Your local comic shop is about to get a little more jawsome. Mattel and IDW Publishing have announced that Street Sharks will be returning to comics, marking the first new release in over 20 years and introducing the beloved ’90s characters to a whole new generation. This series builds upon the partnership between Mattel and IDW Publishing.
Debuting September 2025 with Street Sharks #1 (of five issues), the series follows the action-packed adventures of the four Bolton brothers – half-shark, half-human heroes and crime fighters. Since its debut in 1994, the Street Sharks franchise has also inspired a popular Mattel action figure line.
Writer Stephanie Williams and artist Ariel Medel bring Street Sharks to the page. Based on the classic animated series, the upcoming comics will thrill readers as the Sharks protect Fission City from a range of gene-slammed threats, including super-strong and monstrous lobsters and squids, and diabolical mad scientists that transform into vicious piranha monsters. The comic will deliver on everything fans loved from the hit show and the tone of its era, from the Sharks riding cool motorcycles to eating a lot of burgers and metal while swimming through the city’s concrete to take down the bad guys.
Street Sharks #1 features covers by Philip Murphy, Elizabeth Beals, Khary Randolph, and Kevin Anthony Catalan.
STREET SHARKS #1
Writer: Stephanie Williams
Artist: Ariel Medel
THE FIRST OF FIVE JAWSOME ISSUES!The first Street Sharks comic in more than 20 years brings you extreme stories and a fintastic time! But don’t call it a comeback: They’ve been waiting for everyone ELSE to get ready for more jawsome adventures!
The four Bolton Brothers were happy playing sports and meeting babes. But when a run-in with a mad scientist turned them into giant sharks, they only got COOLER!
Kick some serious fin with Ripster, the great white head of the pack; Streex, the rollerblading ladies’ man (er, ladies’ SHARK); Jab, the hammerhead who loooves using his noggin; and Big Slammu, the whale shark with the whale-sized muscles, on their newest adventure! They’ll need all the help they can get to stop their arch nemesis, Dr. Piranoid, from developing… THE PERFECT PREDATOR! Little do they know, it’s already too late to stop the grossest monster they’ve ever fought from being born!
Stephanie Williams (Nubia and the Amazons, My Little Pony) and Ariel Medel (TMNT vs. Street Fighter) bring you the most righteous shark tale you’ve ever read!
IDW Publishing · Releases Nov 12, 2025
Street Sharks #2
The fin-kicking adventures continue! Dr. Paradigm is hiding out somewhere in Fission City! The Street Sharks may have stopped the mad scientist and his Seaviate goons, but they couldn’t capture him. Even with their arch-nemesis at large, they’ll have to stop their search when a new big-top circus mysteriously appears in the waterfront district. To the public, it seems like a regular, fun-loving circus. But the Sharks are hearing rumors about strange noises around the circus at night! Surely, this couldn’t possibly be connected to Dr. Paradigm’s latest schemes… right?!
Comic · 32 pages · $4.99
IDW Publishing · Releases Dec 10, 2025
Street Sharks #3
It’s Spirit Week at Fission University! Get ready for a week of pep rallies, alumni meetups, carnival rides, and… another villainous scheme!
The Street Sharks discover a plot by Dr. Paradigm to gene-slam the football players and cheerleaders, making them into an army of athletic, subservient monsters! In order to stop Dr. Paradigm, the Sharks will need to go undercover during Spirit Week and save Fission City’s student population! But how do four giant talking sharks go undercover among crowds of human students? Well… you’re never going to believe what the school’s mascot is.
Comic · 32 pages · $4.99
IDW Publishing · Releases Jan 7, 2026
Street Sharks #4
There’s a new burger chain in Fission City, and no one is happier than the Street Sharks! But when the success of the new Mega Burgers threatens the Sharks’ favorite restaurant, Humongo Burger, that becomes a problem. And when their enhanced senses detect something fishy about Mega Burgers’ food, the Sharks know that Dr. Paradigm is involved. Could this be another ploy to turn the city’s populace into gene-slammed monsters? Probably!
Comic · 32 pages · $4.99
