The Queen In Black invades London, the US Army hulks out for Armageddon and the X-Men go for a walk on Comics Giveaway Day
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Talking about their not-Free Comic Book Day offering for Comics Giveaway Day (both on the 2nd of May 2026), he states, "we're releasing an Armageddon/X-Men one-shot that will have both an Armageddon story and an X-Men story that sets up a particular thing… there will be another X-Men event coming up You might even see[...]
Which also means that Stitch is getting two titles, Free Comic Book Day from Dynamite and Comics Giveaway Day from TokyoPop on the same day… as is Conan, from Ablaze and Titan And this makes 24 titles for Free Comic Book Day and 22 for Comics Giveaway Day, 46 in total so far Here's the[...]
This year, Free Comic Book Day is scheduled for the 2nd of May, organised by Universal Distribution in collaboration with Lunar Distribution, and followed by Comics Giveaway Day, hosted by Penguin Random House on the same day However, they wouldn't work with Universal, so it's a different name, organisation, method, timing, and price of distribution[...]
Last year, Si Spurrier posted to X (865 views, 3 likes) "Amidst yesterday's announcement of @penguinrandom 's COMICS GIVEAWAY DAY in May 2026, there sits this intriguing piece of art, by the singular Mike Dowling, intriguingly marked "Minotaur, The Cold Open." One to watch, I'd say…" and also on Bluesky (11 likes, 3 reposts) Well,[...]
PRH changes the name of their event to Comics Giveaway Day and announces titles that will be available to online stores but not games and hobby stores.
So we are still getting a Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, the 2nd of May, 2026 And a Comcs Giveaway Day Smaller than before, with less coordination Odds[...]
Comics Giveaway Day was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past seven years Founded over sixteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip for a further eighteen years before[...]
Instead, they will be part of the very first Comics Giveaway Day, which Penguin Random House has trademarked and will be on the 2nd of May 2026, the same day as Free Comic Book Day, and will be doing the exact same thing We ran the Marvel Comics titles yesterday, and one of the Penguin[...]
But the comic publishers going through Penguin Random House were doing their own sympatico version labelled Comics Giveaway Day without the trademark And now Marvel Comics has dropped theirs, to launch Armageddon and Queen In Black…
"Experience every corner of the main Marvel Universe with AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1000/QUEEN IN BLACK #1 CGD 2026 and ARMAGEDDON/X-MEN #1[...]