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Oni and EC Comics’ Epitaphs From the Abyss gets a Library Edition and Limited Slipcase

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Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc., are celebrating EC Comics’ history-making, headline-grabbing return Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition: Book One – the first in a new line of enhanced hardcovers collecting the entirety of the new EC library at Oni Press and debuting in two eye-popping editions, Oversized, unapologetic, and uncontrollably outrageous, both the standard Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition and the sublime Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition – Limited Slipcase & Portfolio Edition (limited to 1,000 units) will be on sale on July 14th, 2026—just as the new and nightmarish EC Comics horror host the Grave-Digger foretold.

Collecting Epitaphs From the Abyss #1–12 for the first time in a staggeringly deluxe, oversized (7.5″ x 11.5″) hardcover, both editions of Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition: Book One feature tales of depraved intention and traumatic tension in the undying EC tradition by relentless writers including Jason Aaron, Brian Azzarello, Corinna Bechko, Chris Condon, J. Holtham, and Matt Kindt, all realized into bloody reality by “all-slaughter” artists like Charlie Adlard, Tyler Crook, Kano, Klaus Janson, Leomacs, Alison Sampson, and many more. Both editions also feature more than 50 pages of “behind-the-screams” material, including process art, character designs for EC’s newest horror hosts, and a cover gallery for readers to gouge their eye, as well as all-new commentary from cartoonist Jay Stephens and series designer Rian Hughes. 

But that’s not all! Enter: the Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition – Limited Slipcase & Portfolio HC! – will feature an ultra-deluxe, limited-edition version of the Epitaphs From the Abyss hardcover comes packaged with a specially designed portfolio set featuring high-quality, 11” x 7″ cardstock prints featuring gallery-ready reproductions of all 12 covers by comics master Lee Bermejo, and packaged in a masterfully designed, foil-stamped slipcase featuring the work of artist Dustin Weaver and Eisner Award–nominated designer Rian Hughes.

In the history of comics, no one publishes a horror comics cover like EC Comics! Iconic, scandalous, and unforgettable, EC Comics’ historic horror covers are seared into the collective memory of generations. Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition – Limited Slipcase & Portfolio HC is the first-ever portfolio for the new EC Comics titles from Oni Press, featuring Lee Bermejo’s meticulously macabre covers spanning all 12 issues of the first hit series to immortalize EC’s long-awaited return. Having reaped international renown for his collaborations with writer Brian Azzarello on Joker and Batman: Damned, and with writer/screenwriter Mattson Tomlin on the Eisner Award-nominated A Vicious Circle, and countless unforgettable comics series, Bermejo has earned a reputation as one of the industry’s most iconic and formidable artists across a nearly three decade career. 

In 1955, the Comics Code Authority drove a stake through the depraved heart of EC Comics—the iconic publisher behind Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, and more instantly influential titles that redefined American horror for generations to come. Now, groundbreaking comics publisher Oni Press has done the unthinkable: resurrected the immortal spirit of EC Comics for the 21st century with a brand-new slate of wildly bestselling, critically acclaimed, and award-nominated new series . . . beginning with its flagship horror title Epitaphs From the Abyss! 

On July 14th, find out what brought the most notorious name in terror roaring back from the crypt as the Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition: Book One stalks into comic shops and book stores everywhere in two masterfully designed editions that no true fan – or blood-drinking fiend – will want to miss. 

DC All In goes Next Level with its Second Arc Starting March 2026!

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After DC’s brawling DC K.O. comic book event series concludes on March 4, 2026, Scott Snyder and Joshua Williamson are helping to take “DC All In” to the “Next Level,” beginning a second act of the publishing initiative that began with the DC All in Special and the launch of DC’s Absolute universe.

DC: Next Leve is a series of bold, creator-forward #1s, starring fan-favorite characters, and helmed by some of the best talent in comics. These new Next Level titles will launch alongside bold new storylines in DC’s ongoing and limited series as DC All In begins its second act.

