SilverHawks #9
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSilverHawks #9 is the penultimate chapter of the first comic book revival of the Rankin/Bass SilverHawks property in decades, arriving at the dramatic climax of Ed Brisson and George Kambadais's ten-issue run. The issue pivots the series from its police-procedural framework into full-scale galaxy-threatening stakes, forcing Stargazer to confront the moral and tactical impossibility of allying with arch-villain Mon*Star against a common invader — a thematic escalation that distinguishes this revival from the episodic cartoon source material. As the story engine that drives directly into the series finale and then the larger ThunderCats X SilverHawks crossover event, issue #9 is the narrative hinge where Brisson's long-seeded 'looming cosmic mob war' premise pays off. It also represents the final full issue in which the Dynamite SilverHawks operate as a standalone franchise, before their world permanently merges with ThunderCats in Dynamite's shared ThunderVerse.
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The series was announced at New York Comic Con 2024 as part of Dynamite Entertainment's expanding Warner Bros. Discovery licensed ThunderVerse, following the commercial breakout success of their ThunderCats revival launched the prior year. Writer Ed Brisson, a self-described lifelong SilverHawks fan, actively lobbied editor Nate Cosby for the assignment after contributing to the ThunderCats: Apex one-shot, and was paired with artist George Kambadais, who had previously drawn Dynamite's Gargoyles series. The creative team approached the property as a grounded police procedural — explicitly invoking the Law & Order model — rather than replicating the cartoon's episodic monster-of-the-week structure, building toward an overarching cosmic conflict across all ten issues. Issue #9 falls within that architecture as the penultimate chapter, released in October 2025 amid ongoing retail distribution disruptions affecting Dynamite's release schedule.
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- Written by Ed Brisson with interior art by George Kambadais — the series' regular creative team throughout all ten issues.
- Solicited for September 24, 2025; actual in-shop release recorded as October 22, 2025 (discrepancy attributed to Dynamite distribution delays following Diamond Comics Distributors' Chapter 11 bankruptcy disruptions).
- Cover A is by Jae Lee & June Chung; additional covers by Cat Staggs, Alessandro Ranaldi, Drew Moss, George Kambadais, and Manix, with a 1:10 retailer incentive Battle Damage variant by David Cousens.
- Issue #9 is the penultimate issue of the 10-issue run; the series' conclusion set the stage for the ThunderCats X SilverHawks crossover event (beginning March–April 2026).
- The series is part of Dynamite's 'ThunderVerse' — a shared publishing universe formally incorporating both ThunderCats and SilverHawks under one editorial umbrella, with the two franchises' comic histories finally converging after the original Rankin/Bass animated series never produced an official crossover.
- The Bedlama people and the invading threat introduced in issue #9 represent original comic-exclusive world-building by Brisson, with no direct counterpart in the 1986–1987 animated series.
- No new character first appearances specific to issue #9 have been documented across key-issue tracking databases; the major new character debut from Brisson's SilverHawks run (Chromium) occurs in the subsequent ThunderCats X SilverHawks: Road to War one-shot (2026).
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