FOC Alert: Field Guide To Legendary Creatures #1 Opens for Order
There’s something in the woods, and someone finally started writing it all down. Field Guide To Legendary Creatures Of The United States #1 — the first entry in a brand-new four-issue miniseries — is live on Lunar with its order window now open. Final Order Cutoff is Monday, September 28. If you want issue one, now is the time to tell your shop.
The BookA field guide to the things that were here first
Field Guide To Legendary Creatures Of The United States #1 (of 4): The Northeast
Cryptids, coastal ghosts, and the deep-woods things that were here long before we were. Michael Perkins, Asher Benson, and Pete Collins map the monsters of American folklore one region at a time — and the guide opens where the oldest stories are thickest: the Northeast.
SEE IT ON LUNAR ›Every country has its monsters, but America’s are strange in a specific way: stitched together from everyone who ever landed here, argued over in roadside diners, half-remembered and half-invented. Field Guide To Legendary Creatures Of The United States treats that mess as a map. Each issue takes a region and catalogs what’s supposed to be living in it — the sightings, the warnings, the things locals know better than to go looking for.
Issue #1 starts in the Northeast: old forests, colder water, towns that have been telling the same stories long enough to start believing them again. It’s a natural fit for the Invader lane — horror and the weird, the ignored and the half-seen — and a clean jumping-on point, because a field guide is built to be opened at page one.
Here’s the part that actually matters for getting a copy: comics are ordered before they’re printed. Final Order Cutoff — FOC — is the last day your retailer can adjust what they’re bringing in. For a first issue from a new miniseries, that deadline is everything. Order past it and you’re hoping an extra copy happens to be on the shelf. Order before it and the copy is yours.
So if Field Guide #1 is on your radar, the move is simple: walk in, call, or email your local shop and ask them to add it to your pull list before Monday, September 28. It’s on Lunar as code 0926MP0978 — that’s all they need. The book hits shelves November 18.