DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH (2020)

"SERIES PREMIERE! Cole Turner has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn't prepared for what happens when he discovers that all of them are true, from the JFK assassination to flat Earth theory and reptilian shapeshifters. One organization has been covering them up for generations. What is the deep, dark secret behind the Department of Truth? Bestselling writer JAMES TYNION IV (Batman, Something is Killing the Children) debuts his first Image ONGOING SERIES alongside breakout artist MARTIN SIMMONDS (Dying is Easy)!"

"COLE TURNER has spent most of his life suppressing false memories of Satanic ritual abuse at his preschool. Now, he's the newest recruit of the Department of Truth and he just found out those false memories might be truer than he thinks. JAMES TYNION IV (Batman, Something is Killing the Children) & MARTIN SIMMONDS (Dying is Easy) continue their breakout conspiracy thriller!"

"Mary never knew what 'false flag' or 'crisis actor' meant, until her son was murdered in a mass shooting, and the threats and accusations began. But as her reality starts to bend around her, it's the job of the Department of Truth to keep these dark conspiracies from coming true at any cost. JAMES TYNION IV (Batman) & MARTIN SIMMONDS (Dying is Easy) continue their breakout thriller."

"How can a journalist ethically report on a story that they know can't possibly be true? As packages with proof of impossible stories keep arriving on one reporter's doorstop, sent by a mysterious entity known only as Q, one reporter must find the answer themselves. JAMES TYNION IV (Something is Killing the Children) & MARTIN SIMMONDS (Dying is Easy) send the Department of Truth after the Fourth Estate."

WHAT is Black Hat? WHO is the mysterious man pulling its strings? WHY is he in Cole Turner's apartment? The first arc of the smash-hit new series from JAMES TYNION IV (Batman) & MARTIN SIMMONDS (Dying is Easy) comes to a dramatic conclusion, as Cole questions whether or not he's on the right side of the War for the Truth!

Acclaimed artist ELSA CHARRETIER (NOVEMBER) joins JAMES TYNION IV (Batman) and THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH to uncover the deep tangled roots of the Department of Truth - roots that stretch as far back as the Middle Ages. What is the Inquisition? Who are the Illuminati? And what is the truth behind the Phantom Time Hypothesis?

It's another deep dive into the Secret Archives as guest artist TYLER BOSS (4 Kids Walk Into a Bank) joins JAMES TYNION IV (Batman) and THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH to investigate sightings of flying saucers...and the strange men in black suits trying to cover up their existence. Hold onto your cows-the truth is out there!

"NEW STORY ARC! Cole Turner thought he joined the right side of the war for the Truth. But now that he's learning more about Lee Harvey Oswald's tenure leading the Department, he's not so sure. The answers Cole seeks are hidden behind a pair of unsolvable riddles: WHO is the Fictional Woman, and WHAT does she want from him? The second arc of the smash-hit THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH begins here!"

Cole Turner has seen firsthand the horrifying ways collective belief shapes the world and how theories can manifest and take physical form... but what happens when those thought forms start to have thoughts - and desires - of their own? What truths about Tulpas lay at the heart of the Tibetan Book of the Dead?

Some fictions manifest in reality as dangerous, half-formed things. The Department of Truth relies on hunters to track down and contain these wild tulpas before they become too real. It's time for Cole Turner to see this side of the job firsthand. It's time for Cole Turner to join his first Bigfoot hunt.

The rules of reality start to bend in the presence of Wild Fictions. That's why it's Darla's job to hunt down so-called cryptids before belief in them can spread. And if you're an innocent bystander caught in the crosshairs... Well, the Department of Truth doesn't leave loose ends.

America was built on a lie that's never quite come true. The cracks in that idealistic vision have inspired dangerous people to do horrible things in the name of an America that's never really existed. Hawk Harrison knows the genuine story of this country, and he's ready to give Cole Turner a history lesson.

END OF STORY ARC Thirty years ago, Cole Turner dreamed up a Star-Faced Man who ate children in the basement of his preschool. Today, Cole is going to make sure that nightmare can never haunt another kid. The second arc of the smash-hit THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH ends here with a revelation that turns the series upside down!

