Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty — The Complete Comic King Guide

Rick and Morty is an Adult Swim cartoon about a nihilistic genius scientist and his anxious grandson, and for eleven years it was also a comic. Oni Press published more than a hundred Rick and Morty issues across roughly two dozen different series between April 2015 and May 2026. On 27 May 2026 the line ended.

That is the single most useful thing anyone can know about this title in 2026, and almost nobody knows it. The show is still running — it has been renewed through season twelve — so most people assume the comics are still coming out too. They are not. There is no next issue.

Which makes this one of the very few runs on this site you can actually finish. Sixty issues in the original series, a large family of spinoffs around it, and a hard stop. Nothing further will ever be added.

The other thing worth saying immediately, because it is the mistake we see most often at the counter: this is not a children’s comic. The art is bright and cartoonish and the show is on a channel that runs cartoons, so it gets bought as a gift for nine-year-olds regularly. The content is the same as the television series — swearing, drugs, sex, violence. We would rather have a thirty-second conversation about that than have you find out afterwards.

One more thing before the practical stuff, because people assume the opposite: these are not adaptations. The comics do not retell episodes. They are original stories built on the show’s premise, written and drawn by comics people who were given room to work, and the good ones are genuinely good. Kyle Starks wrote the long middle stretch of the original series and that run is the one longtime readers point at. If you have avoided this shelf because you expected a novelisation of things you have already watched, that is not what is here.

Quick Facts

Story: A nihilistic genius scientist drags his anxious grandson through the multiverse. Everyone already knows the premise,
which means the job on this title is routing rather than selling.
Length: More than a hundred comics across roughly two dozen series, from 1 April 2015 to 27 May 2026. The original run alone is sixty issues.
Status: ★ CLOSED. Oni Press ended the line with Rick and Morty Forever #0 on 27 May 2026. As of August 2026 no publisher has been announced as picking the licence up.
Publisher: Oni Press throughout, from 2015 to 2026. The Dungeons & Dragons crossovers were co-published with IDW.
⚠ Note for ordering: Oni moved to Penguin Random House distribution on 1 August 2026.
Age guide: ⚠⚠ ADULT, and this is the most important line on the page. It is an Adult Swim property and the comics carry the same content — swearing, drugs, sex and violence. The art is bright and cartoonish, so it gets bought for children constantly.
Formats: Sixty original issues · a large spinoff family · trade paperbacks · two original manga volumes · one enormous variant-cover ecosystem.
At Comic King: Back issues and trades are the whole business now, because there are no new issues and there will not be any. We buy this run.

The Comic Finished in May. The Show Is Confirmed Through Season Twelve.

It is worth being precise about how the ending happened, because it happened twice.

In December 2025 Oni launched a six-issue series called Rick and Morty: The End and said plainly that it was the finale. It ran monthly and finished on 13 May 2026. Two weeks later, on 27 May, Oni published one more — Rick and Morty Forever #0, forty-eight pages with a silver foil wraparound cover by Troy Little, at eight ninety-nine. The publisher’s own phrase for it was "the end of the end". After that, nothing.

Meanwhile the show is in the healthiest position it has ever been in. Adult Swim ordered seventy episodes back in May 2018, and at New York Comic Con in October 2024 renewed it through season twelve. Season nine ran from 24 May to 26 July 2026. There is a feature film in development with a director attached, an anime spinoff, and a new spinoff called President Curtis that premiered in July 2026 and has already been renewed.

So the supply of comics is now fixed while the audience keeps growing. That sounds like an obviously good position to be in, and in the long run it may well be. But we went and checked what actually happened to prices when the line ended, and the honest answer is more interesting than the easy one.

Nothing happened. Or rather, prices went the wrong way.

We compared Rick and Morty #1 across the months either side of the ending against two control books — a number one from a licensed cartoon line that is still running, and a number one from a licensed cartoon line that ended years ago. Across the same window, ungraded copies of Rick and Morty #1 fell by roughly a quarter. Both controls rose by something close to forty percent. Issues two and three of Rick and Morty moved in step with issue one, which tells you the drift was general rather than something specific to the key. And submissions to the grading companies, which had been climbing steadily in the months before the finale, went flat immediately after it.

