Sabrina #6
THE ONGOING SERIES CONTINUES - "Familiars" is the perfect jumping-on point for the critically acclaimed horror hit SABRINA! Every witch needs a familiar, and through the ages, Salem has faithfully fulfilled his duties to Sabrina. This chapter lifts back the cloak of time to reveal the dark history of how Salem came to be and serve his master.

For TEEN+ readers.
Script: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Art: Robert Hack, Jack Morelli
Sabrina #6 CVR A Reg: Robert Hack
Sabrina #6 CVR B Variant: Andrew Pepoy
On Sale Date: 7/27
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.


Archie #10
IT'S TEAM ARCHIE VS. TEAM BETTY! A civil war has broken out in Riverdale—friends against friends, parents against parents, with the entire town torn down the middle by an event that forces everyone to take sides! No joke—the events of this issue will impact Archie and his pals for some time to come!

Script: Mark Waid
Art: Veronica Fish, Andre Szymanowicz, Jen Vaughn, Jack Morelli
Archie #10 CVR A Reg: Veronica Fish
Archie #10 CVR B Variant: Elliot Fernandez
Archie #10 CVR C Variant: Sandy Jarrell, Kelly Fitzpatrick
On Sale Date: 7/27
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.



Betty & Veronica #1
IT'S BETTY VS. VERONICA! The most highly-anticipated debut in comics history is here! Betty and Veronica are America's sweethearts... until they turn on each other! Pops' Chocklit Shoppe is being taken over by a huge coffee company. When Betty and Veronica go head-to-head over the issue, all bets are off! Friendships will shatter. Cities will burn. Nails will be broken. Betty and Veronica are back in this ALL-NEW #1 from comics legend Adam Hughes (Wonder Woman, Catwoman)!

Script: Adam Hughes
Art: Adam Hughes
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR A Reg: Adam Hughes
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR B Variant: Mahmud Asrar
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR C Variant: Tom Bancroft
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR D Variant: Stephanie Buscema
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR E Variant: Cliff Chiang
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR F Variant: Colleen Coover
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR G Variant: Bilquis Evely
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR H Variant: Veronica Fish
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR I Variant: Francesco Francavilla
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR J Variant: Genevieve F.T.
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR K Variant: Rian Gonzales
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR L Variant: Robert Hack, Steve Downer
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR M Variant: Erica Henderson
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR N Variant: Rebekah Isaacs, Kelly Fitzpatrick
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR O Variant: Tula Lotay
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR P Variant: Alitha Martinez, Kelly Fitzpatrick
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR Q Variant: Audrey Mok
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR R Variant: Moritat
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR S Variant: Ramon K. Perez
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR T Variant: Andy Price
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR U Variant: Ryan Sook
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR V Variant: Jenn St. Onge
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR W Variant: Chip Zdarsky
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR X Variant: Chrissie Zullo
Betty & Veronica #1 CVR Y Variant: Blank Sketch
On Sale Date: 7/20
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.


Jughead #8
IT'S JUGHEAD VS. ARCHIE and MR. WEATHERBEE VS ...A BEAR?!! Even the quiet of the wilderness can't escape the madness that's raging through all of Riverdale!

Script: Chip Zdarsky
Art: Derek Charm
Jughead #8 CVR A Reg: Derek Charm
Jughead #8 CVR B Variant: Andre Szymanowicz
Jughead #8 CVR C Variant: Walt Simonson, Laura Martin
On Sale Date: 8/3
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.


Archie Back To School Annual #271
Archie decides to give an impressionable new freshman and his group of friends a personal tour of Riverdale High in an attempt to change his view of upperclassmen. Will Archie succeed in showing them that high school life isn't as crazy as movies make it out to be—or will he end up getting them into some sophomore-level trouble? Find out in "The Freshman's Guide to Riverdale High," the fun, new lead story to this comics annual, featuring even more pages of back to school shenanigans!

Script: Dan Parent
Art: Dan Parent
Cover: Dan Parent, Rich Koslowski, Rosario "Tito" Peña
On Sale Date: 8/3
192-page, full color comic
$5.99 U.S.


Betty & Veronica Comics Double Digest #245
It's the last few days of summer and Betty and Veronica are determined to soak up the sun before it's all gone! But a series of rainstorms are dampening their plans to get tan! Will spray tans be the answer to getting the girls some glowing reviews? Find out in "The Dark Side," the hilarious new story to this comics double digest!

