EC Catacomb of Torment (2025)

BEHOLD: A BLOODY NEW ONGOING SERIES! Out of the ashes of EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS, we usher THE TORMENTOR-a new horror host with an unhealthy interest in human anatomy-into the shadow-strewn halls of EC Comics history for our next monthly horror anthology! Hold onto your head (if it's still attached) . . . because no one escapes THE CATACOMB OF TORMENT! For Her Royal Travesty of Pain's first request: Master storytellers John Arcudi (B.P.R.D.) & Ton?i Zonji? (Black Hammer: Skulldigger & Skeleton Boy), Matt Kindt (BRZRKR) & David Lapham (Stray Bullets), and Marguerite Bennett (Batwoman) & Dan McDaid (Shazam!) each take turns manning the rack and turning the red-hot irons for three all-new and blisteringly brutal tales of mayhem and malice in the undying EC tradition! Plus, as an added bonus: A surprise classic from the EC vaults, painstakingly remastered and newly restored to its original coloring. The critics are already saying, "This is literal torture" and "Please make it stop!" Pick up this fearful 40-PAGE FIRST ISSUE-and the Tormentor might just consider letting them go!

EC'S BLOODY NEW ONGOING SERIES TWISTS THE KNIFE AS THE SUMMER OF FEAR CONTINUES! 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!

WHEN WE SAY IT'S TIME TO 'FEAST YOUR EYES' UPON A NEW CHAPTER OF EC COMICS' BLOODY NEW HORROR SERIES, WE MEAN IT-LITERALLY! (Wait, you only brought two? Not very polite!) Breathe deep and realize: Yes, this is really happening as adamantly anti-anesthesia writers Ryan Haddock (The Brothers Flick), J. Holtham (Hulu's A Handmaid's Tale), and Joanne Starer (Fire & Ice) join our brutally beloved host, the Tormentor, to visit violently vivid vivisections upon our agonizing artists Valeria Burzo (EC's Epitaphs from the Abyss), Sami Kivelä (Abbott), and Christopher Mitten (Hellboy & The B.P.R.D.)! Hurry, these tales of fear and frightful persecution are fresher than the bludgeoned corpses in your quiet neighbor's basement! Don't keep the Tormentor waiting!

TERROR! TORTURE! FEAR! MAYHEM! After all, this comic is called CATACOMB OF TORMENT—what did you expect, kittens?!Yes, yes, bite down hard and await the inevitable, because there is no escape and it’s too late—MUCH, MUCH TOO LATE—as our host, the Tormentor, carefully positions the scalpels of acutely accurate writers John Arcudi (B.P.R.D), Patricia A. Jackson (Star Wars: Tales from the Empire), and Amy Roy (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss) above your splayed ribcage with the assistance of mangle-minded artists Shawn Martinbrough (Thief of Thieves), Fabiana Mascolo (Catwoman), and Shawn McManus (Fables)!A murder mystery with extra-added murder, a seamstress seeking sartorial revenge, and a gardener taking the pruning shears to an extra-bloody bloom . . . Despair ye not, because EC Comic’s brutally entertaining monthly horror anthology is just getting warmed up!

Feeling the rusty shears of eager anticipation as they coarsely cut away your tendons of dread? You’ve come to the right place . . . because EC Comics is serving another tortuous session of frightful delights with the CATACOMB OF TORMENT!Prepare to be mortified—literally—as manacled writers Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden), and Paul Tobin (The Witcher) are forced to turn the crank and twist the tension-wracked fingertips of artists PJ Holden (2000 AD), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), and Dan McDaid (Epitaphs from the Abyss) into blood-spattered spectacle! Sound like fun? Our beloved host, the Tormentor, sure thinks so!

Feeling a chill up your spine? Nay, friend, that’s no gust of winter air . . . it’s merely the Tormentor’s rusty testing needle probing for a warm vertebrae to call home! So sit back, relax, and scream relentlessly into the void as we welcome you back to our horrific hostess’s Catacomb of Torment—where every new story will leave you in stitches! On this month’s menu: A frantic feast of fatal delights, as prepared with loving care by the toxic talents of writers Dave Baker (Mary Tyler MooreHawk), Matt Bors (The Toxic Avenger), and Rachel Werner (The Glam World Tour), and artists Justin Greenwood (Immortal Thor), Shawn McManus (Fables), and Claire Roe (Batgirl)! Once you’re done, remember to save room for another helping—poison always spoils on the second day, so we need to use it while it’s still good!

