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Exclusive: EC’s Catacomb of Torment #14’s Covers Revealed!

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Feel the rank air of the humid summer swelter? The year is crumbling away like a desiccated corpse but, never fear, you would have wasted it anyway . . . Do something with a purpose: Become a blank canvas for the Tormentor’s palette of pain inside the Catacomb of Torment! 

Catacomb of Torment #14 features three brash and brutal tales of danger and depravity splashed onto the page in the immortal EC Comics manner, courtesy of writers David M. Booher, Jordan Clark, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, and art by N. Steven Harris, Lukas Ketner, and Oliver Dominguez! This one is a macabre masterpiece in the making—and we’re dying to share it with you, one page and pinprick at a time! 

We have an exclusive covers reveal! Check out the covers by Oliver Dominguez (Cover A), Danny Luckert (Cover B), Shawn McManus (EC Homage Variant 1:10), Danny Luckert (B&W Artist Edition Variant 1:20), and Patricia Martín (Archive Edition 1:50).

Catacomb of Torment #14 comes so shelves August 26.

Superstar Creator Dustin Weaver Reveals the Tormentor’s Twisted Origin in Catacomb of Torment #11

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DISCOVER THE TANTALIZING, TERRIFYING TRUTH ABOUT THE TORMENTOR! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to announce that the strange and sordid secret origin of the horror host known as The Tormentor will finally be revealed in all-new story by acclaimed writer/artist Dustin Weaver in EC Comics’ Catacomb of Torment #11 – on sale May 20th!

EC’s very own Mistress of Malice, the Tormentor, finally takes center stage to reveal her hopes (“to see your bone marrow!”), dreams (“slathering you in scalding oil!”), and aspirations (“finding excruciating new ways of using the ball peen hammer!”) in this VERY SPECIAL and EXTRA BLOODY tale of who she is and how she came to be! The issue “marks” the first time that EC Comics and Oni Press have divulged the bloody backstory of one of the three new EC horror hosts – The Grave-Digger, The Tormentor, and The Grim Inquisitor – with a tale both written and drawn by modern EC Comics master Dustin Weaver, who designed and co-created EC’s all-new masters of menace. The revelation of the Tormentor’s untold origin continues a frightening EC Comics tradition; the Crypt-Keeper’s origin was revealed in EC publisher and co-editor Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein and Jack Davis’s “Lower Berth” in Tales from the Crypt #33, and the Old Witch’s origin was revealed in “A Little Stranger” in The Haunt of Fear #14, written by Al Feldstein with art by Graham Ingels. 

In addition to this “all-scar” celebration of Her Royal Majesty of Pain, EC Catacomb of Torment #11 features more new tortuous tales from the depths of the Tormentor’s catacomb including “Type M for Murder,” written by Matt Bors and drawn by Fabiana Mascolo, and “Every Cut a Lie,” from writer Liam Johnson and artist Arjuna Susini. 

Don’t miss our most devilish ish yet—or The Tormentor will leave you for last! Catch the bizarre birth of the Catacomb’s very own hostess of horror in Catacomb of Torment #11, on sale May 20th and featuring cadaverous covers from Dustin Weaver, Jorge Fornés, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín!

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Horror Master Joe R. Lansdale Enters EC Comics History in Catacomb of Torment #9 – Coming in March!

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THIS MARCH, EC COMICS’ CATACOMB OF TORMENT PROUDLY USHERS A HORROR ICON INTO ITS HALLOWED HALLS! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have announced that award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and comics legend Joe R. Lansdale is joining the ranks of EC Comics’ blood-spattered luminaries with an all-new story, “Picture Perfect,” debuting in March’s Catacomb of Torment #9 alongside Eisner Award-winning artist David Lapham. 

The winner of 11 prestigious Bram Stoker Awards, the American Horror Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Edgar Award, Joe R. Lansdale’s career has spanned more than four decades across 50 novels, multiple feature films and television series, and countless short stories and comic books. Known as one of the formative pioneers of the “weird western” genre – wryly colliding classic American gunslinging with mutants, monsters, and Lovecraftian horror – Lansdale is perhaps most frequently recognized for his instant-classic reimagining of the DC Comics anti-hero Jonah Hex (alongside artist Timothy Truman) for the Vertigo imprint in the mid-1990s, as well as his creations Bubba Ho-Tep (subsequently adapted into the cult-hit feature film starring Evil Dead’s Bruce Campbell) and his long-running Hap & Leonard series that now spans more than a dozen novels, novellas, and multiple anthologies. 

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CORPSES! On March 18th, welcome back to the endless maze of the Tormentor’s catacombs . . . where the flesh is freshly flayed and the worst is always yet to come! In the malevolent EC Comics manner, breathe in that acrid stench and prepare for three ribcage-thrumming tales of trepidation wrought from the gaping maws of its latest victims . . . ahem, contributors: Celeste Bronfman, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Joe R. Lansdale, David Lapham, Malachi Ward, and more, only in Catacomb of Torment #9 – featuring a murder of calamitous covers from artists Ariel Olivetti, Yanick Paquette, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín!

Exclusive Preview: EC Comics Catacomb of Torment #6

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Feeling a chill up your spine? Nay, friend, that’s no gust of winter air . . . it’s merely the Tormentor’s rusty testing needle probing for a warm vertebrae to call home! So sit back, relax, and scream relentlessly into the void as we welcome you back to our horrific hostess’s Catacomb of Torment—where every new story will leave you in stitches! On the menu for EC Comics Catacomb of Torment #6: A frantic feast of fatal delights, as prepared with loving care by the toxic talents of writers Dave Baker (Mary Tyler MooreHawk), Matt Bors (The Toxic Avenger), and Rachel Werner (The Glam World Tour), and artists Justin Greenwood (Immortal Thor), Shawn McManus (Fables), and Claire Roe (Batgirl)! Once you’re done, remember to save room for another helping—poison always spoils on the second day, so we need to use it while it’s still good!

Get an exclusive preview of “The Composite Man,” the story from Matt Bors and Claire Roe! EC Comics Catacomb of Torment #6 is out December 17 from Oni Press with final-order-cutoff November 24.

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EC’s Catacomb of Torment #3 Reveals That The Worst Terrors Come From Your Own Mind!

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THERE’S NOTHING TO FEAR EXCEPT YOUR OWN THOUGHTS! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have revealed a first look at the story “Intrusive Thoughts” by Joanne Starer and Christopher Mitten from EC Comics’ Catacomb of Torment #3, which goes on sale on September 17th. WHEN WE SAY IT’S TIME TO “FEAST YOUR EYES” UPON A NEW CHAPTER OF EC COMICS’ BLOODY NEW HORROR SERIES, WE MEAN IT—LITERALLY! (Wait, you only brought two eyeballs? Not very polite!)

Breathe deep and realize: Yes, this is really happening as adamantly anti-anesthesia writers Ryan Haddock, J. Holtham, and Joanne Starer join the brutally beloved host, the Tormentor, to visit violently, vivid vivisections upon our agonizing artists Valeria Burzo, Sami Kivelä, and Christopher Mitten! Hurry, these tales of fear and frightful persecution are fresher than the bludgeoned corpses in your quiet neighbor’s basement! Don’t keep the Tormentor waiting!

Tearing through your very soul on September 17th, Catacomb of Torment #3 contains horrifying covers by Mark Buckingham, Björn Barends, Jay Stephens, and Patricia Martín!

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Explore EC Comics’ Summer of Fear in a Searing New Video Trailer! 

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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!