Script: Dan Parent
Art: Dan Parent
Cover: Fernando Ruiz, Bob Smith, Rosario "Tito" Peña
On Sale Date: 7/20
160-page, full color comic
$4.99 U.S.


B&V Friends Jumbo Comics Digest #250
Betty and Veronica are on their way to a party held by Riverdale's reigning fashion queen Sheila Wu—and Veronica's determined to out-dress her at her own party! However, on their way to the gala, Betty encounters a young girl with some animal friends in need of assistance on the side of the road. The adventure begins as Betty, Veronica and their new acquaintance Alina try to wrangle up her stray pets. Will the pets be safely returned? Will Betty and Veronica make it to the party unscathed? Find out in "The Perils of Pet Sitting," the exciting lead story to this JUMBO-sized Comics Digest!

Script: Alex Simmons
Art: Pat and Tim Kennedy
Cover: Dan Parent
On Sale Date: 7/27
256-page, full color comic
$6.99 U.S.


The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TR)
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, the young sorceress Sabrina Spellman finds herself at a crossroads, having to choose between an unearthly destiny and her mortal boyfriend, Harvey. But a foe from her family's past has arrived in Greendale, Madame Satan, and she has her own deadly agenda. Archie Comics' latest horror sensation starts here! Compiles the first five issues of the ongoing comic book series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. For TEEN+ readers.

Script: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Art: Robert Hack, Jack Morelli
Cover: Robert Hack
ISBN-13: 978-1-62738-987-7
$17.99/$19.99CAN
6 5/8 x 10 3/16" TR
160 pp, Full Color
Direct Market On-Sale Date: 7/27


Sonic the Hedgehog 3: Waves of Change (TR)
The new Sonic comic universe is here! Moving at the speed of sound, keeping the world free from robotic tyranny—it's SONIC THE HEDGEHOG! One of the oldest, most beloved video game icons speeds into brand new comic book stories with new friends, new foes and new adventures! In this volume of this new graphic novel series, Sonic is on the hunt for the seven Gaia Temples. Only their mysterious power can restore his world to normal! His quest takes him to places he's never been before—such as the bottom of the ocean! Join Sonic, Amy and Rotor as they encounter a whole new undersea world full of new friends, foes and monsters from the deep! SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3: WAVES OF CHANGE collects SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #260-263.

Script: Ian Flynn, Aleah Baker
Art: Jennifer Hernandez, Tracy Yardley, Ryan Jampole, Evan Stanley, Terry Austin, John Workman, Matt Herms and Gabriel Cassata
Cover: Ben Bates
ISBN-13: 978-1-62738-939-6
$12.99/$14.99CAN
6 5/8 x 10 3/16" TR
104 pp, Full Color
Direct Market On-Sale Date: 8/3


Sonic the Hedgehog #284
SONIC and friends get into some BIG TROUBLE in "Panic in the Sky" Part One: Sonic's Freedom Fighters are finally ready to restore the planet! Unless, of course, someone does even more damage! Cue: the evil Dr. Eggman (of course)! He has a plan of his own and strikes first! The mad doctor launches a multi-pronged assault that will leave you speechless-everything has been building up to this moment! The final chapter to the Shattered World Saga begins here! Featuring the first of four EPIC connecting covers by mega-talent Dan Schoening and an "Evil Win" variant by the wonderful Lamar Wells!

Script: Ian Flynn
Art: Diana Skelly, Terry Austin, John Workman & Gabriel Cassata
Sonic the Hedgehog #284 CVR A Reg: Dan Schoening & Luis Antonio Delgado
Sonic the Hedgehog #284 CVR B Variant: Lamar Wells, Rick Bryant & Matt Herms
On Sale Date: 7/27
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.


Sonic Universe #88
Tougher than leather, it's Knuckles in "Shattered" Part Two: The mysteries deepen and the suspense builds! Amy and Rouge fight for their lives! Omega is out of commission! And Knuckles is lead deep into the heart of the Hidden Palace Zone by the mysterious Nixus! But is this strange newcomer everything he seems to be? Featuring cover art by Sonic comics legend Tracy Yardley and an "& Knuckles" variant by the delightful Diana Skelly!

