Oni Press’s Sold-Out BENJAMIN #1 Breaks Through – with Third Printing on August 6th!

By Carlos Morales

on July 20, 2025

The multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, is thrilled to announce that BENJAMIN #1 has sold out yet again at the distributor level and will return with a brand-new third printing on August 6th! The first issue of the breathtaking new series – featuring the full-length comics debut of writer Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe, The Last Policeman Trilogy), creator of CBS’ acclaimed TV series Tracker and Edgar Award and Philip K. Dick Award-winning novelist with artwork by acclaimed illustrator Leomacs (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss, DC Black Label’s Rogues) – will return with the BENJAMIN #1 THIRD PRINTING VARIANT, featuring cover art by superstar artist Christian Ward (Batman: City of Madness).

In the tradition of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly comes a uniquely fascinating and hilariously deranged excursion into the metatextual nexus where existence and oblivion, past and future, genius and madness, and glitter and grim reality all meet just beyond Hollywood Boulevard in the first of three prestige-format, ad-free issues unlike anything you’ve ever experienced . . . in this timeline anyway . . .

Legendary science-fiction novelist Benjamin J. Carp has just been resurrected 40 years after his death . . . and that’s not even the strangest thing that’s going to happen to him today.

In an effort to unravel the mystery of author Benjamin J. Carp’s unexpected reappearance, Benjamin and his newfound companion, Marcus, travel to the arid Joshua Tree desert, where they discover the secret lair of a cabal of scientists eager to revive the minds of some of history’s greatest thinkers in an effort to save humanity from its greatest weakness: lack of imagination. Are they to be believed . . . or is this just more sci-fi hokum torn from a chapter in one of Carp’s beloved novels?

Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award–winning novelist Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe, The Last Policeman Trilogy) teams with rising star Leomacs (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss, Basketful of Heads) to recite the next haunting chapter of 2025’s mesmerizing science-fiction daydream with profound implications for the fate of the universe, as delivered in a prestige, ad-free format

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