NEXT LEVEL IS LOBO’S ONLY LEVEL WITH SKOTTIE YOUNG AND JORGE CORONA RIDING SHOTGUN!

The Eisner-nominated creative team that brought you a fantastic parable of adolescence in the Midwest, the story of an artist who embraces darkness a little too closely, and the tale of a gunslinger with too much grit to stay buried, brings you a classic yarn spun in the star-kissed threads of the cosmic DC Universe.

Vrrrrroooooommmmmmmm! The Main Man’s back, baby! And his ride is a motorcycle that moves at the speed of sound, but only if that sound is a rippin’ guitar solo, and you better hop on before he leaves you in the dust with all the bastiches he’s fragged for money or convenience!

It’s a guts-soaked path from DC K.O. to the end of the universe, where Lobo is going to scratch his name and number in the Source Wall with a cool knife. Don’t miss the mayhem, special guests, or tasty, tasty continuity! Don’t you do it!

Lobo, a new DC Next Level comic book series written by Skottie Young with art and main cover by Jorge Corona, debuts on March 4, 2026. The first issue features open-to-order card stock variants by Lee Bermejo, KyuYong Eom, and Corona, priced at $3.99 US ($4.99 US for card stock; $6.99 US for foil). Juan Ferrerya contributes a 1:25 incentive variant, while Bermejo’s cover will also be available as an open-to-order foil edition, alongside a blank sketch cover.

EISNER-WINNER GREG RUCKA AND VISIONARY ARTIST DANI JOIN FORCES TO CANCEL THE APOCALYPSE!

Acclaimed writer and co-creator of the modern Batwoman, Greg Rucka, returns to the story of Kate Kane alongside celebrated artist DaNi for a DC Next Level series that will redefine Batwoman and her mission for a new generation.

Batwoman.

Daughter. Sister. Soldier. Hero.

But since she was 10 years old, Kate Kane has lived in the shadow of a prophecy and the machinations of a religion devoted to the end of all things. How do you fight the devil when the devil is real? And how do you win?

Batwoman, a new DC Next Level comic book series written by Greg Rucka with art and cover by DaNi, debuts on March 11, 2026. The debut issue includes open-to-order cardstock variant covers by artists including Stanley “Artgerm” Lau, Stjepan Šejić, Jorge Corona, and more, priced at $3.99 US ($4.99 US for cardstock; $6.99 US for foil). Joshua “Sway” Swaby contributes a 1:25 incentive variant, while Artgerm’s variant will be offered as an additional open-to-order foil cover, alongside a blank sketch cover.

THE WORLD’S DEADLIEST ASSASSIN LEVELS UP WITH TONY FLEECS AND CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO!

Prepare for brutal violence with over-the-top action and intrigue from the twisted mind of writer Tony Fleecs with pulse-pounding art by Carmine Di Giandomenico. DC’s contract killing bogeyman is back and bloodier than ever!

Soldier-turned-superhuman assassin for hire, Slade Wilson, has made hundreds of enemies in his day, and now one of them is taking his world apart piece by piece. The hit is out on Deathstroke, as he evolves into his purest form…a terminator out for revenge and ready to kill anyone who stands in his way.

Deathstroke: The Terminator, a new DC Next Level comic book series written by Tony Fleecs with art and cover by Carmine Di Giandomenico, debuts on March 18, 2026. The first issue features open-to-order card stock variants by Dan Panosian, KyuYong Eom, and Jorge Corona, priced at $3.99 US ($4.99 US for card stock; $6.99 US for foil). Tony Fleecs provides a 1:25 incentive variant, while Panosian’s cover will also be available as an open-to-order foil edition, alongside a blank sketch cover.

