FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2025: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN/ULTIMATE UNIVERSE 1

Joe Kelly and John Romita Jr. remind us who Peter Parker and SPIDER-MAN are! Plus, an exclusive prologue to this summer's blockbuster ULTIMATE event from Deniz Camp, Cody Ziglar & Jonas Scharf!

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MINISERIES PREMIERE It?s been ten years since the release of He Came in With a Smile, the true crime smash hit that chronicled the brutal murders committed by the Nursery Rhyme Killer. But in the decade since its release, its author Seth Holms hasn?t produced another title. He wants to write a story with a happy ending, but every time his fingers clack across the keyboard, it always ends in his character's death. Worse yet? These tales of blood and barbarity that flow so freely from Seth?s mind are starting to happen in real life. Turn the page on this giallo-inspired thriller from multi-hyphenate TYLER BOSS (WHAT'S THE FURTHEST PLACE FROM HERE?) and breakout talent ADRIANO TURTULUCI!

IDW Dark: Find Your New Fear?FCBD 2025

Hit the lights and explore your new home for horror, but don’t get too comfortable… IDW Dark launches in 2025 with nightmare fuel for everyone, from blockbuster licensed properties to bold new original stories. IDW Dark: Find Your New Fear spotlights the imprint’s upcoming originals with exclusive first looks at Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring, the shocking sequel to Patrick Horvath’s breakout hit series, and 30 Days of Night: Falling Sun, an expansion of IDW’s legacy vampire franchise from co-creator Steve Niles and red-hot writer Rodney Barnes. This sampler also includes debut previews of IDW Dark's NIGHTCAPS, a line of oversize original one-shots showcasing sensational writer-artists. In Sean Peacock’s Blood Honey, betrayal triggers a schoolwide duel when sweethearts at a gothic prep academy plot murder to avoid a breakup; and in Gavin Fullerton’s Tuatha, a princess shepherds the head of her fallen king across a land of warring clans and forgotten gods.

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MINISERIES PREMIEREEisner Award-winning writer SKOTTIE YOUNG and Eisner Award-nominated artist JORGE CORONA, the team behind the hit series MIDDLEWEST and THE ME YOU LOVE IN THE DARK, are back together with an all-new miniseries, AIN’T NO GRAVE! This Unforgiven-style journey is an original macabre Western/fantasy tale for mature readers, told through a Guillermo Del Toro-esque lens.Ryder put her violent past behind her when she fell in love and became a mother. But that was before she learned it was all going to be taken away. Now she’ll have to pick up her guns once again and ride to kill the one who’s behind the threat. Which just happens to be Death.The genre-bending adventure begins in this DOUBLE-LENGTH FIRST ISSUE, with **forty pages of story and no ads! **

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A story about the stories that shape us ? and the power they still hold. Hector Ramirez is a failed writer who gets the opportunity of a lifetime: to help reboot the fantasy book series that defined his childhood. But when he discovers the original author has mysteriously vanished into his fictional world, Hector is pulled into a realm where stories are alive, and some are willing to kill to stay in control. From acclaimed writer Frank J. Barbiere (Five Ghosts, Violent Love) and rising-star watercolor artist Morgan Beem (Swamp Thing: Twin Branches, You Belong Here) comes a literary fantasy for fans of Locke & Key, The Magicians, and Saga with an oversized 40-page debut issue. The Author Immortal is a bold new ongoing series about legacy, imagination, and reclaiming the power of storytelling.