In 1946, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and eccentric rocket scientist Jack Parsons performed a series of rituals to summon a divine feminine being. Her name was Babalon. She was dressed all in... RED. Eisner winner JOHN J. PEARSON (BLUE IN GREEN) joins THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH for an occult blast from the past.

Back in 1967, the Department of Truth went out to West Virginia and tried to create a tulpa of its own. Forty-six people died in the aftermath. Fan-favorite illustrator DAVID ROMERO (Razorblades: The Horror Magazine) joins Eisner Award-winning writer JAMES TYNION IV to reveal the true origin...of Mothman.

Turn on, tune in, and drop out as ALISON SAMPSON (HIT-GIRL IN INDIA) enlists with the Department of Truth for a mind-altering dive into designer hallucinogens, MKUltra, and Lee Harvey Oswald's true motivations behind unlocking the hidden power of the human mind. The Eisner-nominated series continues its history-shattering guest arc here!

END OF STORY ARC The third arc of Eisner-nominated THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH concludes here, as breakout star JORGE FORNES (Rorschach) joins the team to reveal the long-awaited secrets behind one of the biggest conspiracy theories of all time. Strap in, folks: Richard Nixon has a moon landing to fake.

NEW STORY ARC Co-creator MARTIN SIMMONDS returns for the explosive new arc of the Eisner-nominated hit! For decades, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH battled a secret war against its Soviet counterpart, THE MINISTRY OF LIES. Now Cole Turner will have to face the consequences of his predecessors as the dark actions of the past unfurl before him...

One of the Department of Truth's greatest rivals lay dead in America's capital, and all signs point to Black Hat as the culprit. To uncover the truth, Cole Turner must decipher the hidden history of...the Ministry of Lies.

Cole Turner has come face to face with many horrors since enlisting with the Department of Truth. But as he learns more and more about the long-simmering war between the DoT and the Ministry of Lies, he must grapple with the greatest horror of all: that he may have pledged allegiance to the wrong side.

Cole Turner's loyalties to the Department of Truth have been tested time and again. Now that a mysterious murder threatens to turn a Cold War into an all-out conflict, those loyalties may finally reach their breaking point...

END OF STORY ARC The Department of Truth recruited him. Black Hat tried to flip him. A monster from his childhood came to life to torment him. Cole Turner has been pushed past his limit, and now that his husband's been dragged into this secret war, he's about to break. The most devastating arc yet of the Eisner-nominated series comes to its shocking conclusion!

New Story Arc. The Eisner-Nominated series returns! Confronted with an enemy intent on exposing their secrets to the world, the Department of Truth makes a shocking choice-go public first. But to understand Lee Harvey Oswald's risky gambit, we have to return to where it all started: Dallas, 1963, as President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed the grassy knoll... Multiple Eisner-winning writer James Tynion IV and acclaimed artist Martin Simmonds bring their celebrated series back from hiatus with the bang heard around the world!

Before Lee Harvey Oswald took his fateful place in the window of the Texas Book Depository, he spent time behind the Iron Curtain. This is fact. But he wasn't just a sympathizer-he was on a secret mission to infiltrate the Soviet Ministry of Lies. This is Truth.

Since the very first page of Department of Truth, questions have swirled around Lee Harvey Oswald, the director of the DoT-his motivations, his allegiances, and his true identity. Now, in our landmark 25th issue, prepare for answers that will change everything. Starting with... what really happened in Dallas? James Tynion IV (W0RLDTR33, Nice House on the Lake) and Martin Simmonds (Universal Monsters: Dracula) set their sights on a 25th-issue blowout for the multiple Eisner Award-nominated series!

Huck was the first hunter the Department of Truth ever recruited, tasked with tracking and killing the strange creatures known as Wild Fictions. But in 1962, amongst the sun-baked backlots of Hollywood, Huck came face to face with the strangest creature of them all-Marilyn Monroe. Acclaimed artist Alison Sampson returns for a uniquely American tragedy.

