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.
November is here. Daylight Savings Time is over in America. Grab some of these comics, make some hot apple cider, and settle down for a nice read. Along with some intriguing new series, there are some important pieces of comics history in the Special Editions section 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, Fantagraphics Books, Oni Press, Ignition Press, Dynamite Entertainment, Ahoy Comics, Mariner Books, Titan Books, 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
Alien vs. Captain America #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Frank Tieri
Art by Stefano Raffaele & Neeraj Meenon
Cover Art by Leinil Francis Yu & Romulo Fajardo Jr.
THE RED SKULL’S NEWEST RECRUITS!
It’s World War II, and Hydra seeks a new weapon to defeat the Allies and win the war. To that end, the Red Skull has sent Baron Strucker on an expedition to the Himalayas to find the fabled city of Attilan. But instead of finding the Inhumans, Strucker uncovers something much more deadly. Much more… Alien. Can Captain America and the Howling Commandos stop the Skull and his newfound Xenomorph weapons…or will the First Avenger learn that in war-torn Europe… no one can hear you scream?
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: I do like the concept for the conflict in this series. I am confident that this creative team can pull it off with excellence.
Circus Maximus #1
Mad Cave Studios
Written by Mark Sable
Art by Giorgio Pontrelli & Emilio Lecce
Letters by Dave Sharpe
Cover Art by Paul Azaceta
Rome. 64 AD. The most daring heist in history is being planned by an unlikely crew – a former slave, a Vestal Virgin, a charioteer and a disgraced architect – each with their own personal motives. While Rome is distracted by the chariot racing and gladiatorial games of the Circus Maximus, the crew plans to rob the Imperial treasury under the Temple of Saturn. But when Emperor Nero sets fire to the city, they’ll be lucky to escape his wrath with their lives, let alone the loot.
From Mark Sable (Graveyard of Empires, Miskatonic) and Giorgio Pontrelli (Miskatonic) CIRCUS Maximus is GLADIATOR meets HEAT – a blood-soaked historical thriller.
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: Yeah. This sounds like a fun ride.
Crownsville #1
Oni Press
Written by Rodney Barnes
Art by Elia Bonetti
Cover Art by Jason Shawn Alexander
SINS OF THE PAST DON’T STAY BURIED . . . THEY ALWAYS FIND A WAY OF RISING FROM THE GRAVE! From Eisner Award–nominated writer and master storyteller Rodney Barnes (Batman: Full Moon, Killadelphia) and phenomenal artist Elia Bonetti (Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy), enter a century-spanning tale of suspense and sorrow as true crime meets shocking terror inside an infamous asylum with a tortured past in this double-sized, 48-page debut…
Founded at the turn of the 20th century outside of Annapolis, Maryland, the Crownsville Hospital was a notoriously segregated, all-Black psychiatric institute. After decades of overcrowding and neglect—alongside darker, more-persistent rumors of patient abuse and illegal medical experiments—it was finally closed. Today, it stands condemned—a crumbling testament to a legacy of all-too-real terror inflicted on a marginalized and vulnerable community. But even as a ruin of its former self, Crownsville still casts a long shadow…
When an unexplained death inside the abandoned hospital is ruled a suicide, Annapolis police detective Mike Simms and journalist Paul Blairare are compelled to dig deeper, only to discover the reality of the horrors that once took place there… and the powerful connection they share to the anguished spirits of the dead that are still locked within its walls.
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: I simply cannot wait to read this book!!!
DC K.O.: Knightfight #1
DC Comics
Written by Joshua Williamson
Art by Dan Mora & Triona Farrell
Letters by Tom Napolitano
Cover Art by Dan Mora
Experience Batman’s epic journey during the explosive DC K.O. event!
The Dark Knight is forced to take a different path in the tournament for the Heart of Apokolips — one that has turned Gotham into a deadly arena where Batman must battle against the Batmen of the future! Who are these Batmen? Stay tuned to find out!
Get ready for the greatest fight of Batman’s life in this over-the-top crossover miniseries!
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: If you are reading DC’s current big event, you won’t want to miss this one.
Death Dog #1
Ahoy Comics
Written by Bryce Ingman
Art by Alan Robinson
Cover Art by Robinson
In a near-future America, Wyatt—an innocent 13-year old accused of shoplifting—is pursued by murderous robot police dogs. But an accident transforms one of his terrifying pursuers into a tame, docile, and affectionate robodog who tries to bond with and protect Wyatt! A touching tale of a terrifying future, from the deranged minds of Bryce Ingman (MY BAD) and Alan Robinson (New Fantastic Four).
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: Can I pet that dog?
Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #1
Titan Books
Written by Dan Watters
Art by Sami Kivelä
Cover Art by Jay Anacleto
20th Anniversary of the 1st appearance of the Slitheen! From DAN WATTERS, the acclaimed writer of DOCTOR WHO: EVERYONE MUST GO! Experience a Doctor Who adventure like no other as The Doctor, Belinda, and an unlikely team of allies infiltrate a prison holding monsters and villains from across the cosmos. With new friends and old foes, and some old foes who might just be new friends, it’s an adventure that will take you across the Whoniverse… and beyond!
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: This book has a fantastic creative team and looks like it will entertain Whovians of all types.
Harley and Ivy: Life and Crimes #1
DC Comics
Written by Erica Henderson
Art by Henderson
Letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Cover Art by Henderson
Because you demanded it — a new series entirely about Harley and Ivy’s relationship! Witness the entire story of the DCU’s number-one criminal couple from the very start!
Eisner Award-winning artist and writer Erica Henderson weaves the canonical story of how Ivy and Harley went from enemies to friends to lovers! See their first kiss, their first embrace, their first fight, the first time Harley went to the bathroom with the door open in front of Ivy (that one is a joke, jeez), etc.! You’re gonna love the way this book makes you look — we guarantee it!
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: AW! COME ON, NOW! Just shut up and TAKE MY MONEY!!!! Erica Henderson? Harley? Ivy? I’m in.
No Place #1
Ignition Press
Written by Tim Seeley
Art by Stephano Simeone
Cover Art by Simeone
Eisner-nominated writer Tim Seeley (Revival, Peacemaker Presents: Vigilante) and knockout artist Stefano Simeone (Radiant Black) invite you to explore the chilling side of childhood imagination in this new dark fantasy adventure!
Mariposa Montiel is having a cruel homecoming. As the daughter of immigrants, the outcast teenager is no stranger to scrutiny, but this is another level. Years after vanishing from her Chicago neighborhood, Mari has returned to a traumatized family and a media circus with nothing but a tiger-striped feather and an extraordinary tale of her time away as the champion of a magical jungle land called Mayahuela.
Mari is met as a fraud and her story makes her a stranger in her own life until an eccentric, high-tech organization known as N.O. Place emerges from the shadows and welcomes her home. Led by a legend of the Land of Oz, the secret agency has its finger on the pulse of so-called fictional worlds — and as its newest recruit, Mari is now called upon to save our own world from a creeping Lovecraftian nightmare.
NO Place unites all-new heroes with horrific and beloved genre icons alike, featuring main covers by series artist Stefano Simeone!
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: Ignition Press delivering comics I want to read again and again.
Planet She-Hulk #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Stephanie Phillips
Art by Aaron Kuder & Sonia Oback
Letters by Joe Caramagna
Cover Art by Kuder & Oback
SAKAAR, PARTY OF ONE! SHE-HULK is back, and she’s… stuck on Sakaar?? Spinning out of Jonathan Hickman’s hit cosmic epic, IMPERIAL, Jennifer Walters made a promise to her cousin, HULK, to watch over the planet Sakaar and its people for a few days. But it’s been longer than a few days, and now She-Hulk is in charge of keeping the peace on a planet at war! But Jennifer is a VERY different Hulk than the one that once smashed Sakaar into submission… is she up for the task?
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: I am very excited to see Aaron Kuder’s artwork on this book.
Space Scouts #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Matt Kindt
Art by David Rubin
Cover Art by Rubin
A brand-new science-fiction, action-adventure odyssey by Ether’s Matt Kindt and David Rubin.
A young girl heads to the center of the universe to compete in a reality show to become the next “Space Scout.” What starts as a teenage drama turns into deadly war at the edge of the universe as the “winning” recruits are sent into a clandestine interminable battle that they most likely won’t survive.
Space Scouts is the latest release from Flux House Books, a new boutique imprint that will feature the writing (and sometimes) art of acclaimed comics creator Matt Kindt, with crime, science fiction, horror, and humor stories, all told and presented in startling and untraditional ways.
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: This looks like another great comic story from Matt Kindt’s excellent imprint.
New One-Shots and Specials
DC Finest: Super Friends – The Fury of the Super Foes TP
DC Comics
Written by E. Nelson Bridwell, Alex Toth, & Denny O’Neil
Art by Ramona Fradon, Bob Smith, Toth, Adrienne Roy, & Jerry Serpe
Cover Art by Ernie Chan & Vince Colletta
COLLECTED EDITION
Years 1976–1979 of DC Finest: Super Friends
Gather your favorite heroes—Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and more—for thrilling adventures in Super Friends: The Fury of the Super Foes. From battling the Penguin and Poison Ivy to facing off against alien scientists and time-traveling foes, these stories capture the magic of superhero team-ups.