DC NEXT LEVEL INTRODUCES FRESH FACES AND FAN FAVORITES

DC Next Level, part of the second act of DC All In, is a new publishing initiative spotlighting characters like Batwoman, Deathstroke, The Demon, Firestorm, Lobo, Barbara Gordon, Zatanna, the Teen Titans, and more. The creative roster includes Jeff Lemire, Greg Rucka, Javier Rodríguez, Jamal Campbell, Skottie Young, Mariko Tamaki, James Harren, Kyle Higgins, Joshua Williamson, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Michael Walsh, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Rafael De Latorre, Jorge Corona, Tony Fleecs, Amancay Nahuelpan, Deniz Camp, DaNi, and others. The initiative promises fresh perspectives and dynamic storytelling across the DC Universe.

While the new series will be independent reads and not heavily tied to other books, they will exist alongside DC’s ongoing comic book series like Superman, Batman, Justice League Unlimited, and more. The focus is creating new-reader friendly debuts that roll out over time creating easy jumping-on point.

In the announcement, Snyder and Williamson teased this is just the second phase of what is planned with a legion of stories still to be told.

Preview: EC Outlaw Showdown #1

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EC Outlaw Showdown #1

WRITTEN BY JOHN ARCUDI, CHRISTOPHER CANTWELL, TONY MOORE, AND ANN NOCENTI
ART BY SEBASTIÁN CABROL, DAVID LAPHAM, DAN McDAID, AND TONY MOORE
COVER A BY LEE BERMEJO
COVER B BY TONY MOORE
COVER C BY LADRÖNN
EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY SHAWN McMANUS
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TONY MOORE
ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES
BLANK SKETCH VARIANT AVAILABLE
ON SALE OCTOBER 22th, 2025 | $8.99 | 56 PAGES | FC

As the sun settles high above this bone-dry stretch of mesa, wipe the blood from your boot heels and place your wagers as Oni Press and EC Comics raise their pistols . . . to pump six cylinders of hot lead and cold hearts into OUTLAW SHOWDOWN—EC’S FIRST GIANT-SIZED, 56-PAGE SPECIAL celebrating REVENGE and RETRIBUTION on the lawless frontiers of the Old West! Gunfighters, scoundrels, butchers, and bandits—they’ll all join us here to draw down on fate itself as coffin-bound creators John Arcudi (B.P.R.D.), Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Tony Moore (The Walking Dead), and Ann Nocenti (Daredevil) rain hellfire and fury from the holsters on their hip.

Plus, also featured as an extra-added bonus: A newly remastered and authentically restored tale of Old West retribution and recoil from the EC vaults by comics masters Harvey Kurtzman (Two-Fisted Tales) and Jack Davis (Tales from the Crypt)!

SOME COMIC BOOK COMPANIES ASK YOU TO CHOOSE: DEATH OR GLORY? AT EC COMICS, WE SAY . . . WHY NOT BOTH?! And we will continue to tempt your fate by telling you to CHOOSE A COVER THAT MAKES YOU RIDE INTO A BLAZE OF GLORY! Pick your poison with covers by Lee Bermejo (Joker), Ladrönn (Cable), Tony Moore, Shawn McManus (Fables), and Rian Hughes (The Multiversity).

EC Outlaw Showdown #1

December is DC K.O. All Fight Month

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DC turns December into All Fight Month! From December 3 to December 24, DC K.O. explodes into an all-out brawl for DC Universe domination as heroes square off against each other for a chance to hold a universe-altering power! DC’s All Fight Month fights will take place across tie-in issues and one-shot specials, so don’t miss all eight rounds in December by superstar talent!

Tying in with DC K.O. All Fight Month in December is DC K.O. Knightfight #2 by Joshua Williamson and Dan Mora on December 3 and Justice League Unlimited #14 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora on December 24.

