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Take a bite out of Marvel Horror with The Best of Marvel’s Vampire Tales

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In a celebration of the history of Marvel Horror comes The Best of Marvel’s Vampire Tales Volume One, the first in a series of Dark Horse collaborations with Marvel Comics to excavate the hidden corners of the Marvel Universe and re-present its most ghoulish tales in beautiful archival hardcover editions. Helmed by comics historians Chris Ryall and John Lind, alongside designer Chris Shadoian, the oversized collection will feature full-color reproductions of the covers of Vampire Tales, along with a brand-new introduction and countless stories from one of the magazines that ignited a new horror-comics boom for Marvel.

One of the black-and-white horror anthologies debuted by Marvel Comics in 1973, Vampire Tales, included stories of bloodsucking fiends as both heroes, villains, and anti-heroes, involving fan-favorites like the reluctant monster Morbius, the Living Vampire; the first solo tales featuring Blade the Vampire Slayer; and Dracula’s daughter, the ever-lethal Lilith. Vampire Tales magazine also introduced the comic-book world to Satana, the Devil’s Daughter, and her introductory stories are also in this first volume. Now, fans will experience these stories again in archival size and style completing any horror collection.

The Best of Marvel’s Vampire Tales Volume One contains nearly 300 pages of terrifying tales from the first six issues of the magazine, including stories by comic-book talent such as Alfredo Alcala, Rich Buckler, Ernie Chan, Chris Claremont, Gerry Conway, Bill Everett, Gardner Fox, Steve Gerber, Carmine Infantino, Tony Isabella, Gil Kane, Stan Lee, Don McGregor, Pablo Marcos, Esteban Maroto, Doug Moench, Tom Palmer, John Romita, Jim Steranko, Tom Sutton, Roy Thomas, Marv Wolfman, and more!

Sink your teeth into the foundational frights of Marvel Comics Horror in The Best of Marvel’s Vampire Tales Volume One when the 360-page (8.375×10.875”) hardcover arrives in bookstores and comic shops on August 18, 2026, for $65.00. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop.

The Best of Marvel’s Vampire Tales Volume One

The EC Archives expand with The Complete Moon Girl

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Dark Horse Books presents The EC Archives: The Complete Moon Girl, written by Gardner Fox and Dorothy Roubicek and illustrated by Sheldon Moldoff and Johnny Craig. This hardcover volume collects Moon Girl #1-8, all Moon Girl stories published in other EC titles, and EC Comics’ first horror story “Zombie Terror” featured in issue #5, scanned from the original comics and digitally restored in this new edition. It also includes a foreword by Grant Geissman, designer and content curator of The Complete Moon Girl.  

The Complete Moon Girl collects the amazing adventures of Claire Lune and Lionel Manning—Moon Girl and the Prince—who together fend off invaders from other planets as well as fight crime, and who “dedicate themselves to the task of creating a better world.”

The EC Archives: The Complete Moon Girl (368 pages, hardcover, 8.1875” x 10.9375”) will be available in bookstores July 1, 2025 and comic shops on July 2, 2025. It is now available for preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Things From Another World, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $59.99.

The EC Archives: The Complete Moon Girl

Batgirl has been unmasked as Leslie Grace Lands the Role of Barbara Gordon

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Reports have been coming out that Warner Bros. and DC have found their Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in Leslie Grace. Grace is considered a rising star after her breakout role in In the Heights.

The casting has not been confirmed but Grace has confirmed it herself on Twitter.

Batgirl currently is going to be an HBO Max release and one of the major properties to debut exclusively on the platform. Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah will direct the film off of a script by Christina Hodson. Kristin Burr is producing.

Generally, Batgirl is Barbara Gordon, the daughter of Commissioner Gordon who must deal with balancing the Gotham Police force and masked vigilantes in the city, including his daughter.

