The Battle of Snake Mountain reaches its third chapter on Wednesday 11 November. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe #7 is 32 pages for $4.99, rated 14 and up, written by Tim Seeley, pencilled by Daniel HDR, inked by Eber Ferreira, coloured by Jim Charalampidis and lettered by AndWorld Design. Reilly Brown drew Cover A and Eric Powell drew Cover B.
Dark Horse’s solicitation splits the issue in two. Underneath the mountain, He-Man goes into the catacombs of Vy-Por with allies and enemies beside him. Up top, the Heroic Warriors and the Snake Men stand together against Skeletor and an army of Aquaticans, Beast Men and Evil Warriors. Dark Horse sums it up as “good and evil versus evil and eviler!”
The preview is all army
Dark Horse put five pages out ahead of Wednesday, and He-Man is not on any of them, because this is the fight above ground.
Page one of the preview. Pencils by Daniel HDR, inks by Eber Ferreira, colours by Jim Charalampidis, letters by AndWorld Design. Preview art: Dark Horse Comics and Mattel.
It opens on boots and a chant, FOR ETERNIA! lettered six times across the first two panels, and a narrator who hisses even in a caption: “By the fangss of Serpos… they’ve done it.” The men of Eternos and the Snake Men’s foot soldiers are marching on the Dark Hemisphere together. Kobra Khan wants to talk about how strange that alliance is, and Evil-Lyn cuts him off with a “blah blah blah.”
Skeletor comes down the stairs on page two with Beast Man and Mer-Man behind him, sure the army marches because it fears him, “right down to their little furry boots.” In the keep, Skeletor’s people ask why the two sides have joined now, and the answer is the Sword of Flaws in Skeletor’s hand: strike now, or never get another chance. Evil-Lyn blames Hiss for sending Scare Glow after Skeletor.
Then Skeletor claims the tribes outright. “Beast Man! Mer-Man! Your tribes are now mine.” The double-page spread that follows is the biggest art in the preview: Snake Men, Heroic Warriors and Beast Men all in one tangle on the bridge, and up in the corner Skeletor looks down and laughs that they have “got the best seats in the house!”
The spread ends on a small panel in a doorway: a figure in silhouette, saying “…and I ssee everything.” Somebody else in that keep talks like a snake, and the preview does not show who.
Two covers, and a date that moved
Brown’s Cover A puts Skeletor in a red hood across the top half, with clawed hands spread over a melee of Heroic Warriors, Snake Men and Evil Warriors. Powell’s Cover B is quieter. Skeletor stands on a rock with the Havoc Staff thrown up into a lightning strike, and Beast Man crouches at his feet.
Cover B, Eric Powell. Cover art: Dark Horse Comics and Mattel.
Dark Horse first listed this issue for 23 September and the finale, part four, for 4 November. Its own pages now say 11 November for this one and 6 January 2027 for issue 8. The collected edition, The Battle of Snake Mountain, gathers issues five to eight, and Dark Horse’s January solicitations list it for $19.99 on 23 February 2027.
Issue seven was listed on MyComicShop’s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2025) title page when we checked on 10 November, but could not be ordered yet. Issue six, part two of this arc, was in stock there at $4.99. Dark Horse’s own page for issue seven carries a store finder. For more Skeletor from the same publisher, Rich Douek’s Masters of the Universe: Genesis finished his origin on 28 October.
Sources
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe #7, Dark Horse Comics
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe #8, Dark Horse Comics
- Dark Horse Comics January 2027 solicitations, First Comics News
Preview pages and covers: Dark Horse Comics and Mattel. Dates, prices, credits and ratings read off Dark Horse’s own pages on 10 November 2026.
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