The Darkness [2025] #1 (Variant Cover - Black Blank Sketch)

Top Cow Store Black Blank Sketch cover with Glow in the Dark fluorescent trade dress (reacts under Black Light).

In a world consumed by shadows...one man becomes The Darkness. Jackie Estacado is back! Thrust into a supernatural war between the dark and the light in a no-holds-barred adventure where the edge of our reality grinds against supernatural forces grappling for control over each other and the waking world.

Mafia Hitman Jackie Estacado was both blessed and cursed on his 21st birthday when he became the bearer of The Darkness, an elemental force that allows those who wield it access to an otherworldly dimension and control over the demons who dwell there. Forces in the world rise up to face Jackie and the evil his gift represents. There is one small problem in this story…evil is good.

From co-creator Marc Silvestri (The Darkness, Cyber Force, Batman and the Joker: The Deadly Duo) with the universe-shattering first issue art by Ed Benes (Birds of Prey, Superman, Justice League of America), followed in issue #2 with ongoing series artist Raymond Gay (Gunsligner Spawn, Bloodletter, TMNT, Medieval Spawn), comes an explosive new era of The Darkness!

Writer: Marc Silvestri
Penciler: Ed Benes
Inks by: Matt “Batt!” Banning, Sal Regla and John Livesay
Colors by: Arif Prianto
Letters by: Troy Peteri

48 PAGES + covers / T+

Action and Adventure / Superhero / Supernatural