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Bunsen Beaver and His Pal Tree #1
Bad Idea ⋅ 2022
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Bunsen Beaver and His Pal Tree #1
 
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Published by Bad Idea under the pseudonym Bad Idea Donuts

Distributed at the 2022 South Carolina Comic Con to collectors who purchased a donut from the Bad Idea Donuts pop-up store

Limited print run

Hit Me #1
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AWA Upshot ⋅ 2022
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Hit Me #1
 
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In Atlantic City in the early-90s, a woman with a unique profession, street-born instincts and underworld connections goes on the run with a briefcase filled with diamonds and a pack of killers on her trail

I Hate This Place #1
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I Hate This Place #1
 
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Two women move into a haunted house and must play by its rules, living alongside the supernatural, in order to survive

Twig #1
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Twig #1
 
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Five-issue series inspired by Jeff Smith's 'Bone' and the films, Labyrinth and Dark Crystal

Eight Billion Genies #1
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Eight Billion Genies #1
 
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Chaos ensues after eight billion genies grant everyone in the world one wish

[June 2022 - Amazon picks up the rights for a movie plus a more expansive cross-media universe starting with a feature / March 2024 - Seth Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures will adapt with Rodney Rothman (Into the Spider-Verse) writing]

Metal Society #1
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Top Cow ⋅ 2022
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Metal Society #1
 
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Story about a future where evolved robots resurrect humans for manual labor but eventually face opposition from a fearless human fighter and a frustrated, displaced robot

British Paranormal Society: Time Out of Mind, The #1
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Dark Horse ⋅ 2022
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British Paranormal Society: Time Out of Mind, The #1
 
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Four-issue limited series that take place in the Hellboy Universe, specifically spun-off from the Witchfinder comics

Quad #1
Behemoth ⋅ 2022
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Quad #1
 
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A mechanic accepts an odd job in the middle of a wasteland of a future Earth's landscape, four generations following the apocalypse

Alice Ever After #1
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BOOM! ⋅ 2022
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Alice Ever After #1
 
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Five-issue limited series that revisits the Alice In Wonderland story in a dark, adult-themed sequel

Preview of Grim series

Loaded Bible: Blood of My Blood #1
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Loaded Bible: Blood of My Blood #1
 
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Jesus' vampire-hunting clone is a bigger outlaw than ever, and now, he has to face the threat of Dracula

Slumber #1
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Slumber #1
 
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A dream detective who helps clients by killing their nightmares encounters trouble in the form of a real serial killer who murders people in their sleep

Ghost Cage #1
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Ghost Cage #1
 
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After a super-scientist's mega power plant is taken over by terrorists, he sends in his ultimate creation to destroy the company's monstrous secrets

Zombies vs. Robots Classic #1
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Zombies vs. Robots Classic #1
 
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Reprint of Zombies vs Robots with new covers and an original bonus story

Image 30th Anniversary Anthology #1
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Image 30th Anniversary Anthology #1
 
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1st appearance of Shift, a Massiverse character

A Town Called Terror #1
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A Town Called Terror #1
 
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A woman desperately seeks help to find her husband after he was beaten and kidnapped in the middle of the night by an attacker who left no evidence of the crime

Secret History of the War on Weed, The #1
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Secret History of the War on Weed, The #1
 
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During America's War On Drugs, the U.S. sends an overzealous soldier to subdue California marijuana farmers but his mission is jeopardized when he inadvertently gets high for the first time

Blood-Stained Teeth #1
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Blood-Stained Teeth #1
 
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Described as a fast-paced 100 Bullets-style crime saga focused on a vampire who will grant a human immortality for the right price

Until My Knuckles Bleed #1
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Until My Knuckles Bleed #1
 
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Series about an over-the-top 90s era superhero in the modern era: Damager now works as a bouncer in a mob-owned strip club, hooks up with his ex Avengelady, and struggles with the side-effects of his cyber-implants until fate intervenes with one last cheap shot

We Live: Age of the Palladions #1
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Aftershock ⋅ 2022
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We Live: Age of the Palladions #1
 
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Non-Key Issue. No additional information is available.

Duel #1
Bliss On Tap ⋅ 2022
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Duel #1
 
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An FBI Agent is tasked with investigating the deep web website, Duel.global, in a race against time to stop a high schooler who has challenged the site's highest ranked dueler in a match to the death

Radio Spaceman #1
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Dark Horse ⋅ 2022
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Radio Spaceman #1
 
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When a ship crashes on a mysterious planet and some of the surviving crew go missing, the mysterious mechanical hero Radio Spaceman is called to investigate in a steampunk space adventure of mystery, monsters and Mignola madness

We Have Demons #1
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Dark Horse ⋅ 2022
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We Have Demons #1
 
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A woman suffers a devastating loss of a loved one that sets her on a path to becoming a major player in the climactic war of good versus evil

Written by Scott Snyder, illustrated by Greg Capullo

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 25th Anniversary #1
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BOOM! ⋅ 2022
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 25th Anniversary #1
 
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64-page celebration of the 25th anniversary of Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Three original stories plus the epilogue of Buffy's third year of stories published under BOOM!

