Ssalefish GSO First Look #179 for 10.7.20

Mask-Con 2020 grabbed some “ink” on Bleeding Cool earlier today, and we’ve filled up with over 50 dealers and are now taking on a waitlist! The 10-day forecast is showing 72 and partly cloudy, perfect October weather, and Mama Crockett’s Cider Donuts will be out there at the Lexington Cinema at 8 AM on Saturday, October 10th. It’s the making of a perfect fall day here in the Carolinas! You can still pre-order your tickets here on the site!

We’ve got a collection winging its way from New York City as we speak, two boxes so loaded with all killer and no filler that we’ll pretty much be able to replace our entire backwall! So that everyone has fair warning and the same shot at them, we’ll be rolling them out on Tuesday morning along with our DC new releases!

I realized last week that only emboldening the books that I’m buying nowadays doesn’t really give a good indication of what I’m actually reading and enjoying since I’m pretty much only taking home Star Wars and Umbrella Academy for keeps anymore, so from now on know that anything I’ve highlighted below is something that’s worth my time and I’m looking forward to reading!

The following titles are scheduled to ship on Wednesday, October 7th (Tuesday, October 6th for DC) excluding some re-orders and providing nothing changes by the time the final invoice arrives on Monday:

• Adventureman #4 - final issue of the first story arc!

• Alien Original Screenplay #3

• Amazing Spider-Man #49 - the 850th issue of ASM blows wide open with a quintuple-sized issue and variants by Mahmud Asrar, Chris Bachalo, Mark Bagley, Nick Bradshaw, Mark Brooks, Olivier Coipel, Patrick Gleason, In-Hyuk Lee, J. Scott Campbell, Joe Quesada, Humberto Ramos, Bruce Timm, and Skottie Young!

• American Ronin #1

• American Vampire 1976 - Scott Snyder returns to the Vertigo title that first turned heads for him back in 2010 alongside co-creator Rafael Albuquerque, with a variant by Dustin Nguyen!

• Archangel 8 TP

• Archie’s Halloween Spectacular #1

• Bang #4

• Batman #100 - another giant anniversary celebration, finishing out “Joker War”, with a cardstock Francesco Mattina variant available for premium cover price!

• Batman Adventures Nightwing Rising TP - ever wonder for Dick Grayson left Batman the Animated Series and Robin and showed up in the Adventures of Batman & Robin as Nightwing without anyone batting an eye? The answers are here as The Lost Years #1-6 are reprinted!

• Batman The Adventures Continue #5 - Sean “Cheeks” Galloway variant available for cover price!

• Batman/ The Maxx Arkham Dreams #4

• Black Widow #2 - Alex Ross “Timeless”, Mattia de Iulus, J. Scott Campbell, Takashi Okazaki, and Joshua Swaby “Horror” variants available!

• Black Widow Coldest War Epic Collection TP

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer #18

• Champions #1 - Marvel’s next generation of superheroes reconvene their own team as “Outlawed” concludes, with Ron Lim, Kaare Andrews “Horror”, Simone de Meo, Pasqual Ferry, and Peach Momoko variants available!

• Cimmerian People of the Black Circle #2 - final issue!

• Coffin Bound #7

• Cyberpunk 2077 Trauma Team #2

• DC Classics Batman Adventures #5

• DCeased Dead Planet #4 - cardstock Francesco Mattina and In-Hyuk Lee movie homage variants available for premium cover price!

• Deadpool #7

• Deadpool King Deadpool TP vol. 1

• Decorum #5

• Die #14

• Disaster Inc. #4

• Doctor Who Time Lord Victorious #2

• Dreaming Waking Hours #3

• Far Sector #8 - In-Hyuk Lee variant available for cover price!

• Fire Power #4

• Getting It Together #1

• Green Hornet #3

• Horizon Zero Dawn #3

• Hotell TP - I’ll say again, this is my favorite of the initial AWA offerings and a perfect read for Halloween times!

• Inkblot #2

• Justice League #54 - “Dark Nights Death Metal” tie-in part 2 with a Howard Porter variant available for cover price!

• Legend of the Swamp Thing Halloween Spectacular #1

• Locke & Key In Pale Battalions Go #2

• Lonely Receiver #2

• Lost Soldiers #3

• Mad Magazine #16

• Magnificent Ms. Marvel #15 - “Outlawed” tie-in!

• Marauders #13 - “X of Swords” part 5 (see Wolverine & X-Force below for the preceding tie-ins) with Alex Ross “Timeless”, Russell Dauterman “Fortnite”, Stephanie Hans, and Khary Randolph “Horror” variants available!

• Marked #8

• Marvel Fanfare #10 Facsimile Edition - reprinting Black Widow’s first modern appearance exactly as it original appeared!

• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Rise of Drakkon TP

• Miles Morales Spider-Man #19 - “Outlawed” tie-in!

• Mister Miracle Deluxe Edition HC

• Money Shot #9

• Moonshine #21

• My Little Pony/ Transformers #3

• Neil Gaiman Norse Mythology #1 - reunited with his long-time collaborator P. Craig Russell!

• New Mutants Cable Epic Collection TP

• Official Handbook of the Conan Universe Anniversary Edition #1

• Original Marvel Zombies Marvel Tales #1 - reprinting their original incursion into the Ultimate Universe by Mark Millar & Greg Land!

• Orville Launch Day #2

• Penultiman #2

• Pretty Violent #10

• Red Border TP

• Red Sonja #20

• Rise of Ultraman #2 - Arthur Adams, Stanley “Artgerm” Lau, Masayuki Gota variants available!

• Sacred Six #3

• Snake Eyes Deadgame #2 - Rob Liefeld finally graces us with his presence!

• Sonic the Hedgehog Bad Guys #1

• Spider-Man Marvel’s Snapshot #1

• Spy Island #2

• Star Trek Deep Space Nine Too Long a Sacrifice #3

• Star Wars #7 - new story arc with Aaron Kuder and Chris Sprouse “Empire Strikes Back” variants available!

• Star Wars Adventures #1 - new all-ages in-canon stories for younger readers!

• Sword Master #11

• Thor #8 - Alex Ross “Timeless”, Leinil Francis Yu “Horror”, and Nic Klein variants available!

• TMNT Best of Raphael #1

• Transformers/ Back to the Future #1 - the Star Trek and Ghostbusters crossovers with the Robots in Disguise have been some of my favorite comics in recent memory, so I can’t wait to see them mash-up with another ‘80s classic!

• True Believers Black Widow & Daredevil #1 - reprinting Daredevil #81 for $1!

• True Believers Black Widow Red Guardian #1 - reprinting Avengers #43 for $1!

• True Believers Black Widow Introducing #1 - reprinting Tales of Suspense #52-53 for $1!

• Walking Dead Deluxe #1 - Robert Kirkman prepares to reprinting the entire 193 ground-breaking series in color for the very first time, complete with bonus material and brand-new variant covers, starting with David Finch, Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard, Julian Totino Tedesco, and Arthur Adams!

• We Only Find Them When They’re Dead #2 - I really enjoyed the first issue!

• Wolverine #6 - “X of Swords” part 3 with Alex Ross “Timeless” and Daniel Warren Johnson variants available!

• Wonder Woman #1 Facsimile Edition - reprinting George Perez’s post-Crisis on Infinite Earths relaunch exactly as it originally appeared!

• X-Force #13 - “X of Swords” part 4 with Alex Ross “Timeless” featuring Beast, Dustin Weaver “Fortnite”, and Iban Coello variants available!

• Year Zero TP

• Young Justice #19 - Francis Manapul variant available for cover price!