February Ends With A Bang: All New #1 Issues
Being the shortest month doesn’t disqualify February from making a mark. This final week sees a slew of new #1 issues for fans to dive into. From mainstream to indie, ongoings, miniseries, and one-shots, here are the debut issues available on the racks this week.
Amazing Spider-Man/venom: Death Spiral #1 (Marvel Comics)
FIRST YOUR FRIENDS. THEN YOUR FAMILY. THEN YOU. The next epic SPIDER-MAN and VENOM crossover starts here and continues through April! A new super-powered serial killer is on the loose and they're coming for Spidey, Venom and everyone in between. But what terrible secret has CARNAGE learned, and what does it have to do with Spider-Man?!
Archie and Friends Space Adventures #1 (Archie Comics)
Archie and his friends go INTERGALACTIC in this BRAND NEW Space-Age story! When Archie and the gang gets ready to head into space on a rocket Dilton built, everything goes smoothly, until the spacecraft enters a realm where it becomes lost. With the teens LOST IN SPACE, it’s going to take someone out of this world to save them—someone like COSMO THE MIGHTY MARTIAN! All that plus over 30 pages of intergalactic adventures!
Disney Villains: Ursula #1 (Dynamite Entertainment)
NTO THE BOTTOMLESS BLUE!
Writer SHERRI L. SMITH and artist GABRIELE BAGNOLI take readers back beneath the waves for an all-new tale of tentacled treachery!
Years before she would meet a young mermaid named Ariel, the formidable Ursula presided over a vast underwater kingdom as one of the Seven Sea Witches. Along with Capricia, Scylla, Charybdis, Melusine, Tiamat, and Vodyanoy, together the septet ruled the world's oceans with impunity.
So when one of Ursula's royal sisters is suddenly found broken and stripped of all her powers, Ursula takes it as an attack upon their collective authority, and sets out to find and punish the culprit - knowing that, among all the denizens of the deep, only one would dare to challenge the Sea Witches' reign!
Featuring a shimmering school of covers by MIRKA ANDOLFO, JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG, ROBERT QUINN, ELLERY, and SHATOKI SHIKI, Disney Villains: Ursula #1 plumbs the hidden depths of one of Disney's most beloved baddies!
This is a story about Ted and Sarah.
Ted, isolated and paranoid, works for a mega-corporation owned by the world’s only trillionaire. He suffers from night terrors, obsessively draws the same mysterious figures again and again, all while listening to one track of music on repeat–oh, and the only “person” he ever talks to is a stray cat. His humanity is hanging by a thread.
Sarah is a new arrival to the city, fighting her own demons, and her job is to remotely spy on Ted to ensure he doesn’t hurt anyone…or himself. When Ted’s mental state begins to crack, Sarah compassionately intervenes to help, and things go catastrophically wrong.
IS TED OK? mashes up the paranoid existentialism of SEVERANCE with the cosmic sci-fi of AKIRA while exploring what happens when the act of help goes horribly wrong.
From creator Dave Chisholm (SPECTRUM, MILES DAVIS & THE SEARCH FOR THE SOUND), Is Ted OK? is a spectacularly unpredictable yarn–each successive issue shatters the scope of the previous, all without losing its core: a search for human connection in an oppressive, paranoid world.
Isolation: Ghost and Nightmares #1 (Red Derby Press/Dreamscape Publishing)
Experience the thrilling world of Isolation Ghost & Nightmares in this Cover A edition from Red Derby Press. This 2025 comic book delivers captivating storytelling and stunning artwork that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Perfect for collectors and fans of supernatural horror comics.
Keres: Blood and Shadow #1 (Zenescope Entertainment)
The enigmatic Goddess of Death’s past has been shrouded in mystery—a secret that has never been revealed to any human. But when a new deadly threat, known as the Hollowborn, emerges and begins to wreak havoc on humanity, Keres realizes the only way to defeat them is to revisit the shocking events that made her. Guest starring Henry Lovecraft as well as Holmes & Houdini, this epic tale will change Keres’ life forever!
Kingdom of Tundo: Myth & Magic #1 (Rogue Matter)
The Kingdom of Tundo is the last bastion of magic in the world of Mayi, but the land is dying, and only the last scion of the Dula bloodline can save it. Bunao Dula returns to the land his father ruled centuries ago as he tries to redeem it from the chaos of the Shadows, the corruptors of humankind. Together with Myth-folk allies, he tries to unite Tundo and revive it to the glory that it once was. This is epic fantasy, Filipino style.
Maid Cafe #1 (Keenspot/Ex Posse)
A terrifying hardcore slasher horror series from the writer of Papa Duke and the artist of Marry Me! Mao's love for her chainsaw and her mounting hatred for the ungrateful men of a Maid Cafe explode in a delicious bloodbath, spilling out over a shopping center. Her fellow maids soon catch the fever of retribution, and the girls of the otherwise competing cafes, decorated in cheeky aprons, pink hair bows, and blue suede shoes, run amok through the mall's Pachinko parlors and snack shops. Join the maids in a frilly pastel uprising!
Based on Glitch Productions’ global animation phenomenon created by Liam Vickers and now streaming on Prime Video, it’s three cheers for “destroy all humans” as all-star creators Wyatt Kennedy (Nights, Marvel Voices) and Jo Mi-Gyeong (Eve, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) unleash the record-setting comics adaptation of the series that you have watched 330 million times: MURDER DRONES!
