The new issue of DC Comics Preview catalog DC Connect has arrived! Here is our breakdown of the new comics series to jump on, plus what collected editions are arriving from March 2024! You can find the rest of our Previews Picks for other Comics & Manga, as well as Marvel Comics future releases over on the blog!
Comic Issues
BATMAN: DARK AGE #1
(W) MARK RUSSELL (A/CA) MIKE ALLRED
Meet Bruce Wayne, Gotham’s favorite delinquent son. In an origin story like no other, witness the boy become a dark knight shaped by a city in turmoil as it marches towards its prophesied doom. Set against the backdrop of actual historical events, Gotham comes alive, filled with the iconic characters who’ve loved and hated Batman over the years like you’ve never seen them before. Spinning out of the Eisner-nominated ‘Superman: Space Age’, Mark Russell and Mike Allred return to give audiences a look at Batman as a figure in American history fighting for justice in a world gone mad.
BATMAN/DYLAN DOG #1
(W) ROBERTO RECCHIONI (A) GIGI CAVENAGO & WERTHER DELL’EDERA (CA) GIGI CAVENAGO
See how the fates of Batman and Dylan Dog intertwined in the past through their lethal nemeses! Joker is in London to seal a hellish pact with Dylan Dog’s nemesis, the Mephistophelian Xabaras! The doorbell of Craven Road No. 7 screams, and beyond the doorway Bruce Wayne appears. For the Nightmare Investigator, an incredible adventure begins side by side with the Dark Knight. They’ll have to forge an uneasy alliance, putting aside their differences in order to successfully confront and defeat an evil that comes from the past…
SUICIDE SQUAD: DREAM TEAM #1
(W) NICOLE MAINES (A/CA) EDDY BARROWS & EBER FERREIRA
When Amanda Waller makes her move to seize ultimate power in the DCU, nothing will stand in her way, not even the future. Spinning out of the events of ‘Titans: Beast World’ comes the story of Dreamer, the precog dream-walker. With a super-powered hero who can see the future on her side, is Waller’s Suicide Squad finally unstoppable? Join Harley Quinn, Bizarro, Clock King, Black Alice, and Deadeye for the fight for DC’s future… and the next big step toward the cataclysmic events of 2024!
APE-RIL SPECIAL (ONE-SHOT)
(W/A) VARIOUS (CA) DAN MORA
CAUTION: An ape-surd amount of bad ape puns are incoming. Get ready to go bananas as we honor DC’s storied history with mankind’s closest relatives in this ape-ic adventure! It’s gonna be orangu-tastic, so heat up a capuchin-o, prepare a batch of chocolate chimp cookies, and get ready to r(ee-ee)d the one comic b(oo-oo)k this year that’s guaranteed to make you go… APE!
Graphic Novels & Collected Editions
BARDA GN
(W/A) NGOZI UKAZU
Join New York Times bestselling writer-artist Ngozi Ukazu (Check, Please!) as she takes readers on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery, deep friendships, and first loves!
Life on Apokolips is tough, but then, it is hell, after all. And no one knows this better than Barda, Granny Goodness’s right-hand warrior. But Barda has a secret… she is in love. Or she is drawn to the idea of it, anyway, whether it be the beauty of a flower; her affection for her closest friend, Aurelie; or the mysterious and fierce enemy warrior Orion, who is the only match for Barda’s strength. When Granny decides Barda is becoming too soft, she assigns Barda a task that might be more than she can handle, to break the seemingly unbreakable Scott Free. And as Barda questions why Scott has such hope and what he might have done to provoke such hatred from Granny, she finds herself drawn to him in a way she never expected. The only thing is, we do not speak of love on Apokolips…
SUPERMAN: SPACE AGE TP
(W) MARK RUSSELL (A/CA) MICHAEL ALLRED & LAURA ALLRED
Meet Clark Kent, a young reporter who just learned the world will soon come to an end, and there’s nothing he can do to save it. Sounds like a job for his alter ego… Superman! After years of standing idle, the young man from Krypton defies the wishes of his fathers to come out to the world as the first superhero of the Space Age. As each decade passes and new dangers emerge, Superman realizes even good intentions are not without their backlash as the world transforms into a place as determined to destroy itself as he is to save it.
Collects Superman: Space Age #1-3.
THE NEW CHAMPION OF SHAZAM! TP
(W) JOSIE CAMPBELL (A) EVAN “DOC” SHANER & CAITLIN YARSKY (CA) EVAN “DOC” SHANER
After the power of Shazam vanishes without a trace, Mary Bromfield prepares for her freshman year of college and a “normal” life at last. But before she can truly get started, another opportunity beckons as she becomes… the New Champion of Shazam? Can she balance her new life and this even newer role? And even if she can, how will she contend against the powerful magical forces rising to take over the world?
Collects The New Champion of Shazam! #1-4 and a Shazam story from Lazarus Planet: We Once Were Gods #1.
STEELWORKS TP
(W) MICHAEL DORN (A) SAMI BASRI, VICENTE CIFUENTES & MAX RAYNOR (CA) CLAY MANN
The Metropolis of the future is here today, but can it survive a terrorist who’s out for revenge against its builder, John Henry Irons a.k.a. Steel, and his company, Steelworks… and who possesses secrets that could undo everything John has worked so hard to build? Featuring appearances by the entire Super-Family! Writer Michael Dorn (the voice of Steel in Superman: The Animated Series) teams up with artist Sami Basri (Harley Quinn, Catwoman) to bring you the next chapter of Steel’s saga!
Collects Steelworks #1-6 plus a story from Action Comics #1054-1056.
