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Destiny Gate #1
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Destiny Gate #1
 
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At the height of the Great Depression, a man down on his luck heads home to his desperate family but after his train ride veers off the rails, he enters a macabre and darkly fantastical journey into his own fragile soul

Operation Sunshine #1
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Dark Horse ⋅ 2023
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Operation Sunshine #1
 
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A group of young, alienated vampires plot to steal a magical object to turn themselves back to human but uncover a top-secret plot run by elder, elite militant vampires

Midlife (or How to Hero at Fifty) #1
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Midlife (or How to Hero at Fifty) #1
 
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A man living in the shadow of his firefighter hero father who died tragically learns late in life that he is fireproof

A Haunted Girl #1
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A Haunted Girl #1
 
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An adopted 16-year-old Japanese-American whose depression drove her to near-suicide, is trying to reintegrate back into her old life but she encounters an increasingly terrifying succession of ghosts

Nights #1
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Nights #1
 
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An orphaned boy moves in with his secret mercenary cousin and befriends the 'greatest vampire who ever lived'

Alice Cooper #1
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Dynamite ⋅ 2023
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Alice Cooper #1
 
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Alice Cooper versus demonic forces

Devil That Wears My Face, The #1
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Mad Cave ⋅ 2023
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Devil That Wears My Face, The #1
 
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In 1740, an exorcism gone wrong traps an exorcist in the body of a stranger while a demon called Legion takes over the priest's identity

Midnite Show #1
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Dark Horse ⋅ 2023
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Midnite Show #1
 
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Fifty years ago, a freak accident on set shut down production of a film but when footage is shown at a festival in present day, classic horror monsters manifest to wreak havoc on a town

Lipstick Cliqa #1
Scout ⋅ 2023
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Lipstick Cliqa #1
 
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A fierce, all-female gang of shape-shifting vampire cholas from the barrio of East L.A. fight to protect their home turf from rival supernatural gangs

[September 2023 - Lip Stick Cliqa is the first adaptation slated for TV development in Sony's Night of the Cadillacs licensing deal]

Blackout Bombshell, The #1
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WhatNot / Massive ⋅ 2023
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Blackout Bombshell, The #1
 
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A private investigator woke up from a night of heavy drinking wondering what had happened that led him to being hired to solve an important case and exactly how he was going to succeed in completing the job

Left-Hand Path, The
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Dead Sky Publishing ⋅ 2023
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Left-Hand Path, The
 
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Returning to their home world, a deep space crew investigates the ship that crashed there, killing everything and what they find inside is a paradox that seems to have no center

Rumpus Room #1
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AWA Upshot ⋅ 2023
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Rumpus Room #1
 
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A billionaire with a hideous skin condition can only control the disease with a face cream harvested from human beings who are sent to their doom in his Rumpus Room

Jack Kirby's Starr Warriors
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Jack Kirby's Starr Warriors
 
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One-shot remastered reprint of Jack Kirby's first space epic, Adam Starr and the Solar Legion

Hexagon Bridge #1
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Hexagon Bridge #1
 
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A couple find themselves trapped in a strange parallel dimension inhabited by mischievous entities and their only hope of rescue is their clairvoyant daughter and a sentient robot

Rare Flavours #1
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BOOM! ⋅ 2023
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Rare Flavours #1
 
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A demonic Rakshasa has a dream to be the next Anthony Bourdain and to achieve this, he enlists a filmmaker to document the people and cuisine of India but the creature has darker motives than what's on the surface

Cissy #1
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Scout ⋅ 2023
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Cissy #1
 
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A boy must travel to the Dark Lands to find his sister who was kidnapped by an evil called the Crying Man

Saint John #1
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Dark Horse ⋅ 2023
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Saint John #1
 
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A masked man who roams Portland doing good deeds for strangers, appearing at random and vanishing without a trace while a cynical writer attempts to track him down to identify the vigilante

Kill More #1
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IDW ⋅ 2023
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Kill More #1
 
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Lady Facesmasher, the Sufferer and the Obituary Machine are just a few of the serial killers who moved to the city of Colonia to overwhelm the police force to the point where there's too many homicides for any law agency to keep up with

Alternates, The #1
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Dark Horse ⋅ 2023
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A group of B-list heroes who disappeared to a different reality and gained incredible powers returned to their much less vivid home dimension but a stowaway from the other world in the form of a street drug hitched a ride back with them causing a rift between the heroes

Harriet Tubman: Demon Slayer #1
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WhatNot / Massive ⋅ 2023
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Harriet Tubman: Demon Slayer #1
 
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When slave owners can't stop the formidable ninja warrior Harriet Tubman, they call on the help of Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, and Demons to stop her

Benigno #1
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Scout ⋅ 2023
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Benigno #1
 
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The spirit of a long-dead philosopher who takes up residence in Benigno’s belly waits to emerge and guide him

Ancient Enemies: The First Responder #1
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Frank Miller Presents ⋅ 2023
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Ancient Enemies: The First Responder #1
 
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Trapped inside the hull of an alien spacecraft for over twenty years, a firefighter is transformed into something greater than and less than human as the First Responder

Kaptara #1
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Kaptara #1
 
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An astronaut trapped on the planet of Kaptara is trying to find his way home, but first he needs to solve a mystery: who is stealing all the adorable Cat-Tanks?

