EXCLUSIVE — DC’s fifth GA-size Facsimile… March’s 1942 Wonder Woman #1 Facsimile Edition will be in Golden Age size, joining previous, similar DC releases such as Action Comics #1, Superman #1, Detective Comics #27 and Batman #1. The issue, which was released in standard, modern dimensions in 2023, was originally listed with those same measurements but word came this week that it will indeed be in the larger format. As a reminder, here’s the official solicitation: WONDER WOMAN #1 FACSIMILE EDITION Written by WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON Art and cover by HARRY PETER Foil variant cover by HARRY PETER ($12.99 US) Blank sketch cover ($10.99 US) Learn the incredible lost history of the Amazons and discover how their princess, Diana, earned the right to become Wonder Woman, fighting against the evils of war in Man’s World! All this and three more thrilling tales of the Amazing Amazon’s early exploits by Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston! $9.99 US | 64 pages ON SALE 3/18/26 — A few thoughts: — The prices above are not changing. Those are typical for Golden Age-size reprints. But word around Themyscira is the GA size wasn’t confirmed until this week. — Golden Age comics are usually about 7.75″ x 10.5″. Modern Age books are roughly 6.625″ x 10.25″. There can be slight discrepancies, though. — Obligatory Price Comparison. An unslabbed original Wonder Woman #1 is pretty much impossible to find. An 8.0 slabbed copy sold for $120,000, including buyer’s premium through Heritage Auctions in 2020. The 2023 Facsimile Edition will run you about $8. (There were foil and logo sketch covers too.) — MORE — DC COMICS to Publish FIVE Facsimile Editions in March. Click here. — DC to Publish SIX Facsimile Editions in April — With an Emphasis on the Wacky. Click...
Scott and Dan hit up the comics racks from 66 years ago… This week for RETRO HOT PICKS, Scott and I are selecting comics that came out the week of Jan. 28, 1960. Last time for RETRO HOT PICKS, it was the week of Jan. 21, 1985. Click here to check it out. (Keep in mind that comics came out on multiple days, so these are the comics that went on sale between Jan. 25 and Jan. 31.) And dig that banner by Walt Grogan — new for 2026! We’ve got four of them — one each for the Golden, Silver, Bronze and Modern Ages. So, let’s set the scene: The 1960 presidential campaign had begun to take shape. This month, both John F. Kennedy, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, and Republican Vice President Richard Nixon each declared their candidacies for the nation’s highest office. Around the same time, an American defector to the Soviet Union, Lee Harvey Oswald, was welcomed by the mayor of Minsk and given a free apartment and a job as a metal worker in a radio and TV factory. But the general public neither knew — nor cared — at the time. The Cold War was filled with no shortage of covert activity and saber rattling during January: The White House was privately discussing overthrowing Cuba’s new socialist leader, Fidel Castro; the Soviets moved to reduce its armed forces in order to divert funding to nuclear weapons; and, the USSR declared the world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile operational. It had also been announced that President Eisenhower would visit the Soviet Union in June, as the guest of First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev. (The visit was called off after the infamous U-2 incident in May.) The civil rights movement was simmering: Joseph McNeill, a Black 17-year-old college student, was turned away Jan. 31 by a waitress at a bus terminal in Greensboro, North Carolina. When he told three friends about it, they decided to take a stand. The next day, they went to a Woolworth’s lunch counter and refused to get up until they were served. It was far from the first “sit-in” but it launched a wave of similar protests across the South and focused national attention on the injustice of segregation. IN OTHER NEWS — There was a lot of monkey business in the Space Race. On...
We reported recently that legendary comics artist Neal Adams left portfolios of artwork in a New York City cab. Unfortunately, there’s no happy ending yet. Here, Adams talks about it for the first time:
Fact: The best Batman story not in print right now is the Steve Englehart-Marshall Rogers run from Detective Comics in 1977-78. This is a crime.