This DC Finest volume also includes the first comic book appearances of the Wonder Twins and Gleek, as well as exciting battles against villains like Grax, the Menagerie Man, and Dr. Destiny. This collection is a nostalgic celebration of DC’s most beloved team.
Collects SUPER FRIENDS #1-26 and stories from LIMITED COLLECTORS’ EDITION #C-41, #C-46 and the AQUATEERS MEET THE SUPER FRIENDS minicomic.
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: The latest in DC’s DC Finest line is the one that should begin it all. The Super Friends is a great starting point for reading super-hero comics.
Echo: Seeker of Truth #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Taboo & B. Earl
Art by Jim Terry & Elisabetta D’Amico
Letters by Ariana Maher
Cover Art by David Mack
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
THE NEW AGE OF ECHO!
When her cousin goes missing in Los Angeles, ECHO goes to the City of Angels to find out what happened to her. But what she discovers is a series of disappearances centered around a mysterious wellness cult called Wisteria Meadows. As Echo dives deeper into the mystery, she’ll discover a truth about herself she never imagined. But who is the faceless puppet master behind the cult, and what is their sinister plan?
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: It is always cool to see this character get their own story.
Fun Home: The Deluxe Collector’s Edition: A Family Tragicomic HC
Mariner Books
Written by Alison Bechdel
Art by Bechdel
Cover Art by Bechdel
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL – REISSUE
A special hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition of Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir and basis for the Tony Award–winning musical—featuring a cloth case with new art, a reversible jacket with new art on both sides enhanced with teal and silver foil, and sprayed edges.
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the “Fun Home.” It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a confused legacy for his daughter to resolve.
In her hands, personal history becomes a work of subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: This is a comic that any fan of the medium should read and have on their bookshelf.
Ice Cream Man: The Mortal Coil Shuffle Card Set Special #1
Image Comics
Written by W. Maxwell Prince
Art by Martín Morazzo & Chris O’Halloran
Cover Art by Morazzo
ICE CREAM MAN is proud to present an unprecedented comic book EVENT.
Continuing their exploration into just what a comic can BE, the award-nominated team responsible for ICE CREAM MAN — one of the most enduring comics of the last decade — have pushed the envelope so far it’s fallen right off the table.
“The Mortal Coil Shuffle” is a one-time-only, one-of-a-kind ICE CREAM MAN story… told via a deck of 55 “playing” cards, rather than within the periodical pages of a traditional floppy comic book.
ICE CREAM MAN “The Mortal Coil Shuffle” is a beautiful, custom-designed deck of cards (featuring custom backs and a custom box, too!). All art is, as ever, by Ice Cream Man stalwarts Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran, and Good Old Neon. Some cards will tell part of the story; while other cards cast inscrutable spells on unwitting characters; and some must be joined with other cards to form a complete piece of art (the card deck’s version of a “spread.”). It’s a first-of-its-kind comic experiment, and also, perhaps, the last…
It’s a first-of-its-kind comic experiment, and also, perhaps, the last…
The Mortal Coil Shuffle will be printed once and once only — no second printings, no new runs, and never collected in a trade of any kind. It will exist — and then, like magic — it won’t.
So get ready to Go Fish, Draw Four, Declare War, and (probably) Fold Your Hand in this exciting comic book delivery style — told, of course, in the creepy, strange voice readers have come to expect from Ice Cream Man yarns.
Good luck, and watch out for those Wild Cards!
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: Wow! This is certainly an innovative way to play with sequential art storytelling. It look pretty intersting.
Impact Winter: Evenfall #1
Image Comics
Written by Travis Beacham
Art by Sumeyye Kesgin & Valentina Taddeo
Cover Art by Kegsin
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
The year is 1953. The Cold War is at its height, and intelligence operative Penelope Chambers is running an off-the-books investigation into the disappearance of female agents in Eastern Europe. When she’s called to Soviet Prague for a routine drop, Penelope will come face to face with death or the possibility of everlasting life…
From creator TRAVIS BEACHAM (Pacific Rim) and artist SUMEYYE KESGIN (VOYAGIS) comes another official prequel story to the hit Audible Original.
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: The interplay of this story through multiple media has been interesting.
Shadows of the Sea HC
Fantagraphics Books
Written by Cathy Malkasian
Art by Malkasian
Cover Art by Malkasian
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
Told through powerful allegory, Shadows of the Sea is a story about grief and the winding path to healing, with help from friends, loved ones, and a little magic.
On the lonely road meet two outcasts — Doris, a small but spitfire woman and Stanwick, a shy and sensitive dog. Each of this unlikely pair harbors grief, and must decide whether to stay with the pain or run from it. On their journey, the two travel through lush forests, to the eerily abandoned town of echoes, clear to the “mudder” sea, where they finally confront the unbearable trauma of their pasts.
