Cover: E. M. Gist

Werewolf by Night: Red Band #1

Oct 2024 · Marvel · 4.99 USD

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About this Issue

Werewolf by Night: Red Band #1 holds a genuine place in Marvel publishing history as the first ongoing solo series produced exclusively under the publisher's then-new Red Band label — a mature-content, polybagged format that had debuted only months earlier with the Blood Hunt event. Where Blood Hunt offered the Red Band treatment as an alternate edition alongside a standard version, this series existed solely in the mature format, making it the first Marvel ongoing title conceived and executed from the ground up for an adult-only readership. The issue also kicks off a sustained post-Blood Hunt arc for Jack Russell that explicitly resets his fifty-year journey toward self-control, returning him to a state of dangerous, uncontrollable lycanthropy and positioning Elsa Bloodstone as both foil and reluctant keeper — a dynamic new for the pair. Two new characters, the content-creator streamer Ghost Ryoshi and Darkholder faction leader Elder Dorgana, debut here and carry thread-lines forward across the run.

writer Jason Loo · artist Sergio Dávila · inker Jay Leisten · inker JP Mayer · inker Craig Yeung · colorist Alex Sinclair · letterer VC's Joe Sabino · cover E. M. Gist

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History

Writer Jason Loo had been building his relationship with the character through the Werewolf by Night: Blood Hunt one-shot (also 2024) before being handed the ongoing assignment; Marvel editor Devin Lewis and associate editor Lauren Amaro shepherded the project and, by Loo's own account, actively encouraged him to push the content's intensity rather than pull back. Artist Sergio Dávila, whose prior Marvel credits included Venom and Thor, was paired with a trio of inkers — Jay Leisten, J.P. Mayer, and Craig Yeung — and colorist Alex Sinclair to execute the book's gore-forward visual register. The cover was provided by E.M. Gist, who served as the series' consistent cover artist, and the issue shipped on August 14, 2024 with a Parental Advisory label and polybag as standard presentation for the line.

Trivia · 8 facts

First appearance of Ghost Ryoshi (a content-creator/streamer character who opens the issue by intruding on Jack Russell's castle in the Colorado Rockies).
First appearance of Elder Dorgana, a Darkholder faction leader who serves as a secondary antagonist plotting in Transylvania.
First Marvel ongoing solo series published exclusively under the Red Band mature-content label (polybagged, Parental Advisory); Blood Hunt had introduced the Red Band format as an alternate dual edition, but this title existed only in the Red Band format.
Written by Jason Loo with art by Sergio Dávila (pencils), Jay Leisten, J.P. Mayer & Craig Yeung (inks), and Alex Sinclair (colors); cover by E.M. Gist. Edited by Devin Lewis and Lauren Amaro.
The story is set in the direct aftermath of the Blood Hunt crossover event, establishing that Jack Russell's decades of hard-won control over his lycanthropy have been lost, with Elsa Bloodstone's bloodgem triggering an involuntary transformation when she tries to free him.
Blade, Captain Marvel, Moon Knight, Khonshu, The Hood (Parker Robbins), and Deathwatch all appear in cameo or supporting roles, broadening the book's connection to the wider Marvel horror and street-level villain ecosystem.
The issue ships with a debut letters column titled 'Weremail by Night,' introduced by editor Devin Lewis — a nod to the classic Marvel letter-page tradition transplanted into a mature-readers horror book.
Released August 14, 2024 (cover-dated October 2024); the series ran at least nine issues into 2025, with E.M. Gist as the consistent cover artist throughout.