In the far future on the desolate exoplanet designated Copper 9, the humans are long gone but the robotic worker drones they created to mine the planet’s resources are still hard at work. Together, they have managed to forge their own makeshift society . . . or so they thought until a previously unknown kind of robot—the dreaded “Murder Drones”—are activated by a long-forgotten human-scripted protocol to disassemble any worker that deviates from its original programming. But when a rebellious young worker drone named Uzi forms an unlikely alliance with two disassembly drones—Serial Designations N and V—can they, together, uncover the secrets of their origins . . . and stop the spread of the unsettling mechanical virus known as the Absolute Solver?
Robots, violence, teen angst, mad science, love, loss, doors, hormones, and chaos! What more could you ask for? A pen, perhaps? It’s a clicky pen! (Ask your kids. They’ll get it!)
New History of the DC Universe: The Dakota Incident #1 (DC Comics)
Spinning out of the pages of New History of the DC Universe, uncover an untold moment in DC history, where a murder leads to an all-out war between the heroes of Dakota City and U.S. government! As their home becomes a battlefield, what must Static, Rocket, and the others sacrifice to keep their loved ones safe? But as heroes fall in the past, the stage is set for their return in the present...
Order of Saint Sophia #1 (Antarctic Press)
New from Antarctic Press! The Order of Saint Sophia has protected the kingdom of Toulon for 500 years. Now, the holy sisterhood of assassins is being forcibly disbanded--and Sister Amelia Redhand is to blame. She and her fellow assassins are placed under guard to ensure their peaceful reintegration into polite society. But not all of Amelia's sisters are willing to go quietly.
Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #1 (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics)
New York City, 1941. Ezra Cain is a private investigator with a reputation for taking it on the chin if it means solving a case. But it's his former life as an archaeology student that makes him the only man to track down an artifact that’s gone missing from the Museum of Natural History…an ancient anvil said to hold the power of the Greek god Hephaestus. If someone could harness that power, they could bend nations to their will. Science fiction quickly becomes Cain's reality when a shadowy sect calling themselves the Brutal Dark appears in the city wielding resources that defy human logic. Now Ezra is the only thing that stands between them and their plot to overthrow America! Writer Chris Condon and artist Jacob Phillips, creators of the hit series That Texas Blood and The Enfield Gang Massacre, introduce us toa private eye whose business is exposing our deepest secrets…but on this job, he’ll learn that some mysteries are better off buried!
Predator: Bloodshed #1 (Marvel Comics)
In the near future, Earth's fiercest fighters have gathered for an underground martial arts tournament organized by a shadowy organization. But all hell breaks loose when an unexpected combatant enters the ring: an alien PREDATOR! Now the champions are battling not just for the grand prize, but for their very lives! Can a disparate group of competitors band together in time to survive the extraterrestrial hunter?! Choose your fighter, place your bets and brace yourselves for a bloody tournament unlike any other! RATED PARENTAL ADVISORY.
The Punisher #1 (Marvel Comics)
CRIME'S WORST NIGHTMARE IS BACK IN AN ALL-NEW ONGOING SERIES! As unflinching and uncompromising as ever, Frank Castle's memory is damaged and he's hunting for answers and criminals alike! He'll get more than he bargained for of both when the notorious and bloodthirsty JIGSAW returns…with THE PUNISHER dead in his sights!
Rocketeer: The Island #1 (IDW Publishing)
Miniseries premiere! The Rocketeer returns to save Amelia Earhart in a brand-new story by creator Dave Stevens! The year is 1938, and Cliff Secord (A.K.A. the Rocketeer) is recruited to lead a search and rescue mission. The mission? Find Amelia Earhart! Considering a year has passed since the famous pilot went missing, the Rocketeer is hesitant at first—that is, until he learns the expedition is to the same island Betty ran off to with the scummy photographer Marco! The Rocketeer will have to uncover the secret of the century’s greatest mystery while trying to win back his girlfriend. But what else awaits him on the island? Beloved writer John Layman (Chew, Titans) and artistic powerhouse Jacob Edgar (Plastic Man: No More, The Ones) team up to tell the wildest Rocketeer story ever, based on a never-published outline by Rocketeer creator Dave Stevens!
Star Trek Deviations: Threads of Destiny #1 (IDW Publishing)
This special one-shot features Lieutenant Nyota Uhura. In the 23rd century, she explores far-flung star systems with her crew on the Enterprise as part of her mission to communicate and build bridges with life found across the Galaxy. But in the 20th century, humankind was working to build understanding among themselves, with African Americans on Earth championing the Civil Rights Movement and using their voices and acts of protest to end racial segregation and discrimination.
Now, by way of the Guardian of Forever, Uhura is yanked back through time to 1963. There, she’ll join all those fighting for equality and justice and reconnect to why her work as a communications officer is perhaps the most important work of all.
Universal Monsters: The Phantom of the Opera #1 (Image Comics)
SERIES PREMIERE
THE HORRIFYING NEW VISION OF THE STORY YOU ONLY THINK YOU KNOW!
After a series of violent crimes wracks the Paris Opera House, Christine Dubois’s career is in chaos. But the show must go on, and Christine will discover that no one—especially the mysterious voice whispering from the eaves—is what they seem.
As an old friend returns to investigate these surprising attacks, Christine will find out there's no escaping... THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
The superstar team of Tyler Boss (You’ll Do Bad Things) and Martin Simmonds (Department of Truth) present the shocking new horror series of 2026 that will thrill _Phantom of the Opera _fans new and old with a twist no one will see coming!