Cartoonist Cathy Malkasian’s graphic novels are known to be crafted with layered, affecting allegory and metaphor, and Shadows of the Sea is no exception. In this story, shadows become characters themselves, weighed down with painful truth. They cannot be released until their owners acknowledge, reflect, and heal. Charged by the magic of the “mudder” sea, the shadows reveal the loss Doris and Stanwick have been carrying — a husband and a child — and sets them free at last.
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: Another intriguing OGN from Fantagraphics.
The Spectre by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake Omnibus Vol. 1 HC
DC Comics
Written by John Ostrander
Art by Tom Mandrake, John Ridgeway, Joe Phillips, John K. Snyder III, & Carla Feeny
Letters by Todd Klein
Cover Art by Mandrake
COLLECTED EDITION
When New York City cop Jim Corrigan was slain, he was denied entry into the afterlife and was chosen to be the embodiment of God’s wrath on Earth. As the Spectre, Corrigan metes out swift divine justice against evildoers dispassionately. But Corrigan’s humanity also anchors him to his former life and attachments, which can be a dangerous weakness against the forces of darkness.
This volume includes the first half of the cult-favorite series by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake, featuring a brand-new introduction and the series outline by Ostrander, a glow-in-the-dark cover by Mandrake, behind-the-scenes development art and sketches from the making of the series, and more!
Collects THE SPECTRE #0-31.
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: This is the first half of the longest running (and best?) series starring The Spectre. Some of the best comics to come from DC in the 1990s are in this tome.
Tales of Paranoia #1
Fantagraphics Books
Written by Robert Crumb
Art by Crumb
Cover Art by Crumb
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
The first R. Crumb comic book in 23 years!
The seminal cartoonist who single-handedly invented the alternative comics format of the one-person anthology in 1967 with ZAP returns at age 81, still raging at the world and himself, still drawing like a master, and still funny… mostly. In his latest comics excursion, Crumb dives down internet and newspaper rabbit-holes, and comes up asking questions. Why don’t we know the real background of deep state careerists? And is Crumb himself just as paranoid as everyone else tells him he is? Or is that just what THEY want you to think?
Mixing memoir, essay, polemic, neurosis, and conspiracy across 12 short comics — including the final Dirty Laundry story, drawn by Crumb with a script written with Aline Kominsky-Crumb before her death in 2022 — Tales Of Paranoia shows there’s still plenty of life in both the artist and the classic underground comics format.
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: And then BAM! Here are some new R. Crumb comics that you weren’t expecting.
ThunderCats: Pumyra #1
Dynamite Entertainment
Written by Ed Brisson
Art by Alice Leclert
Cover Art by Clayton Henry
ONE-SHOT SPECIAL
ONE ‘CAT AGAINST THE WORLD! In the aftermath of a war against the Mu’tants — a war that claimed her parents’ lives — an orphaned Pumyra is taken in by Jaga, who sees untapped potential in the scrappy young cat. As she grows, Pumyra, still angry at the universe over the loss of her parents, trains under Jaga in the art of healing — and discovers the power of compassion to transform pain into hope!
Acclaimed author ED BRISSON (ThunderCats: Lost, SilverHawks) and artist ALICE LECLERT (Crossover Division) craft a powerful tale of struggle and redemption in this 40-page one-shot special — uplifted by inspiring covers from CLAYTON HENRY, SEBASTIAN PIRIZ, ROBERT QUINN, and WILL ROBSON! OUT OF THE SHADOWS AND INTO THE LIGHT! 28 STORY PAGES!
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: The ThunderCats stories at Dynamite continue to be automatic pulls for us, and that is due in large part to the writting of Ed Brisson.
Turn Loose Our Death Rays And Kill Them All!: The Complete Works Of Fletcher Hanks TP
Fantagraphics Books
Written by Fletcher Hanks
Art by Hanks
Cover Art by Hanks
COLLECTED EDITION
A gigantic compendium that collects the complete stories written and drawn by the 1940s outsider superhero artist Fletcher Hanks.
Fletcher Hanks was arguably the first great comic book auteur: He wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories — an unprecedented solo act in the 1940s comic book industry. Between 1939 and 1941 he created nearly 50 comics stories, all unified by a uniquely artistic vision — primitive, bizarre, and singularly idiosyncratic. Whether it’s the superhero Stardust doling out ice cold slabs of poetic justice, or the jungle protectress Fantomah tearing evildoers from limb to ragged limb, contemporary readers will be stunned by the pop surrealism and unfiltered violent mayhem of Hanks’ work. This new paperback edition brings back into print all of Hanks’ previously published material and is the most complete collection of his work.
Release Date: November 5, 2025
PCS NOTES: This is an important part of comics history that all fans should see.
