FOC Drop: June 29, 2026 — Buffy's 22-Cover Blitz

Image Comics leads the week's volume with 77 titles, ahead of Marvel's 69 and DC's 58, while the editorial primacy still runs Marvel/DC/Image across the docket. The slate breaks down to 601 SKUs against 322 unique books, with 53 launches and 80 variant covers spread across the week. Dynamite drives the variant story here, with Buffy The Vampire Slayer #1 alone carrying 22 covers. The week's milestone weight sits in DC's anniversary issues and Marvel's facsimile reprint of a Spider-Man landmark.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer #1 (Dynamite Entertainment) carries the week's highest variant count at 22 covers, double the next-closest release on the docket. Kelly Thompson writes and Stephen Byrne draws, with the issue featuring the comics debut of a Buffy fan-favorite character.

With 75 ratios across the week and Image holding 22 of them, the incentive structure concentrates on the indie side rather than the Big 3. Marvel logs a single ratio and DC logs none, so the variant and ratio weight this week sits with Image and Dynamite.

69 titles | 3 new #1s | 6 variants | 2 reprints | 1 ratio | FOC: June 29 | On Sale: July 29 - August 12 (some titles ship later)

Marvel's slate splits between the ongoing Ultimate-line expansion and a pair of milestone hooks this week. The launch count sits at 3 books, anchored by a relaunch for Miles Morales, while the Ultimate Impact: Reborn arc continues to fold the Ultimate Origin Boxes into the wider Marvel Universe. The week's reprint slot carries the facsimile of a Spider-Man anniversary issue. Variant volume stays light at 6 covers with a single ratio across the entire 69-title slate.

Miles Morales: Spider-Man #1 (Marvel Comics). This is the relaunch driving Marvel's #1 count this week, opening a new run for Miles back in the black-and-red costume. A villain from Jeff Morales' SHIELD past threatens the whole Morales family.

Ultimate Impact: Reborn #3 (Marvel Comics, $4.99, Christopher Condon). The issue sits in the spine of Marvel's Ultimate-line push, with Miles Morales turning to Iron Man to counter Hostilicus and the Nega-Bands. Condon writes as the Ultimate Origin Boxes reshape the universe and a new Wonder Man faces his first choice.

Marvel's only ratio this week: 1:25 Marvel Knights: The World To Come #6.

58 titles | 2 new #1s | 3 variants | 1 reprint | 0 ratios | FOC: June 29 | On Sale: July 22 - August 12 (some titles ship later)

DC's slate leans on milestone numbering this week, with Action Comics hitting issue 1100 and a Justice League Of America facsimile of issue 200 sitting alongside it. The launch count is 2 books and the variant count holds at 3 covers, with no ratios anywhere in the 58-title slate. The Absolute line continues its run with a Wonder Woman chapter, and the back half of the slate carries the conclusion of Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing saga. DC runs no incentive structure this week.

Action Comics #1100 (DC Comics, $6.99, Various). This is the milestone anchor of DC's week, marking 1,100 issues of the title with a roster of Superman architects. Mark Waid, Joshua Williamson, Sophie Campbell, and Dan Slott write, with art from Skylar Patridge, Ryan Sook, Daniel Sampere, Dan Mora, and Lucas Meyer.

Swamp Thing 1989 #4 (DC Comics, $4.99, Rick Veitch/Tom Mandrake). The issue is the finale to Veitch's long-unpublished Swamp Thing run, framed in the solicit as the ultimate ending to the saga. The child is born and Anton Arcane returns from hell to claim them, with John Constantine and Abby's circle standing between.

77 titles | 1 new #1 | 10 variants | 0 reprints | 22 ratios | FOC: June 29 | On Sale: July 22 - August 12 (some titles ship later)

Image's 77-title slate leads the week's volume, and its 22 ratios account for nearly a third of the week's 75 incentive covers. The launch count is a single book, so the volume runs on continuing series rather than new #1s, with Final Boss carrying the slate's highest ratio at 1:100. The Universal Monsters line and Corpse Knight fill out the ratio top three. Image's incentive structure is among the heaviest this week, with only Dynamite's Buffy-driven slate carrying more.

Final Boss #8 (Image Comics, $3.99, Tyler Kirkham/David Miller, Ifan Noor). The issue carries the week's deepest Image ratio at 1:100, the steepest incentive in Image's slate this week. Tommy wields the Starlight Talon Blade after his clash with Knight Owl, facing DraGod and the Cold Bloods on the Island of the Gods.

Fireborn #4 (Image Comics, $4.99, Curt Pires, Franklin Jonas/Patrick Mulholland). The issue closes the first arc, with the solicit billing it as the end-of-story-arc final chapter. Fireborn and CU face off in New York with help from an unexpected guest.

Image's three highest ratios this week: 1:100 Final Boss #8, 1:75 Universal Monsters Blood Of The Wolf Man #2, 1:50 Corpse Knight #4.

Top 3 by volume:

Dynamite Entertainment — 56 titles. Led by Buffy The Vampire Slayer #1 from Kelly Thompson and Stephen Byrne, the week's variant leader at 22 covers, with the issue featuring the comics debut of a Buffy fan-favorite character.

Massive Publishing — 37 titles. Anchored by Devil's Due Presents Hack Slash Mercy Sparx #1 from Josh Blaylock and Joe Song, a re-release of the crossover one-shot for Devil's Due's 25th anniversary year, pitting Cassie Hack against Mercy Sparx as an undead killer emerges from the Catholic Church.

PS Artbooks — 32 titles. Notable for Golden Age Classics Amazing Man #1 ($52.99, Bill Everett, Allen L Kirby/Bill Everett, Louis Glanzman, Sam Glanzman), collecting the Bill Everett creation that the solicit credits as the second superhero after Superman to have a comic named after him.

Wildcard:

Udon Entertainment — Street Fighter Masters Juri #1 ($4.99, Adam Warren/Matthew Weldon) is the week's standout licensed one-shot from outside the volume top three. Juri Han gets her own special, with the spectre of M. Bison rising from the grave and the introduction of NeoJuri.

80 variants and 75 ratios across 322 unique books puts the week's incentive weight outside the Big 3, with Image's 22 ratios and Dynamite's 22-cover Buffy launch driving the count.

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