Image Comics has been pumping out solid first issues this year for numerous series that are guaranteed to be classics. Not bad for a publisher celebrating their twentieth anniversary. Now, the first issues of many of the new series are free at the digital distributor comiXology. The issues switched to free on August 24 and will remain free permanently.

The free issues include the first issues of some of 2012’s best-selling comics, including:

• Saga #1
• Fatale #1
• The Manhattan Projects #1
• Thief of Thieves #1
• America’s Got Powers #1
• Mind the Gap #1
• Alpha Girl #1
• Creator-Owned Heroes #1,
• Dancer #1
• Danger Club #1
• Epic Kill #1
• Glory #23 (first issue of the relaunch)
• Grim Leaper #1
• Hell Yeah #1
• Hoax Hunters #1
• No Place Like Home #1
• Peter Panzerfaust #1
• Planetoid #1
• Prophet #21 (first issue of the relaunch)
• Secret #1

Many of these titles have been or will soon be collected into trade paperbacks, making the free issues the perfect way for readers to sample new Image Comics titles before purchasing collections.