Free Comic Book Day 2026

Just like Christmas, it only comes around once a year. Unlike Christmas, though, the gifts are not just waiting for you; you actually have to hurry over to your favorite comic bookstore to grab the free comics you want before they’re all gone.

This year’s Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) offers a quite interesting series of books published by many publishers. Here is the official FCBD 2026 list of titles:

Ablaze: The Cimmerian: The Pool of the Black One
AMP Comics: Greatest American Hero
Archie Comics: World of Archie One-Shot
AWA Studios: Preview of Ultimate Oz Universe Vol. 2: Into the Outerlands
DC Comics: Aquamanatee #1, DC x Sonic The Hedgehog #1, DC Next Level Sampler, The Nice House on the Lake #1
Dynamite Entertainment: Stitch #1, Supernatural #1
Image Comics: Energon Universe FCBD 2026 Special
Keenspot Entertainment: Spotlight 2026, Toybox 2026
Mad Cave Studios: Flash Gordon #1, Terrorbytes #1
Oni Press: Mind MGMT/Fort Psycho Special
REKCAH Comics: Future is ****** Annual 2026 #1
Titan Comics: Conan the Barbarian: Tides of the Tyrant King #0, Gun Honey: Doubles Down #0
UDON Entertainment: Mega Man Showdown Special #1, Street Fighter Forever #0, Journey to the West (with Manga Classics)
Vault Comics: Dungeon Crawler Carl #0, Inanna: The Name She Lost #0

You can find out more on the FCBD website: https://www.freecomicbookday.com. The CGD titles won’t appear on the official FCBD site. So, check your local shop’s social media to see if they are participating in both events.

While publishers like DC, Image, Dynamite, and Vault are participating under the traditional FCBD banner with those 24 titles, a large group of other major publishers—including Marvel, Dark Horse, BOOM! Studios, and IDW—are releasing their free titles on the exact same day under a new, separate banner called Comics Giveaway Day (CGD).

Here is the list of titles for the Comics Giveaway Day (CGD) 2026:

Marvel Comics: Alien, Predator & Planet of the Apes #1, Amazing Spider-Man #1000/Queen in Black #1, Armageddon/X-Men #1, Spidey & His Amazing Friends #1
BOOM! Studios: Garfield, Jem and the Holograms/My Little Pony, Power Rangers #0, Something is Killing the Children: Road to Slaughter
Dark Horse Comics: Avatar: The Last Airbender/Minecraft: Heart of Cobblestone, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe/Dungeons & Dragons
IDW Publishing: Locke & Key #1, Sonic the Hedgehog #1
Ignition Press: Minotaur: The Cold Open
Kodansha: Blue Lock: Full Color Selection & Dragon Circus
Penguin Young Readers: The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade, The Whole Wide World of Mabel Mulligan
Random House Graphic: Pizza and Taco, School Bus Graveyard
Ten Speed Press: Mister Magic: The Graphic Novel Sampler, The British Are Coming: The Graphic Edition Vol. 1
Tokyopop: Disney Manga: Stitch! Best Food Forever!
Wattpad Webtoon Studios: Webtoon Unscrolled Preview

Among the essential reads are Amazing Spider-Man #1,000/Queen in Black #1 (Marvel), a landmark issue not to be missed, Conan the Barbarian: Tides of the Tyrant King #0 (Titan), which tantalizes with the upcoming Conan storyline, Flash Gordon (Mad Cave), a captivating black-and-white edition, and The Cimmerian (Ablaze), a must-have for Conan enthusiasts.

When you combine both lists, there are 46 free comic books hitting shelves on Saturday, May 2. Whether you’re hunting for the landmark Spider-Man #1000 preview or the return of Conan, make sure to get there early. Grab what you can, support your local shop, and enjoy!

About the Author

Jules-Pierre Malartre currently lives on a small island west of Montreal (Quebec), which is as close to the Great White North that he will ever dare go, but still cold enough to save him from big-ass spiders, alien abductions, undead dinosaurs and tourists who find his French accent charming. In 2005, he quit a promising aerospace engineering career to go into freelance writing, which was a very, very bad idea according to his mother. Since then, he has become considerably poorer, but he has grown much happier. Along the way, he adopted cats—lots of cats! When he is not writing technical manuals, newspaper articles, press releases or blogs on anything from comic books to yoga, he is busy working on his first novel, a semi-autobiographical fictional account of his life that dares to ask the question, “where did God go wrong with me anyway?” His first short story, “The Rest Was Easy,” was published by the online literary magazine Amarillo Bay in 2013. The five people who read it liked it. He’s well aware that it took him over a decade to publish another one, so he’d really appreciate it if you'd cut him some slack about it! He loves coffee, cats and reading, mostly because those three things go very well together.