Watch EC Comics’ ‘Summer of Fear’ trailer

Oni Press’ ‘Summer of Fear’ is already in full swing!

June 14, 2025

Oni Press’ EC Comics success continues into the summer with their “Summer of Fear,” and they’ve released a trailer to get folks hyped. The “Summer of Fear” includes Cruel Universe 2, EC Blood Type (read our interview), and EC Catacomb of Torment. The titles will launch in June, July, and August.

June’s BLOOD TYPE #1 is already out and is by Hugo Award nominee Corinna Bechko and Eisner Award winner Andrea Sorrentino; July’s CATACOMB OF TORMENT #1 by John Arcudi, Marguerite Bennett, Dan McDaid, Matt Kindt, David Lapham & more, and August’s CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #1 by J. Holtham, Kano, Ann Nocenti, David Rubín, Greg Smallwood, and more!

Watch the trailer below, which is very Grindhouse about itself.

As an additional treat, Oni has revealed more covers for EC Catacomb of Torment #1; check them out below.

PORTLAND, OR (June 13th, 2025) – MAYHEM, MADNESS, AND MURDER AWAITS! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to unveil your next intoxicating (emphasis on “toxic”) look inside THE SUMMER OF FEAR – the electrifying new slate of series from Oni Press and EC Comics beginning on June 11th in BLOOD TYPE #1 – and continuing all summer long in CATACOMB OF TORMENT #1 and CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #1!

But even grislier still… Look ahead as the all-new EC’s first brazenly bloody ONGOING SERIES twists the knife even deeper in August as CATACOMB OF TORMENT #2 slays into comic shops everywhere! Welcome back to the Tormentor’s lair . . . where each crank of the rack tightens your shackled limbs and brings even more taut tales of mayhem and murder spilling forth like so much viscera! This month: full-blooded writers Matt Bors (Toxic Avenger), Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden), and Jeremy Lambert (Doom Patrol) join steel-nerved artists Kano (Action Comics), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), and Fabiana Mascolo (Catwoman) to navigate the catacombs by torchlight. . . . We hope they can find their way back out, hehehe!

This is EC Comics, not The Ritz hjl;kj l;kj lk. – and THE SUMMER OF FEAR won’t allow you to escape, no matter how hard you try! In addition to feeling the heat, EC Comics and Oni Press will drain your deepest desires with BLOOD TYPE #1 (of 4) – on sale June 11th from Hugo Award nominee Corinna Bechko (Sister Imperator) and Eisner Award winner Andrea Sorrentino (Gideon Falls). And then you’ll also feel the existential dread of a universe that wants you annihilated when CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #1 (of 12) unleashes science-fiction from beyond the void, courtesy of creators Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), J. Holtham (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss), Kano (Immortal Iron Fist), Ann Nocenti (Daredevil), David Rubín (Sherlock Frankenstein), and Greg Pak (Planet Hulk) on August 8th!

EC CATACOMB OF TORMENT #1

WRITTEN BY JOHN ARCUDI, MARGUERITE BENNETT & MATT KINDT

ART BY DAVID LAPHAM, DAN McDAID & PATRICK PIAZZALUNGA

COVER A BY JORGE FORNÉS

COVER B BY TOM FOWLER

FOIL VARIANT ($8.99) BY JORGE FORNÉS

EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY JAY STEPHENS

B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER

ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY PATRICIA MARTÍN

HORROR HOST VARIANT (1:100) BY DUSTIN WEAVER

BLANK SKETCH VARIANT AVAILABLE

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