Welcome to the New Number Ones!
Each week we bring you the list of new series and special editions coming this Wednesday. We are highlighting what you need to put in your cart at the comic shop or digital marketplace.
June is here, and it is Pride Month once again. We will definitely start to see some LBGTQIA+ celebrations in the comics racks starting this week.
We have an alphabetical list with cover art and the official solicitation text from the publishers of some of the cool new comics that are coming out this week. Check below for our PCS NOTES to find out what we just have to tell you about the new comics in question.
We have books on this week’s list from: DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Boom! Studios, Oni Press, Dark Horse Comics, Mad Cave Studios, Titan Books, Drawn and Quarterly, and Dynamite Entertainment.
We will bring you reviews of these debut issues as they come out, and don’t forget to use the comments section to let us know what you think of this list.
New Series
New One-Shots and Special Editions
New Series This Week
Be Not Afraid #1
Boom! Studios
Written by Jude Ellison S. Doyle
Art by Lisandro Estherren
Cover Art by Reiko Murakami
Cora Reims lived the isolated life of a simple farm girl until one fateful summer day, prophetic visions brought her a visitor made of pure light… an angel. In the aftermath, Cora gave birth to a child, a Nephilim: the offspring of an angel and a human woman, seemingly imbued with evil itself.
17 years later, that child’s cherubic appearance can no longer hide his monstrous nature. Frogs boil in their skins as he passes. Crops rot. The townspeople live in fear, knowing that atrocities follow closely behind him.
Now, on the eve of his 18th birthday, Cora receives a new vision… Heaven itself has called upon her to destroy the abomination born of her own flesh and blood.
Be Not Afraid is a breathtaking new series from visionary writer Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Maw, Hello Darkness) and acclaimed artist Lisandro Estherren (Nightmare Country, Redneck).
Equal parts feminist rage and folk horror, this descent into Hell itself is fueled by the mythological underpinnings of American Evangelical tradition, presenting brutal cosmic horror through the lens of Southern Gothic; a truly otherworldly journey that can not be missed.
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: Color me terrified. I can’t wait.
Endless Night #1
Mad Cave Studios
Written by Mark London
Art by Tom Derenick & Juancho Velez
Letters by Simon Bowland
Cover Art by Chris Weston
When Axel Black, an obsessive tech billionaire and head of the sinister Order of Nine, sends his operatives to Exit City in search of a dangerous mystical artifact, only a team of unlikely allies from different corners of the underworld can prevent an apocalyptic catastrophe: VELVETEEN, the elite rogue assassin hellbent on revenge; McCORMICK & MILLER, two detectives keeping peace in a lawless city; and OWEN BLACKWOOD, a monster hunter duty-bound to stop evil. But tensions are mounting, and time is running out!
ENDLESS NIGHT is Mad Cave’s miniseries event of Summer 2025, a genre-smashing collision of archetypal heroes by celebrated writer MARK LONDON (Battlecats, Hunt.Kill.Repeat.) and acclaimed artist TOM DERENICK (Justice League), set in the universe of dark conspiracies, hard-boiled mystery, and unnatural menace known as UNDERWORLD!
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: An excellent creative team takes a big swing, and we are here for it.
Heat Seeker: Exposed #1
Titan Books
Written by Charles Ardai
Art by Ace Continuado, Juan Castro, & Asifur Rahman
Cover Art by Stanley Lau
When a relentless investigative reporter threatens to expose her criminal activities, mistress of misdirection Dahlia Racers needs to disappear — from the reporter, the police, and her own former clients who want to silence her… permanently!
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: These stories written by Charles Ardai have real appeal.
Imperial #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Jonathan Hickman
Art by Iban Coello, Federico Vincentini, & Federico Blee
Letters by Travis Lanham
Cover Art by Marco Checchetto & Marte Gracia
JONATHAN HICKMAN, FEDERICO VICENTINI AND IBAN COELLO TAKE ON THE UNIVERSE!
A sweeping Marvel cosmic event! Imperial is a story of intrigue, mysteries and war, which takes place against the backdrop of the formation of new galactic order in the Marvel Universe. Featuring HULKS, BLACK PANTHERS, NOVAS, GUARDIANS and COSMIC KINGS and QUEENS. It’s the must-read book of the summer!
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: I will be reading this one for sure.
Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong 2 #1
DC Comics
Written by Brian Buccellato
Art by Christian Duce & Luis Guerrero
Cover Art by Duce & Guerrero
The Justice League returns to Legendary Earth! In the aftermath of last year’s Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong, Task Force X launches a plan to develop hybrid Titans that Amanda Waller can control to guard against future titan attacks on our Earth. To stop Task Force X, the Justice League travels to Legendary Earth and must face the dangers of the Hollow Earth, Kong, and Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: Mashup madness ensues here with some fantastic creative contributors involved.