Usher of the Dead #1
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Blood Moon Comics ⋅ 2022
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Usher of the Dead #1
 
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Discover the dark and rich world of death incarnate

Ice Canyon Monster #1
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Blood Moon Comics ⋅ 2022
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Ice Canyon Monster #1
 
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A noble shaman releases a curse by unleashing a monster into the waters of his native land that will grow into an enraged, unstoppable beast

Heavy Metal Drummer #1
Behemoth ⋅ 2022
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Heavy Metal Drummer #1
 
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In 1986, a heavy metal drummer and drug addict gets tangled up with an interdimensional conflict between order and chaos that begins underground in Los Angeles

Follow Me Into The Darkness #1
Behemoth ⋅ 2022
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Follow Me Into The Darkness #1
 
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Sequel to You Promised Me Darkness (2021)

Strgrl #1
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Strgrl #1
 
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As enemy forces continue to threaten the integrity of the galaxy as a whole, a group known as the Moon Gang, formed by 4 general stargirls from the moons of Jupiter intercepts the enemy

Primos #1
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Primos #1
 
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Centuries ago, two Mayan brothers set off on an intergalactic space venture only to return to Earth and find their civilization had been destroyed

Life Zero #1
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Ablaze ⋅ 2022
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Life Zero #1
 
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A catastrophic event changes the world forever

Little Monsters #1
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Little Monsters #1
 
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They are the last children on Earth who also happen to be vampires, living amongst the ruins of humanity

Apache Delivery Service #1
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Dark Horse ⋅ 2022
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Apache Delivery Service #1
 
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Two men hunt for a treasure in the jungles of Vietnam that was stolen by a Japanese general during World War II and is rumored to be protected by witches

Bylines In Blood #1
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Aftershock ⋅ 2022
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Bylines In Blood #1
 
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A former journalist investigates a murder in an effort to uncover the truth in a world where politicians invent their own facts and independent newspapers no longer exist

Rad Wraith #1
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Scout ⋅ 2022
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Rad Wraith #1
 
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A boy returns as a ghoul after dying during a prank on a half-pipe built on cursed land

Nocterra: Blacktop Bill Special #1
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Nocterra: Blacktop Bill Special #1
 
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Origin of Blacktop Bill, one of Nocterra's most terrifying creatures

Clay People: Colossus, The #1
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Clay People: Colossus, The #1
 
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A boy uses a supernatural gift to defend himself against bullies in a story inspired by the heavy metal band, The Clay People

Lego: Ninjago - Garmadon #1
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Lego: Ninjago - Garmadon #1
 
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Far away from Ninjago City, a village is terrorized by a mysterious new threat when they're saved by an unlikely hero, Garmadon, Lord of Destruction

We Ride Titans #1
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Vault ⋅ 2022
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We Ride Titans #1
 
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Series about a dysfunctional family of pilots who operate kaiju-fighting mechs

Playthings #1
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Playthings #1
 
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A young mother is horrifically baffled when she wakes up inside a candy-colored room, bound with rope and surrounded by small toys that are alive

Distorted #1
Scout ⋅ 2022
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Distorted #1
 
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Three stories of people cursed with superpowers intersect

[January 2024 - Scout Comics announces Distorted optioned for TV by MPE]

Kingjira #1
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Kingjira #1
 
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One-shot about an escaped Kaiju causing mass destruction on his hunt for pizza

Cursed Pirate Girl: Devil's Cave #1
BOOM! ⋅ 2022
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Cursed Pirate Girl: Devil's Cave #1
 
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New Cursed Pirate Girl series that continues the girl's story that was last published in 2016

Hell Sonja #1
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Dynamite ⋅ 2022
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Hell Sonja #1
 
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Series that sees Red Sonja as the Queen of Damnation

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957 - Falling Sky #1
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Dark Horse ⋅ 2022
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Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957 - Falling Sky #1
 
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A cryptozoologist and Hellboy travel to a small town in Virginia to investigate a mysterious creature that stalks the woods

Killer Affairs of State #1
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Killer Affairs of State #1
 
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Caught and put to work as an on-call assassin for the French government, Killer has to adjust to working with a handler, a partner, and living life as a civilian

Land of the Living Gods #1
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Aftershock ⋅ 2022
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A fairy tale about a young girl who leaves a deserted city in search of a miracle in a land, far away, inhabited by gods

Lion and the Eagle, The #1
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Aftershock ⋅ 2022
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In 1944, a British Army unit descend into the heart of darkness behind Japanese enemy lines

Step By Bloody Step #1
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Step By Bloody Step #1
 
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An armored giant and a helpless child cross a world brimming with beasts, bandits and deadly civilizations, spurned on by the earth itself, that won't allow them to stop

Supermassive #2022
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Supermassive #2022
 
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1st appearance of Inferno Girl Red

1st appearance of Rogue Sun

New Masters #1
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New Masters #1
 
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Six-issue limited series where a group of outcasts in an alien-occupied West Africa get entangled in a power struggle for control of an ancient artifact with immense power

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