In DC K.O. Knightfight #2, Bruce Wayne’s battle through a gauntlet of future Batmen is on! Each former Robin has shaped Gotham City into their own vision of justice, and if Bruce can make his way past Dick Grayson, he’ll face the darkest one yet. Will he survive the most violent aspects of his own legacy? Or will Batman’s greatest failure destroy him and the city he’s sworn to protect? It’s a literal battle for the cowl—and for the fate of the DC Universe—as the all-star creative team of Joshua Williamson and Dan Mora turns up the heat!

DC K.O. Knightfight #2

In Justice League Unlimited #14, as the time-displaced heroes fight for their lives against the towering might of the demonic Neron, Mr. Terrific descends into the cold vacuum of space! But this time it’s by his own design…can Michael Holt team with the rogue agent behind Justice League Red to purge all emotion and coldly calculate the fate of humanity? Grab the tissues, everybody—this issue’s about to break some hearts!

Justice League Unlimited #14

Round One!
DC K.O.: Superman vs. [REDACTED] #1

A fight so explosive it you won’t want to miss it!

Written by Joshua Williamson
Art by Sean Izaakse
Cover by Jorge Corona
Variant covers by John Giang, Lucas Meyer, Sanford Greene, and Sean Izaakse
Available on December 3

DC K.O.: Superman vs. [REDACTED] #1

Round Two!
Aquaman #12

Friends become foes in a battle with cataclysmic consequences!

All Fight Month cover by John Timms

Written by Jeremy Adams
Art and cover by John Timms
Variant covers by Guillem March, David Talaski, and Lucas Meyer
Available on December 10

Aquaman #12

Round Three!
DC K.O.: Wonder Woman vs. [REDACTED] #1

Witness the ultimate smackdown as two heavy hitters fight for the crown!

All Fight Month cover by Jorge Corona

Written by Joëlle Jones
Art by Jason Howard
Cover by Jorge Corona
Variant covers by Dan Panosian, Joëlle Jones, Elizabeth Torque, and Eddy Barrows
Available on December 10

DC K.O.: Wonder Woman vs. [REDACTED] #1

Round Four!
Titans #30

Grab yourself a ringside seat and get ready for the latest round of K.O. carnage!

All Fight Month cover by Pete Woods

Written by John Layman
Art and cover by Pete Woods
Variant covers by Brad Walker, Mark Spears, Edwin Galmon, and George Kambadais
Available on December 17

Titans #30

Round Five!
DC K.O.: Harley Quinn vs. [REDACTED] #1

It’s all-out chaos as Harley Quinn faces off against a surprise opponent!

All Fight Month cover by Jorge Corona

Written by Leah Williams
Art by Mirka Andolfo
Cover by Jorge Corona
Variant covers by Frank Cho, Jamal Campbell, Mirka Andolfo, and David Nakayama
Available on December 17

DC K.O.: Harley Quinn vs. [REDACTED] #1

Round Six!
The Flash #28

It’s the match you never saw coming!

All Fight Month cover by Dan Mora

Written by Mark Waid and Christopher Cantwell
Art by Vasco Georgiev
Cover by Dan Mora
Variant covers by Eric Canete, Serg Acuña, Ethan Young, and Lucas Meyer
Available on December 24

The Flash #28

Round Seven!
Superman #33

A fight you never expected but are dying to see!

All Fight Month cover by Hayden Sherman

Written by Joshua Williamson
Art and cover by Hayden Sherman
Variant covers by Kyuyong Eom, Seba Fiumara, David Aja, Tula Lotay, and Jorge Fornés
Available on December 24

Superman #33

Final Round!
DC K.O.: Red Hood VS. [REDACTED] #1

Welcome to the most ruthless fight in all of DC K.O. This one is personal!

All Fight Month cover by Jorge Corona

Written by Scott Snyder and Joshua Williamson
Art by Dustin Nguyen
Cover by Jorge Corona
Variant covers by Dustin Nguyen, Lee Bermejo, Guillem March and Taurin Clarke
Available on December 24

DC K.O.: Red Hood VS. [REDACTED] #1

EC Comics’ Outlaw Showdown #1 Paints the Town Red in October!

