Star-Spangled Savings: The July 2026 Sale-A-Day Calendar Is Here!

It’s finally here — and this one is big.

Twilight Comics proudly presents Star-Spangled Savings, our July 2026 Sale-A-Day Calendar celebrating America’s 250th birthday with a full month of daily specials, surprises, bonus rewards, Liberty Stars, and comic shop chaos.

This may be the most epically patriotic July calendar in Twilight Comics’ 33-year history.

For decades, our Sale-A-Day Calendars have been amongst our biggest annual traditions. It takes a lot of planning, design work, offer-building, printing, organizing, and in-store coordination to make one of these calendars happen. This year’s July version adds even more, including a brand-new Liberty Star sticker reward system on the back of the calendar.

How Liberty Stars Work

Bring your July calendar with you when you visit Twilight Comics.

Every day you visit in July, you can earn 1 Liberty Star sticker on the back of your calendar. Collect 13 Liberty Stars and redeem your completed calendar for a $25 gift card.

Liberty Stars are separate from Bonus Card Stamps. Some daily offers may include Bonus Card Stamps, but those are not the same thing as Liberty Stars.

No cutting required. No destroying the calendar. Just bring it in, collect your stars, and use the daily offers.

Please note: Twilight Comics will be closed Saturday, July 4th for Independence Day.

31 Days of Deals, Rewards & Weirdness

This year’s calendar includes daily offers on graphic novels, manga, RPGs, board games, dice, used media, Reader’s Bundles, t-shirts, plushies, Little Golden Books, mystery boxes, Magic repacks, and more.

Some days are straight discounts. Some are bigger event-style offers. Some are interactive. Some are designed to reward repeat visits. And yes, there are a few very Twilight Comics-style surprises mixed in.

Highlights Include

• $17.76 off $50+ purchases
• BOGO 75% off select categories
• Reader’s Bundle specials
• Bonus Card Stamp days
• Founder’s Fortune Deck rewards for August
• Liberty Star bonuses
• A $25 gift card reward for collecting 13 Liberty Stars

This Calendar Only Works If It Gets Used

We love making these calendars.

But we also need to be honest: a calendar like this only works if people actually bring it in and use it. We hear a lot of kind words about how fun the calendar is and how much people appreciate the idea, and we truly appreciate that. But kind words alone do not keep a promotion like this going.

The July Sale-A-Day Calendar takes a major investment of time, money, planning, printing, design, fresh daily offers, and staff effort. We do it because we want July to feel special. We want you to have a reason to visit, discover something new, grab a deal, collect Liberty Stars, and be part of a long-running Twilight Comics tradition.

You do not have to make a purchase every time you visit to earn a Liberty Star. But every purchase helps make events like this possible.

So this July, please bring your calendar in. Use the offers. Collect your Liberty Stars. Tell your friends. Visit more than once. Help us make this one of the biggest July calendar events we’ve ever done.

Because if you want big, weird, ambitious Twilight Comics promotions to continue, this is the month to show it.

Get the Calendar

View and download the July 2026 Sale-A-Day Calendar here:

https://twilightcomics.com/july-sale-a-day-calendar-2026/

31 Days. 13 Liberty Stars. One Historic July.

Let’s make it count.

The Queen in Black: Marvel’s Dark Crown Evolves

Marvel’s symbiote saga is not finished with Earth yet.

This summer, Marvel launches Queen in Black, a five-issue event series written by Al Ewing with art by Iban Coello. The story spins out of recent Venom and Knull stories, but the hook is simple enough: Hela has taken Knull’s throne.

That is not a small problem.

Knull was the god of the symbiotes; the ancient darkness behind Venom, Carnage, and the wider Klyntar mythology. In King in Black, he brought that darkness to Earth directly. Now Hela, Marvel’s Asgardian goddess of death, has seized that power for herself and declared herself the Queen in Black.

Which means Earth is caught between two cosmic nightmares: Hela, commanding symbiote forces of her own, and Knull, who is not exactly the forgiving type.

Why This Event Matters

The most interesting part of Queen in Black is that it is not just repeating King in Black with a different villain. Knull represented emptiness, domination, and the old horror of the symbiotes. Hela brings something different: death, magic, Asgardian ambition, and a very personal understanding of power.

That combination makes her dangerous in a different way. Knull wanted everything swallowed by darkness. Hela understands kingdoms, thrones, bargains, soldiers, and conquest.

In other words, she may be better at ruling than he was.

Who Is Involved?

The event pulls in major Marvel players, including Venom, Eddie Brock, Dylan Brock, Spider-Man, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Thor-related characters, and more. Tie-in stories are also expected to explore different parts of the conflict, including Asgard, Eddie Brock’s role, and the larger battle between light and dark.

For readers who have followed modern Venom, this is a continuation of one of Marvel’s biggest mythology expansions of the last decade. For newer readers, it also works as a big summer event built around a clear premise: Hela has stolen the crown of the symbiote god, and the Marvel Universe has to survive the fallout.

Do You Need to Read King in Black First?

It would help, but it probably is not required.

King in Black explains who Knull is, why the symbiotes matter on a cosmic scale, and why the title “in Black” carries weight. But Marvel events are usually designed to bring readers in at the beginning of the new story. If Queen in Black does its job, issue #1 should give readers enough context to understand the threat.

That said, readers who enjoy Venom, Carnage, Thor, Hela, cosmic Marvel, or big crossover stories will probably get more out of this if they know the basic shape of King in Black first.

Why We’re Watching It

At Twilight Comics, this is the kind of event we pay attention to because it connects several different reading lanes at once. It is a Venom story. It is a Marvel cosmic story. It is an Asgardian story. It is also the next major chapter in the mythology that turned the symbiotes from Spider-Man villains into something much larger.

Whether you are already following Venom or just want a big, strange, dramatic Marvel event, Queen in Black looks like one to watch.

Queen in Black #1 is scheduled to arrive in July 2026. Let us know if you want it added to your pull list.