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EC Comics is Lovelorn and Lusting for Revenge in Tortured Hearts 2 #1 – Featuring 56 Fearful Pages of Gut-Wrenching Romance in January!

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Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have lifted the veil on Tortured Hearts 2 #1 – the next tenderly terrifying tome of romance gone dangerously awry hitting store shelves everywhere in January!! Just a few weeks before Valentine’s Day, the infectiously infamous EC Comics is putting it all out there with our latest 56-page, splatter de spectacular celebrating heart- ripping, artery-spurting tales that’ll really get your blood pumping! New relationship got you down? Marital woes weighing too heavy? Here’s some free advice: Sometimes you just need to cut things off—so better start hacking, heh heh!

Join us as we officiate this year’s crop of tenderly terrifying tales with a robust cast of hopelessly deranged romantics left waiting at the altar: Michael W. Conrad, Melissa Flores, Sarah Gailey, Malachi Ward, Ryan Kelly, Sami Kivelä, Jenna Cha, and more surprise blind dates!

We demand justice for the jilted! Get ready to be lovelorn, lonely, and lusting for blood as we grab St. Cupid’s arrow and start twisting in EC’s most frantic collection of sinful symphonies yet! Accept your most volatile valentine of all time when Tortured Hearts 2 #1 arrives in comic shops everywhere on January 27th – featuring horrifically heartbreaking covers from Dustin Weaver, Reiko Murakami, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín!

  • Cover of the comic book 'Tortured Hearts' featuring a monstrous octopus-like creature with a bloody mouth, interacting with two seated men in front of a vibrant backdrop that reads 'Your Dream Date' and stylized flowers.
  • Cover of the comic 'Tortured Hearts' featuring a girl with a sinister smile, blood on her shirt, and menacing hands emerging from behind her, set against a dark, eerie backdrop with foliage.
  • Cover of the comic book 'Tortured Hearts' featuring a terrified man sitting on a couch, surrounded by eerie characters including The Grim Inquisitor, The Tormentor, and The Grave-Digger in a whimsical horror style.
  • Black and white comic book cover for 'Tortured Hearts' featuring an octopus, two men sitting on a set, and the text 'Your Dream Date'.
  • Cover of the 'Tortured Hearts' comic book featuring a red heart on a white plate with a knife and fork, surrounded by splatters of red. The design includes ornate decorations and a checkered black and white background.

‘Tis the Season for Terror! EC Comics’ Haunting Holiday Tradition Returns in Shiver Suspenstories 3 #1

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Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to unveil the giant-sized Shiver Suspenstories 3 #1 – an all-new, all-unhinged 56-page giant featuring EC Comics’ most terrifying assembly of sickenin’ stocking stuffers yet! That’s right, Shiver Suspenstories is back . . . and we’re bringing three times the chills, three times the spills, and three times the murderous intent with us for our most vengeful celebration of X-mas anarchy and New Year’s nightmares ever attempted on December 9th! 

For the third year running, gather ʼround our flaming hearth and join tortured (literally!) creators John Arcudi, Sarah Gailey, Ryan Kelly, David Lapham, Jay Stephens, and more surprise guests as we begin a frightening festival of merciless merriment and holiday horror, all tinseled up in the mangled EC Comics manner!

Plus: For your reading displeasure, feast upon another restored and remastered EC classic straight from the Vault-Keeper’s lair! Heh heh, ho ho, this Christmas season, someone’s gotta go! Just remember, kids: Some stains don’t come out . . . especially under Luminol!

Get into the spirit with killer covers from Dustin Weaver, Steve Lieber, Shawn McManus, and Rian Hughes! Tell Santa to make with the comic – or else!!!– when Shiver Suspenstories 3 #1 comes calling on December 9th!

  • Cover of 'Shiver SuspenStories' comic book featuring a chaotic holiday scene with a demonic creature among frightened partygoers wearing Santa hats.
  • A comic book cover featuring two men in military attire preparing to perform an unsettling procedure on a Santa Claus figure, who is tied to a chair. The title reads 'SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES' with a subtitle indicating the issue number.
  • Cover of the comic book 'Shiver Suspense Stories' depicting a frightened man reaching toward a door with a woman visible inside, surrounded by eerie, icy surroundings.
  • Cover illustration of Shiver Suspense Stories comic, featuring two men restraining a bearded man in a chair while preparing a medical procedure.
  • Cover of 'Shiver SuspenStories' Volume 3, featuring a green background with various Halloween and winter-themed illustrations, including a haunted house, skeleton, snowman, and Christmas gift, along with titles and author names.

Exclusive: EC Catacomb of Torment #15 Covers Revealed ready to Strike Terror this September in the Series Finale!

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BEAR WITNESS TO THE TORMENTOR’S FINAL FATALITY . . . FOR NOW! (But don’t worry, she won’t be gone for long!) Even as the doors of the Catacomb draw closed in a 40-page finale, EC Comics’ most depraved horror hosts conspire to reveal a new legend of lethality that will soon take our readers by surprise!

