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#NCBD 10/9/19: HCF's 5 Comics for New Comic Book Day!

Every Wednesday is New Comic Book Day (#NCBD) in comic book shops, where new comics release hit the shelves of comic book shops for eager fans to pick up and purchase.

We've highlighted five comics that are perfect recommendations for any Halloween ComicFest fan looking to get into spookier, Halloween-like comics!

In this week's list, for books coming out 10/9/19, there is something spooky for everyone: The World's Greatest Detective must try to inhabit the mind of a murder victim in Batman's Grave, the first event of the all-new Buffy universe starts in Hellmouth, and more!

What will you be picking up this week? Let us know over Facebook or Twitter!

DC COMICS
BATMANS GRAVE #1 (OF 12)
(W) Warren Ellis (A) Kevin Nowland (A/CA) Bryan Hitch
The World's Greatest Detective must try to inhabit the mind of a murder victim to solve a case-without filling the empty grave next to those of his parents. Can Batman imagine the life of a corpse with a half-eaten face without dying himself?
Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, one of the most legendary creative partnerships of the modern age, reunite in this maxiseries about life, death and the questions most are too afraid to ask.
In Shops: Oct 09, 2019
SRP: $3.99
DC PREVIEWS Page #6
BOOM! STUDIOS
BUFFY VAMPIRE SLAYER ANGEL HELLMOUTH #1 CVR A FRISON
(W) Jordie Bellaire, Jeremy Lambert (A) Eleonora Carlini (CA) Jenny Frison
THE FIRST EVENT OF THE ALL-NEW BUFFY UNIVERSE STARTS HERE!
* Buffy Summers, the Slayer, has one job... keep the forces of hell from coming to Earth through, uh, Hellmouth. Here's the bad news.she might have failed.
* The Mistress Drusilla and her ally, Spike, have found a weapon to open the Hellmouth and unleash unspeakable evil across the town and the world.
* With time running out, Buffy must team up with a new ally that she doesn 't fully trust.the vampire
vigilante known as Angel! Can these two find a way to work together before the Hellmouth opens - or these two decide they might be each other's greatest enemy?
* From Eisner Award-nominated writer Jordie Bellaire and rising star Jeremy Lambert ( Doom Patrol ) and Eleonora Carlini ( Saban 's Go Go Power Rangers ) comes the first massive event of the Buffyverse.one that threatens to shake the entire fabric of reality. This is an absolute must read from the mind of creator Joss Whedon!
In Shops: Oct 09, 2019
SRP: $3.99
PREVIEWS Page #218
IDW PUBLISHING
GHOSTS CLASSIC MONSTERS OF PRE-CODE HORROR COMICS TP
(A) Alex Toth, Jon Blummer, Sid Check, Lin Streeter, Ross Andru, Lou Cameron, King Ward (CA) Al Avison
From the terror team that curdled your blood with Haunted Horror, Zombies, Return of the Zombies, Haunted Love, Swamp Monsters, and Mummies, Ghosts is the latest and ghastly greatest in the Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror comics collections. Over 128 pages of appalling apparitions, formidable phantoms, shuddery seances, shivery spooks 'n specters, and evil wraiths with much more than just revenge on their murdered minds!

Advance solicited for October.
In Shops: Oct 09, 2019
SRP: $24.99
PREVIEWS Page #164
AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY PRODUCTIONS
VICTOR CROWLEY HATCHET HALLOWEEN TALES #1 (MR)
(W) James Kuhoric, S.A. Check, Jason Pell (A) Cyrus Mesarcia, Puis Calzada (CA) Roy Allen Martinez
Spend Halloween with three creepy tales from Honey Island Swamp! Novelist SA Check (Volcanosaurus) delivers the doomed destiny of a circus troupe attempting to add Victor Crowley to their freakshow. In "Following," writer Jason Pell (Beware the Witch's Shadow) shows us that heartbreak can lead to a fatal outcome. And in "Patchwork," horror author James Kuhoric (Freddy vs Jason vs Ash) delivers a Halloween monster mash of bloody revenge. Plus - a horrific bonus - enjoy several holiday themed pages to give horror fabs a bloody bit of holiday entertainment in the gory Hatchet vein! Victor Crowley's Hatchet Halloween Tales #1 is available with three covers - Main Cover by Roy Allan Martinez, Bonk Movie Parody Variant, and Deluxe Limited Edition Hatchet 1/350 Bloody Horror Cvr also by Martinez!
In Shops: Oct 09, 2019
SRP: $3.99
PREVIEWS Page #276
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS
JUGHEAD HUNGER VS VAMPIRONICA #5 CVR A PAT & TIM KENNEDY (MR
(W) Frank Tieri (A) Pat & Tim Kennedy (CA) Pat Kennedy, Tim Kennedy
This is it! The world-shattering conclusion to the epic horror crossover event of the year! Will Jughead and Vampironica succeed in setting everything right between their respective realities- or will the army of blood suckers reign on Riverdale forever?
In Shops: Oct 09, 2019
SRP: $3.99
PREVIEWS Page #285

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