Invincible Universe: Battle Beast tops May 2025’s best-selling comics. Jason Aaron returns to Duckburg for Uncle Scrooge: Earth’s Mightiest Duck. Image Comics’ Ice Cream Man is returning with four new issues.
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Battle Beast is May’s best-selling comic.
Jason Aaron returns to Duckburg.
Ice Cream Man scoops up four new issues.
This is Comic Book Club News for June 6, 2025.
Battle Beast Is May 2025’s Best-Selling Comic Book:
No surprise here given it sold a reported 400,000 copies: Skybound and Image’s Invincible Universe Battle Beast #1 is May 2025’s best-selling comic.
Per ICv2, Image managed to nab two more slots on the Top 50 for the month, with Exquisite Corpses #1 at number 13, and Transformers #20 at, well, number 20.
DC Comics had fewer overall titles on the Top 50 in May, with 15 slots, though it still managed to dominate the Top 5 with Absolute Batman #8 at number two, Absolute Superman #7 at number three, and Absolute Green Lantern #2 at number five.
Marvel, meanwhile, more than doubled that title count with 31 slots on the Top 50 list. Ultimate Wolverine #5 came in at number four, Amazing Spider-Man #3 at number six, with Ultimate Spider-Man #16, Godzilla vs. Spider-Man #1, and One World Under Doom #4 at seven, eight, and nine, respectively. DC’s Absolute Flash #3 rounded out the top 10 at number ten.
The biggest surprise on the list? The only other publisher besides Marvel, DC, and Image in the Top 50 was Keenspot Entertainment with Mark Spears Monsters #4, which hit at number 36. Huh!
Jason Aaron Returns To Duckburg For Uncle Scrooge: Earth’s Mightiest Duck:
Jason Aaron created something unique and, probably more important to the business side of things, best-selling, with Uncle Scrooge & The Infinity Dime for Marvel Comics. And now he’s back at it again with the four-issue miniseries Uncle Scrooge: Earth’s Mightiest Duck.
Written by Aaron, with art by Giuseppe Camuncoli, Mahmud Asrar, and Ciro Cangialosi, Earth’s Mightiest Duck will find the planet (presumably including Duckburg) under attack by aliens called the Connoisseurs. As they travel the planet stealing the most precious treasure they can find, you might be able to intuit what brings them into conflict with the money-hoarding, lucky dime loving Uncle Scrooge.
Said Aaron via press release, “Scrooge McDuck is one of the greatest heroes in the history of comics, bar none. It was a thrill to get to write him in the pages of Uncle Scrooge & the Infinity Dime, as we took him on a journey across the multiverse. With this new series, I knew we’d have to go bigger, not just by incorporating more Marvel artists into the mix, but by sending Scrooge on the most epic story of his career, as he fights to save the one thing more precious to him than gold or any exotic treasure: his own memories of a life of adventure.”
Uncle Scrooge: Earth’s Mightiest Duck #1 hits stores on August 13.
Ice Cream Man Returns With Four New Issues At Image:
Ice Cream Man, Image Comics‘ deliciously dark anthology series, is coming back for four new issues starting this summer — as well as a collected trade paperback edition later this year.
In July, you can snag Ice Cream Man #44, which “will center around a job performance review gone wrong.” Then coming up in issues #45, #46, and #47, you can look forward to — or rather, dread — a Rear Window homage, a tale of anti-aging chambers, and “a series of vintage medical ads that downplay some pretty shocking side effects.” In addition, the Ice Cream Man Volume 11 trade paperback will hit stores in September.
The book is written by W. Maxwell Prince, alongside collaborators artist Martín Morazzo, colorist Chris O’Halloran, and letterer Good Old Neon. The book sort of follows the titular ice cream man, Rick, through a series of lightly connected dark stories reflecting the world outside our window. Ice Cream Man #39, “Decompression in a Wreck, Part One,” has been nominated for Best Single Issue/One-Shot for the 2025 Eisner Awards, which is pretty funny because it’s basically the only two-part story the series has ever done.
Ice Cream Man #44 hits stores on July 23, Ice Cream Man #45 on September 10, Ice Cream Man #46 on October 8, and Ice Cream Man #47 on a TBA date later this year.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And guess we have to start calling Keenspot Entertainment one of the “Big Four,” huh?
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