OCTOBER 25
Victor Crowley’s Hatchet Halloween Tales V #1
By: S.A. Check, Ev Cantada, Roy Allen Martinez, Various, Puis Calzada, Buz Hasson
Type: Cover A – Martinez, Cover B – Calzada, Cover C – Hasson, Cover D – Ltd Ed
Publisher: American Mythology Productions
Publisher Link: https://www.americanmythology.net/
Summary: The midnight hour is close at hand! Everyone’s favorite slasher is back with brand-new terrifying bloody tales of Halloween to enjoy this holiday season. This year’s issue is the biggest yet! Three new frightening tales narrated by the dismembered victims of Victor Crowley. Join us for an issue packed with comics, extras, and Halloween horror from start to finish! This is more gore for your buck than any other comic book! Spend Halloween in Honey Island Swamp this year and watch out for Victor Crowley!
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Cthuhlu Death May Die #1 (of 4)
By: Luca Enoch, Riccardo Crosa, Alfio Buscaglia, Stefano Vietti, Various, Giorgia Lanza
Type: Cover A – Buscaglia & Lanza, Cover B – Crosa & Lanza
Publisher: Source Point Press
Publisher Link: https://sourcepointpress.com/
Summary: The whole of Miskatonic County lies under a cloak of horror. Leaden clouds darken the sun, and horrific creatures lurk in the countryside. The Last Hope Orphanage finds itself under siege, and the only possible salvation resides on the page of a book of spells, itself cursed and profane. An unlikely assembly of heroes will undertake insane odds in their quest for the book: Lysa, aided by a demon’s head kept in a lantern; Jack, with his amazingly unstoppable truck; Rocco, haunted by a berserker madness from fighting in the trenches; Annabelle, the young voodoo queen of New Orleans with her dark powers. Time is running out. The way is shrouded. ‘They’ are everywhere. In the deep, the nightmare waits dreaming.
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Drive Like Hell #1
By: Alex Cormack, Rich Douek, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Publisher: Dark Horse
Publisher Link: https://www.darkhorse.com/
Summary:
Bobby Ray had it made.
One last big job, then it was splitsville, set for life with his girl by his side!
Then everything went wrong, and poor Dahlia took a bullet to the brain as they made their escape.
Thing is, dear Dahlia didn’t stay dead.
Now Bobbys found himself plunged into a battle of otherworldly proportions, and if he wants to get out of dodge with his skin intact, he’s gonna have to Drive Like Hell!
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Giant Robot Hellboy #1
By: Clem Robins, Dave Stewart, Duncan Fegredo, Mike Mignola, Mike Mignola with Dave Stewart
Type: Mike Mignola Variant Cover
Publisher: Dark Horse
Publisher Link: https://www.darkhorse.com/
Summary: Hellboy is kidnapped and hooked up to a massive mecha-Hellboy for a mission on a mysterious, faraway island, but the island might just put up a fight of its own.
Inspired by Mignolas viral-hit pencil drawings from Mike Mignola: The Quarantine Sketchbook, Giant Robot Hellboy gets his own story in this 3-part miniseries from Mignola and longtime Hellboy artist Duncan Fegredo!
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The Seance Room: Harry`s Opus
By: Ben Templesmith
Publisher: Source Point Press
Publisher Link: https://sourcepointpress.com/
Summary: Harry Weiss, charming and sinister proprietor of the Séance Room, does his best to keep you present. This issue, masterfully drawn by Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night), challenges readers of comics one and all!
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Almost Dead #1
By: Galaxy, Ryan Benjamin, Tyler Kirkham
Type: Cover A – Tyler Kirkham
Publisher: Ablaze Publishing
Publisher Link: https://www.ablaze.net/
Summary: Somewhere between pure exhilaration and sheer terror is Almost Dead! After having an accident on her way home to visit her family, Sara Walker awakens to find that the world has changed. Now she must travel up the Eastern Seaboard, using suppressed survival skills she learned as a child, in hopes of reuniting with her loved ones in the midst of a viral pandemic that has turned humans into monsters. Set in modern day 2005, Sara unites with old acquaintances and new friends along the way, and her struggle to survive will be both an unexpectedly exciting journey and an absolute horror. Almost Dead is a new post-apocalyptic horror-drama adventure about triumph, growth and the resiliency of the human spirit brought to you by writer and Comic Con Radio / Spoiler Magazine founder Galaxy and Eisner nominated artist Ryan Benjamin (Batman Beyond, Star Wars, Xmen, Grifter) that redefines the genre, with its cinematic approach and attention to detail. Relentlessly vicious, Almost Dead isn’t your typical apocalyptic story. Tying in conspiracy with historical flashbacks and showing how perhaps everything we’ve learned in our textbooks has been altered over time.