Experience a fiendish farewell as comics legend James Robinson enters the annals of EC history . . . and struggles to leave with all of his skin still attached! Plus: Join fellow comics “all-scars” Ramón F. Bachs, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Sina Grace, David Lapham, and more each take one last turn in the Tormentor’s iron maiden . . . and give us an extra-sized, 40-page dose of that EC Comics spectacle de splatter you’ve come to crave!

EC’s Catacomb of Torment #15 arrives September 16. Check out our exclusive reveal of cover A by Oliver Dominguez, cover B, by Naomi Franq, the “EC Homage Variant” (1:10) by Shawn McManus, the “B&W Artist Edition Variant” (1:20) from Franq, and the “Archive Edition” (1:50) by Patricia Martín.

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.

Rocket Raccoon Celebrates 50 Years in July with Rocket Raccoon: Rocket Rewind

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Big things come in small, furry packages… and this July, Rocket Raccoon sets out to prove it with a 50th anniversary one-shot: Rocket Raccoon: Rocket Rewind!

Buckle up and travel the stars as Rocket engages in over-the-top action and calamity across three all-new stories from a roster of titanic creators including writers J.M. DeMatteis, Christos Gage, and MacKenzie Cadenhead and artists Shawn McManus, Todd Nauck, and Enid Balám, plus a re-presentation of Rocket’s debut tale from co-creators Bill Mantlo and Keith Giffen.

Originally introduced in the pages of Marvel Preview #7 by Mantlo and Giffen, Rocket has blasted and jetpacked his way into becoming an integral part of the Marvel cosmic tapestry and a key figure (as well as the heart and soul) of numerous Guardians of the Galaxy team line-ups.

Follow the heavily armed rapscallion as he blazes new trails in locations both new and familiar across the following stories:

  • Rocket Raccoon encounters a mysterious galactic book collector before coming face-to-face with the one-and-only Rocky Raccoon (wait, what?!) in a brain-bending tale from writer J.M. DeMatteis and artist Shawn McManus.
  • In “BoomShakaLaka,” MacKenzie Cadenhead and Enid Balám take Rocket to a paradise planet full of good vibes and an immensely powerful artifact that’s just begging to be stolen by a cybernetically enhanced creature with a bad attitude. Know anybody like that?
  • Christos Gage and Todd Nauck set out to prove that size does matter in “The Fight in the Raccoon,” featuring an odd-couple team up of Hank Pym and Rocket as they fight back a massive invasion force in Sub-Atomica!
  • Plus, the original debut of Rocket by Bill Mantlo and Keith Giffen!

Check out the covers for Rocket Raccoon: Rocket Rewind #1, including the main image by Ryan Stegman and variants by David Baldeón and Mike Mignola, and place your pre-orders at your local comic shop!

Preview: EC Comics’ Totured Hearts # 1

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EC Comics’ Tortured Hearts #1

(W)  Jordie Bellaire, Tini Howard and Blake Howard, Ann Nocenti, Amy Roy (A) Sebastián Cabrol, Fabiana Mascolo, Dan McDaid, Arjuna Susini

LOVE HURTS! Oni Press are wrenching romance comics out of the grave in Tortured Hearts #1 – a 56-page tome of terror forged in the unrelenting tradition of EC Comics! In advance of the giant-sized special’s February 11th release date, take a lovelorn first look at “A Pocket Full of Nails” by legendary comic writer and editor Ann Nocenti and ardent artist Dan McDaid with colors from the mighty Michelle Madsen.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here’s one for all of you lovesick lunatics, rancid romantics, and forlorn fatalities as Oni Press proudly presents a giant-sized Valentine’s bouquet full of soft whispers and death rattles from hot-blooded writers Jordie Bellaire, Tini Howard and Blake Howard, Ann Nocenti, and Amy Roy, alongside candy-coated artists Sebastián Cabrol, Fabiana Mascolo, Dan McDaid, Arjuna Susini, and many more!

Plus, as an extra-added bonus: Another newly restored and authentically remastered classic from the EC vaults by legendary fiends William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Reed Crandall!

Eat your heart out – but make sure to save some for the rest of us! This Valentine’s Day, EC Comics is gifting you a box of poison chocolates and cyanide-laced champagne in Tortured Hearts #1 – featuring a slate of salacious covers that will make your eyes linger a second too long from Dustin Weaver, Miguel Mercado, Tom Fowler, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín! Warm your heart to the boiling point – only in comic shops on February 11th! 

Tortured Hearts #1

Tini and Blake Howard Unveil a Twisted Valentine’s Treat in EC’s Tortured Hearts #1

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ROSES ARE RED, CORPSES ARE BLUE, AND SOON YOU’LL BE TOO! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. present an eye-piercingly perilous preview of Tortured Hearts #1 – EC Comics’ newest giant-sized special presenting 56 pages of rage-fueled romance – with a first look at “The Spark” by real-life husband and wife Tini Howard and Blake Howard, alongside astounding artist Arjuna Susini!