Marvel Knights: The World To Come #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Christopher Priest
Art by Joe Quesada & Richard Isanove
Cover Art by Quesada & Isanove
THE FUTURE OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE IS HERE!
The future of the Marvel Universe is here as two of the most visionary creators in comic history show you THE WORLD TO COME!
The King of Wakanda is DEAD, leaving unguarded the world’s most advanced technology, most precious metal, and a cryptic vault of dark secrets while triggering global conflicts among Marvel’s heroes, villains and mutants.
With T’Challa gone, the future of the Marvel 616 Universe will be determined by a final tribal challenge for the Wakandan throne and the mysterious victor who will change Wakanda, and the Marvel Universe, forever. MARVEL KNIGHTS visionary creators JOE QUESADA & CHRISTOPHER PRIEST collaborate on a future of the 616 through the lens of the revolutionary MARVEL KNIGHTS line of books that changed comics as we know it.
You do not want to miss this landmark project!
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: Just Take My Money Already!
Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Deniz Camp & Cody Ziglar
Art by Jonas Scharf & Edgar Delgado
Letters by Cory Petit
Cover Art by Sara Pichelli & Tamra Bonvillain
Miles Morales caught in the middle of a universal collision! Two of today’s most exciting writers, Deniz Camp (The Ultimates) and Cody Ziglar (Miles Morales: Spider-Man), join forces for an adventure that will change Miles Morales — and the Ultimate Universe — forever! Drawn by rising star Jonas Scharf, the brilliantly moody artist who brought you Ultimate Universe: One Year In and Dark X-Men…
Before The Maker remade Earth-6160, he left Miles Morales the key to reach his new universe… and when Miles’ baby sister, Billie, uses it to travel to the Ultimate Universe, it’s up to Spider-Man to save her! But the Ultimate Universe is never safe for any Spider-Man! When the Spot attacks, Miles will have to team up with an all-new Peter Parker — and that’s just the start of his journey across Earth-6160…
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: If you have been reading any of the Ultimate Universe books, you will definitely want to check this one out.
New One-Shots and Specials
Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog TP
Drawn and Quarterly
Written by Marc Torices
Translation by Andrea Rosenberg
Art by Torices
Cover Art by Torices
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
Horrifying and hilarious, Cornelius the dog is a spectacular trainwreck—you just can’t look away.
Cornelius is a fumbling loser, the butt of everyone’s jokes. When his friend Alspacka is kidnapped, the subsequent criminal investigation turns into a dramatic and emotional ordeal, upending Cornelius’s life. Torn between his desire to be a writer and his immense guilt over his cowardly role in Alspacka’s abduction, Cornelius is a classic Faustian figure: an aspiring artist so hungry for success that he will pay any price.
Rarely does a book so delightfully defy categorization. Cornelius is an experience: a farcical collage that reads like a drug-fueled fever dream, an intense emotional pendulum oscillating between psychological horror and slapstick comedy—a real roller coaster. And truthfully, Cornelius is all this and more: a brand, a phenomenon, a way of life. From the singular mind of Marc Torices comes a surreal, carefully curated universe, complete with its own icons, mythology, and metanarratives.
Exquisitely drawn, Cornelius’s kaleidoscope of styles pays homage to the comics medium, an unabashed love letter to the form itself. Translated from the Spanish by Eisner Award-winner Andrea Rosenberg, Marc Torices’s critically acclaimed and award-winning Cornelius is mesmerizing in its originality
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: This looks captivating.
DC Pride 2025 #1
DC Comics
Written by Jenny Blake Isabella, Maya Houston, Josh Trujillo, Vita Ayala, Sam Maggs, Tim Sheridan, & Jude Ellison S. Doyle
Art by Phillip Sevy, Vincent Cecil, A.L. Kaplan, Emilio Pilliu, Giulio Macalone, Skylar Patridge, Max Sarin, & Derek Charm
Letters by Jodie Troutman, Morgan Martinez, Lucas Gattoni, Aditya Bidikar, Ariana Maher, & Frank Cvetkovic
Cover Art by Kris Anka
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
When a 100-year-old queer speakeasy-turned-bar-turned-restaurant-and-community-space in Gotham announces that it will soon be closing its doors, generations of patrons come to pay their respects — including Alan Scott, the Green Lantern. After all, this is the place where he and his first love, Johnny Ladd, long ago carved their names into the basement wall before it all went to hell… and a love lost is never a love forgotten.
