Ssalefish GSO First Look #167 for 7.15.20
Next week begins Free Comic Book Summer, Diamond Comic Distributors’ solution to missing Free Comic Book Day on the first Saturday in May, alleviating the crowds for social distancing purposes and differing concentrated costs to retailers typically experienced on the biggest single day of the year for comic shops.
So every Wednesday between July 15th and September 9th, four to six of the titles originally scheduled to be released on Free Comic Book Day will be made available at the Greensboro store (not speaking for Winston or Concord here as their policies may differ). Because we can’t monitor how many each customer gets over the course of two months, all of the titles will be available first-come, first-served starting Wednesdays at 8 AM as long as supplies last. We have plenty to go around on large titles like Marvel’s Spider-Man and X-Men offerings, Boom’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and even last week’s Fire Power from Image, but if there’s something more limited that you’re after, you’ll want to set your alarm and join the dawn patrol!
In keeping with the spirit of FCBD, we’re not tying the receiving of any of our offerings to a purchase, but we do ask that you keep in mind that the books are NOT free to us and support us by following up on any of the free books that pique your interest by pre-ordering their corresponding future titles.
The first week’s titles are:
Asterix Special
Captain Canuck & Captain Battle #1
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic
Power Rangers Ranger Slayer
Weirn Books
X-Men #1
The following titles are scheduled to ship on Wednesday, July 15th (Tuesday, July 14th for DC books) excluding some re-orders and providing nothing changes by the time the final invoice arrives on Monday:
2020 iWolverine #1
20XX #5
Amazing Spider-man #44 - Tony Daniel “Marvel Zombies” and “On Sale Wednesday” variants available!
Aquaman #61 - Tyler Kirkham variant available for cover price!
Artemis & Assassin #3
Avengers #34 - “On Sale Wednesday” variant available!
Bettie Page #1
Captain Marvel #17 “On Sale Wednesday” variant available!
Catwoman #23 - Woo-Chul Lee variant available for cover price!
Conan Battle for the Serpent Crown #3
Conan Serpent Crown TP
Daphne Byrne #6 - final issue with a Kelley Jones variant available for cover price!
Dark Crystal Age of Resistance #9
Dark Nights Death Metal #2 - David Finch “Aquaman”, Jerome Opena “Lobo”, and Artgerm “Harley Quinn” variants available for cover price and Doug Mahnke and Greg Capullo limited edition variants available at a mark up!
Die Die Die #11
Dragon Whisperer #3
Empyre #1 - Marvel’s big event of the summer finally gets underway and the Kree & Skrulls set aside their age old differences and unite to take the Earth as a replacement for their destroyed homeworlds! In-Hyuk Lee, Mahmud Asrar, blank, Jim Cheung “Premiere”, John Tyler Christopher “2-pack Action Figure”, Tony Daniel “Kree Skrull”, David Finch, Alexander Lozano “Avengers”, Ed McGuinness “Launch” regular & sketch, “On Sale Wednesday”, Jamie McKelvie, Michael Cho “Fantastic Four”, Mike Mignola “Hidden Gem”, Phil Noto “Retailer Summit”, and “Secret” variants available!
Engineward #1
Faithless II #2
Family Tree #7
Fantastic Four #21 - “Empyre” tie-in with “On Sale Wednesday”, Art Adams “Marvel Zombies”, Jorge Molina “Empyre”, and Patrick Zircher “Confrontation” variants available!
Giant-Size X-Men Magneto #1 - Esad Ribic and “On Sale Wednesday” variants available!
Gideon Falls #23
Guardians of the Galaxy #4 - “On Sale Wednesday” and Mico Suayan “Marvel Zombies” variants available!
Gung Ho #6
Gunland TP vol. 1
Immortal Hulk #35 - “On Sale Wednesday” variant available!
It Eats What Feeds It #1
Justice League #49 - Alex Garner variant available for cover price!
Looney Tunes #255
Ludocrats #3
Metal Men #8 - Steve Rude variant available for cover price!
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #51 - foil and Kris Anka variants available!
Moonshine #19
Ms. Marvel TP vol. 2
Murder Hobo Beaten Broken Buggered #1
Nightwing #72 - Alan Quah variant available for cover price!
Offworld Sci Fi Double Feature #2
Once & Future #9
Red Border #3
Red Mother #6
Red Sonja Age of Chaos #5
Red Sonja & Vampirella Meet Betty & Veronica #7
Rick & Morty Go To Hell #2
Sacred Six #1
Savage Dragon #250
Snake Eyes Deadgame #1 - Rob Liefeld energizes the world of G.I. Joe as only he can, writing AND illustrating one of the most beloved characters of the 1980s!
Space Riders Vortex of Darkness #2
Spider-Woman #2 - Mike Hawthorne “Villain”, “On Sale Wednesday”, Ben Oliver “Marvel Zombies”, and Jenny Frison variants available!
Star Trek Deep Space 9 Too Long A Sacrific #1 - I’m curious to see how this one does since several of you have expressed that you only recently discovered DS9 during the shutdown!
Star Wars Adventures #32
Strange Adventures #3 - Evan “Doc” Shaner variant available for cover price!
Strikeforce #8
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #12 - final issue with a Ben Oliver variant available for cover price!
Tales of a Well Hung Man #1
Teen Titans #43 - Khary Randolph variant available for cover price!
Thief Among Trees HC
TMNT #106
Transformers ‘84 Secrets & Lies #1 - in the vein of More Than Meets The Eye, Robots in Disguise guru Simon Furman returns to the original comics continuity!
Undone by Blood #4
Vampirella #11
Venom #26 - as well and TWO second printing covers of the nationally sold-out #25 and “On Sale on Wednesday” variants!
Year Zero #3