The Graveyard Club: Fresh Blood #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe Graveyard Club: Fresh Blood #1 represents R.L. Stine's continued — and deepening — experiment with the long-form comics medium, building a sustained YA horror universe at BOOM! Studios across back-to-back graphic novel arcs rather than the episodic chapter-book format that made him famous. As the launch issue of the second arc, it marks a meaningful structural commitment by both Stine and BOOM! to serialized, continuity-driven storytelling pitched squarely at teen readers — a demographic the direct-market comic shop channel has long struggled to cultivate. Critically, the issue also arrives as part of BOOM!'s 20th Anniversary publishing slate, embedding it in a milestone moment for one of the industry's most creatively ambitious independent imprints. The series' dual simultaneous release through comic shops and bookstores continues to model a hybrid distribution approach that many publishers are watching closely as a template for reaching YA graphic-novel readers outside the traditional hobby-shop pipeline.
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The Graveyard Club originated when BOOM! Studios approached Stine — fresh off his adult horror work on Stuff of Nightmares — to develop an original YA-targeted comic series, marking his third creator-owned project for the publisher after Just Beyond and Stuff of Nightmares. The original Graveyard Club #1 debuted in September 2024, timed deliberately to the Halloween season, with the full creative team of Stine, Rome-based artist Carola Borelli, colorists Francesco Segala and Gloria Martinelli, and letterer Jim Campbell. Fresh Blood #1 follows directly from that first arc, with BOOM! VP of Editorial and Creative Strategy Bryce Carlson having championed the project internally, describing Borelli as bringing 'an incredible artistic dynamic' that balanced the series' dual registers of grounded teen drama and mounting supernatural dread. Borelli, who had previously worked with IDW, Image Comics, Archie Comics, and Marvel before joining the BOOM! imprint, served as both illustrator and the visual architect of Graves End's gothic atmosphere across both arcs.
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- Published by BOOM! Studios; released April 30, 2025 in comic shops (April 15, 2025 in bookstores), with simultaneous digital availability via Kindle, iBooks, and Google Play.
- Written and created by R.L. Stine — his third original comic series at BOOM! Studios after Just Beyond and Stuff of Nightmares — with art by Carola Borelli, colors by Francesco Segala with Gloria Martinelli, and lettering by Jim Campbell.
- Serves as the opening issue of the second arc of The Graveyard Club, continuing the story of Parker West, Patti, Trip, and Rhonda in the supernatural small town of Graves End.
- The central mystery involves the disappearance of Parker and Rhonda's fathers, last seen at a poker game at a location known as the Dockside Inn — a thread that carries over and escalates from the first arc.
- The issue runs 96 pages, published under BOOM!'s core imprint, positioned editorially for readers ages 13–17.
- Nine cover variants were produced for the issue: the main cover (A) by Miguel Mercado, Cover B by Dan Mora, Cover C a special BOOM! 20th Anniversary variant by Mercado, Cover E and H by Tula Lotay, Cover G by Zu Orzu (at a 1:25 ratio), and additional full-art and virgin versions of several covers.
- The issue was selected as one of Comics Bulletin's five standout BOOM! Studios comics of 2025, cited for its gothic atmosphere, psychological suspense, and Stine's signature blending of relatable teen drama with escalating horror.
- The series uses a dual-channel bookstore-and-comic-shop release model, continuing BOOM!'s strategy of pursuing the YA graphic novel readership alongside the direct-market audience.
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