247 Comics announced a new project at the ComicsPRO annual meeting: 247 Presents, an anthology series edited by veteran editor Terry Kavanagh, who edited the Marvel Comics Presents series back in the day and conceived the idea for Spider-Man Clone Saga. After years away from comics, Kavanagh is back as the Executive Editor of 247 Presents, which will launch in the first quarter of 2026 with a quarterly schedule. Although 247 Comics has been crowdfunding recent releases on Kickstarter, 247 Presents will be retail focused and will be distributed directly to retailers, at least initially.

Kavanagh talked to ICv2 about his plans for the new line.

With 247 Presents, you’re creating something along the lines of Marvel Comics Presents. How is it different?
When I was at Marvel and we were doing Marvel Comics Presents, these were all Marvel-owned characters, so there were limits to what the writers or artists could do without permission from the editors and staff. Here, 247 is doing publishing partnerships, so it's a little different. I help make their stories better, because they're basically creator-owned characters.

When you say “publishing partnerships,” you're not talking about licenses, you're talking about creator owned stories.
Yes, so I'm just there to help. I always looked at my job as an editor as to be a shepherd to the characters and a butler to the creators. That's really how I like to view it.

I know these comics will be flipbooks. How will that work?
One side of it [will be called] 247 Presents, and the other side is 247 Spotlight, and the Spotlight title is going to be reprinting material from other publishers and other creators that has already seen the light of day. Maybe it was years ago. Maybe it didn't get a lot of promotion at the time. Maybe it's come back into its own now.

Then on the 24/7 Presents side, we'll be doing new material that may or may not lead into monthly titles from there, and we may have one or two stories on that side of the book. With Marvel Comics Presents, I was limited to eight-page stories or eight-page chapters. Here, I'm not forced into it being a 48 page book. I can do what's best for the stories.

Can you tell me some of the titles and creators?
In 247 Presents, one series will be Dreadlands, by Bart and Michelle Sears. It’s a very interesting post apocalyptic Western with a lone vigilante type hero and some animal sidekicks and a fascinating world. The world, as they refer to it, is "tetched" by magic.

We'll probably be doing one called Sons of the Devil, by Brian Buccellato, which a actually might be in the Spotlight, because that has been printed previously. We're also working with Howard Mackey on a series called Night of the Living. That's a working title; we're looking to change that.

Is it a zombie thing, or is just about people who aren't dead? I have questions about that.
Good! Because that's what that title is meant to do. It’s about a zombie outbreak, and this one young woman discovers that her bite cures the zombies.

Like zombie antivenom?
Exactly. And it's this not pleasant experience for her to bite into decaying flesh, but she may be the only hope of the world and her family and friends.

I'm having a conversation with someone tomorrow. It's not official yet, but he has a manga style, because, like with Marvel Comics Presents, my goal is to not just do the same material. If it's an anthology book, I'd like there to be a horror story, a funny animal story, a science fiction story. We're not trapped into just doing straight superhero

There is one superhero title that I'm already working on for them called Heroes Be Damned. I don't know if that's going to launch out of 247 Presents or not, I would encourage it, because I think it's really strong and solid. The writer and artist is Vince Sunico. It's a really, really interesting high concept of a superpowered being who is out to kill all other superpowered beings, good and bad, and the mystery of why he's doing that is part of what it is. It's a mystery story. It's also a superhero story. It's also a morality play unto itself, really.

I know you're flexible, but about how many pages will this be?
I think we're not going to go above 48 pages. We have the freedom to make an exception to that if there's some extra two pages that we need for something. Carl and I haven't locked down the entire format. It may be that there's one Spotlight story and one Presents story in each issue, or maybe two Presents stories and one or two Spotlight stories. We're a little more constrained when we're creating the material new, we can create natural break points in the story, but with existing material. I don't want to just randomly take a 22 page story and do 11 pages per issue, because that just might not be a good break point. So we may end up doing full issues of whatever the original series was on that side of the book, and then on the other side do shorter chapters of stories that, if they get the response we hope for, will lead into monthly titles.

Will the stories will be self-contained, or will they continue from issue to issue?
They'll be both. There'll be some that are an 11-page jumping off point for a series that we know we're going to go into, like an issue zero story, but mostly what they'll be is chaptered stories.