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Brynmore #4
By: Steve Niles, Damien Worm, Evan Gauntt
Type: Cover A – Damien Worm, Cover B – Gauntt
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Publisher Link: https://www.idwpublishing.com/
Summary: Siege on all sides! What’s more dangerous to Mark Turner? The undying curse his family unleashed on Turner Island that he has unwittingly restarted? The swiftly dying and pissed-off residents of the island who already resented him? Or the monster dwelling in the basement of his refurbished church home? With threats at all doors, Brynmore’s true power is revealed!
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Tales of Terror 2023 Halloween Special
By: Dave Franchini, Maria Laura Sanapo, Various
Type: Cover C – M Sanapo
Publisher: Zenescope Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://zenescope.com/
Summary: Welcome to the Murder Castle-have a KILLER experience! This Halloween, you’re invited to visit the most extreme haunted house ever imagined. Hardcore serial killer fans from across the world are gathered for this once-in-a-lifetime event. Dive into what makes your favorite all-time murderers tick-what could possibly go wrong?! 72 Pages of Content!
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Something Crawled Out #1
By: M. Son, Cas Madcursed Peirano, Cathy Kwan
Type: Cover A – Peirano, Cover B – Kwan
Publisher: Vault Comics
Publisher Link: https://www.vaultcomics.com/
Summary: Something wicked crawled out screaming. Edith ‘Eddie’ Miller has no grand plans or great prospects. She spends her days sleeping in and her nights working shifts at a gas station. But when her younger sister fails to come home, Eddie unearths a web of missing girls and rotting bodies. The police prove useless, so Eddie teams up with her best friend, Rainer, in a desperate hunt to find her sister. The only thing is-Eddie believes her best friend might be the Devil himself.
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The Ribbon Queen #4 (of 8)
By: Garth Ennis, Jacen Burrows, Declan Shalvey, Chris Ferguson, Guillermo Ortego, Francesco Mattina, Declan Shalvey
Type: Cover A – Shalvey, Cover B – Mattina, Cover C – Horror Poster Homage, Cover D – (Retailer 15 Copy Incentive Variant) B&W Shalvey
Publisher: AWA Studios
Publisher Link: https://awastudios.net/
Summary: Discover how the Ribbon Queen entered our world! Detective Sun learns how the Ribbon Queen was released into the world by Bella, the murder victim at the center of a series of bizarre crimes who got up and walked out of the morgue the night before. Plus, another supernatural entity has arrived on the scene and targeted Detective Sun’s friend and colleague. Is he there to stop the Ribbon Queen – or does he have his own twisted agenda?
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Blacks Myth Key to His Heart #5 (of 5)
By: Eric Palicki, Wendell Cavalcanti, Liana Kangas
Publisher: N/A
Summary: The final issue of the only werewolf P.I. book you need! Will Claire embrace her inner demon, or will Strummer get to her in time? Can Beatrice give Strummer the answers she’s looking for? And will Carly ever get her Get Out of Jail Free card? Plus, AHOY extra features, including a new chapter of the 5th anniversary prose serial.
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Vampirella Dracula Rage #3
By: Christopher Priest, Christian Rosado, Lucio Parrillo, Celina, Mike Krome, Cosplay, Jay Anacleto
Type: Cover A – Parrillo, Cover B – Celina, Cover C – Krome, Cover D – Anacleto, Cover E – Cosplay, Cover F – (Retailer 10 Copy Incentive Variant) Parrillo Tint, Cover G – (Retailer 10 Copy Incentive Variant) Anacleto Line, Cover H – (Retailer 15 Copy Incentive Variant) Cosplay Virgin
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/
Summary: When a big-box retailer announces that it’s abandoning a small-town location after driving all of the local stores out of business, residents stage a demonstration against the callous destruction of their region’s economy. But their lock-in protest takes a dark turn when the townsfolk realize they’ve trapped themselves inside the warehouse-sized store with an angry vampire who has come to avenge the murder of her child. Can Dracula and Victory stop Vampirella from becoming like the monsters she is hunting?