"Happy birthday, Mr. President..." Norma Jeane Mortenson wanted to be famous. What she got was so much more than that. Now she doesn't know where the real Marilyn Monroe ends and the fiction enshrined in the modern American pantheon begins. And that's very, very dangerous-especially when she's face to face with the Department of Truth's very first Wild Fiction hunter.

New Story Arc. For the first time since the Department of Truth was founded, its highest official just revealed the whole, sordid history to a journalist-a journalist who happens to be Cole's husband. Can their relationship survive the cold, hard facts? And will it all be for nothing once Black Hat mounts their counter-offensive to the DoT's riskiest gamble yet?

Matty’s employees in the Washington Post newsroom have heard—and dismissed—more than their share of outlandish conspiracy theories. But what happens when a conspiracy linking every shadowy event in American history is laid out on their doorstep…with proof? And what does Black Hat have to do with it?

Fact: Martin Barker is the most dangerous man in America. Fact: Martin Barker is always two steps ahead of his opponents. Fact: As the Department of Truth makes a desperate play to preserve its existence, Martin Barker is about to change the face of the country forever.

'Beward the Hat Man.' High school outcast Frank is addicted to finding the darkest corners of the internet. But now those dark corners are reaching through the screen with very long fingers and very sharp teeth. Learn the origin of the Department's haunted hacker in a two-part Deviation with guest art by Letizia Cadonici (House of Slaughter)!

A missing girl. A monster that can’t exist. Government agents dressed all in black. Linking them all is Frank, a teenage hacker racing against the clock to solve this impossible puzzle before her world shatters around her. She just has one crucial thing to remember: whatever you do, don’t think about the Hat Man.

END OF STORY ARC Frank is desperate to find the Hat Man in the hopes of saving her friend. But the more people who believe in the Hat Man…the more real he becomes. Which means the Department of Truth needs to stop Frank before she unwittingly spreads a viral Wild Fiction they can’t possibly contain. The fallout of this confrontation will change the course of Frank’s life—and the Department—forever. The horrifying guest arc with art by LETIZIA CADONICI (House of Slaughter) and JORDIE BELLAIRE (W0RLDTR33) concludes here!

Cole Turner had a plan to fix everything. That was before a dangerous new regime seized the reins of the DoT. Now, he’s on the run—and he may have nowhere left to turn except for Black Hat, the counter-agency that’s been trying to recruit him since the very beginning… Also in this issue: acclaimed guest creators Scott Snyder and Joshua Hixson continue their Elvis epic!

Lee Harvey Oswald has unleashed the Department of Truth’s most unhinged agents to bring in Cole Turner by any means necessary. Caged in by nightmares from all sides, Cole chooses the devil he knows. Cole chooses the Star-Faced Man. Also in this issue: superstar creators Scott Snyder and Joshua Hixson conclude their history-making Elvis epic!

Legendary artist BEN TEMPLESMITH (30 Days of Night) joins **THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH **for a NEW STORY ARC! In the early '90s, cable TV is king—and something ancient is watching from the static. Only Hunky, the reclusive son of the field office’s very first hunter, takes its threat seriously. And when Hunky notices primordial evil brewing at an evangelical theme park in the Florida Everglades, he may be the only one who can save the beautiful young woman named Charity caught in the middle of it all… Don’t miss THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH’s most savage story arc yet, as only TYNION and TEMPLESMITH can tell it!

Charity is a true believer. She follows the gospel of her Evangelical super-church, which preaches that man once shared the Earth with dinosaurs… dinosaurs that her congregation believe might still exist. And belief can be a hungry, bloodthirsty beast. Charity has always trusted in salvation—she just never expected it to come in the form of an overweight, atheist computer nerd named Hunky. Guest artist BEN TEMPLESMITH (FELL, 30 Days of Night) continues to tear through THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH’s most unexpected arc ever!

Huck did his best to train his son, Hunky, to follow in his footsteps as a field agent. He failed. Now, Hunky is all that stands between an innocent girl named Charity and certain death between the jaws of living dinosaurs. Uncover the origins of the DoT’s most ruthless member as legendary guest artist Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night) concludes the series’ most brutal arc to date!