COLLECT THE FIRST TWO ARCS OF JAMES TYNION IV AND MICHAEL AVON OEMING’S “BLUE BOOK” IN A NEW LIBRARY EDITION
From the multi-Eisner Award-winning creators of Something is Killing the Children and POWERS!
Dark Horse Comics and Tiny Onion present Blue Book Library Edition Volume 1, a new hardcover compiling Blue Book: 1961, Blue Book: 1947, all of the series’ cover art, and behind-the-scenes sketches by Michael Avon Oeming. Written by James Tynion IV (The Nice House by the Sea, Something is Killing the Children), illustrated by Oeming (Powers, William of Newbury), and lettered by Aditya Bidikar (Dawnrunner, The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos), these “True Weird” stories—tales of ordinary people encountering the strange and impossible—will be collected in a hardcover oversized edition for the first time July 2025. It will also include a cover gallery and sketchbook section.
About Blue Book:
In Blue Book: 1961, Tynion and Oeming retell the story of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction—the widely publicized and very first abduction that went on to shape and influence all future encounter stories.
In Blue Book: 1947, we follow pilot Kenneth Arnold, who flew his Call-Air A-2 over the skies of the Pacific Northwest and encountered otherworldly blinding flashes of silver light that would change the course of his life forever.
Blue Book Library Edition Volume 1 crash lands in bookstores on July 8, 2025 and in comic shops on July 9, 2025. It is now available to preorder at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, indie bookstores, and your your local comic shop.
Praise for Blue Book:
“Tynion’s debut volume of a promised ongoing series of nonfiction ‘True Weird’ stories provides a thrilling account of the Hills’ experience and a heartbreaking evocation of the price they paid for sharing their story over the rest of their lives.”—Library Journal
“Creepy and unnerving, Blue Book #1 is a fantastic opening to this UFO thriller and love letter to creepy encounters and strange stories from decades past.”—Monkeys Fighting Robots
“Both stories in Blue Book explore the supernatural under a historical context of the past, making the weird and unusual feel unique and new. Read Blue Book for the supernatural uniqueness but stay for the enjoyable exploration of humanity.”—AIPT Comics
