(W) Corinna Bechko (A) Andrea Sorrentino (CA) Miguel Mercado In Shops: Jul 09, 2025 SRP: $4.99
FEELING DRAINED YET?! THE SUMMER’S BLOODIEST HORROR BASH IS JUST GETTING STARTED! From Hugo Award-nominated writer Corinna Bechko (Cruel Universe, Green Lantern: Earth One) and Eisner Award-winning artist Andrea Sorrentino (Gideon Falls, Bone Orchard) comes the second bloodsoaked chapter of the milestone first-ever standalone horror series from the most notorious name in terror: EC Comics!
Welcome to SCARE-adise! Immortal vampire Ada has just started settling in on her new island paradise home-complete with an ample food supply of pasty tourists. Who’s going to miss one or two here or there? Vacation accidents happen all the time . . . right?
But as Ada continues to explore her lush new hunting ground, the spectre of a different predator casts its own will of evil over paradise. She has to keep a low profile while fulfilling her own bloodlust and carefully trying to understand what hunts the hunter!
Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to unveil your next intoxicating (emphasis on “toxic”) look inside The Summer of Fear – the electrifying new slate of series from Oni Press and EC Comics beginning with Blood Type #1 which was released on June 11th – and continuing all summer long in Catacomb of Torment #1 and Cruel Universe 2 #1!
But even grislier still… Look ahead as the all-new EC’s first brazenly bloody ONGOING SERIES twists the knife even deeper in August as Catacomb of Torment #2 slays into comic shops everywhere! Welcome back to the Tormentor’s lair . . . where each crank of the rack tightens your shackled limbs and brings even more taut tales of mayhem and murder spilling forth like so much viscera! This month: full-blooded writers Matt Bors, Evan Dorkin, and Jeremy Lambert join steel-nerved artists Kano, Lukas Ketner, and Fabiana Mascolo to navigate the catacombs by torchlight. . . . We hope they can find their way back out, hehehe!
This is EC Comics, not The Ritz hjl;kj l;kj lk. – and The Summer of Fear won’t allow you to escape, no matter how hard you try! In addition to feeling the heat, EC Comics and Oni Press will drain your deepest desires with Blood Type #1 (of 4) – on sale June 11th from Hugo Award nominee Corinna Bechko and Eisner Award winner Andrea Sorrentino. And then you’ll also feel the existential dread of a universe that wants you annihilated when Cruel Universe 2 #1(of 12) unleashes science-fiction from beyond the void, courtesy of creators Charlie Adlard, J. Holtham, Kano, Ann Nocenti, David Rubín, and Greg Pak on August 8th!
FEELING DRAINED YET?! THE SUMMER’S BLOODIEST HORROR BASH IS JUST GETTING STARTED!Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have provided us an exclusive first look inside the second bloodsoaked chapter of the milestone first-ever standalone horror series from the immortal EC Comics with Blood Type #2 – on sale July 9th from Oni Press! From Hugo Award-nominated writer Corinna Bechko and Eisner Award-winning artist Andrea Sorrentino, the most notorious name in terror returns to deepen the mystery that has gripped a tropical island paradise . . . as an undying bloodsucker tries to figure out what other kinds of monsters already call this isla de sangre home!
Welcome to SCARE-adise! Immortal vampire Ada has just started settling in on her new island home—complete with an ample food supply of pasty tourists. Who’s going to miss one or two here or there? Vacation accidents happen all the time . . . right? But as Ada continues to explore her lush new hunting ground, the spectre of a different predator casts its own will of evil over paradise. She has to keep a low profile while fulfilling her own bloodlust and carefully trying to understand what hunts the hunter!
Feel your skin crawl as you gaze up covers from the alluring talents of Andrea Sorrentino, Miguel Mercado, Albert Monteys, and Patricia Martin, as you continue your journey into EC’s Summer of Fear when Blood Type #2 arrives on July 9th, 2025!
Then, one week later on July 16th: The Summer of Fear continues in A BLOODY NEW ONGOING SERIES as Oni ushers The Tormentor – a new horror host with an insatiable interest in human anatomy – into the shadow-strewn halls of EC Comics history in Catacomb of Tormen #1! For Her Royal Travesty of Pain’s first request: Master storytellers John Arcudi, Marguerite Bennett, Matt Kindt, David Lapham, Dan McDaid, and Patrick Piazzalunga more each take turns manning the rack and turning the red-hot irons for three all-new and blisteringly brutal tales of mayhem and malice in the undying EC tradition!
Finally, on August 6th: EC’s Eisner Award-nominated smash-hit returns to draw more worlds into the maw of its gravitational vortex in Cruel Universe 2 #1 (of 12) – a colossal 40-page milestone beginning AN ALL-NEW AND UNRELENTING 12-ISSUE MAXI-SERIES! Whether future or past, Earth or a distant world, no man can outrun the infinite singularity within us all: FEAR! Join this doomed expedition into the cold, unforgiving galaxies beyond our own as nihilistic navigators Charlie Adlard, J. Holtham, Kano, Ann Nocenti, David Rubín, and Greg Pak smash the laws of science . . . and splice the immortal EC Comics genome into a new breed of parasitic extraterrestrial tales with an endless appetite for pain!
