Free Comic Book Day 2025: The 13 Biggest Comics to Read This Year

May has arrived, and that means it's clip for different Free Comic Book Day. Every year, comic shops crossed the satellite instrumentality portion successful the lawsuit by giving distant escaped books connected the archetypal Saturday of May. Many of these books service arsenic primers for large upcoming storylines oregon best-selling series, meaning it's usually worthy heading retired and braving the crowds to effort and snag the astir important comics.

2025 is nary exception. From DC's DC All successful 2025 Special Edition to Marvel's Fantastic Four/X-Men and The Amazing Spider-Man/Ultimate Universe books to the latest Energon Universe special, these are the books you should support an oculus retired for during this year's event.

The Amazing Spider-Man/Ultimate Universe #1

Publisher: Marvel

The archetypal of respective specials from Marvel, this contented offers 2 archetypal stories successful one. The archetypal from writer Joe Kelly and creator John Romita, Jr. serves arsenic a primer of sorts to the precocious relaunched Amazing Spider-Man series. The 2nd communicative from writers Deniz Camp and Cody Ziglar and creator Jonas Scharf is simply a prologue to the upcoming Ultimate Universe crossover event, which sees Miles Morales drawn into the caller Ultimate U.

Blood Type #0

Publisher: Oni Press

Oni Press is expanding its EC Comics imprint this summertime with respective caller series, including Corinna Bechko and Andrea Sorrentino's vampire rubric Blood Type. If you privation an aboriginal glimpse of that caller series, Blood Type #0 is conscionable the publication for you. This contented reprints the abbreviated communicative from the anthology bid Epitaphs From the Abyss that kicked disconnected the Blood Type saga.

Conan: Scourge of the Serpent #1

Publisher: Titan

Titan Comics is processing a wont of utilizing FCBD to debut its yearly Conan crossover events. That inclination holds existent with Conan: Scourge of the Serpent. This contented incldues 3 interconnected tales that acceptable the signifier for a expansive struggle betwixt Conan and the serpent deity Set.

Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins/Black Hammer #1

Publisher: Dark Horse

Dark Horse's FCBD peculiar spotlights 2 of the publisher's biggest franchises. This contented includes 1 communicative acceptable successful the Critical Role universe, arsenic Beau and Caleb get a small excessively caught up successful an evening of meal theatre fun. There's besides a Black Hammer communicative focused connected Colonel Weird, 1 that highlights some the past and aboriginal of the Back Hammer universe.

DC All In: 2025 Special Edition #1

Publisher: DC

Similar to past year's DC All In Special, DC is releasing a flipbook that reveals the aboriginal of some the halfway DC Universe and the caller Absolute Universe. On 1 hand, this contented serves arsenic an instauration to the upcoming Superman Unlimited bid from Dan Slott and Rafael Albuquerque. On the other, it features a caller Absolute Universe communicative from Jeff Lemire and Giuseppe Camuncoli.

Energon Universe 2025 Special #1

Publisher: Skybound

Skybound truly made immoderate waves with the astonishment uncover thaat Void Rivals was really the launching constituent for a caller shared beingness involving Transformers and G.I. Joe. All 3 pillars of the Energon beingness are featured successful this issue, which features 3 caller abbreviated stories and a twist truthful large they had to censor the cover.

Fantastic Four/X-Men #1

Publisher: Marvel

Marvel is pairing the X-Men and Fantastic Four for their 2nd large FCBD release. This contented should beryllium connected everyone's radar, if for nary different crushed than it features a caller FF communicative from Ryan North and Humberto Ramos. On the X-Men side, Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing are revisiting the fateful time Charles Xavier archetypal assembled the All-New, All-Different X-Men and revealing the 1 mutant who turned him down.

Gargoyles: Demona #1

Publisher: Dynamite

Disney whitethorn not beryllium giving Gargoyles fans the animated revival they've each been craving, but Dymanite is surely making up for that connected the comic publication side. The Gargoyles enactment expands with this caller peculiar that sets up the Gargoyles: Demona series. Best of all, it's adjacent written by creator Greg Weisman.

Godzilla: The New Heroes #1

Publisher: IDW

In lawsuit you missed the news, IDW is launching an full caller shared beingness of Godilla comics this summer. This contented serves arsenic a primer for that universe, with a ten-page prelude communicative accompanied by previews of the forthcoming ongoing Godilla books.

Power Rangers/VR Troopers #1

Publisher: BOOM! Studios

IGN precocious broke the quality that BOOM! Studios is debuting a VR Troopers bid spinning retired of the pages of the Power Rangers Prime reboot. This contented gives fans a sneak preview of the caller bid on with a look backmost astatine immoderate of the VR Troopers comics of yesteryear.

Star Wars #1

Publisher: Marvel

Marvel's 3rd and last FCBD merchandise is focused connected their precocious revamped Star Wars line, which present consists of Charles Soule and Luke Ross' Star Wars: Legacy of Vader, Marc Guggenheim and Madibek Musabekov's Star Wars: Jedi Knights, and Alex Segura and Phil Noto's Star Wars. Fittingly, this contented features 3 caller tales, each tied to 1 of those 3 books.

Thundercats/The Powerpuff Girls #1

Publisher: Dynamite

This mightiness conscionable beryllium the prime of the FCBD 2025 crop, purely for however weird and intriguing the premise is. Dynamite is highlighting its Thundercats and Powerpuff Girls comics, not by releasing an contented with 1 communicative geared toward each, but by combining the 2 into 1 wacky crossover. What happens erstwhile Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles question to Third Earth? We're astir to find out.

Let america cognize successful the comments beneath what books you're excited to prime up connected Free Comic Book Day 2025.

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