BATMAN: FORTRESS TP
(W) GARY WHITTA (A) DARICK ROBERTSON (CA) DARICK ROBERTSON & DIEGO RODRIGUEZ
From the writer behind ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ & ‘Gundog’, Gary Whitta! Can the Dark Knight stop an invasion of Earth? When an unknown alien ship enters Earth’s atmosphere, disrupting global power and communications and plunging the planet into chaos, the world is left wondering… where is Superman when he is needed most? In the mysterious absence of the Last Son of Krypton, Batman must rally the rest of the Justice League to counter the alien threat… but first, he must quell a crime wave on the blacked-out streets of Gotham!
Collects Batman: Fortress #1-8.
WORLD’S FINEST: TEEN TITANS HC
(W) MARK WAID (A) EMANUELA LUPACCHINO & MIKE NORTON (CA) CHRIS SAMNEE & MAT LOPES
From the world’s finest imagination of Mark Waid (Batman/Superman: World’s Finest) and Emanuela Lupacchino (Justice League) comes a new series starring everyone’s favorite super-teens! The original fab five of Robin, Wonder Girl, Aqualad, Speedy, and Kid Flash are joined by Bumblebee, making them a spectacular six. Set during the early years of the DC Universe, ‘World’s Finest: Teen Titans’ is filled with action, romance, and rabid fans. Building a unified team from a group of teen heroes is hard work, and even harder when the Teen Titans are being targeted by the very dangerous Terror Titans. But will the tensions within the team prove to be the strongest challenges the Titans face?
Collects World’s Finest: Teen Titans #1-6.
DC PRIDE: BETTER TOGETHER HC
(W/A) VARIOUS (CA) MATEUS MANHANINI
This hardcover expansion of DC’s celebrated DC Pride 2023 anthology delivers the greatest super-hero team-ups the multiverse has to offer! Legendary scribe Grant Morrison returns to the world of The Multiversity for a tale of the cosmic lengths Flashlight will run to in order to honor his lost love! Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy take a getaway to Dinosaur Island, only to stumble on Lobo’s daughter, Crush! Jon Kent gets a crash course in the dark side of magic from John Constantine! All this and more, plus a gallery of sensational DC Pride variant-cover art!
Collects DC Pride 2023 #1 alongside the debut of Circuit Breaker from Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1 and an Alan Scott tale from DC Pride: Through The Years #1.
52 VOLUME ONE (2024 EDITION) TP
(W) GEOFF JOHNS, GRANT MORRISON, GREG RUCKA & MARK WAID (A) VARIOUS (CA) J.G. JONES & ALEX SINCLAIR
DC’s groundbreaking publication of the weekly comic ‘52′ tells the story of a “missing” year in the DC Universe, in real-time. The cataclysmic events of ‘Infinite Crisis’ have left the world without its three biggest icons, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, and the question is asked: Who will stand up in their absence?
Collects 52 #1-26.
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NIGHTWING: A KNIGHT IN BLÜDHAVEN COMPENDIUM ONE TP
(W) CHUCK DIXON, DENNIS O’NEIL & DEVIN GRAYSON (A) VARIOUS (CA) SCOTT McDANIEL & KARL STORY
Nightwing flies solo as Dick Grayson leaves Gotham behind! Making Blüdhaven his new home, Nightwing will become the city’s protector, all while uncovering facts about the murder of his parents, upending the plots of assassins, and forging his own path out of the shadow of Batman.
Collects Nightwing (vol. 1) #1-4; Nightwing (vol. 2) #1-25, #1,000,000; Nightwing Annual #1; Wizard Presents: Nightwing #1/2; Nightwing and Huntress #1-4; Green Arrow (vol. 2) #134-135; Robin (vol. 2) #55; and Detective Comics #723-725 and #1,000,000.
ZATANNA BY PAUL DINI (2024 EDITION) TP
(W) PAUL DINI with ADAM BEECHEN, MATTHEW STURGES & DEREK FRIDOLFS (A) VARIOUS (CA) ADAM HUGHES
The enchanting Zatanna Zatara has the hottest stage act in Las Vegas. And unlike the parlor tricks peddled by other would-be Houdinis around town, Zatanna’s magic is no illusion. It’s real. The dazzling Mistress of Magic can warp reality with just a few backward words. But the supernatural is powerful… and in the wrong hands, it’s deadly. So when mystical menaces start causing trouble, Zee steps in to stop them, from the evil sorcerer Brother Night to possessed puppets to nightmare demons. But things get complicated fast when the foe is the ghost of someone she loves!
Collects Zatanna #1-16 and Zatanna: Everyday Magic, and DC Infinite Halloween Speical #1.
BOOSTER GOLD: THE COMPLETE 2007 SERIES BOOK ONE TP
(W) GEOFF JOHNS, JEFF KATZ, RICK REMENDER & CHUCK DIXON (A) DAN JURGENS, NORM RAPMUND, PAT OLLIFFE & JERRY ORDWAY (CA) DAN JURGENS & NORM RAPMUND
Presenting the greatest, most popular, most beloved, and did we say popular, superhero of all time: Booster Gold! … Or so he hopes to be thought of one day. As the time-traveling hero gets caught up in the madness of changing histories, fighting Time Stealers, and trying to undo the death of his bestie, Blue Beetle, he will learn the hard way that twisting time too far may just cause it to snap!
Collects Booster Gold #0-14 and #1,000,000.
Adventures of Superman by George Perez (2024 Edition) TP
(W) GEORGE PEREZ, ROGER STERN & MORE (A/CA) GEORGE PEREZ
The 1980s Superman stories by celebrated writer and artist George Pérez are collected in a complete volume! These tales include a face-off with Brainiac, a team-up with O.M.A.C., the start of Superman’s New 52 adventures, and much more.
Collects DC Comics Presents #61, Action Comics ##643-645 and #647-652, Action Comics Annual #2, and Superman (2011) #1-6.
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