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Paladin of Axes
By: Gerry Duggan, David O’Sullivan
Type: Cover A – O Sullivan
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: GERRY DUGGAN & DAVID O’SULLIVAN of ANALOG fame reteam on the perfect comic book to celebrate Halloween. It’s the first appearance of HECTOR SMALLEY, a guitar tech known as THE PALADIN OF AXES. He’s working for the world’s biggest rock band, and when he and the whole band are killed in a plane crash, it’s unexpectedly just the beginning of his bad times. It’s a sad tale of working yourself to death-literally. Equal parts Evil Dead and Time Bandits, this horror comedy will put a smile on your face on one page and punch it off on the page turn. Throw your horns in the air for THE PALADIN OF AXES!
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Victory #5
By: David Walker, Brett Weldele, Carla Cohen, Giuseppe Matteoni, Ken Haeser
Type: Cover A – Cohen, Cover B – Matteoni, Cover C – Weldele, Cover D – Haeser, Cover E – Cosplay
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/
Summary: Victory thinks she has finally figured out who it is that wants to kill her and take ownership of the Belial ring – but the truth is far more complicated than it appears. As she confronts her demonic nemesis Beliliah (the nefarious daughter of Belial the Unworthy), Victory realizes that there is more than one demon looking to destroy her soul!
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Ice Cream Man #37
By: W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, Roger Langridge, Chris O’Halloran
Type: Cover A – Morazzo & Ohalloran, Cover B – Langridge, Cover C – Morazzo & O Halloran
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: ‘Flight of the Figglybumps (Death of a Cartoonist)’ They’re cute, they’re cuddly, and they’re caught up in a conflagration of candy cannons and cartoony combat! But who are the Figglybumps? And what happened to their creator? The hit horror-adjacent anthology is back-and sadder than ever.
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Something Is Killing the Children #34
By: James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera
Type: Cover A – Dell’Edera, Cover E – Foc Reveal Variant
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Publisher Link: https://www.boom-studios.com/
Summary: Erica must finally face the deadly doppelganger-the Duplicitype-but can she survive in the end? And with everyone in the town of Tribulation at Cutter’s mercy, who will pay the ultimate price?
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Maniac of New York: Don’t Call It a Comeback #4
By: Elliott Kalan, Andrea Mutti
Publisher: Aftershock Comics
Publisher Link: https://aftershockcomics.com/
Summary: Detective Zelda Pettibone is on her own against the murderous Maniac Mary! Well, on her own if you don’t count the legion of Maniac Mary stans stampeding through the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Can renegade ex-Mayoral aide Gina Greene get there in time to help her only friend destroy the Maniac for good? She doesn’t have any more issues after this one, so she had better hurry! Each issue of MANIAC OF NEW YORK: DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK features 24 pages of story and art with a cardstock cover!
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Bram Stoker Monster Hunter #1
By: Olivia Cuarteeo-Briggs, Emilio Pilliu
Type: Cover A – Emilio Pilliu
Publisher: Aftershock Comics
Publisher Link: https://aftershockcomics.com/
Summary: The writing team behind MARY SHELLEY MONSTER HUNTER reunites! Through memories spurred by Oscar Wilde’s 1895 gross indecency trial, a young and troubled Bram Stoker discovers there’s a secret hiding in his new workplace of Dublin Castle, one that will either end his life, or change it forever. Written by Olivia Cuartero-Briggs (SILVER CITY, MARY SHELLEY, MONSTER HUNTER) and Adam Glass (Suicide Squad, Teen Titans, ROUGH RIDERS), and illustrated by Emilio Pilliu (Monkeys, Evil Hunt: Mammauth), comes a new take on the origins of the most monstrous legend of them all – one that we dare you to sink your teeth into.
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Al Capone Vampire #1
By: J. C. Vaughn, Brendon Fraim, Brian Fraim, Various, Howard Chaykin, Yen Nitro
Type: Cover A – Chaykin & Nitro, Cover B – Homage
Publisher: American Mythology Productions
Publisher Link: https://www.americanmythology.net/
Summary: It’s Al Capone, he’s back, he’s a vampire, and he’s decided to take over Chicago, again. This is one of those rare times when the title almost does really tell you everything you need to know Only there’s way more, we promise! The original Scarface is back in a big way and the gangs of Chicago – and the other vampires – better look out!
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