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Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. present a first look inside EC Outlaw Showdown #1 – a 56-page slab of sawdust celebrating revenge and retribution on the lawless frontiers of the Old West, as told in the immortal EC Comics tradition! The first in a new series of super-sized EC Comics genre specials – from prehistoric survival to crime and punishment in epochs far beyond our own – Outlaw Showdown #1 is 56 pages of hot lead and cold hearts … so place your wagers before Oni Press and EC Comics paint comic shops everywhere blood red on October 22nd!

Gunfighters, scoundrels, butchers, and bandits—they’ll all join us here to draw down on fate itself as coffin-bound creators John Arcudi, Sebastián Cabrol, Christopher Cantwell, David Lapham, Tony Moore, Dan McDaid, and Ann Nocenti, rain hellfire and fury from the holsters on their hip. 

Here, for the first time, Oni Press and EC Comics can reveal a peek through the saloon doors to what awaits inside Outlaw Showdown #1 with a sly gander at two surefire-hit stories: “Fire in the Hole” by Eisner Award nominee Tony Moore and “The Cure” by comic legends Ann Nocenti and David Lapham.

Plus: As if you need any more gold to add to your ledger… Saddle up for a newly remastered and authentically restored tale from the EC Comics vaults by EC icons Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis—authentically restored back to the closest possible approximation of its original coloring for the first time in seven decades by colorist Iñaki Azpiazu!

On October 22nd, Outlaw Showdown #1 fires on all cylinders with a wanted-dead-or-alive cast of the coldest cover artists this side of the Mississippi, including Lee Bermejo, Tony Moore, Ladrönn, Shawn McManus, and Rian Hughes! A blood-stained, power-burned milestone in EC history awaits this October – only in Outlaw Showdown #1!

Outlaw Showdown #1

DC Reveals Bonus Stories and Variant Covers for Batman/Deadpool #1

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What happens when the World’s Greatest Detective meets the Merc with a Mouth? Reality folds in on itself. Archetypes collide. Darkseid is. And, somewhere between Apokolips and Earth-TRN666, a sentient street named Danny hums show tunes about a crusading cape! DC Comics has revealed more details about the anticipated Batman/Deadpool #1, a 64-page one-shot crossover comic book with a main cover by Dan Mora. Retailing for $7.99 US the comic hits shelves on Wednesday, November 19, 2025.

But DC’s Batman/Deadpool #1 isn’t just a comic book crossover between iconic publishers, it’s a metaphysical car crash between two storytelling philosophies. One character broods in the shadows of trauma and justice. The other cartwheels through chaos, breaking the fourth wall and occasionally the laws of physics. Together, they’re forced to confront a threat that doesn’t just endanger their worlds—it questions their very existence as fictional constructs.

With a main story by Grant Morrison and Dan Mora, Batman/Deadpool #1 launches a reality-bending saga that’s equal parts cosmic horror, slapstick noir, and metafictional therapy session. It’s the kind of comic book that knows it’s a comic book, revels in being a comic book, weaponizes its comic bookiness—and dares you to keep reading anyway!

Buckled into the backseat of Morrison and Mora’s Batmobile, four all-star bonus stories come roaring in, each crafted by a bona fide who’s who of comic book creators:

Comic legends collide as Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, and Joshua Williamson join forces with Hayden Sherman to conjure a spellbinding Constantine meets Doctor Strange saga. Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo deliver a kinetic, emotionally-charged encounter between Nightwing (Dick Grayson) and Wolverine (Laura Kinney), where acrobatics meet adamantium in a story that cuts deep. Mariko Tamaki and Amanda Conner unleash chaos and charisma in a riotous Harley Quinn vs. Hulk showdown, while G. Willow Wilson and Denys Cowan electrify the page with a high-voltage tale starring Static and Ms. Marvel.

