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Friday, September 5, 2025

First Look: EC Comics’ ‘Outlaw Showdown’ #1 Paints the Town Red in October

Oni Press and EC Comics are proud to present your first look inside EC Outlaw Showdown #1—a 56-page slab of sawdust celebrating revenge and retribution on the lawless frontiers of the Old West, as told in the immortal EC Comics tradition! The first in a new series of super-sized EC Comics genre specials – from prehistoric survival to crime and punishment in epochs far beyond our own – OUTLAW SHOWDOWN #1 is 56 pages of hot lead and cold hearts … so place your wagers before Oni Press and EC Comics paint comic shops everywhere blood red on October 22, 2025!

Gunfighters, scoundrels, butchers, and bandits—they’ll all join us here to draw down on fate itself as coffin-bound creators John Arcudi (B.P.R.D.), Sebastián Cabrol (The Seasons Have Teeth), Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Tony Moore (The Walking Dead), Dan McDaid (Shazam!), and Ann Nocenti (Daredevil), rain hellfire and fury from the holsters on their hip.

Here, for the first time, Oni Press and EC Comics can reveal a peek through the saloon doors to what awaits inside Outlaw Showdown #1 with a sly gander at two surefire-hit stories: “Fire in the Hole” by Eisner Award nominee Tony Moore and “The Cure” by comic legends Ann Nocenti & David Lapham.

Fire In The Hole by Tony Moore

“The Cure” by Ann Nocenti & David Lapham

“THE CURE”

Plus, saddle up for a newly remastered tale from the EC Comics vaults by EC icons Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis. It’s been authentically restored back to the closest possible approximation of its original coloring for the first time in seven decades by colorist Iñaki Azpiazu!

On October 22, 2025, Outlaw Showdown #1 fires on all cylinders with a wanted-dead-or-alive cast of the coldest cover artists this side of the Mississippi, including Lee Bermejo (Joker), Tony Moore (The Walking Dead), Ladrönn (Cable), Shawn McManus (Fables), and Rian Hughes (The Multiversity)! A blood-stained, power-burned milestone in EC history awaits this October, only in Outlaw Showdown #1!