Free Comic Book Day is back!
at Fantasy Books and Games in Livermore, May 3, 2025
Open from 11 to 7.
For at least one more time, the whole Comic Book industry celebrates with Free Comic Book Day. What does that mean, you ask? Dozens of publishers put out special editions promoting their for-sale comics and characters, and sell them to retailers at a very low reduced price, and distributors pass them through at little or no profit, and stores give them away to kids and older fans under various regimes at the direction of the individual retailers. At Fantasy Books and Games, it usually goes like this…
Only FCBD special editions are free, not just any old comic in the store. They will be laid out on a table. There will be a long line winding through the store to the Free Tables. Come early and be ready to wait. Some issues will not last all day.
Bring money. Bob can’t pay the rent with Free Comics – there will be plenty of great deals to snap up while you are in line!
Here is the current plan (subject to last-minute changes):
This year’s FCBD Comics: 3 per person (see list way down below)
Previous Years’ Free Comic Leftovers: 2 per person
Go home and be ready for summer reading!!!
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If you are planning to drive, make sure you know where the big parking lots are, just a block north next to Railroad!
If you have more time, the following videos are fun and give you the overall idea. What is it? Watch this…
Another video….
We always have a big day on Free Comic Book Day. Everyone who shows up will have a choice of 3 comics from a large selection of this year’s special edition FCBD comics and a couple of “leftover” FCBD comics from years gone by.
Free Comic Book Day
has been on the first Saturday in May since it began – until 2020, then again from 2021 onward. The whole industry – from the dozens of the biggest publishers, to the distributors, to thousands of comic shops from coast to coast – gets together to promote comics to everyone on one grand day.
Click here for the official list of all official FCBD comics from the various publishers who participating this year. Note, Bob may NOT have ordered all of them. We slant toward the general audience and parent-friendly comics, so some of these may not be at our store.
If you can’t find street parking, access the two large parking lots from Railroad.
Good Luck. See you then!
Your Options for Free Comics at Fantasy Books and Games for 2025. As they come. in early, they are put at the top of the list by date (currently waiting in storage, subject to more incoming MR=Mature Readers):
Arrived April 16th
MEGAMAN #0 2025 FCBD $ FREE*
STREET FIGHTER VS RIVALS SCHOOLS #1 2025 FCBD $ FREE*
DC ALL IN ABSOLUTE UNIVERSE 2025 FCBD $ FREE*
DC ALL IN ABSOLUTE UNIVERSE 2025 FCBD $ FREE*
KANGA-U TESTS AND TOURNAMENTS 2025 FCBD $ FREE*
KANGA-U TESTS AND TOURNAMENTS 2025 FCBD $ FREE*
SUPERMANS GOOD GUY GANG 2025 FCBD $ FREE*
DC ALL IN ABSOLUTE UNIVERSE 2025 FCBD BLANK VAR (Special FCBD Edition – Not Free) $ ???
DC ALL IN ABSOLUTE UNIVERSE 2025 FCBD FOIL VAR (Special FCBD Edition – Not Free) $ ???
DC ALL IN ABSOLUTE UNIVERSE 2025 FCBD FOIL VAR (Special FCBD Edition – Not Free) $ ???
Arrived April 2 (or so)
FCBD 2025 SEUSS SAMPLER $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 DEF LEPPARDS HYSTERIA FCBD SPECIAL $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 GARGOYLES DEMONA #0 $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 THUNDERCATS POWERPUFF GIRLS #0 $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 WINDOW CLING EXTRAS $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 ENERGON UNIVERSE SPECIAL $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 I HATE FAIRYLAND ONCE UPON A TIME SPECIAL (MR) $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 TRANSFORMERS WORST BOT EVER SPECIAL $ FREE*
Arrived March 26
FCBD 2025 FANTASTIC FOUR/X-MEN #1 $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 GODZILLA NEW HEROES $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 SPIDER-MAN/ULTIMATE UNIVERSE #1 $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 STAR WARS #1 $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 STAR WARS YOUNG JEDI AVATAR $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 TOWER DUNGEON & ISSAK (MR) $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 CONAN THE BARBARIAN (MR) $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 DIABLO (MR) $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 HULK TEACH $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 KEENSPOT MARK SPEARS MONSTERS #0
Arrived March 19
FCBD 2025 ARCHIES COMIC SPECTACULAR $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 BOOM STUDIOS 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPEC $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 POWER RANGERS VR TROOPERS $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 CRITICAL ROLE BLACK HAMMER $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 IDW DARK FIND YOUR NEW FEAR (MR) $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 IRON MAN & FRIENDS/SPIDEY & FRIENDS $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 IRONHEART/MARVELS VOICES #1 $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 KAGURABACHI & BARUTO TWO BLUE VORTEX $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 MINECRAFT THE MANGA & BEYBLADE X $ FREE*
Arrived March 12
FCBD 2025 ARCHIES COMIC SPECTACULAR $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 BOOM STUDIOS 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPEC $ FREE*
FCBD 2025 POWER RANGERS VR TROOPERS $ FREE*
Arrived March 5
FCBD 2025 BAD KITTY GETS A JOB $ FREE*
Arrived February 26
FCBD 2025 EC COMICS PRESENTS BLOOD TYPE #0 $ FREE*