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Prepare to Bleed, Scream and Beg: CATACOMB OF TORMENT has Arrived!
- The Curator
- May 24
- 3 min read
Enter the Catacomb of Torment: EC Comics Resurrects Terror with a Sadistic New Host and Blood-Soaked Tales You’ll Regret Surviving
Hold onto your skin, creeps, because Oni Press just cracked open the casket and kicked the rotting door of horror wide open. Enter CATACOMB OF TORMENT #1, the screaming first entry in EC’s flesh-ripping, soul-searing SUMMER OF FEAR initiative - and with it, a brand-new horror host is clawing his way into your nightmares: THE TORMENTOR!
He’s part Grand Guignol ghoul, part gym class sadist, and he’s here to lovingly dismantle your fragile psyche one page at a time. If you thought the EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS left a mark, buckle up, buttercup - THE TORMENTOR is making surgical incisions into your comfort zone and digging deep.
“Garden Variety” kicks off the madness with a devilish duet by Matt Kindt (BRZRKR) and David Lapham (Stray Bullets), just one of three all-new, all-horrific tales waiting to flay your expectations alive. Alongside them in the torture chamber? John Arcudi (B.P.R.D.) & Patrick Piazzalunga (Those Not Afraid), and Marguerite Bennett (Batwoman) & Dan McDaid (Shazam!) - each bringing blood-soaked brilliance to this 40-page creepshow carnival of sadism and storytelling.
BONUS GORE: A classic EC gem - fully remastered, color-saturated, and ready to rot your brainpan - is exhumed from the vaults and stitched into this issue like a corpse’s extra limb.
Critics are already moaning: “This is literal torture” and “Please make it stop!” Which of course means it’s working.
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And the covers? Oh man, the covers. We’re talking a mausoleum’s worth of drool-worthy variants:
Jorge Fornés (Rorschach) delivers the main course.
Tom Fowler (MAD Magazine) serves up chaos with sides of insanity.
Jay Stephens, Patricia Martín, Dustin Weaver - each contributing nightmare fuel so potent it should come with a Surgeon General's warning.
Also: foil, homage, B&W artist editions, blank sketch variants, and one horror host variant so depraved you’ll hear it whispering to you at night.
So come one, come all - step inside CATACOMB OF TORMENT and lose your head. Maybe literally.
CATACOMB OF TORMENT #1 hits comic shops like a bloody axe on July 16th, 2025. Don’t miss the debut of the Tormentor - he’s not just a host… he’s your new obsession.
EC CATACOMB OF TORMENT #1
Writers: John Arcudi, Marguerite Bennett & Matt Kindt
Artists: David Lapham, Dan McDaid & Patrick Piazzalunga
Cover A: Jorge Fornés
Cover B: Tom Fowler
Variants Include:
Foil ($8.99): Jorge Fornés
EC Homage (1:10): Jay Stephens
B&W Artist Edition (1:20): Tom Fowler
Archive Edition (1:50): Patricia Martín
Horror Host Variant (1:100): Dustin Weaver
Blank Sketch Variant: Available for your deranged doodles
On Sale: July 16, 2025
Price: $4.99 | 40 Pages | Full Color
Initial Order Cutoff (IOC): 5/22/2025
Final Order Cutoff (FOC): 6/23/2025
Preview Art
Variant Covers
Are you brave enough to crack open this crimson-soaked coffin of chaos?
If you grew up on a steady diet of Tales from the Crypt, worship at the altar of Creepshow, or still have nightmares from reading Stray Bullets under the covers, this one’s got your name carved into a slab. Hardcore horror heads, twisted anthology junkies, and anyone who thinks their pull list could use a little more viscera - you’re on notice.
EC fans, Kindt completists, and sadistic art fiends: the Catacomb of Torment is calling. Question is… are you sick enough to answer?
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