Werewolf by Night: Red Band #9
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeWerewolf by Night: Red Band #9 (April 2025) is a narrative pivot point in Jason Loo's ongoing mature-readers run — the issue that, by Marvel's own promotional framing, sets the trajectory for the following year of the series by forcing both Jack Russell and Jake Gomez toward open conflict with each other and with the Darkholder alliance led by Lilith, the Hood, and Deathwatch. It is part of a historically notable publishing experiment: the Red Band line represents Marvel's most explicit post-Comics Code attempt to sustain a polybagged, Parental Advisory horror series as a standard ongoing rather than a prestige one-shot, continuing a tradition that stretches back to the character's 50-year publishing history. The convergence of both Werewolves of the Marvel Universe in a single escalating storyline also marks the first time the Jack Russell and Jake Gomez mantles have been placed in direct narrative opposition at this scale within a shared ongoing.
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The Red Band series was conceived by writer Jason Loo — who had already established the post-Blood Hunt status quo in the Werewolf by Night: Blood Hunt one-shot — with artist Sergio Dávila, whose prior Marvel work included Venom and Thor. Marvel announced the series in April 2024 as an explicit-content ongoing, polybagged for retail and carrying a Parental Advisory (15+) rating, spinning directly out of the Blood Hunt event's consequences for Jack Russell's lycanthropic transformation. Editor Devin Lewis oversaw the run, with covers throughout by painter E.M. Gist and colors by Alex Sinclair; by issue #9 the series was deep into a Darkholder/Lilith arc that had been building since the first issue's introduction of Elder Dorgana.
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- Released in comic shops on April 23, 2025, with a cover date of June 2025 — the ninth issue of the ongoing Red Band series that launched August 14, 2024.
- Written by Jason Loo, penciled by Sergio Dávila, inked by Aure Jimenez, colored by Alex Sinclair, lettered by Joe Sabino, and edited by Devin Lewis; cover by E.M. Gist with a variant by J. Gonzo (polybagged).
- Features Jack Russell (original Werewolf by Night) as the lead, with supporting roles for Elsa Bloodstone, Reptil (Humberto Lopez), Jake Gomez (the second Werewolf by Night), and Doctor Voodoo (Jericho Drumm).
- Antagonists include Lilith, Elder Dorgana, The Hood (Parker Robbins), and Deathwatch — a villain ensemble assembled across the run beginning with issue #1, where Elder Dorgana made her first comics appearance.
- Story locations span Texas, Transylvania, and the Darkholders' castle; key items in play include the Bloodgem and the Darkhold, both central to the arc's mythology.
- The issue is published under Marvel's 'Red Band' label — polybagged with a Parental Advisory (15+) rating — a publishing format Marvel applied to the entire run as its most sustained mature-readers horror ongoing since the dissolution of the Comics Code.
- Issue #9 was explicitly positioned by Marvel as a story catalyst setting up 'the next year of Werewolf insanity,' making it a structural hinge between the series' first phase and its planned continuation.
- The complete Red Band run (#1–10), including issue #9, was collected in the trade paperback/hardcover 'Werewolf by Night: Red Band — The Howling Tome,' which also includes the Blood Hunt one-shot, Blood Moon Rise #1, and a Werewolf by Night story from Crypt of Shadows #1 by Marvel Studios director Michael Giacchino.
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