561 titles across 202 books this week: 30 new #1s, 138 variants and 102 ratio covers. Dynamite has the most titles, 105, then Marvel 79, DC 73 and Image 45.
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Dynamite has 36 of the week's 102 ratio covers, the most of any publisher; Marvel is next with 25. The steepest is 1:100, on Amazing Spider-Man #1006 (Marvel).
79 titles | 4 new #1s | 9 variants | 1 reprint | 25 ratios | FOC: November 16 | On Sale: December 23-30 (some titles ship later)
Marvel has four new #1s this week: Jessica Jones: Alias #1, Amazing Spider-Man: Symbie #1, Fantastic Four: Incursions #1 and the Marvel Winter Break Special 2026 #1. Joe Kelly writes both Amazing Spider-Man #1006 and the Symbie book.
6 covers, up to 1:100. Peter gets an offer he may not be able to refuse, and his alien friends Rae, Glitch and Symbie face their first New York winter.
Bendis and Gaydos, who created Jessica Jones, come back to her for her 25th anniversary. A simple abduction case pulls her into the weird side of the Marvel Universe. Rated Parental Advisory.
Symbie's origin, from the beginning of the Klyntar race that led to Venom and Carnage, plus a bonus Symbie story by Jacob Chabot. 6 covers, up to 1:50.
One of Marvel's Incursions one-shots on the road to Secret Wars. A second Earth appears in the sky, Bruce Banner learns two universes will collide in eight hours, and a gamma-powered Fantastic Four fights a cosmic-powered entity. 4 covers, up to 1:25.
Marvel also has 1:50 covers on 7 books, including Jessica Jones: Alias #1, Amazing Spider-Man: Symbie #1 and X-Men #43.
73 titles | 2 new #1s | 4 variants | 4 reprints | 0 ratios | FOC: November 16 | On Sale: December 16 (some titles ship later)
DC has two new #1s: Absolute Batman Beyond Ark-M #1 and Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Training Day #1. The Absolute Batman: Ark-M Special #1 is back in a 4th printing, and Swamp Thing #34, Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette's 'Rite of Spring', returns as a facsimile edition. DC has no ratio covers this week.
Picks up from the Ark-M Special: Snyder and Tieri go into the origin of Professor Pyg and the Joker's Arks around the world. Francesco Francavilla draws the issue and its main cover. 5 covers. Google searches for 'francesco francavilla batman' rose over 5,000% from almost no searches between Nov 2 and Nov 9.
Hal Jordan, Sinestro and Kilowog at the start of their careers, learning how Oa works. Hal has to get out of a deadly forest without using his powers. 4 covers.
105 titles | 2 new #1s | 63 variants | 0 reprints | 36 ratios | FOC: November 16 | On Sale: December 16 - January 6
Dynamite has the most titles (105), variants (63) and ratio covers (36) of any publisher this week, mostly licensed series already under way: Archie vs the Terminator, Supernatural, Gargoyles, Space Ghost vs the Herculoids. Its two new #1s are the Vampirella Helliday Special 2026 #1 and the We Bare Bears Christmas Special #1.
10 covers, up to 1:20, by Francesco Francavilla, Robert Hack, Bjorn Barends and Bill Galvan. John Connor is at Riverdale High, Dilton builds the Doiley 3000 to take on a Terminator, and the issue promises the secret origins of Cyberdyne.
Dynamite's steepest: 1:25 on Space Ghost vs the Herculoids #4, then 1:20 on 6 books, including Archie vs the Terminator #3 and both Supernatural #3s.
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