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.
This list has a lot of high quality new stories, and as Marvel continues to roll out its “Age of Revelation” releases, Halloween themed books are finding there way to your LCS 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, Dark Horse Comics, Mad Cave Studios, Ahoy Comics, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, Dynamite Entertainment, and Image Comics.
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
Captain Henry and the Graveyard of Time #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Mike Mignola & Bruce Zick
Art by Zick
Letters by Clem Robins
Cover Art by Zick
An intrepid time traveler voyages to a new dimension, but the monsters he finds there may be less of a danger than time itself.
Mike Mignola and Bruce Zick cowrite and Zick (Thor, The Atomic Legion) draws this new series that explores an uncharted corner of the Hellboy universe!
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: We are always interested in exploring uncharted corners of the Hellboy universe.
The Last Wolverine #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Saladin Ahmed
Art by Edgar Salazar & Carlos Lopez
Letters by Cory Petit
Cover Art by Martin Cóccolo & Matt Wilson
WHAT HAPPENED TO WOLVERINE?
X YEARS LATER, the people of Vancouver cheer a new hero: the WONDERFUL WOLVERINE, A.K.A. the WENDIGO, Logan’s last student. But what happened to LOGAN? A secret from Wolverine’s past will set the Last Wolverine on a mission to uphold his mentor’s legacy… unless a dire threat burns it all down first!
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: This has an interesting idea.
Omega Kids #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Tony Fleecs
Art by Andrés Genolet & Fernando Sifuentes
Letters by Travis Lanham
Cover Art by Rod Reis
KID OMEGA’S ALL GROWN UP!
X YEARS LATER, Quentin Quire protects the dream of mutant supremacy and independence as head of the Revelation Territories’ spy network. But when a conspiracy threatens the mutant utopia, Quire and his psychic students will have to distinguish friend from foe. Has Quentin got what it takes to carry the dream forward, or will the next generation replace the former revolutionary?
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: Quentin Quire in a quandary? Sounds fun.
Radioactive Spider-Man #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Joe Kelly
Art by Kev Walker & Chris Sotomayor
Letters by Joe Caramagna
Cover Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli, Lorenzo Ruggerio, & Marte Gracia
UNFRIENDLY AND UNSTABLE!
X YEARS LATER, the X-Virus decimated New York — but Spider-Man won’t stop fighting. In a desperate gamble, Peter Parker doses himself with lethal radiation to hold the infection at bay. Survival comes at a cost. While this may not kill Peter Parker, it sure messes him up. This is the most dangerous, mutated Spider-Man ever — and he’s not alone.
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: I am very intrigued by this one.
Speed Racer: Tales from the Road #1
Mad Cave Studios
Written by Mark London & David Pepose
Art by Sebastián Píriz
Letters by Buddy Beaudoin
Cover Art by Píriz
Speed Racer: Tales from the Road is an all-new quarterly release featuring one-shot stories that expand the universe of Speed Racer!
Two destinies. One road. Only one can walk away. When Interpol sends Racer X on a mission to take down a brutal warlord known only as the Viking, a deadly chase ignites across a shadowy European city. Packed with brutal hand-to-hand combat, turbocharged vehicular mayhem, and a haunting look at the choices that forge a man, this oversized one-shot dives deep into the past of the masked driver you think you know.
Also a featuring a Spritle and Chim-Chim backup story where they borrow the Mach 5 for the joyride of a lifetime!
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: We are in full support of these new Speed Racer comics from Mad Cave Studios and are looking forward to this new series of hidden tales.
The Terminator: Metal #1
Dynamite Entertainment
Written by Declan Shalvey & Rory McConville
Art by Lorenzo Re
Cover Art by Shalvey
KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE — AND YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER!
In the post-apocalyptic future that follows Judgment Day, the shattered remnants of humanity must make use of every tool they can in their existential battle against the machines — and that includes the deadliest weapons that Skynet sends to annihilate them.
For one member of the Resistance, this means trusting his life to a reprogrammed Terminator. Trapped behind enemy lines, the soldier and his repurposed engine of destruction must find a way to both survive and complete their mission — an undertaking with such a low probability of success that it could reboot the Terminator back to its default settings!
