Fanboy Comics Newsletter for 05/05/2026
Fanboy Comics
Fanboy Comics Newsletter for Tuesday May 5th, 2025
You cannot hope to beat me in a physical confrontation, X-men. I draw my strength and fire from the Earth’s molten core. You could no easier contain the Fanboy Comics Weekly Newsletter! - X-men 2099 #25, 1995
Thanks to everyone who came by for Free Comic Book Day! Always great to see so many people excited about comics! Don’t forget that this Saturday is our Brown Bag Dollar Box Sale! We are going to be putting out tons of great new DVDs, records, reduced graphic novels, and other odds and ends so there will be even more cool stuff than just comics! We will also have a dozen new Dollar Boxes insides that will be going out for the first time at just a buck each!
WEEKLY SPECIALS
*Cover Priced Back Issues Reduced to $1 each in Regular Back Issue Boxes
*DVDs and Blu-Rays Buy One, Get One 50% off
All specials exclude new release items and all other discounts. Some restrictions may apply. New Specials Every Tuesday! Check our Facebook page for more deals throughout the week.
BROWN BAG DOLLAR BOX SALE MAY 9th!
And of course the following Saturday May 9th is our Brown Bag Dollar Box Sale! Mark your calendars! We are going to be putting out tons of great new DVDs, records, reduced graphic novels, and other odds and ends so there will be even more cool stuff than just comics! We will also have a dozen new Dollar Boxes insides that will be going out for the first time at just a buck each!
And who could forget our Brown Bag Special! For just $20 you can fill up a brown paper bag we provide with as many comics as you can cram without the bag tearing apart. 60-70 is a pretty typical amount in a bag, but can you push past current human achievement and get 90?
NEW SUMMER HOURS
We are now open on Mondays for our new summer hours! After being closed on Mondays for the last several years we are trying out Mondays and see how they do. Stop in and say hello!
Fanboy Comics Hours
SUN 1PM - 6 PM
MON 11 AM - 6 PM
TUES 11 AM - 6 PM
WED 10 AM - 6 PM
THURS 11 AM - 6 PM
FRI 11 AM - 6 PM
SAT 11 AM - 6 PM
THIS WEEKS HOT NEW RELEASES
Thanks to everyone who came out to Free Comic Book Day last weekend! What better way to celebrate than with a great week of new release comics. Marvel has a new Jubilee solo series giving us a little more X-men goodness this week, and the second issue of the new Daredevil run continues to be fantastic. Absolute Green Lantern #14 continues to show why it is one of the most underrated books in comics, and something I would strongly recommend to anyone. The book I am most excited about this week is DC x Sonic the Hedgehog The Metal Legion #1. This follow up to last years DC/Sonic crossover promises a ton of all ages fun! All these and more this week at Fanboy Comics.
Alien King Killer #2, Amazing Spider-man #28, Captain Marvel Dark Past #2, Civil War Unmasked #1, Cyclops #4, Daredevil #2, Fantastic Four #10, Jubilee Deadly Reunion #1, Marc Spector Moon Knight #4, Star Wars Cassian Andor #1, Storm Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #4, Wade Wilson Deadpool #4, X-men #29, Absolute Green Lantern #14, Absolute Superman #19, Batgirl #19, Batman #9, Batman Static Beyond #6, DC x Sonic The Hedgehog The Metal Legion #1, JSA #19, Poison Ivy #44, Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Guy Gardner #1, Fall of the House of Slaughter #1, Ben 10 #1, Red Sonja She-Devil With A Sword #1, Godzilla #10, If Destruction Be Out Lot #1, She-Spawn #1, and more!
Subscribers, let us know if you would like any of these pulled for you or added to your subscription! Give us a call or send us a Facebook message anytime on Monday so we don’t miss your request when we start pulling books Tuesday morning for Wednesday's release. Www.facebook.com/fanboycomics
COMING THIS WEEK AT FANBOY COMICS! 05/06/26!
Below is a list of just a few of the big new releases scheduled for this Wednesday! Please let us know if you are interested in any of these titles. Pre-order today and don't miss any upcoming titles! As always you can check out our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/fanboycomics for pictures of these books and tons of other great info! We have a weekly newsletter on Tuesday with all this information and more! Don't hesitate to contact us if you need anything.
BATMAN #9
DC Comics $4.99
(W) Matt Fraction (A) Ryan Sook (CA) Jorge Jimenez
THE GCPD LAUNCHES AN ALL-OUT ASSAULT ON THE BAT-FAMILY! After making a sinister deal with Mayor Isley, Commissioner Vandal Savage initiates Operation Peregrine, sending his brutal TUCO squads across Gotham City on a singular mission: Bring in the Batman! Batman and his team must destroy and abandon their hideouts, safeguard their data, and escape the long arm of the law...but not everyone will make it safely through the night!
ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN #19
DC Comics $4.99
(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Rafa Sandoval
KING SHAZAM IS HERE TO SHATTER THE ABSOLUTE UNIVERSE! King Shazam has risen with a power unlike anything Superman has faced before. What connection does he have to Brainiac and the mysterious Father Box? Plus, another classic character has made their Absolute debut, though it remains to be seen if they're a friend or foe of the Man of Steel…
FALL OF THE HOUSE OF SLAUGHTER #1
BOOM Studios $4.99
(W) Tate Brombal (A) Adriano Turtulici
The Summer of Slaughter takes a turn into house turmoil with this all-new chapter from the award-winning horrorverse! As the House of Slaughter’s ailing Old Dragon enters his final days, Cecilia Slaughter and the other Heads gather to determine his successor. Deadly ambitions begin to take shape as the House and the Order prepare for a new legacy to begin—and the conflict will no doubt be lethal in this all-new miniseries set in the world of Something is Killing the Children! Can the House of Slaughter survive a new Dragon coming into power?
RECENTLY ACQUIRED
We have been pricing tons of new things in the lead up to Free Comic Book Day, so tons of great new sets and reduced graphic novels going out just in time for FCBD! Great sets like Spawn Cy-Gor, Xena, Night of the Living Dead, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine, Buckaroo Banzai, Annihilation, Bug Wars, and more! We also got some great out of print Fantagraphics hardcovers and comic strip collections! Art History of Comic Strips, the Clover Terry and the Pirates HCs, and more!
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All subscribers get a 20% discount on Back Issues and Graphic Novels!
All subscribers get Open Variant covers for cover price
Subscription Box Discount Levels
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11+ Titles 15% Discount on Comics 20% on Graphic Novels and Back Issues
Ask how to become a Fanboy Comics Subscription Box Holder today! We also offer Mail Order Subscription Services! For more information give us a call at 910-452-7828!
STORE HOURS
Fanboy Comics is still closed on Mondays, but we are now open on Sundays from 1 PM to 6 PM! And don't forget to swing by for Super Secret Sunday Specials you can only find out about by asking in the store!
Tuesday: 11am-6pm
Wednesday: 10am-6pm
Thursday: 11am-6pm
Friday: 11am-6pm
Saturday: 11am-6pm
Sunday: 1pm-6pm
Monday: Closed
These days & hours may change in the future; if they do, we will let you all know.
WE BUY
Fanboy Comics is currently buying almost all comics, new and old! Graphic novels too! Just give us a call for more information or to make an appointment! Our phone number is 910-452-7828!
Got any old comic collections you don't want? You can always trade in graphic novels towards something you do want!
We have been buying comics for over 20 years! We put out new back issues for sale almost every day so we are always buying almost any era of comic back issues. We buy everyday from 1 PM to 6 PM. Please give us a call or stop on in for more information!
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