Did your heart ever break so hard that it felt like Cupid himself had plunged his sharp little arrow into your ribcage, only to leave a sucking chest wound for all the world to see? No?! Well, are you free on the second Wednesday in February?! In the unrelenting tradition of EC Comics, here’s one for all of you lovesick lunatics, rancid romantics, and forlorn fatalities as Oni Press proudly presents our next giant-sized special full of soft whispers and death rattles from hot-blooded writers Jordie Bellaire, Tini Howard and Blake Howard, Ann Nocenti, and Amy Roy, alongside candy-coated artists Sebastián Cabrol, Fabiana Mascolo, Dan McDaid, and Arjuna Susini!

Plus, as an extra-added bonus: Another newly restored and authentically remastered classic from the EC vaults by legendary fiends William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Reed Crandall!

Eat your heart out – but make sure to save some for the rest of us! This Valentine’s Day, Oni Press and EC Comics is gifting you a box of poison chocolates and cyanide-laced champagne in Tortured Hearts #1 – featuring a slate of salacious covers that will make your eyes linger a second too long from Dustin Weaver, Miguel Mercado, Tom Fowler, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín! Warm your heart to the boiling point – only in comic shops on February 11th! 

Tortured Hearts #1

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!

Oni Press Delivers a Vicious Valentine in EC Comics’ Totured Hearts # 1– On Sale February 11th!

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LOVE HURTS! Oni Press are wrenching romance comics out of the grave in Tortured Hearts #1 – a 56-page tome of terror forged in the unrelenting tradition of EC Comics! In advance of the giant-sized special’s February 11th release date, take a lovelorn first look at “A Pocket Full of Nails” by legendary comic writer and editor Ann Nocenti and ardent artist Dan McDaid with colors from the mighty Michelle Madsen.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here’s one for all of you lovesick lunatics, rancid romantics, and forlorn fatalities as Oni Press proudly presents a giant-sized Valentine’s bouquet full of soft whispers and death rattles from hot-blooded writers Jordie Bellaire, Tini Howard and Blake Howard, Ann Nocenti, and Amy Roy, alongside candy-coated artists Sebastián Cabrol, Fabiana Mascolo, Dan McDaid, Arjuna Susini, and many more!

Plus, as an extra-added bonus: Another newly restored and authentically remastered classic from the EC vaults by legendary fiends William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Reed Crandall!

Eat your heart out – but make sure to save some for the rest of us! This Valentine’s Day, EC Comics is gifting you a box of poison chocolates and cyanide-laced champagne in Tortured Hearts #1 – featuring a slate of salacious covers that will make your eyes linger a second too long from Dustin Weaver, Miguel Mercado, Tom Fowler, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín! Warm your heart to the boiling point – only in comic shops on February 11th! 

Tortured Hearts #1

Preview: Shiver Suspenstories 2 #1

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Shiver Suspenstories 2 #1

WRITTEN BY DAVID M. BOOHER, MELISSA FLORES, GEORGE NORTHY, BEN H. WINTERS & MORE
ART BY LUKAS KETNER, SAMI KIVELÄ, LEOMACS, DAN McDAID & MORE
COVER A BY DUSTIN WEAVER
COVER B BY ADAM HUGHES
EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY SHAWN McMANUS
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY DUSTIN WEAVER
ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES

THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, THAT’S NOT SANTA COMING DOWN THE CHIMNEY… IT’S A TORRENT OF BLOOD, GUTS, AND GORE IN THE IMMORTAL TRADITION OF EC COMICS! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award–winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are taking readers on a horrific holiday thrill ride in SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 2 #1! Ahead of the 56-page holiday special ’s release this week on December 10th, Oni Press is proud to reveal a first look inside the short story “Eight Vengeful Nights” by Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award winner Ben H. Winters (Benjamin, The Last Policeman Trilogy) and riveting artist Sami Kivelä (Abbott). This surprising tale of how a young man’s mysterious Hanukkah presents help him reap revenge on his oppressors will have you taking stock of your enemies … and searching your stash for your very own weapon of opportunity!

Also included in this year’s giant-sized tome of gruesomely gift-wrapped delights: We’re tying perpetual naughty-listers David M. Booher (Canto), Melissa Flores (Biker Mice from Mars), George Northy (Yuletide), and Ben H. Winters (Benjamin) to the dried-out Christmas tree in the family parlor . . . and gathering ‘round as artistic Tormentors-in-training Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), Sami Kivelä (Abbott), Leomacs (Benjamin), and Dan McDaid (Shazam!) throw a few lit matches their way to get this old-fashioned solstice sacrifice started in style!

Yes, we know: It smells like dinner might be getting a little overdone! Never fear, because EC’s latest installment of this time-honored holiday tradition also comes complete with an extra-added wintertime crime classic by EC master and comics legend Johnny Craig —newly restored back to its authentic original coloring! As you sift through the charred remains, just remember: SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 2 is here to bring the horror back to the holidays . . . and we wouldn’t want it any other way!

Shiver Suspenstories 2 #1
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