Batgirl was created by Bill Figner and Sheldon Moldoff and debuted in Batman #139 in April 1961. Originally Betty Kane, she later became Barbara Gordon in 1967. Gordon debuted in Detective Comics #359 in January 1967 by writer Gardner Fox and artist Carmine Infantino. Others have donned the cape and cowl including Huntress Helena Bertinelli, Cassandra Cain, and Stephanie Brown.

Preview: The Flash #123 Facsimile Edition

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The Flash #123 Facsimile Edition

(W) Gardner Fox (A) Joe Giella (CA) Murphy Anderson (A/CA) Carmine Infantino
In Shops: Feb 26, 2020
SRP: $3.99

The classic tale from 1961 that introduced the concept of the Multiverse to the pages of DC Comics is reprinted here! There’s a crimewave in Central City, and the Flash will need help to stop the villains’ spree-fortunately, help is on the way in the form of the Golden Age Fastest Man Alive, Jay Garrick!

The Flash #123 Facsimile Edition

Preview: Detective Comics #359 Facsimile Edition

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Detective Comics #359 Facsimile Edition

(W) Gardner Fox, John Broome (A) Sid Greene (A/CA) Carmine Infantino, Murphy Anderson
In Shops: Jan 15, 2020
SRP: $3.99

Batgirl makes her first appearance in this 1967 origin story, reprinted in a new facsimile edition! As both Batgirl and Oracle, Barbara Gordon has been a pivotal part of the Batman family for decades. In “The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl,” what starts as a trip to a costume party sparks a crime-fighting career, as Barbara helps Batman and Robin defeat Killer Moth! Plus, the Elongated Man must solve “The Riddle of the Sleepytime Taxi”!

Detective Comics #359 Facsimile Edition

Preview: Jungle Girls

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Jungle Girls

Gardner Fox (w) • Matt Baker & Various (a) • L. B. Cole (c)

An anthology that collects the best Golden Age (1940s-1950s) comic book stories featuring strong female versions of Tarzan. The sassy, brassy, and beautiful girls of the four-color Golden Age don’t just rule the jungle, they look good doing it, too! Strong, sexy, leopard-clad women fight apes, lions, and evil white-man traders while the Tarzan-like boyfriends cling to their vines watching admiringly from a safe distance.

HC • FC • $29.99 • 160 pages • 9” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-915-8

Jungle Girls

Preview: Mysteries of Love in Space #1

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Mysteries of Love in Space #1

(W) James Tynion IV, Saladin Ahmed, Cecil Castellucci, Kyle Higgins, Jeff Loveness, Others (A) Tom Grummett, Kyle Hotz, Elena Casagrande, Max Dunbar, Others (CA) Joelle Jones
In Shops: Jan 30, 2019
SRP: $9.99

Sometimes love can make you feel like you’re from another planet…but what if you actually were? Join Superman, The New Gods, Green Lantern, Starro, Hawkgirl and even the Teen Titans’ new sensation Crush for eight tales of romance that will whisk you to the moon and back!

Mysteries of Love in Space #1

Preview: Thunda Collection

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Thunda Collection

W) Robert Place Napton, Gardner Fox
(A) Cliff Richards, Frank Frazetta
(CA) Jae Lee

After a military helicopter crashes in a remote valley in Africa, a lone survivor awakens without memory of his identity or mission. From the wreckage, he learns only his name: Roger Drum. Armed with instinctive survival skills, the amnesiac roams his new surroundings, discovering a bizarre lost world of dinosaurs, mammoths, sabretooth tigers, and primitive human tribes. Against the backdrop of this hostile new reality, Drum must come to terms with his violent past… so that he may assume the respected and feared mantle of the prophesied jungle warrior Thun’da!

Thun’da, the hero of the primeval forest created by legendary fantasy illustrator Frank Frazetta, returns in this action-packed adventure by Robert Place Napton and Cliff Richards! As a special treat, Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents four classic tales of Thun’da, fully remastered and featuring the creative talents of comic legends Gardner Fox (Detective Comics, The Flash) and Frank Frazetta himself!

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