EXCLUSIVE — SUPERMAN VS. SHAZAM! Treasury FACSIMILE EDITION Coming in May
Another Supertabloid on the way as the movie hype roareth! May is coming and DC’s trend of publishing treasury Facsimile Editions in odd-numbered months continues with 1978’s All New Collectors’ Edition #C-58… also known as Superman vs. Shazam! Dig the solicitation, which will be released officially by DC later this week: SUPERMAN VS. SHAZAM! ALL NEW COLLECTORS EDITION #58 FACSIMILE EDITION Written by GERRY CONWAY Art and cover by RICH BUCKLER and DICK GIORDANO ($14.99 US) Foil variant cover by RICH BUCKLER and DICK GIORDANO ($16.99 US) When the immortal Martian wizard Karmang seeks to resurrect his long-dead race, he enlists Black Adam and the Quarrmer to capture the energy required—by annihilating Earth-One and Earth-S! To keep Superman and Captain Marvel from interfering with this plan, the two champions are set against one another. Now it’s the Man of Steel versus the World’s Mightiest Mortal—with the fate of two worlds in the balance! 72 pages ON SALE 5/28/25 — Several thoughts: — This is one of six Facsimile Editions DC is pubbing in May. Click here for the rest. — LCE #C-58 is pretty much the first full meeting/fight between Superman and the original Captain Marvel. Superman was on the cover of 1972’s Shazam #1, introducing the World’s Mightiest Mortal’s arrival at DC. They also almost fought in a classic 1976 three-parter in Justice League of America #135-137. — Plus, there was 1974’s beloved Superman #276, in which the Man of Steel battled an ersatz version of the Big Red Cheese — Captain Thunder. Now THAT would be a fun Facsimile Edition. McFarlane recently produced a Captain Thunder action figure, so who knows? — Rich Buckler is my favorite non-C.C. Beck-style Captain Marvel artist. It’s because his version so resembles the wonderful 8-inch Mego action figure. He also did the art for the 1981 two-parter DC Comics Presents #33-34, my fave Superman/Shazam! story of all time. — This is the fourth and final “Superman vs.” tabloid DC produced. When this is published, DC will have re-released all of them as Facsimile Editions. So what’s next? Here’s my prediction, based on no inside knowledge whatsoever: I’m banking on DC in June following up on the recent surprise tabloid-size Untold Legend of the Batman Limited Edition with 1979’s World of Krypton — comics’ first miniseries, written by our pal Paul Kupperberg...
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