Devil's Cut #1
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Dstlry ⋅ 2023
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Devil's Cut #1
 
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88-page anthology of stories from notable creators g Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Tula Lotay, Mirka Andolfo, Jock, Becky Cloonan, Brian Azzarell and others

First publication from new publisher DSTLRY whose focus is on creator-owned comics

Plot Holes #1
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WhatNot / Massive ⋅ 2023
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Plot Holes #1
 
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Five-issue limited series about a squad of fictional warriors who transport themselves into the pages of other books to save the plots in order to stop them from being destroyed

Local Man: Gold
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Local Man: Gold
 
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One-shot continuation of the Local Man story that sees Crossjack in his new role as Local Man face-off against his former persona plus a host of classic Image characters including Cyberforce, Street Angel and Boof & the Bruise Crew

Schlub #1
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Schlub #1
 
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Failing dentist Roger Dalton blames the world for his problems until he is body-swapped with the world's greatest superhero

Orson Welles: Warrior of the Worlds #1
Scout ⋅ 2023
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Orson Welles: Warrior of the Worlds #1
 
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After Welles's first interaction with aliens, he joins an organization that defends Earth from extraterrestrial threats and lives a double life as a film director

[January 2024 - in development for a TV series with screenwriter R. Christopher Murphy (Ready or Not) attached]

Cull #1
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Cull #1
 
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Five friends set off to shoot a short film on a forbidden rock near their home the summer before they all go their separate ways but one of them is harboring a secret that will change their lives forever

Comic Books Kill #1
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Scout ⋅ 2023
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Comic Books Kill #1
 
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A comic book creator places his life and career on the line when he begins an affair with the femme fatale lover of his mafia boss publisher

Dwellings #1
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ONI ⋅ 2023
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Dwellings #1
 
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Three-issue limited series, 72-page horror anthology

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Mech Cadets #1
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BOOM! ⋅ 2023
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Mech Cadets #1
 
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General Park-head of Sky Corps Academy-must assemble a team of heroes to protect humankind from an alien invasion

Mech Cadet Yu, the series that preceded this one has been adapted into an animated series that premieres on Netflix August 10th

The Madness #1
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AWA Upshot ⋅ 2023
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The Madness #1
 
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After the murder of her family by a group of super-powered assassins, a woman driven mad by grief taps into a split aspect of her persona that is capable of brutal vengeance

Enfield Gang Massacre #1
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Enfield Gang Massacre #1
 
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The Enfield gang of outlaws find themselves in the crosshairs of an aging Texas Ranger and a newborn county that's hungry for law

Sacrificers #1
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Sacrificers #1
 
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A future paradise comes at the cost of one child per household until an unloved boy and affluent girl team-up to destroy the status quo

Fire and Ice #1
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Dynamite ⋅ 2023
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Fire and Ice #1
 
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Comic book series based on the 1983 animated movie created co-created by Frank Frazetta, Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway

Far South: The Great Union Score #1
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FairSquare Comics ⋅ 2023
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Far South: The Great Union Score #1
 
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Anthology of gritty crime stories that revolve around a seedy bar in the far south

Talyn: Seed of Darkness #1
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Scout ⋅ 2023
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Talyn: Seed of Darkness #1
 
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While seeking refuge, a witch blamed for releasing the Black Plague plants a seed that harnesses the power of the first true magic

Trakovi #1
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Scout ⋅ 2023
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Trakovi #1
 
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A Slovenian thug in Edmonton, Canada, tries to put his criminal past behind him, but there are those who know where the bodies are buried who refuse to allow the dead to rest in peace

Charm City #1
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Scout ⋅ 2023
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Charm City #1
 
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The Baltimore police are baffled when a Ravens cheerleader is found floating in the Inner Harbor with an arcane symbol carved onto her corpse and only a music blogger at the Baltimore Sun, knows what it means - a serial killer is targeting Baltimore’s underground witching community

Children of the Comet #1
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Sumerian ⋅ 2023
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Children of the Comet #1
 
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The Children of the Comet are called into action against satanists, psychedelic dimensions, chihuahuas that shoot laser beams from their eyes and a deadly villain who wakes up after many years of being asleep

Space Outlaws #1
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Scout ⋅ 2023
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Space Outlaws #1
 
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The most dangerous criminal in the solar system has escaped his Martian prison and reached planet Earth but on his trail is the warden's deadliest robots

The Ribbon Queen #1
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AWA Upshot ⋅ 2023
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The Ribbon Queen #1
 
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The Ribbon Queen is an ancient force of vengeance that is loosened on current day NYC after the tormented murder of a young woman

Purr Evil #1
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Purr Evil #1
 
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Six-issue limited series about about the relationship between a mother who gave everything for her daughter and a daughter who needs to figure out her role in a world that she's about to doom

Alice Never After #1
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BOOM! ⋅ 2023
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Alice Never After #1
 
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Five-issue limited series that tells a dark tale of Alice besieged by the residents of Wonderland who are under the control of the Cheshire Cat

Scrapper #1
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Scrapper #1
 
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Six-issue limited city where a stray dog and his buddy fight for justice against the totalitarian forces of a post-apocalyptic domed city

Big Game #1
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Big Game #1
 
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Crossover of Mark Millar(world) properties: Kick-Ass, The Magic Order, Kingsman, Nemesis and more

Svengoolie: Lost in Time #1
Frank Miller Presents ⋅ 2023
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Svengoolie: Lost in Time #1
 
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First full length solo story featuring Svengoolie

Sirens of the City #1
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BOOM! ⋅ 2023
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Sirens of the City #1
 
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A pregnant teenage runaway in 1980s New York City is pursued by supernatural creatures in a series that is described as 'shining a light on bodily autonomy in a patriarchal world'

Antarctica #1
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Antarctica #1
 
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A woman whose life fell apart after her father went missing from a secret research station in Antarctica is recruited to be an engineer at the same facility where a conspiracy will turn her life upside down

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