New Releases: June 2026

stories by Nathan Cabaniss, Alfredo Castelli, Bill Cunningham, Joseph Gibson, Travis Hiltz, Rick Lai, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Rod McFadyen, William P. Maynard,
Frank Schildiner and Michel Stéphan; edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier based on the character created by Pierre Souvestre & Marcel Allain; cover by Mike Shoyket; US$22.95 - 5x8 tpb, 308 p. 
The Tales of the Shadowmen series aimed at raising awareness of the founding heroes and villains of popular French fiction: journalists, adventurers, detectives, magicians, mad scientists, monsters, superheroes, and super-villains. This volume offers a selection of tales featuring Fantômas, the fearsome criminal created in 1911 by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain. In the seventeen short stories reprinted in this collection, Fantômas celebrates Christmas, discovers the mysteries of the Tarot, and crosses paths with Irma Vep, Diabolik, Kriminal, Harry Dickson, and many more… But is he still the One and Only Lord of Terror? Isn't the Parisian underworld shouting: “Fantômas is dead… Long live Fantômas!”

Art by Vincenzo Chiomenti; adapted by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier; cover by Alfredo Macall; 7x10 squarebound trade paperback, 64 p. b&w, US$12.95.
With this special issue, we commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the character of Ivan Karine, which first appeared in February 1963, under the pen of the great Italian artist Vincenzo Chiomenti. Ivan Karine takes place in 17th century Ukraine and Russia, two vast lands populated by Russians, Tartars, Poles, Ukrainians, Jews, Turks, Romani and Cossacks, all ruled by the Tsars. It is in this exotic setting that its hero, Kochevoy (Captain) Ivan Karine, a Zaporozhian Cossack, seeks to uphold justice and protect the proverbial widows and orphans. Ivan also operates as a secret agent for Tsar Peter the Great (1672-1725). Ably assisted by the gigantic Cossack Piotr Mironov, and the young and ingenious Pavlo Gavrile, he undertakes mission after mission, each one more dangerous than the last, in the service of good.