Script: Ian Flynn
Art: Adam Bryce Thomas, Jim Amash, Jack Morelli and Matt Herms
Sonic Universe #88 CVR A Reg: Tracy Yardley and Matt Herms
Sonic Universe #88 CVR B Variant: Diana Skelly, Rick Bryant and Elaina Unger
On Sale Date: 7/20
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.


World of Archie Comics Digest #61
It's the last weekend of summer and Archie has every intention of making the most out of his final day of freedom before school starts! There's just one problem... The List! Archie's dad gave him a list of chores at the beginning of the summer that he swore would be done before school started. Well, he's out of summer and not a single chore has even been started, so Archie's not going anywhere until he clears that list! Will he complete his chores in time to still have some fun, or will his last day of vacation be a real summer bummer? Find out in "The Endless List of Summer!" the fun lead story to this comics double digest!

Script: Paul Kupperberg
Art: Pat and Tim Kennedy
Cover: Dan Parent, Bob Smith, Rosario "Tito" Peña
On Sale Date: 8/10
160-page, full color comic
$4.99 U.S.

One more B&V variant and they'll run out of alphabet ...

... and not a single Dark Circle title listed ... 

I'm curious to see whether the "exciting" and/or "fun" lead stories in B&V FRIENDS JUMBO COMICS #250 and WORLD OF ARCHIE DOUBLE #61 are new stories, since they didn't specifically mention that, and I have a strange feeling of foreboding. Last month's solicitations contained one digest in which the lead story wasn't described as new, and this month's has two. 

Also, this makes two months in a row that the lead story in BETTY AND VERONICA DOUBLE didn't mention the lead story as an episode of "The Many Loves of Archie Andrews", so it looks like that series was aborted before completing its planned run of 10 episodes. 

I guess maybe they had to spend the money it would have cost for new stories in those two digests or the longer 10-page MLoAA episodes, on paying more artists to do variant covers for B&V. On the other hand, I suppose some people can now breathe a sigh of relief to see that "ALL NEW!" on the covers of the rebooted ARCHIE and JUGHEAD, and rest easy in the assurance that they won't contain any of those annoying time-wasting classic reprints in the back.

Quote from: invisifan on April 19, 2016, 02:03:16 PM
One more B&V variant and they'll run out of alphabet ...

They won't be soliciting any of the RE (Retailer Exclusive) variants, because those don't get general distribution through Diamond, and are all the result of individual retailers making deals with ACP. They don't get letter designations, just "Midtown Comics Exclusive" or whatever the name of the retailer is. But you can be pretty sure that when it comes to adding up ALL of the variant covers, there will be more than 26.

World #61 is re-using a cover from another solicitation a few months (a year?) back.  Also, it seems like they have run out of ideas for what to call the annuals.  Don't get me wrong!  Great idea, but it seems like they are desperate for money/sales at this point.  R.I.P Old DIGEST Format.

It's going be a great summer full of Betty & Veronica. I really like 20 of them. I'm not going by the blank one because of my 6 commissions that I have is enough. Plus Archie #10 -the one with Archie & Betty in the meadow is my favorite & Jughead #8 the one where he looks purple on the moped.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 19, 2016, 02:40:59 PM
I'm curious to see whether the "exciting" and/or "fun" lead stories in B&V FRIENDS JUMBO COMICS #250 and WORLD OF ARCHIE DOUBLE #61 are new stories, since they didn't specifically mention that, and I have a strange feeling of foreboding. Last month's solicitations contained one digest in which the lead story wasn't described as new, and this month's has two. 

Also, this makes two months in a row that the lead story in BETTY AND VERONICA DOUBLE didn't mention the lead story as an episode of "The Many Loves of Archie Andrews", so it looks like that series was aborted before completing its planned run of 10 episodes. 

I guess maybe they had to spend the money it would have cost for new stories in those two digests or the longer 10-page MLoAA episodes, on paying more artists to do variant covers for B&V. On the other hand, I suppose some people can now breathe a sigh of relief to see that "ALL NEW!" on the covers of the rebooted ARCHIE and JUGHEAD, and rest easy in the assurance that they won't contain any of those annoying time-wasting classic reprints in the back.

Boo. I liked the Many Loves of Archie series and even bought 2 copies of most of them. Guess the storyline wasn't helping sales enough.