But they weren’t the only ones to put their names in the wall over the years, and suddenly queer heroes, villains, and civilians alike from across the DCU — the Question, Midnighter and Apollo, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern Jo Mullein, Bunker, Connor Hawke, and Blue Snowman among them — find them-selves spirited away to a strange alternate dimension that seems to provide everything they could possibly want… but at what cost?
In this single, oversized story of interweaving narratives, the vanished will need to come together and look into the very depths of the Starheart itself if they hope to escape that which ensnares them in this triumphant and timely story of community amid chaos!
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: What an amazing group of creative talents are assembled for this anthology.
Ghost Rider vs. Galactus #1
Marvel Comics
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Art by Juan Ferreyra
Letters by Travis Lanham
Cover Art by Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
The Devourer of Worlds battles the Spirit of Vengeance! Galactus roams the cosmos in search of sustenance he extracts from thriving planets, leaving them as dying husks. Ghost Rider, Johnny Blaze, punishes souls who are deemed worthy of vengeance. What happens when these two powers collide?
Find out when superstar artist Juan Ferreyra joins J. Michael Straczynski for the penultimate pairing across the mighty Marvel landscape.
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: JMS continues his intriguing crossovers.
Inifni-T Force Vol. 1 TP
Mad Cave Studios / Nakama Press
Written by Ukyou Kodachi
Art by Tatsuma Ejiri
Cover Art by Ejiri
REISSUED GRAPHIC NOVEL
It all began when high school student Emi Kaido received a mysterious, wish-granting pencil. With her life on the line, Emi uses the pencil to call upon heroes for protection! Gatchaman! Tekkaman! Casshan! Polimar! These defenders of justice cross space and time to help Emi weave the greatest tale of all time!
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: We love seeing Nakama Press, the manga imprint at Mad Cave Studios, republishing some excellent Gatchaman content.
Peanuts: Snoopy and the Red Baron TP
Titan Books
Written by Charles M. Schultz
Art by Schultz
Cover Art by Schultz
COLLECTED EDITION
CLASSIC PEANUTS COMIC STRIPS BY CHARLES M SCHULZ!
Continuing Titan’s much lauded and best-selling series with the 18th facsimile edition of the classic paperbacks, offering the original book exactly as it first appeared back in 1966.
There’s never been a war book like this one!
How could there be? There’s never been a war hero like Snoopy. With verve, dash and courage, FLYING ACE SNOOPY hurls his famous Sopwith Camel into the sky to challenge the infamous RED BARON in his infamous Fokker Triplane.
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: Yes, Sir. I will take one!
The Sixth Gun: Road to the Six #1
Oni Press
Written by Cullen Bunn
Art by Brian Hurtt
Cover Art by Hurtt
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
THE ROAD TO THE SIX STARTS HERE! Before The Sixth Gun rages back into existence in this summer’s long-awaited reunion from co-creators Cullen Bunn (The Autumn Kingdom, Ghostlore) and Brian Hurtt (The Midnite Show), bridge the gap between the explosive finale of the landmark original series and the powerful new chapter soon to be written with a self-contained, one-shot prelude featuring three, all-new stories . . . leading directly into The Sixth Gun’s 15th anniversary celebration!
A terrible dream lies buried deep in the earth. . . . A powerful dream that the mysterious worldwide cabal of magic users will stop at nothing to realize. With the power of the Six alive in the world, it’s only a matter of time before the weapons are reborn in new hands . . . The return of Bunn and Hurtt’s classic weird Western can’t be stopped. . . . A tale of calamitous fate and those who try to resist it. . . . Soon, The Sixth Gun will be reborn!
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: We are excited to see the return of the Sixth Gun in the works and look forward to this bridge one-shot.
Space Ghost Annual #1
Dynamite Entertainment
Written by David Pepose
Art by Jonathan Lau
Letters by Taylor Esposito
Cover Art by Francesco Mattina
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
After the thrilling events of issue #12’s second-story-arc finale, the fine-tuned creative team of DAVID PEPOSE and JONATHAN LAU pull out all the stops for their very first Space Ghost Annual!
With the Council of Doom seemingly defeated, our heroes now face a terrifying new threat-one that strikes from beyond the fourth dimension! To have any hope of survival, Space Ghost and his crew must find a way to break the dominion of… TEMPUS THE TIME-MASTER!
Featuring 28 action-packed story pages, Space Ghost Annual #1 boasts an equally exciting array of covers from FRANCESCO MATTINA, JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG, BJORN BARENDS, and ANTHONY MARQUES!
Release Date: June 4, 2025
PCS NOTES: In what might be the last chapter in this excellent run for this classic character, this special issue looks to be excellent.
