Book cover for EC Catacomb of Torment Vol. 2 by Rafael Scavone, Dave Baker, Matt Bors, Christopher Cantwell, Evan Dorkin, Meghan Fitzmartin, Sarah Gailey, Robert Menegus, Greg Pak and Paul Tobin
2026 Released
136 Pages
2-3 Hours
Ebook Available November 10, 2026
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Oni PressISBN 9798894883472

Feeling anxious? Full of dread? GOOD—because the immortal EC Comics is preparing another tortuous session of frightful delights inside an all-new, heart-thumping volume of CATACOMB OF TORMENT! Prepare to be mortified—literally—as tension-wracked creators Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire), Eric Battle (The Spectre), Matt Bors (The Toxic Avenger), Chris Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden), Tom Fowler (Refrigerator Full of Heads) Sarah Gailey (Know Your Station), Justin Greenwood (Area 510), PJ Holden (Judge Dredd), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), Dan McDaid (Shazam!), Greg Pak (Plant Hulk), Claire Roe (Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special), Rafael Scavone (All-Star Batman), and Paul Tobin (The Witcher) devise new ways to turn mayhem and malice into blood-spattered spectacle! Sound like fun? Our beloved hostess, the Tormentor, sure thinks so! Keep calm and let the Comics Code Authority bleed. As long as EC Comics lives and breathes, no one will miss it! Collects Catacomb of Torment #5–8.

Rafael Scavone

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Dave Baker

Dave Baker is an Eisner nominated writer and illustrator. His works include Fuck Off Squad (Silver Sprocket), Everyone is Tulip (Dark Horse), Forest Hills Bootleg Society (Simon and Schuster), Night Hunters (Floating World) and the critically acclaimed Mary Tyler Moorehawk (Top Shelf). Dave has also written for a wide selection of licensed properties including Star Trek, Godzilla, and TMNT. Dave's favorite James Bond is George Lazenby. Do with that information what you will. Oh, also: Dave co-wrote the feature film, Alien Warfare, currently streaming on Netflix.

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Matt Bors

Matt Bors is an Eisner-winning comics editor and two time Pulitzer Prize Finalist in cartooning. He is currently writing the upcoming Toxic Avenger comic book along with Justice Warriors, a dystopian satire created with artist Ben Clarkson from Ahoy Comics. In 2013, he founded The Nib, which published 6,000 comics, three books, and 15 issues of an award-winning print magazine. In 2017 he was the Executive Producer and head writer for two seasons of The Nib animation produced by Topic with Augenblick Studios. Bors’ comics have appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, Village Voice, CNN, The Intercept, and were collected in the book We Should Improve Society Somewhat. He also drew the graphic novel War Is Boring, written by David Axe, and edits comics for In These Times magazine.

 

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Christopher Cantwell

Christopher Cantwell is an American writer, producer, and director who has worked in television, film, and comic books. He is best known as one of the two co-creators of the TV series Halt and Catch Fire, for which he also served as a producer, showrunner, screenwriter, and director.

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Meghan Fitzmartin

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Sarah Gailey

Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award-winning, internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe, and they are a regular contributor for Tor.com and Barnes & Noble. Their most recent fiction credits include Fireside Fiction, Tor.com, and The Atlantic. Their debut novella, River of Teeth, was published in 2017 via Tor.com and was a 2018 Hugo and Nebula award finalist. Their adult novel debut, Magic For Liars, was published by Tor Books in June 2019. Their Young Adult novel debut, When We Were Magic, was published by Simon Pulse in Spring 2020. You can find links to their work at www.sarahgailey.com; find them on social media @gaileyfrey.

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Robert Menegus

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Greg Pak

Greg Pak is an award-winning Korean American writer and director best known for writing over six hundred comic books, including series like Planet Hulk, Darth Vader, Mech Cadet Yu, and Ronin Island and Sam Wilson: Captain America (with Evan Narcisse) for Marvel Comics and Lawful for BOOM! Studios. His non-comics work includes the feature film Robot Stories, the children’s book The Princess Who Saved Herself, the illustrated poetry book I Belong to You / Motherland, and the how-to book/memoirs Cooking Will Break Your Heart and 35mm Love Letter.

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Paul Tobin

Paul Tobin is the author of the multi-Eisner Award–winning Bandette, the Eisner–nominated horror series Colder, and the Eisner–nominated I Was the Cat, which is (spoiler) about a cat. His first novel, Prepare To Die!, received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly, and he is currently working on a series of middle-grade novels. He is the New York Times best-selling author of the Plants vs. Zombies graphic novels, and writes many many more things while sitting in cafés, silently judging all those around him.

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