Mark Spears touches is hot. He is doing a blind bag with 75 covers and not price gouged like DC’s Batman bags. Also available in 10 Packs
From the creator of the hit series Mark Spears Monsters comes this new prequel mini-series written and illustrated by Mark Spears! In a desperate attempt to find a cure to the werewolf curse that haunts him, Clint Abbott’s journey leads him to the bitter cold of the Arctic. Through the snow and ice, he senses something is stalking him… but not everything is as it seems. NOTE: Cover A is a BLIND BAG randomly packed with one of more than SEVENTY FIVE exclusive cover variants by Mark Spears, many of them incredibly rare! (This is a Keenspot publication.) Cover A1 Cardstock – 1:38, Cover A2-A30 Cardstock – 1:29, Cover A31-A60 Chrome Foil – 1:420, Cover A61-A65 Black and White – 1:1000, Cover A66-A70 Glow in Dark – 1:1000, Cover A71-A75 Trick Cover – 1:46