These additional stories expand the scope and amplify the wild ambition of Batman/Deadpool #1, offering fans even more collisions of tone, style, and character chemistry. From brooding to bonkers, the Batman/Deadpool #1 creative teams go all in.

Ahead of DC’s Batman/Deadpool #1 arriving in November, Marvel’s Deadpool/Batman #1 will publish on September 17. Both of these incredible one-shot comic books will deliver explosive sagas starring DC’s Caped Crusader and Marvel’s Merc with a Mouth, along with bonus stories that showcase additional team-ups and showdowns between legendary characters from both universes.

To push the limits of DC’s cosmic collision of comic book characters even further, Batman/Deadpool #1 will feature an extraordinary lineup of cardstock variant covers, including a wraparound blank blue cardstock sketch variant cover with the Batman/Deadpool logos and a foil variant of Dan Mora’s main cover, all retailing $8.99 US, from some of the most iconic and inventive artists in comics:

  • Dan Mora – Batman/Deadpool wraparound
  • Lee Bermejo – The Joker/Doctor Doom
  • Mark Brooks – Zatanna/Scarlet Witch
  • Jim Cheung and Jay David Ramos – Wonder Woman/Captain America
  • Amanda Conner and Alex Sinclair – Harley Quinn/Hulk
  • Nick Dragotta and Frank Martin – Batman/The Punisher
  • Jenny Frison – Wonder Woman/Storm
  • Andy Kubert and Alejandro Sánchez – Robin (Damian Wayne)/Gambit
  • Jae Lee and June Chung – Big Barda/Savage Land Rogue
  • Jim Lee, Scott Williams and Alex Sinclair – Batman/Wolverine
  • Alexander Lozano – Wonder Woman/Ms. Marvel
  • Sean Murphy and Simon Gough – Lobo/Deadpool
  • Frank Quitely – Batman/Deadpool
  • Bruno Redondo – Nightwing (Dick Grayson)/Wolverine (Laura Kinney)
  • Hayden Sherman – John Constantine/Doctor Strange
  • Bill Sienkiewicz – Batman/Deadpool — a The Incredible Hulk #340 homage
  • Ryan Sook – Batman/Deadpool — a Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 homage
  • Sozomaika – Catwoman/Emma Frost

With Morrison and Mora at the wheel, an all-star crew riding shotgun, and a pit crew of legendary artists delivering cardstock variant covers that expand the DC/Marvel crossover even further, DC’s Batman/Deadpool #1 is a showcase of comic book creativity. And yes, there will be owls. There will be blades. There will be blood. There will be a giant typewriter!

Check out Mora’s wraparound variant cover below and stay tuned for a deeper look into DC’s Batman/Deadpool #1 in the coming months.

Feel Your Brain Matter Boil in EC Comics’ Cruel Universe 2 #2 – On Sale in September!

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EMBRACE OBVILION AS YOUR PHYSICAL BODY SACRIFICES ITSELF … ALL IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have revealed a first look at the story “Ham Radio” by Melissa Flores and Claire Roe from Cruel Universe 2 #2 (of 12) – the next installment of the Eisner Award-nominated science-fiction anthology series featuring a stellar group of creators forcing readers beyond the brink of reality itself! 

For millennia, mankind has earned to explore the stars. Foolish humans—that was your first mistake! Like a stray space capsule that’s unexpectedly escaped our solar system and is now cursed to rocket forward at ever-escalating velocities that will slowly reduce its crew to a slick film of goo, EC Comics proudly presents a new roster of callously cosmic tales positively oozing with pain, paranoia, and the pent-up regret of human ambition! To copilot this doomed survey of the stars, join writers Chris Condon, Melissa Flores, and Dave Wielgosz as they execute the logarithmic calculations that could save our explorers . . . only for the danger-defying artists Sami Kivelä, Claire Roe, and Riley Rossmo to bear witness to inescapable galactic calamity of their all-too-human hubris. Whoops!

