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Mark Spears Breaks Own Blind Bag Sales Record -- 362,000 Copies Ordered of Keenspot’s MARK SPEARS MONSTERS #8 WINTER HORRORLAND R.I.P. BLIND BAG, Making For 1.3 Million Copies of MARK SPEARS MONSTERS Issues In Print!
LOS ANGELES, CA – October 22, 2025 – Keenspot Entertainment is thrilled to announce that MARK SPEARS MONSTERS #8 Winter Horrorland R.I.P. Blind Bag has smashed the blind bag sales record previously set last month by the first Mark Spears blind bag, with 362,000 copies pre-ordered, placing it among the highest selling independent comics in history and arguably the biggest comic blind bag ever.
The eighth chapter in Keenspot’s phenomenally popular ongoing MONSTERS series, MARK SPEARS MONSTERS #8 ($5.99, in stores December 17th) is the conclusion to its first story arc “All That Remains.” In this issue, a shocking twist emerges that will make you question everything you thought you knew. As a dramatic cliffhanger unfolds and all the monsters unite, who will live, and who will die?
Every one of the 80+ covers inside the WINTER HORRORLAND R.I.P. BLIND BAG was created by Spears himself—art, writing, story, design and even taking on some of the lettering duties—making this not only a sales milestone but also one of the most ambitious single-creator projects in modern comics. Fans will also be searching for the “25 Days of Krampus Tickets”— twenty-five Golden Ticket redemptions for unique 1-of-1 signed and remarked comics hidden randomly in the pages of MARK SPEARS MONSTERS #8.
The first Spears blind bag, MARK SPEARS MONSTERS: THE MONSTER & THE WOLF #1 TRICK OR TREAT BLIND BAG which hit stores October 15th, had orders of 350,000 copies and sold out at distributors within days of release. It featured 90 variant covers all by Spears, and they currently dominate COVRPRICE.COM’s Top 10 Weekly Trending Comics list based on aftermarket sales, with a whopping 9 of the Top 10 being TRICK OR TREAT BLIND BAG covers. This is another case of Spears breaking his own record, as his MONSTERS covers previously held 5 of the Top 10 slots last year, something never done by another artist.
So far, four of the Halloween bag’s thirteen “Unholy Grail” golden tickets have been found. The first one was appropriately discovered in Salem, MA!
Spears, who only debuted in comics in 2023 with four Spawn covers, has since launched his acclaimed series MARK SPEARS MONSTERS, which quickly rose to become a Top 50 seller in comic shops since the Keenspot title’s debut in September 2024. With the addition of December’s #8 issue, there will now be more than 1.3 million copies of MARK SPEARS MONSTERS issues in print.
Keenspot titles like MARK SPEARS MONSTERS are distributed to comic shops by Lunar Distribution, Universal Distribution, and Diamond UK, and to the book trade by Simon & Schuster.
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Founded in 2000, Keenspot quickly became the top publisher of webcomics, generating billions of pageviews on keenspot.com. The company later branched out to print comic books, publishing diverse titles such as the romantic comedy MARRY ME (adapted into the hit romcom starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson that was the third-most viewed movie during its debut week on Netflix in August), fantasy epics like TWOKINDS and THE HUNTERS OF SALAMANSTRA, and all ages humor comics like GRUBBS (now an animated special starring Wil Wheaton and Jerry O’Connell with 4.2 million views on YouTube).
