EXCLUSIVE! All NINE will be attached to Facsimile Editions… On Friday, we broke the news that May’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #4 would have a Super Powers variant featuring crabby, middle-age Bruce Wayne all armored up. What wasn’t clear at the time was whether this was a one-off or the start of a third wave of Super Powers covers by Jason “ToyOtter” Geyer and Alex Saviuk. Welp, it’s that latter. Dig the back cover of the DKR #4 Super Powers cover — showing that a total of NINE such covers are on the way: If you want to read more about the individual issues, click here. As we know, these covers imagine figures that did not exist in the 1980s, though McFarlane Toys has coincidentally produced at least one. Anyway, it does beg the question: Since McFarlane Toys is bringing back Super Powers this summer (through Entertainment Earth) after a hiatus, will any of these be in that assortment? Or any from the first two waves of covers? If I were a betting man — and I promise you I have no inside dope on this — I’d wager that, from the selection above, McFarlane would do Supergirl, Lobo, First Appearance Batman and Swamp Thing. But that’s just a guess. And wow, wouldn’t it be great to have that 1941 Batmobile? Man, Jason Geyer knows what heartstrings to pull. — MORE — Dig This SNEAK PEEK at NINE DC Comics Facsimile Editions Coming This Year. Click here. — Beloved JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #200 to Be Re-Released As a Facsimile Edition. Click here. — BATMAN: DARK KNIGHT RETURNS #4 Facsimile Edition to Get SUPER POWERS Variant Cover. Click...
EXCLUSIVE! PLUS: Date set for Batman: Year Two finale Facsimile… May will be another big month for DC Facsimile Editions, with the publisher scheduling six first-rate issues. A number of them deserve their own headlines, and you can read about them here, here and here, or check out the links below. Meanwhile, two of them — 1986’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #4 and 1987’s Detective Comics #578 — will wrap their respective, four-issue runs. Not just that, Dark Knight Returns #4 will boast a rad Super Powers variant cover by Jason “ToyOtter” Geyer and Alex Saviuk: Dig the solicitation info, which will be officially released later Friday by DC: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS #4 FACSIMILE EDITION Written by FRANK MILLER Art and cover by FRANK MILLER Variant covers by FRANK MILLER and BRIAN BOLLAND Foil variant cover by FRANK MILLER ($7.99 US) Super Powers Action Figure variant cover by JASON GEYER and ALEX SAVIUK Amidst nuclear fire, city-wide power failure, full-scale riots, and diametrically opposed worldviews, the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel finally meet in a no-holds-barred battle to the finish! $4.99 US | 48 pages | Variant $5.99 (card stock) ON SALE 5/27/26 — DETECTIVE COMICS #578 FACSIMILE EDITION Written by MIKE W. BARR Art and cover by TODD McFARLANE Foil variant cover by TODD McFARLANE ($6.99 US) Blank sketch cover ($4.99 US) As both the Dark Knight and Gotham’s criminal underworld close in on the Reaper, the GCPD closes in on all of them! As soon as the Reaper can be brought to justice, Bruce Wayne hopes to put his life as Batman behind him, but a long-awaited settling of debts between hired gun Joe Chill and the Caped Crusader may have terrible ramifications for all. $3.99 US | 32 pages ON SALE 5/6/26 — Several thoughts: — This isn’t the only Batman news on the May Facsimile front. Click here. — We’ve had two waves of Super Powers covers the last couple years. My gut tells me this heralds a third, but we’ll see. — Obligatory Price Comparison #1: An unslabbed, VF- original Dark Knight Returns #4 recently sold on eBay for $32. — Obligatory Price Comparison #2: An unslabbed, NM+ original Detective Comics #578 went for about $27. — As I mentioned, there are five other DC Facsimiles coming in May. There’s...
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