Yes, human, it has been foretold in our data tablets: You will gaze in slackjawed wonder as Cruel Universe 2 #2 (of 12) crosses the vacuum of space to deliver new allotments of optical ingenuity in the form of comic book covers by Lee Bermejo, Tom Fowler, Albert Monteys, and Malachi Ward to begin a eons-long rein of EC Comics-inspired cosmic terror! You wanted to live life as a sentient being … Now pay the price in Cruel Universe 2 #2 (of 12) – on sale September 3rd!

Cruel Universe 2 #2 (of 12)

Preview: Bring on the Bad Guys: Loki #1

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Bring on the Bad Guys: Loki #1

(W) Anthony Oliveira, Marc Guggenheim (A) Jethro Morales (CA) Lee Bermejo
Rated T+
In Shops: Jul 30, 2025
SRP: $4.99

WHO GETS THE LAST LAUGH?

Loki is the God of Mischief. Mephisto is the Lord of Lies. In a centuries-old battle of wits, Loki needs of a favor, and in exchange, Mephisto commands him to retrieve a soul – one belonging to an agent of Khonshu. But no one tells Loki what to do. Part FOUR of SEVEN Villainous One-Shots!

Bring on the Bad Guys: Loki #1

Exclusive First Look: Bring on the Bad Guys: Mephisto #1

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Bring on the Bad Guys: Mephisto #1

(W) Marc Guggenheim (A) Alvaro Lopez
(C) Lee Bermejo (VCA) Chris Campana, Ken Lashley, Nimit Malavia, Miguel Mercado, Todd Nauck
August 27, 2025
SRP: $4.99

MEPHISTO’S EPIC SCHEMES COME TO A FIERY CONCLUSION! Victory is in Mephisto’s grasp as he prepares to take control over all souls on Earth! But who is the mysterious figure who stands against him? Guest-starring the entire villain lineup of the original Bring on the Bad Guys: DR. DOOM, DORMAMMU, the RED SKULL, the GREEN GOBLIN, LOKI and the ABOMINATION! Part SEVEN of SEVEN Villainous One-Shots!

Bring on the Bad Guys: Mephisto #1

SDCC 2025: The West Runs Red in EC Comics’ Outlaw Showdown #1

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SOME COMIC BOOK COMPANIES ASK YOU TO CHOOSE: DEATH OR GLORY? AT EC COMICS, THEY SAY . . . WHY NOT BOTH?! In advance of Comic-Con International in San Diego, CA, Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have revealed Outlaw Showdown #1 – the first in a new series of unpredictable and unforgiving 56-page specials visiting EC’s trademark brand of hard-won vengeance upon storytelling genres from across the ages . . . from prehistoric survival to crime and punishment in epochs far beyond our own.

Debuting this October in our inaugural bonfire of bullets: As the sun settles high above this bone-dry stretch of mesa, wipe the blood from your boot heels and place your wagers as Oni Press and EC Comics raise their pistols to pump six cylinders of hot lead and cold hearts into Outlaw Showdown #1 – EC’s first 56-page special celebrating revenge and retribution on the lawless frontiers of the Old West! Gunfighters, scoundrels, butchers, and bandits—they’ll all join us here to draw down on fate itself as coffin-bound creators John Arcudi, Brian Azzarello, David Lapham, Tony Moore, Ann Nocenti, and more rain hellfire and fury from the holsters on their hip.

Plus, as an extra-added bounty: Saddle up for a newly remastered and authentically restored tale of hard-fought Western justice from the EC vaults!

Also joining the perilous posse, point an ol’ six-shooter salute to sky and welcome steel-sighted cover artists Lee Bermejo, Tony Moore, Ladrönn, Shawn McManus, and Rian Hughes to this blood-stained, power-burned milestone in EC history. This October, the West runs red –only in Outlaw Showdown #1!

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