New Comic Book Day, week 40: 543 new releases!

Again, a big NCDB this week, with 543 new releases, counting variants and a total of 229 unique new issues.

All of them are now available in Core, with cover art, variant descriptions and cover artists.

TIP: to discover all this week’s new releases from your CLZ Comics app:

• tap the + icon on the bottom right to open the Add Comics screen
• go to the Pull List tab (top right)
• within the Pull List tab, set the week selector (top left) to “This week”
• and go to the sub-tab called “Discover”

This will give you all NCDB releases, grouped by series. Or, tap the “All Releases” entry at the top to scroll them all in one big list!

Highlights for NCBD week 40

New issues for big titles:

These are the new issues for the most popular titles:

• Batman, Vol. 3 #138
• Detective Comics, Vol. 1 #140 Facsimile
• X-Men, Vol. 5 #27
• Jean Grey, Vol. 2 #1 2nd Printing
• Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #39
• Immortal X-Men #16

Most variants

And this week, the prize for the most variants goes to:

Transformers (Image) #1, with 37 variants (!!), listed in Core from A to Z, then from AA to AK

New series:

These are the new series that started this week, all with multiple variants:

• Transformers #1 with 37 Variants
• Ghost Rider, Vol. 9 Annual #1 with 1 Variant
• Alien, Vol. 3 Annual #1 with 1 Variant
• Star Wars: The High Republic – Shadows of Starlight #1 with 3 Variants
• Ranger Academy #1 with 7 Variants
• The Midnite Show #1 with 2 Variants
• Abbott: 1979 #1 with 4 Variants
• Star Trek: Holo-Ween #1 with 2 Variants
• The Devil That Wears My Face #1 with 2 Variants
• DC’s Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun #1 with 3 Variants
• Strange Academy: Amazing Spider-Man #1 with 3 Variants

Cool new exclusives:

Our picks of some cool new exclusive variants:

• X-Men, Vol. 5 #27I: David Nakayama Exclusive Variant
• Transformers (Image) #1U: Ryan Barry Exclusive Variant
• Archies Halloween Spectacular 2023 #1B: Bill Walko Exclusive Variant (Ltd. 250)