Week Type: Variant-heavy, ratio-heavy slate
Dynamite Entertainment leads the week's volume with 100 titles, ahead of DC's 98 and Marvel's 49. The slate runs 670 SKUs across 350 unique books, with 100 variants and 76 ratios in the mix. Dynamite drives both the variant and the ratio counts, carrying 59 variants and 35 incentive covers of its own. Marvel has the week's steepest ratio, 1:100, on two books.
FOC DROP OCTOBER 26, 2026
Featured Publishers: Dynamite Entertainment (100), DC Comics (98), Image Comics (59), Marvel Comics (49), Massive Publishing (34), Viz Media (26)
Vampirella Paradise #1 (Dynamite Entertainment) has the most variants of any book this week, 17. It picks up from the end of Dynamite's Vampirella: Armageddon.
76 ratios across the week, and Dynamite carries 35 of them. Maximum X-Men #1 and Wolverine: Origin III - The Dark Age #1 both carry the steepest one, 1:100.
MARVEL THIS WEEK
49 titles | 5 new #1s | 7 variants | 0 reprints | 15 ratios | FOC: October 26 | On Sale: December 2-22 (some titles ship later)
Marvel has 49 titles, 5 new #1s and 15 ratios. Maximum X-Men #1 is the one launch that follows Avengers: Armageddon (#5 is out Wed 10/21): Marvel's solicit says it begins in the aftermath. Infernal Hulk vs. Avengers #1 is the last of the four March to Hulk War one-shots, and its solicit says the march ends there. Iron Man #12 opens the War Machines arc.
Maximum X-Men #1 (Marvel Comics, $4.99, Christopher Yost/Tony S. Daniel). This is the new X-team launch coming out of Armageddon, with Storm and Wolverine assembling a team to face the Annihilation Wave as it reaches Earth. The issue carries 8 covers and a 1:100 tier. Google searches for Maximum X-Men rose this week alongside Betsy Braddock (+170%), and searches for her new codename broke out in Google's comics category.
Wolverine: Origin III - The Dark Age #1 (Marvel Comics, $4.99, Paul Jenkins/Cafu). Paul Jenkins returns to Logan 25 years after the original Origin, with Cafu on art, telling a story set in the 1950s. The issue carries 5 covers and shares the week's steepest 1:100 tier.
Iron Man #12 (Marvel Comics, $4.99, Joshua Williamson). War Machines part 1 of 4 opens with Rhodey leading a new armored team against A.I.M., with Melinda May as Cavalry and a new Iron Patriot in the mix. The solicit points toward Iron Man #700 in 2027.
Marvel's three highest ratios this week: 1:100 Maximum X-Men #1, 1:100 Wolverine: Origin III - The Dark Age #1, 1:50 Maximum X-Men #1.
DC THIS WEEK
98 titles | 2 new #1s | 4 variants | 2 reprints | 0 ratios | FOC: October 26 | On Sale: November 18-25 (some titles ship later)
DC has 98 titles, 2 new #1s, 4 variants and no ratios. The new launch is Absolute Batman: Beyond Ark-M #1, and the week also carries a facsimile of 1951's Detective Comics #168, the Red Hood issue.
Absolute Batman Beyond Ark-M #1 (DC Comics, $5.99, Scott Snyder, Frank Tieri/Francesco Francavilla). Snyder and Tieri dig into the origin of Professor Pyg and the Joker's worldwide Arks, following up on the Ark M Special. DC says the issue introduces the Absolute Professor Pyg, designed by Nick Dragotta: a potential first appearance. The issue carries 5 covers.
Batman Superman World's Finest #57 (DC Comics, $3.99, Mark Waid/Adrian Gutierrez). Ra's al Ghul puts his Four Horsemen into play, with Poison Ivy, Tokamak, Ocean Master, and Queen Bee set against Superman and Batman. Mark Waid writes, Adrian Gutierrez draws, and the issue carries 3 covers.
DYNAMITE THIS WEEK
100 titles | 2 new #1s | 59 variants | 1 reprint | 35 ratios | FOC: October 26 | On Sale: November 11 - December 2 (some titles ship later)
Dynamite's slate runs on licensed-property crossovers this week, with 59 variants and 35 ratios across 100 titles. The Vampirella vs Darkstalkers one-shot pairs Dynamite's horror lead with UDON's videogame license, and the Archie vs Terminator crossover continues its 4-issue run. Gargoyles and Stitch carry the Disney-license side of the slate.
Vampirella Vs Darkstalkers Special #1 (Dynamite Entertainment, $5.99, Tim Seeley/Drax). UDON and Dynamite pair Vampirella with the Darkstalkers videogame cast, with Vampirella and Morrigan playing cat and mouse across New York while monster hunter Baby Bonnie Hood tracks them both. Tim Seeley writes, Drax draws, and the issue carries 14 covers. Searches for Darkstalkers rose this week, with Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers breaking out on Google.
Archie Vs The Terminator #2 (Dynamite Entertainment, $4.99, Rory McConville/Bill Galvan). A teenage John Connor enrolls at Riverdale High and the gang gets caught in a Terminator's crosshairs. Rory McConville writes this 4-issue crossover, with covers by Francesco Francavilla, Robert Hack, Bjorn Barends, and Bill Galvan, and the issue carries 10 covers.
Gargoyles #4 (Dynamite Entertainment, $4.99, Greg Weisman/Gerardo Gambone). The Scarecrow invades mortal dreams ahead of Queen Mab's arrival. Series creator Greg Weisman writes, Gerardo Gambone draws, and the issue carries 9 covers.
Dynamite's three highest ratios this week: 1:25 Vampirella Vs Darkstalkers Special #1, 1:20 Vampirella Vs Darkstalkers Special #1, 1:20 Archie Vs The Terminator #2.
BEYOND THE BIG 3
Top 3 by volume:
Image Comics: 59 titles. Led by Dorc -5 Glow In The Dorc #1 (Brett Bean), a fantasy launch about a half-dwarf, half-orc orphan with a doomsday prophecy stumbling into Sunderaine's war between Light and Dark, with a magical talking-eyeball shield and a Robert Kirkman blurb on the cover.
Massive Publishing: 34 titles. Hack Slash Mercy Sparx Canon Fodder #1 (Josh Blaylock/Jordi Perez) pairs Cassie and Mercy against a wave of murders where victims fall to killers ripped from the fiction they worship.
Viz Media: 26 titles. Robin In The Veil Of Night #1 (Fumi Tsuyuhisa) launches a supernatural mystery-romance series built around life-or-death ancient rituals, from the creator of Palace of the Omega.
Wildcard:
Philbo Publishing: Lynx #1 (Rik Offenberger/Milton Estevam) launches with the duo taking on the Circus of Crime, while Maya faces a night at the museum where ancient history comes alive and she meets Mummy Girl.
100 variants and 76 ratios across 670 titles this week.
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