Acclaimed Terminator and ThunderCats author DECLAN SHALVEY is joined by co-writer RORY MCCONVILLE and returning artist LORENZO RE for a brand-new chapter in his chilling saga of the War Against the Machines with The Terminator: Metal #1 — featuring brutally beautiful covers from SHALVEY, BOB LAYTON, SEBASTIAN PIRIZ, and IVAN TAO!
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: We love to see Shalvey explore the world behind this property.
War Wolf #1
Mad Cave Studios
Written by Steve Orlando
Art by Marco Perugini & Pascal Tora
Letters by Lucas Gattoni
Cover Art by David Talaski
After he fends off an alien invasion, Thomas Bruin goes from a nobody security guard to Earth’s greatest hero! He’s got a supercharged launchpad and no ceiling. Bruin rises from celebrity to congress, then to the head of the planet’s first orbital security force. He’s married into one of the country’s most powerful political families, he’s surfing a wave of endorsements, and he’s the very symbol of human resilience. So why is Bruin nervous? Because only he knows his great victory is a lie. When the aliens return to Earth, stronger than ever, Bruin has no choice but to be the hero he’s fooled the whole world into thinking he is…or die trying.
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: Sometimes a book immediately rises to the top of the read pile. This week it’s War Wolf.
X-Men: Book of Revelation #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Jed MacKay
Art by Netho Diaz, Sean Parsons, & Fernando Sifuentes
Cover Art by Diaz, J.P. Mayer, & Sifuentes
THE GAME OF POWER COMMENCES!
X YEARS LATER, after the assassination of one of his prized Choristers, Revelation welcomes a new mutant to his capital city of Philadelphia. But the capital of the Revelation Territories hides many dangers, not the least of which are her rival Choristers — and Fabian Cortez will allow no one to challenge him for Revelation’s favor. But this new mutant has a secret ally – the Ghost of Philadelphia!
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: Some interesting things seem to be happening in this book that may have a big role in the overall saga.
New One-Shots and Specials
Gaya #1
AWA Studios
Written by Michael Coast & Kathryn Murdoch
Art by Keron Grant
Cover Art by Grant
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
Continuing Protopias, the new science-fiction anthology series from Futurific Studios (PBS’s A Brief History of the Future) and AWA that explores the many possible futures that can come to pass as we try to make the right choices in imperfect realities. When a maverick biochemist’s groundbreaking research into fungal networks inadvertently grants her extraordinary powers to tap into nature, she transforms into “Mother Nature,” a force of vengeance against humanity’s exploitation of the planet. As her methods escalate, it’s up to her family to lead her down a path toward redemption and hope before it’s too late.
Release Date: October 22, 2025
Hello Halloween #1
Boom! Studios
Written by R.L. Stine, Shawn Patrick Boyd, Robert Hack, & Megan Hutchinson
Art by Carola Borelli, Elijah Henry, Hack, & Hutchinson
Cover Art by Frazer Irving
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
Trick-or-treat yourself to a fresh batch of nightmares.
Dare you turn the page? The hit anthology series returns with another chilling installment of bone-rattling horror! Terrifying new tales arrive just in time to haunt your seasonal reading list!
Featuring top tier talent and a can’t-miss, brand-new Graveyard Club story from horror master R.L. Stine (Goosebumps) and artist Carola Borelli (Spider-Woman)!
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: Spooky things be here.
Huge Detective TP
Titan Comics
Written by Adam Rose
Art by Magenta King & Minimone
Letters by D.C. Hopkins
Cover Art by Diego Yapur
COLLECTED EDITION
CHINATOWN MEETS THE BFG!
When A STRING OF MURDERS and disappearances sweep the United States, a human and a giant WITH SIZABLE DETECTIVE SKILLS are on the case! After a race of giants emerged from deep sleep beneath the earth, a bloody conflict ensued in what became known as THE OMEGA EVENT. Eventually, a treaty is resolved and state of Brobdingnag is created, allowing humans and giants to co-exist harmoniously. Yet tragedy threatens to shatter the peace, and an unlikely partnership is formed between Detectives Tamaki and GYANT. As the pair attempt to stop the criminal AT LARGE, they find themselves involved in a mystery BIGGER than either could imagine.
Collects Huge Detective #1-5.
