Free Comic Book Day is back!
at Fantasy Books and Games in Livermore, May 2, 2026
Open from 11 to 7.
For at least one more time, the whole Comic Book industry celebrates Free Comic Book Day. This year, we also have Comic Giveaway Day, on the same day! What does that mean, you ask?
Free Comic Book Day
has been on the first Saturday in May since it began around the turn of the century – until 2019, 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. Retailers like us buy a bunch of special issues made for that day at a low price. Recently, someone had a “better idea”, which was the same idea.
Comic Giveaway Day
For several years now, Marvel comics have been distributed by Penguin Random House, a book publishing conglomerate that has a distribution division handling first Marvel, and now also Dark Horse, Boom, IDW, Ignition, Kodansha comics every week. This year, they decided NOT to “buy in” to FCBD, but have their own little day, which happens to be on May 2, 2026 also. What a coincidence! So those 6 publishers will have special editions with a CGD logo in stead of FCBD. Otherwise, no difference.
Note, Bob may NOT have ordered all of the possible Free/Giveaways. He has to pay for all of those freebees, and he slants toward the general audience and parent-friendly comics, so some comics you see on some list may not be at our store.
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 (or CGD) 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.
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
Buy some other stuff to help Bob keep the lights on, and go home and be ready for summer reading!!! Then start shopping the..
Sale Deals
20 % off
Graphic Novels and Books
Funkos, Action Figures & Toys
T-Shirts
All $1.00 Comics (Specially Marked)
100+ 10 cents each
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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….
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):
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY/COMIC GIVEAWAY DAY COMICS ARRIVED as of 4/28/26
WARBIRD #0 (OF 4) CVR A FRANK QUITELY $ 0.3
FCBD 2026 – BUNDLE OF 25 -Â LEGO BATMAN LEGACY / DARK KNIGHT COMIC BOOK TIE-IN (NET) $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – BUNDLE OF 25 -Â LEGO BATMAN LEGACY / DARK KNIGHT COMIC BOOK TIE-IN (NET) $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 SPECIAL EDITIONS – NOT FREE!
ABSOLUTE BATMAN HC VOL 01 THE ZOO VAR DUST JACKET $ 24.99
FCBD 2026 – ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN HC VOL 01 LAST DUST OF KRYPTON VAR DUST JACKET $ 24.99
FCBD 2026 – ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN HC VOL 01 THE LAST AMAZON VAR DUST JACKET $ 24.99
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY/COMIC GIVEAWAY DAY COMICS
Arrived as of April 21st
FCBD 2026 – AQUAMANATEE #1 FCBD 2026 SPECIAL EDITION $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – CONAN THE BARBARIAN TIDES / TYRANT KING #0 (MR) $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – DC NEXT LEVEL SAMPLER FCBD 2026 SPECIAL EDITION $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – DC X SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #1 FCBD 2026 SPECIAL EDITION $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – DC X SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #1 FCBD 2026 SPECIAL EDITION $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL #0 $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – ENERGON UNIVERSE FCBD 2026 SPECIAL $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – FLASH GORDON #1 $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – GUN HONEY DOUBLES DOWN #0 (MR) $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – INANNA THE NAME SHE LOST #0 $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – KEENSPOT SPOTLIGHT 2026 $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – KEENSPOT TOYBOX 2026 $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – NICE HOUSE ON THE LAKE #1 FCBD 2026 SPECIAL EDITION (MR) $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – TERRORBYTES #1 $ FREE*
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY/COMIC GIVEAWAY DAY COMICS
Arrived as of April 14th
FCBD 2026 – ALIEN PREDATOR, & PLANET OF THE APES #1 (Marvel Comic Giveaway Day) $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 1000/QUEEN IN BLACK #1 (Marvel Comic Giveaway Day) $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – ARMAGEDDON/X-MEN #1 (Marvel Comic Giveaway Day) $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – Avatar: The Last Airbender-Legends/Minecraft: Heart of Cobblestone $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – AWA SNEAK PREVIEW OF ULT OZ UNIVERSE VOL 02 INTO THE OUTERLANDS $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – Disney Manga: Stitch! Best Food Forever! $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – Garfield $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – GREATEST AMERICAN HERO $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – He-Man and the Masters of the Universe/Dungeons & Dragons $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – Jem and the Holograms/My Little Pony Flipbook $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – Kodansha Blue Lock Full Color Selection & Dragon Circus (Comic Giveaway Day) $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – Locke & Key #1: Cov A (Rodriguez) (Comic Giveaway Day) $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – MANGA CLASSICS JOURNEY TO THE WEST $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – MEGA MAN SHOWDOWN SPECIAL #1 $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – MIND MGMT FORT PSYCHO SPECIAL $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – Pizza and Taco $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – Power Rangers #0 $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – Something is Killing the Children: Road to Slaughter $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – Sonic the Hedgehog #1: Cov A (Yardley) $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – SPIDEY & HIS AMAZING FRIENDS #1 2026 (Marvel Comic Giveaway Day) $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – STITCH #1 $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – STREET FIGHTER FOREVER #0 $ FREE*
FCBD 2026 – SUPERNATURAL #1 $ FREE*