DC leads the volume count at 100 titles, edging Marvel's 87 in a week where new #1s drive the distribution. The slate runs 582 titles total with 100 new #1s, meaning better than one in six books lands as a series launch. Image's 21 new #1s account for a quarter of its 85-title count, concentrating the launch volume in creator-owned territory.
158 variants across the slate, led by Dynamite's The Lion King #4 with 8 covers. Variant concentration runs close to 27% of the total count, with the Big 3 distributing their variant structure across ongoing series and facsimile reprints.
87 titles | 9 new #1s | 26 variants | 10 reprints | 21 ratios | FOC: May 25 | On Sale: June 24 - July 8
Marvel's slate splits between facsimile reprints and ongoing series chapters this week. Nine new #1s anchor the launch volume, with Jeff the Land Shark getting a solo series and Ultimate Endgame continuing the line's event structure. The facsimile count includes Amazing Spider-Man #14 and #129, both with variant packages supporting the reprint initiative.
5 variants. Solicitation details not yet available.
3 variants, 1:25 ratio. Solicitation details not yet available.
Marvel's three highest ratios this week: 1:50 Captain America #12, 1:50 Doomquest #2, 1:50 Infernal Hulk #8.
100 titles | 2 new #1s | 15 variants | 12 reprints | 2 ratios | FOC: May 25 | On Sale: June 17-24
DC's facsimile program drives the week's volume with key reprints anchoring the count. Detective Comics #359 returns with Batgirl's debut appearance, while Lobo #1 from 1990 gets the facsimile treatment with Simon Bisley's art. New Titans #36 continues the post-DC KO rebuild with the team establishing Mount Titans as their new base.
The facsimile reprint of Batgirl's debut appearance, with Killer Moth's protection racket targeting Bruce Wayne. Barbara Gordon enters the scene when Killer Moth and his gang of Moth Men threaten Gotham's wealthiest citizens.
The 1990 facsimile brings back the last Czarnian's solo launch. Lobo discovers he missed one other Czarnian and must deliver this prisoner to L.E.G.I.O.N. custody alive, complicated by an unauthorized biography scandal.
Both of DC's ratios this week: 1:25 Absolute Batman #21 and 1:25 Absolute Green Arrow #2.
85 titles | 21 new #1s | 21 variants | 0 reprints | 26 ratios | FOC: May 25 | On Sale: June 17-24
Image concentrates on creator-owned launches this week, with 21 new #1s representing nearly 25% of the publisher's slate. The Trillion Dollar Kid #1 launches from Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi, introducing 13-year-old trillionaire Tommy Townsend III. Universal Monsters Blood of the Wolf Man #1 continues Image's licensed horror expansion with Joshua Williamson writing Adam Jaeger's transformation story.
The launch of "The Unbelievables" universe with Tommy Townsend III, the world's first 13-year-old trillionaire searching for superpowered individuals. Tommy learns money can't buy everything as he embarks on a journey with robot bodyguard Sterling to make the world better.
College student Adam Jaeger survives a massacre that left almost no survivors, but he might be responsible as the monster within tries to break free. Williamson and Leomacs present their horror series reboot of the Wolf Man for 2026.
Image's three highest ratios this week: 1:50 Darkness #6, 1:50 G.I. Joe #23, 1:50 Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #10.
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