The ending did not move this market. What did move it, on the evidence, is the film — the sellers listing Rick and Morty #1 in the middle of 2026 are putting the words "movie in production" in their listing titles, not "series finale". If you are watching this book for a reason to act, the screen calendar is the thing to watch, not the publishing one.

None of which undoes the structural point. A closed line genuinely is finite: the back issues will not be replenished, and the trades will eventually stop being reprinted. If a collection or a distributor deal puts Rick and Morty trades in front of you cheaply, they are worth taking deeper than a normal licensed book would be. Just do not expect the ending itself to be the thing that pays for it, and be aware there is a gap coming — season nine finished in July 2026, season ten has no air date, and in August 2026 the show’s producers were pointing at the summer of 2027.

One honest caveat on the ending, which we will keep updated. No publisher has announced picking up the licence, and we checked for that ten different ways. But an absence of an announcement is not proof that the licence is unplaced — it may simply be unannounced. This is also the English-language line only; separate licensed Rick and Morty comics have been published in Germany, the United Kingdom and Mexico, and those are outside what we can speak to.

The Run, Era by Era

Eleven years, more than a hundred issues, and a real ending. Ask which series, because there are dozens.

The Keys — Issues Everyone Hunts

Rick and Morty #1, from 1 April 2015, is the franchise key and a genuine modern one. An independent publisher printed it for a show that had not yet peaked, which is exactly the profile that produces value. It is the book to look for and the book worth owning.

There are two checks to run on it, in this order, and neither is optional.

First, read the indicia. Rick and Morty #1 went to six printings as the show exploded, and later printings circulate heavily. Here is the useful part, and it is unusual: five of the six are visually distinct. The second printing has a Fred Chao cover, the third a Pauson cover, the fifth a Sygh cover and the sixth an Ellerby and Stern cover — all different images. Only the fourth printing reuses the original Cannon and Hill cover art, so the fourth is the one that will fool you across a table, and the fourth is the one you must open the book to identify. We could not establish the exact indicia wording that separates it, so treat any unopened copy of that cover as unproven. For what it is worth, a copy that turned out to be a fourth printing sold recently for well under half what clean first printings were trading at, and it was listed under the same heading as the firsts.

Second, identify the cover. Rick and Morty has one of the largest retailer-exclusive and convention-variant ecosystems of any modern property. Some carry real premiums, most carry none, and on this franchise the cover frequently matters more than the issue number. Never quote a price on a Rick and Morty book until you know exactly which cover it is.

Then there is the book almost nobody has heard of, and it may be the most interesting thing on this page.

In 2014 — a year before Oni published anything — a sixteen-page pamphlet called The Good Morty was packed inside the season one home video release. It is a parody of the small religious tracts people used to leave in phone boxes, it was credited to an invented outfit called Morty Publications, and two hundred and fifty copies were signed by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. It is a single-staple pamphlet, which in collecting terms puts it a step above the double-staple books that came after it. At least one established price guide calls it the first appearance of Rick and Morty in comics.

Neither grading company has ever certified one. No price guide we use tracks it. In more than a decade we could locate exactly one documented sale. That is not evidence that it is worthless — it is evidence that it is invisible, which is a very different thing and historically a much more interesting one. This is the sixth time on this site we have found a genuine first appearance sitting outside the graded market entirely, and the pattern has been consistent: they are cheap right up until somebody writes about them.

If you have a season one Rick and Morty box set in a cupboard, open it.

After #1, the strongest key is Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons #1 from 29 August 2018 — the crossover that reached past both audiences, co-written by Jim Zub with the fantasy novelist Patrick Rothfuss and drawn by Troy Little. It sold about twenty-one thousand copies and the collection became the single best-selling book Oni Press has published. There is a 2019 sequel, Chapter II: Painscape, and a Meeseeks one-shot from IDW in 2022.