Glad they are aborting the 40's reprints in the all new Archie and Jughead. Hopefully the main stories are longer now.

Quote from: Colby Jack Cheese on April 19, 2016, 03:57:45 PM
World #61 is re-using a cover from another solicitation a few months (a year?) back.  Also, it seems like they have run out of ideas for what to call the annuals.  Don't get me wrong!  Great idea, but it seems like they are desperate for money/sales at this point.  R.I.P Old DIGEST Format.

The digest Annuals aren't literal Annuals, since they appear in the same digest title more than once a year. They used to run them more than once a year, but just simply call the issue "COMICS ANNUAL". Now at least they are differentiating the Annuals that appear in the same title by a seasonal or holiday theme. I believe the first digest issue to do that was BETTY AND VERONICA HALLOWEEN ANNUAL #237 (which came out back in October 2015), and - apart from BETTY AND VERONICA COMICS ANNUAL #240 (which I guess you could call the real, or "Annual Annual") - since then all of the Annual issues have had some theme -- "Winter Annual", "Spring Annual", "Easter Annual" (well, they can honestly say that there will only be ONE of each of those Annuals every year for each title). It does seem a little weird that we're already seeing a solicitation for a "Back To School Annual" in April, when school won't even let out yet for more than a month, but I guess the Back To School theme is as valid as any season or holiday theme. I don't think they've done a Valentine's Day Annual yet (have they?) but I'm hoping they do one next year. I kind of like the idea that most of the stories in an Annual digest have a common theme, as opposed to the Double or Jumbo Comics digests, that don't, and I'm all for more digest issues with more pages, since as a subscriber, those pages are FREE at no additional charge (the digest subscription rates are always based on the cover prices of the Double Digests).

I'm going to vote for THIS as my favorite Betty & Veronica cover of the month!

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 19, 2016, 02:40:59 PM
On the other hand, I suppose some people can now breathe a sigh of relief to see that "ALL NEW!" on the covers of the rebooted ARCHIE and JUGHEAD, and rest easy in the assurance that they won't contain any of those annoying time-wasting classic reprints in the back.

Haven't Archie and Jughead had "All New!" on their covers since they were relaunched?

Quote from: MLJ 1939 on April 19, 2016, 07:34:49 PM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 19, 2016, 02:40:59 PM
On the other hand, I suppose some people can now breathe a sigh of relief to see that "ALL NEW!" on the covers of the rebooted ARCHIE and JUGHEAD, and rest easy in the assurance that they won't contain any of those annoying time-wasting classic reprints in the back.

Haven't Archie and Jughead had "All New!" on their covers since they were relaunched?

I just checked that, and it turns out you're right (not that I spent much time looking at those earlier covers, I just happened to  notice it this month). Silly me, expecting Archie Comics not to lie!

I guess sticking a real truth-in-advertising-type "MOSTLY NEW!" blurb on the cover wasn't really considered for a moment. Now, if they'd merely chosen to call it "The ALL NEW, ALL DIFFERENT" ARCHIE, then we could reasonably be expected to understand that "all new" was referring to the character, and not the relative vintage of the story content.

Guess I'll just have to wait and see whether I still get to read some classic reprints in the back (actually, that's the only part of ARCHIE that I'm still reading when I borrow a copy).

Quote from: invisifan on April 19, 2016, 02:03:16 PM
One more B&V variant and they'll run out of alphabet ...

... and not a single Dark Circle title listed ... 

There's always numbers and symbols......

Quote from: invisifan on April 19, 2016, 02:03:16 PM
... and not a single Dark Circle title listed ... 

It's always a possibility that the publication of Dark Circle comics was deemed to be of less importance in the allocation of ACP's limited financial resources than the hiring of more artists to draw more variant covers. However, knowing the way ACP's thinking runs of late, I'd probably have to dismiss that possibility as sounding too soundly logical to actually be the case. By which I mean that they're obviously going to be selling more copies of those cover variants than they are of any Dark Circle comic. Hey, don't shoot the messenger -- I'm not buying either of those things, just making an observation.

July will be a good month for me. I will hopefully get Archie #10 where Archie and Betty are laying in the grass. Jughead #8 with Jughead on the motor scooter eating a slice of pizza. Finally the first Betty and Veronica which I really like the boxing theme cover.

Two things on my list for sure. Sabrina TR and Sabrina #6.