Happy Ghoul Year! Any resolutions? HOW ABOUT READING MORE EC COMICS?! You’re in luck—the Tormentor has been saving a blood-drenched new issue of CATACOMB OF TORMENT just for you!  The centerpiece of this month’s joyously depraved New Year’s revelry: Join writers Meghan Fitzmartin (Tim Drake: Robin), Sarah Gailey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and Greg Pak (World War Hulk) as they raise—and drop!—the guillotine on their terrifyingly talented artistic collaborators, including Eric Battle (Hardware), Tom Fowler (The Books of Magic), and Sami Kivela (Abbott)!  Heads will roll! (That’s what we were hoping for, heh heh!)

Is winter's woe upon thee? Come on into the CATACOMB OF TORMENT—where our horrific hostess, the Tormentor, always keeps the pyre roaring! Take sickly comfort in three bloody new tales of miserable merriment in the immortal EC Comics mold—hauled out from the depths of the Tormentor's catacomb and fiendishly stitched together by caustic creators Rafael Scavone (Hit-Girl) & Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire), Paul Tobin (The Witcher) & Arjuna Susini (Lamentation), and Robert Menegus (Necromancer Bill) & Valeria Burzo (High Strangeness)! Winter may be coming to an end, but EC Comics NEVER DIE!

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CORPSES! Welcome back to the endless maze of the Tormentor’s catacombs . . . where the flesh is freshly flayed and the worst is always yet to come! In the malevolent EC Comics manner, breathe in that acrid stench and prepare for three ribcage-thrumming tales of trepidation wrought from the gaping maws of our latest victims . . . ahem, contributors: Celeste Bronfman (Star Trek, My Little Pony), Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Dead Teenagers, Be Not Afraid), Malachi Ward (Black Hammer Reborn), and more! Plus: A malicious milestone only in this issue: 11-time Bram Stoker Award winner, horror maestro, and certified comics legend Joe R. Lansdale (Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo, Batman: The Animated Series) makes his long-awaited EC Comics debut!

Welcome back to the Tormentor’s catacomb—it’s been torture waiting for you!  This month, we proudly welcome a colorful (well, mostly red) cast of creators to spin yards of raw intestine into three putridly powerful tales of mayhem and malice in the malevolent EC Comics manner: Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden), J. Holtham (The Horizon Experiment), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), Brian Level (Poison Ivy), Andrea Sorrentino (Joker: Killer Smile), and more! Do you have the GUTS to withstand what’s coming next? Lay down on that cold slab and let’s find out! Don’t worry . . . this will hurt A LOT!

OH NO? OH YES! IT'S A SINEW-SNAPPING EC ORIGIN SPECTACULAR! EC's very own Mistress of Malice, the Tormentor, finally takes center stage to reveal her hopes ("to see your bone marrow!"), dreams ("slathering you in scalding oil!"), and aspirations ("finding excruciating new ways of using the ball peen hammer!") in this VERY SPECIAL and EXTRA BLOODY tale of who she is and how she came to be! Join us for an "all-scar" celebration of Her Royal Majesty of Pain as modern EC Comics master Dustin Weaver (Avengers, Paklis) dons his bloody red pen to write and illustrate this magnificently malignant chapter in Horror Host history! Plus: More new tortuous tales from the depths of the Tormentor's catacomb await, courtesy of fiendishly minded creators Matt Bors (The Toxic Avenger), Liam Johnson (Armitage), Arjuna Susini (Lamentation), and more!  Don't miss our most devilish ish yet—or she'll leave you for last!

The summer is swelterin' . . . .and so are you as the Tormentor stokes the flames underneath your roasting spit with a callous cackle! Welcome back to the Catacomb of Torment . . . where our favorite thing to bring to the neighborhood cookout is YOU! First up: Comics masters David & Maria Lapham (Stray Bullets) carve off a flank of depraved intensity with an all-new tale of macabre mortality and modern dance (shudders) in their EC Comics writing debut! Then: dangerously depraved storytellers J. Holtham (Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale), David Rubín (Space Scouts), and Alex Segura (Star Wars: Battle of Jakku) serve up a second and third helping of snapping ligaments and prolonged suspense with brand-new tales of terror! More, please!

EC COMICS NEVER DIES . . . AND NEITHER DOES THE TORMENTOR'S THIRST FOR PUNISHMENT! Summertime is here, kids, and EC's beloved Mistress of Malice is throwing a whole new array of goodies onto the grill . . . where they're all still alive and wriggling! Let's feast on the charred bits of succulent writers Liam Johnson (2000 AD), Andrew Wheeler (Sins of the Black Flamingo), and Allen Wu (Shentu) and pair them with the delectable remnants of artists Sebastián Cabrol (The Seasons Have Teeth), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), and more. And, who knows, even if they survive, there's more fun to be had with them in the catacombs yet! (Choke!)