Everything else is bins with the covers checked. The Presents one-shots, the spinoff limited series, the specials — mostly common, occasionally hiding an exclusive worth more than the pile it is in. Forever #0 is a lovely bookend and a completist item, printed in 2026 to modern numbers, and it grades extremely easily, which is usually a sign that a graded copy is not where the value is.

Every Format You Can Buy

The real barrier on this title is not persuasion, it is routing. Everybody already knows what Rick and Morty is. What nobody knows is which of the hundred-plus comics to pick up, and a customer left to browse will usually pull a random one-shot off the shelf, find it slight, and put the whole franchise down. So we route rather than recommend: volume one of the original series first, the Dungeons & Dragons crossover second, and everything else after that. If you tell us what you liked about the show we can be more specific than that, but those two are the answer nine times in ten.

Screen & Series Status

Updated August 2026: the comic line is closed and the screen side is unusually busy.

Season nine ran from 24 May to 26 July 2026, ten episodes. Season ten is confirmed and in production but has no air date; the first footage was shown uncoloured at San Diego in July 2026, and in mid-August the show’s producers were talking about the summer of 2027. Expect roughly a year without new episodes.

The renewal position is stronger than most people realise. Adult Swim ordered seventy episodes in May 2018, and in October 2024 renewed the series through season twelve. A feature film is in development with a director attached as of May 2026. Rick and Morty: The Anime arrived in 2024, the Vindicators spinoff exists, and a further spinoff called President Curtis premiered on 26 July 2026 and has already been renewed for a second season.

On the co-creator question, which people do ask: Justin Roiland’s association with Adult Swim ended in January 2023 and both leading roles were recast, with Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden taking over. Criminal charges against him were dismissed on 22 March 2023 for insufficient evidence. Whether the show is still good is a matter of taste — answer briefly and get back to the comics.

The steady engine underneath all of this needs no announcement at all. Rick and Morty is permanently in streaming rotation and permanently in merchandise. New viewers arrive constantly, a percentage of them go looking for comics, and what they now find is a closed and completable run.

Collector's Corner — Grading, Care & We Buy

★ BUY ON SIGHT: Rick and Morty #1 from 2015, first printing, ungraded, in very fine to near mint condition, at a sensible price. Clean first printings trade steadily — we counted roughly three genuine sales a month over the last five months — and it is the one book in this franchise with a real, liquid market. Check the indicia before you buy, because a fourth printing in the same cover will be sitting in the same pile.

⚠ Do not underwrite a high grade on it. The census is instructive: of well over a thousand certified copies of #1, only about a fifth reached the top universal grade, and the grade below it outnumbers the top grade by a wide margin. A raw copy that looks perfect is more likely to come back one notch down than to come back at the top. Buy it as a nice raw book, not as a grading bet.

A word about published price guides on this title, because they will mislead you here more than usual. The bucket for Rick and Morty #1 on the main price guide is heavily contaminated — nearly half the ungraded sales feeding it are not the comic at all but trade paperbacks selling for a few dollars, which drags the published figure well below what a clean first printing actually trades for. The graded figure has the opposite problem: a single extremely expensive variant got filed into it, which produced a spike in the middle of 2026 that never happened. This is not unique to Rick and Morty — we checked a control book from another cartoon licence and its bucket was worse. It is simply a reminder that the published number and the real number are different things, and that we comp individually before quoting.

Everything outside the identified keys should be bought sensibly. Licensed tie-in comics have historically not held value well, and a closed line improves that picture without rewriting it. Issues two to sixty go in the bins with their covers checked. Presents one-shots and spinoffs, the same. Forever #0 at current pricing, for completists.

Rick and Morty arrives in quantity from lapsed show fans, usually as a mixed pile of different series with wildly varying covers. Sort by cover rather than by title, and pull #1 and the Dungeons & Dragons crossover specifically. We buy it, and we will tell you honestly which parts of your pile are worth something and which are not.

On care: these are modern comics on modern paper, so bag, board and keep them out of the sun and they will be fine. The one item that genuinely needs care is anything from that 2014 home video pamphlet, because it was never treated as a comic by anyone and surviving copies have usually been stored accordingly.