FOC Drop: September 28, 2026 — 108 Ratios, 76 New #1s

DC Comics leads the week on volume with 199 titles, well ahead of Marvel's 79, while Dynamite Entertainment runs the incentive load with 37 ratio covers across a 120-title slate. DC's lead comes from its Absolute line milestones and a deep Bat-family list. Across the full week the list runs 1,014 titles across 548 unique books, with 148 variants and 108 ratio covers shaping the incentive side. New #1s come to 76 books, so this is a variant-and-ratio week more than a launch week. Dynamite drives the variant story: Thundercats #1 carries the highest single-title cover count of any release on the list.

The variant leader this week is Dynamite's Thundercats #1 at 15 covers, the highest single-title cover count of any release on the list. Dynamite also carries the week's incentive load at 37 ratio covers, more than Image's 12 and Boom's 10 combined. On the ratio side, Oni Press holds the week's steepest tier: Archie In Hell #1 at 1:250, the single steepest incentive on the entire list.

Thundercats #1 (Dynamite Entertainment) carries the week's highest variant count at 15 covers, more than Image's Bride of Frankenstein Lives #1 at 11. Greg Pak writes and David Cousens draws the launch, opening with the ThunderCats sharing their Earth with the SilverHawks and the Mu'Tants before a sky-omen turns Lion-O into the Feral King.

79 titles | 1 new #1 | 7 variants | 1 reprint | 16 ratios | FOC: September 28 | On Sale: October 28 (some titles ship later)

Marvel's slate this week threads the Avengers: Armageddon fallout through the line, with the demon incursion from that event feeding into a Doom-hunt storyline. The list carries a single new #1, seven variants and 16 ratio covers, most of them 1:25 incentives on ongoing books, so the volume sits in continuing chapters. Star Wars anchors the licensed side with a Rogue One anniversary launch. The count breaks down toward continuing series rather than a line-wide push.

Black Panther/Namor: Doomed #2 (Marvel Comics). This is the book carrying Marvel's Avengers: Armageddon and Captain America fallout, with Black Panther and Namor traveling to Hell to confront Doctor Doom. The Scarlet Witch guides them until the demons attacking the kingdoms of the Marvel Universe descend on the Sanctum Sanctorum, and it carries 3 covers.

Star Wars: Rogue One - Darth Vader #1 (Marvel Comics). Marvel's licensed launch this week ties to the tenth anniversary of Rogue One, opening with Orson Krennic's stalled negotiations over Harreld's kyber deposits. The Emperor sends Darth Vader to take the kyber by any means, and it carries 7 covers.

199 titles | 2 new #1s | 21 variants | 12 reprints | 2 ratios | FOC: September 28 | On Sale: October 21-28 (some titles ship later)

DC's 199-title slate leads the week's volume, and two Absolute line milestones drive its cover count as both Absolute Batman and Absolute Wonder Woman hit issue 25. The Bat-family fills a large share of the list, with Batwoman and Catwoman continuing alongside the Absolute books. DC carries 21 variants and 12 reprint titles, the largest reprint block of any Big 3 publisher this week. The two ratio covers both sit on Absolute line books.

Absolute Batman #25 (DC Comics, $5.99, Scott Snyder/Nick Dragotta). The Absolute line milestone that anchors DC's week, an oversized 25th issue billed as all the villains, all the heroes, all the stakes. Snyder writes and Dragotta draws, and it carries 11 covers.

Absolute Wonder Woman #25 (DC Comics, $5.99, Kelly Thompson/Hayden Sherman). The second Absolute milestone this week, an oversized issue where the Heretic arc turns: Diana's search for Barbara Minerva ends and the Absolute Cheetah debuts. Thompson writes and Sherman draws, and it carries 10 covers.

Batwoman #8 (DC Comics, $3.99, Greg Rucka/DaNi). Part of DC's Bat-family volume this week, with a GCPD TUCO squad in the Cathedral of St. Dumas moving to kill Batwoman on Vandal Savage's behalf. Rucka writes and DaNi draws, and it carries 4 covers.

Both of DC's ratios this week: 1:25 Absolute Batman #25 and 1:25 Absolute Green Arrow #6.

120 titles | 3 new #1s | 71 variants | 0 reprints | 37 ratios | FOC: September 28 | On Sale: October 21 - November 11 (some titles ship later)

Dynamite's slate runs on licensed animation properties this week, with the ThunderCats launch, the ongoing Gargoyles series, and the Ben 10 and Space Ghost books stacking the count. The publisher carries 71 variants and 37 ratio covers, the largest incentive load of any publisher on the list. Three new #1s land in the 120-title slate, with Thundercats #1 driving the launch volume at 15 covers. The list leans into cartoon and toy-line IP across the incentive structure.

Thundercats #1 (Dynamite Entertainment, $4.99, Greg Pak/David Cousens). The launch that carries the week's highest variant count and anchors Dynamite's licensed push. The ThunderCats share their Earth with the SilverHawks and the cat-hating Mu'Tants until a sky-omen unleashes a beast within Lion-O, turning him into the Feral King, and it carries 15 covers.

Ben 10 #6 (Dynamite Entertainment, $4.99, Joe Casey/Robert Carey). Part of Dynamite's animation-IP slate and the book carrying the publisher's steepest incentive at 1:50. Grandpa Max puts Ben and the Omnitrix to the test with catastrophic results, bringing Ben face to face with a new take on a classic villain, and it carries 15 covers.

Gargoyles #3 (Dynamite Entertainment, $4.99, Greg Weisman/Gerardo Gambone). The ongoing Weisman-written Gargoyles book continues Dynamite's licensed-property slate, with Queen Mab invading dreams worldwide and recruiting the Scarecrow to gather chaotic emotions. It carries 9 covers.

Dynamite's three highest ratios this week: 1:50 Ben 10 #6, 1:25 Thundercats #1, 1:25 Space Ghost Vs The Herculoids #2.

Top 3 by volume:

Image Comics: 91 titles. Led by Universal Monsters: The Bride of Frankenstein Lives #1, a miniseries premiere from Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis. Born in a thunderstorm and with no memory of her past, The Bride sets out to discover where she came from and begins the process of staying alive. It carries 11 covers.

Yen Press: 47 titles. Notable for Defying Expectations With Gravity Magic To Be Unparalleled #1, where Wade is stuck with what he thinks is slowpoke magic until past-life memories reveal it as gravity magic. Armed with physics the world hasn't reached, he sets out to prove himself as an adventurer. Kazuki Ichimori writes and Erika Kanbara draws.

Massive Publishing: 38 titles. Anchored by Club Nephilim: Double Indulgence #1, a special edition collecting issues #0 and #1 of the Mercy Sparx spin-off. Pat Shand writes and Jordi Perez draws the stand-alone saga of the supernatural bazaar and brothel Club Nephilim, run by the rogue angel Ladara.

Wildcard:

DSTLRY: 4 titles, and the most distinctive of them is A Mischief of Magpies #3 ($8.99, Simon Spurrier/Matias Bergara). The concluding chapter of the portal fantasy finds Mar in a hospital bed with his connection to the Wandering City severed, questioning whether he can make it right. Presented in DSTLRY's perfect-bound Prestige format.

DC's 199 titles lead the week's volume against Marvel's 79 and Dynamite's 120, while Dynamite carries the incentive load at 37 ratio covers, the most of any publisher this week.

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