FEBRUARY 14
My Bloody Valentine: Valentine Bluffs Massacre #1
By: S.A. Check, Andrea Arcari, Roy Allen Martinez, James Kuhoric, Photo, Buz Hasson
Type: Cover A – Martinez, Cover B – Movie Photo, Cover C – Arcari, Cover D – Hasson
Publisher: American Mythology Productions
Publisher Link: https://www.americanmythology.net/
Summary: The 1981 slasher classic comes to comics with brand-new bloody stories for the first time! Love isn’t the only thing flowing, as the town of Valentine Bluffs invites you back for another bloody good time! It’s the cult-classic slasher smash hit straight from the 1980’s – My Bloody Valentine! Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the mines! Harry Warden turned Valentine’s Day into one town’s personal nightmare with a hand on his pickaxe and a heart full of revenge. Now, the terror has returned, and the body count is rising! There’s more than one way to lose your heart! Roses are Red – Don’t End Up Dead – this February!
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Boris Karloff’s Gold Key Mysteries #2
By: Michael Conrad, Kraig Rasmussen, Johnny Dombrowski, Various
Type: Cover A – Johnny Dombrowsk
Publisher: Gold Key Comics
Publisher Link: https://goldkeycomics.com/
Summary: Witness the dawn of a new era in horror! When a gothic mansion infested with arcane power appears from the mist, Boris Karloff is the world’s last hope against dark forces led by a malevolent government agent bent on harnessing the house’s power. Boris Karloff is back with a new ongoing horror anthology.
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Haunted House: A Love Story #4 (of 6)
By: Winston Gambro
Publisher: Blood Moon Comics
Publisher Link: https://www.bloodmooncomicsllc.com/
Summary: What would you give to get everything you ever wanted? Would you give yourself? Would you kill? The House will soon learn the answer for itself. Join us soon, for the continuing story of horror, grief and love.
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The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos #7
By: Nick Robles, Soo Lee, James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal, Aditya Bidikar, Noah Dao
Type: Noah Dao Variant Cover, 10 copy Tyler Crook Variant Cover
Publisher: Dark Horse
Publisher Link: https://www.darkhorse.com/
Summary: Comics creator Soo Lee takes the reins of art duties in this brand-new two-part character arc that takes a look back at the perfectly monstrous life of the heroic Adam Frankenstein as he finally decides to pen his life story in this somewhat unofficial adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, but with a very Christopher Chaos take.
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Vampirella #666
By: Christopher Priest, Ergun Gunduz, Lucio Parrillo, Felipe Massafera, Carla Cohen, Cosplay
Type: Cover A – Parrillo, Cover B – Massafera, Cover C – Cohen, Cover D – Cosplay, Cover R – FOC Parrillo Ultraviolet, Cover S – FOC Blood Red Blank Authentix
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/
Summary: Vampirella experiences a literal new beginning with a renumbering to reflect her six decades of publishing! Vampirella is murdered by a mysterious blonde woman who looks exactly like her, only to awaken surrounded by her husband, friends, and pseudo-superhero mom Lilith. All seems normal and right with the world except for her nagging suspicion that none of it actually is. Here Vampirella inexplicably finds herself back in the first days of Priest and Ergün Gündüz’s landmark 50th Anniversary run where the dead are alive, Vampi’s wickedly self-absorbed mom is practically a Power Ranger, and the mass casualty event which defined the series has been averted. But who is the blonde stranger and why is she murdering Vampi over and over again? Strap in for our weirdest yarn yet as ‘Beyond’ takes our favorite space vampire into a whole new world, one she herself accidentally created!
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Sweetie Candy Vigilante Vol 2 #1
By: Suzanne Cafiero, Thiago Vale, Jeff Zornow, Ivan Tao, Josh Howard, Yonami
Type: Cover A – Zornow, Cover B – Tao, Cover C – Howard, Cover D – Yonami
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/
Summary: Sweetie and her Candy Vigilante squad are back to kick off issue #1, Vol 2 of the SWEET new series with an epic ‘Sugartown Showdown’ not to be missed! Together with her shape shifting, licorice-loving lycanthrope, Candy Wolf, and newly ‘minted’ ninjette warrior, Pixie Stix, Sweetie faces off with ‘salty’ arch nemesis Bart Volgare and his gang of thugs in the icy, snowy streets of New York City with a violently delicious fury. So, you have chosen salt? So be it Blood is spilled, lives are changed, (many ended), as an army of fabled super-naturals and sugar-fueled allies hop into action to scramble bad eggs. Candy Wolf shows the crime syndicate soldiers first-hand (pun intended), what big teeth he has, while Pixie gives her newly gifted nun chucks a maiden battlefield test-spin reducing criminal weaponry to molten scrap metal! Sweetie’s signature Jawbreaker gun resurfaces, armed with delicious new ammo (can’t you just smell the gingerbread?), but not before she unleashes some brand new sweetly-sinister confections that wash away the naughty and leave a wicked smile on your face-literally! Isn’t that NICE? What does Bart have to say for himself about the disappearance of Sweetie’s parents? Will a certain super-charged monster truck fueled by ice cream make the scene? When the candy-coated carnage ends, will the bodies be bagged before the NYC sanitation dept barrels down the block to do their rounds? Pick up the new issue and find out gum-drop! Includes a FREE MP3 Download debuting a new, never before released ‘Hatchy Milatchy’ track by Osaka Popstar recorded specifically for this issue! Accept a little sugar in your life get Sweetie Candy Vigilante #1 because it’s season 2 and Sweetie is the only sugar shot-caller in town!
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Blood Commandment #4 (of 4)
By: Szymon Kudranski
Type: Cover A – Kudranski, Cover B – Kudranski
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: MINISERIES FINALE His worst fears realized, Ezra is forced to take drastic measures in order to save his son.
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The Deviant #4 (of 9)
By: James Tynion IV, Joshua Hixson, Matt Lesniewski
Type: Cover A – Hixson, Cover B – Lesniewski
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: When Michael Olsen decided to turn his lifelong fascination with the Deviant Killer into a comic book, he didn’t realize the process would bring him so close to the abyss. Now, as new blood spills in a decades-old story, Michael discovers that he might already be in too deep.
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Creepshow: Joe Hill’s Wolverton Station #1
By: Joe Hill, Michael Walsh, Gabriel Rodriguez, Jason Ciaramella
Type: Cover B
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: Master of Horror JOE HILL (Locke & Key, NOS4A2) joins CREEPSHOW! Gather round, kiddies, for a special presentation! In this feature-length issue, CREEPSHOW alum JOE HILL is joined by JASON CIARAMELLA (C is for Cthulhu) and MICHAEL WALSH (The Silver Coin) to tell the terrifying tale of a businessman whose commute is about to get a lot hairier when his train makes an unexpected stop at ‘Wolverton Station’! This one-shot adapts the acclaimed short story by JOE HIL in an expanded format with new twists and turns including a special appearance by The Creep!
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Bloody Dozen: A Tale of the Shrouded College #3 of 6)
By: Charles Soule, Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque, Will Sliney, Rafael Albuquerque
Type: Cover A – Sliney, Cover B – Albuquerque
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: The Sun Prison awaits, as do its prisoners: Agvar the Stone, the Crane, Doctor Ortolan, and six other deadly vampire nobles. George, Greta, and Glory Hill are the three astronauts sent to break them out and return them to earth to serve as supernatural superweapons for the Shrouded College but did someone else get there first and steal the prize?
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