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: We really enjoyed this series, and now is your chance to catch up all at once with this collected edition.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Halloween Special #1
Boom! Studios
Written by Sina Grace, Meghan Camerana, Danny Lore, & Nick Marino
Art by Grace, Ellie Wright, Zachary Sterling, Joshua Jensen, Jodi Nishijima, Andrew Cramer, & Juan Romera
Letters by Ed Dukeshire
Cover Art by Miguel Mercado
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
The spookiest showdown in Angel Grove history is here!
For the first time ever, it’s a Power Rangers Halloween one-shot — featuring the return of the Pumpkin Rapper and the debut of the sugary Colonel Maize! When the villains capture a bus full of kids and a few of their fellow teammates, the Rangers must swap scary stories from their most harrowing missions in order to keep hope alive.
Featuring a dynamic line-up of creators for this seasonal anthology, including Hyperforce star Meghan Camarena (Radiant Pink, Radiant Black) and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers alum Sina Grace (Ghosted in L.A.)!
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: It’s Halloweenin’ Time.
The October Girl Book One TP
Mad Cave Studios / Maverick
Written by Matthew Dow Smith
Art by Smith
Cover Art by Smith
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
Autumn Ackerman grew up believing in fairies and magic and princesses who defeated dragons, but now that she’s eighteen and facing a future stuck behind the counter of her small town’s coffee shop, she’s starting to wonder if this is all there really is to her life.
But then she meets her childhood imaginary friend, Barnaby, in the alley behind the coffee shop one night. Autumn’s entire world is turned upside down.
Drawn into the strange and mysterious world of the Night Folk, fantastic creatures that inspired all of humanity’s myths about gods and monsters, Autumn is about to discover that there is more to her world than she ever dreamed of as a little girl, and that world is far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. With the help of Barnaby and Evan Fade, the tragic young boy who inherited the local bookstore, Autumn has to protect herself from the coldly terrifying Mr. Balloon long enough to discover the truth about the Night Folk and her own past.
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: We absolutely love this story, and we had the creator on the SquadCast recently to talk about it. See the conversation here.
Outlaw Showdown #1
Oni Press / EC Comics
Written by Brian Azzarello, John Arcudi, Ann Nocenti, & Tony Moore
Art by Moore, David Lapham, and more
Cover Art by Lee Bermejo
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
VENGEANCE RIDES AGAIN! 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.), Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Tony Moore (The Walking Dead), Ann Nocenti (Daredevil), and more rain hellfire and fury from the holsters on their hip. Plus: A newly remastered and authentically restored tale of hard-won Western justice from the EC vaults!
SOME COMIC BOOK COMPANIES ASK YOU TO CHOOSE: DEATH OR GLORY? AT EC COMICS, WE SAY . . . WHY NOT BOTH?!
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: A star studded cast assembled for our comic reading pleasure.
Thanksgiving #1
Ahoy Comics
Written by Mark Russell
Art by Alain Mauricet
Cover Art by Mauricet
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
An intense, timely one-shot from Mark Russell (X-Factor, SECOND COMING) and Mauricet (HOWL). Thanksgiving — a day when American families come together, until the strain inevitably tears them apart. But for one family, the cruel and deadly secret of the Turkeyneck Killer binds them together in the saddest, most shameful way possible.
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: Mauricet and Russell? Together? Yes, please. I’ll take a double helping.
Y: The Last Man: Unmanned – DC Compact Comics Edition TP
DC Comics
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra, José Marzan Jr., & Pamela Rambo
Letters by Clem Robins
Cover Art by J.G. Jones
COLLECTED EDITION
In 2002, the world changes forever. Every man, every boy, every mammal with a Y chromosome everywhere on Earth suddenly collapses and dies. With the loss of more than half the planet’s population, the gears of society grind to a halt, and a world of women is left to pick up the pieces and try to keep civilization from collapsing entirely. The “gendercide,” however, is not absolutely complete. For some unknown reason, one young man named Yorick Brown and his pet male monkey, Ampersand, are spared. Overnight, this anonymous twentysomething becomes the most important person on the planet—the key to unlocking the secret of the mysterious sex-specific plague.
Y: The Last Man: Unmanned features Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra bringing to life their amazing answer to the age-old speculation: what would really happen to the last man on Earth?
Release Date: October 22, 2025
PCS NOTES: The irony here is that I just spent two hours with Brian K. Vaughan this past weekend at Baltimore Comic-Con, and this book came up quite a bit. It might be time for a re-read. If you have never read it, you need to fix that.
