Overview

• Marvel confirms the prelude as its first official tie-in comic for a Predator movie.
• Predator: Badlands opens in theaters on November 7, 2025, with the prequel comic arriving five days later on November 12.
• Director Dan Trachtenberg partnered closely on the project and contributes a foreword to the issue.
• The one-shot is written by Ethan Sacks with art by Elvin Ching and inks by Oren Junior.
• Marvel lists a main cover by Juan Ferreyra, a variant by Cafu, and a Movie Variant Cover, with the story introducing Dek on a perilous mission to a derelict spaceship.