OUT OF THE PAGES OF EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS. . . A MONSTROUS NEW EC COMICS MILESTONE RISES FROM THE GRAVE THIS JUNE!Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. present the first look inside the next history-making chapter of EC Comics’ blockbuster resurrection with Blood Type #1 – the FIRST ISSUE of EC’S FIRST-EVER SERIALIZED HORROR SPECTACLE from Hugo Award-nominated writer Corinna Bechko and Eisner Award-winning artist Andrea Sorrentino! Rising from the pages of her first appearance in last fall’s Epitaphs From the Abyss #3, EC’s own blood-splattered, bon vivant vampire will be making history as the first character to claw her way out of an iconic EC Comics short story . . . and into the first-ever standalone, serialized horror series from the most notorious name in terror!
WHEN YOU’RE A VAMPIRE, EVERYBODY SUCKS . . . SOONER OR LATER! Meet Ada, an immortal vampire whose misdeeds have landed her on the doorstep of an idyllic Caribbean resort . . . An island paradise teeming with wealthy tourists and superstitious locals—an ample food supply for the thirsty vamp looking to get away from it all! But as Ada stalks the boundaries of her new hunting ground, she’ll soon become embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse by moonlight . . . as an older, wiser, and entirely different kind of predator reveals its own carnal hunger for greed and power. Who will survive when a brand-new kind of BLOOD TYPE declares war on a cunning bloodsucker with nothing left to lose . . . and what will be left of them?!
Featuring a blood-curdling coven of covers from terrifying talents Andrea Sorrentino, Miguel Mercado, Albert Monteys, Patricia Martin, and Kyle Hotz, brace yourself because EC’s SUMMER OF FEAR starts here when Blood Type #1 takes the first bite on June 11th, 2025!
Plus: Experience the throat-ripping short story that set Blood Type #1in motion when Oni’s must-read Free Comic Book Day release – EC Presents Blood Type #0– recollects Ada’s first appearance from Epitaphs From the Abyss, alongside other acclaimed stories from Cruel Universe andCruel Kingdom! Featuring contributions from Eisner Award nominee Charlie Adlard, Hugo Award nominee Corinna Bechko, Eisner Award winner Jonathan Case, breakout writer Chris Condon, acclaimed artist Kano, and New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt, relive the most terrifying moments of EC’s first year back from the grave – and prepare for the SUMMER OF FEAR yet to come – in Blood Type #0, only available on Free Comic Book Day 2025!
OUT OF THE PAGES OF EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS. . . A MONSTROUS NEW EC COMICS MILESTONE BEGINS THIS JUNE! In advance of this year’s annual ComicsPRO Comic Book Industry Meeting in Glendale, CA, Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have announced that the next chapter in the blockbuster resurrection of the immortal EC Comics will be written this June in Blood Type #1– the FIRST ISSUE of A TERRIFYING NEW KIND OF HORROR SERIES from Hugo Award-nominated writer Corinna Bechko and Eisner Award-winning artist Andrea Sorrentino! Rising from the pages of her first appearance in last fall’sEpitaphs From the Abyss #3, EC’s own blood-splattered, bon vivant vampire will be making history as the first character to claw her way out of an iconic EC Comics short story . . . and into the first-ever standalone, serialized horror series from the most notorious name in terror!
WHEN YOU’RE A VAMPIRE, EVERYBODY SUCKS . . . SOONER OR LATER! Meet Ada, an immortal vampire whose misdeeds have landed her on the doorstep of an idyllic Caribbean resort. . . . An island paradise teeming with wealthy tourists and superstitious locals—an ample food supply for the thirsty vamp looking to get away from it all! But as Ada stalks the boundaries of her new hunting ground, she’ll soon become embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse by moonlight . . . as an older, wiser, and entirely different kind of predator reveals its own carnal hunger for greed and power. Who will survive when a brand-new kind of BLOOD TYPE declares war on a cunning bloodsucker with nothing left to lose . . . and what will be left of them?!
Picking up in the immediate aftermath of Ada’s first appearance in the titular short story “Blood Type” fromEpitaphs From the Abyss #3,Blood Type is intended to be the first in a new slate of semi-regular EC Comics limited series that will spotlight and continue a select few of the razor-sharp short stories introduced in the pages of EC’s monthly anthology titles – be they horror, science fiction, fantasy, or more. BeforeBlood Type #1 arrives in comic shops everywhere this June, readers can rediscover the killer short that first launched Ada into infamy inside the pages ofEC Presents Blood Type #0 – Oni’s 2025 Free Comic Book Day release by Bechko and artist Jonathan Case, alongside other fan-favorite shorts from EC”s first year at Oni Press by creators Charlie Adlard, Chris Condon, Kano, and Matt Kindt with an all-new cover by Eisner Award nominee Tyler Crook.
As a revolutionary new entry in the EC Comics canon, Blood Type #1will lead off a new wave of gloriously bloody new wave EC series at Oni Press across Summer 2025. Stay tuned for more news on EC’s upcoming SUMMER OF FEAR in the weeks ahead as Blood Type prepares to bite deep!
Featuring covers by Miguel Mercado, Andrea Sorrentino, Albert Monteys, and Naomi Franq,Blood Type #1seeps into comic shops everywhere on June 18th.
