EXCLUSIVE! Starting in April and running for a year…
Don’t say you haven’t been waiting for this: DC Comics will be reprinting the entirety of 1984-85’s Crisis on Infinite Earths as 12 monthly Facsimile Editions — and they’re not waiting for the series’ 40th anniversary.
Nope, the publisher is gearing up in April with the release of one of comics’ landmarks: Issue #1, which came out in December 1984.
Dig these first two solicitations, covering April and May; they’ll be formally released by DC later this week. Not just that — DC has two more mind-blowing Facsimile Editions headed your way in May. Click here to see what that’s all about, soldier.
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CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by Marv Wolfman
Plot by Marv Wolfman, Len Wein and Robert Greenberger
Art by George Perez and Dick Giordano
Cover by George Perez
Foil variant cover by George Perez
Blank variant cover
Heroes will live! Heroes will die! And the DC Universe will never again be the same! The premiere issue of the landmark series that forever transformed the DC Universe and the superhero landscape is faithfully reprinted in a vibrant full-facsimile edition.
$3.99 US
32 pages
ON SALE 4/16/24
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CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #2 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by Marv Wolfman
Art by George Perez and Dick Giordano
Cover by George Perez
Foil variant cover by George Perez
Blank variant cover
Already 1,000 universes have died, and the Monitor has summoned a group of 15 heroes and villains in a race against and through time to save this one. Part two of the epic storyline is faithfully reproduced and re-presented in this facsimile edition.
$3.99 US
32 pages
ON SALE 5/21/24
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A few thoughts:
— Don’t forget: There are two other Facsimile Editions coming from DC in May — and you will not guess what they are.
— It’s been a long time since I’ve read Crisis. I know it holds up as an event, but I’m curious as to how it holds up as a story. This is a really groovy way to find out.
— Hey, get this: It’ll be even more fun to play along with Fred Van Lente’s Comic Book Death Match!, which every month is pitting Crisis and Secret Wars against each other, issue by issue. We started it because, as you know, Marvel’s doing a monthly Secret Wars Facsimile Edition program this year. Now everyone’s in the pool! Click here for the initial installment.
— It’s not like it took a degree in astrophysics, but I predicted DC would do this at the end of 2024. Yet I didn’t expect the company to get such a head start with an April launch.
— Obligatory Price Comparison: An unslabbed, mid-grade copy of an original Issue #1 goes for about $10. Issue #2 a little less. But unslabbed, full runs of the series have been going on eBay for as high as $150-175.
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MORE
— DC AND MARVEL TEAM-UPS to Get New OMNIBUS EDITIONS This Summer. Click here.
— GEORGE PEREZ: CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS Was My Fanboy Dream. Click here.
February 14, 2024
Will they print the first two issues uses flexographic printing like 40 years ago?
February 14, 2024
Wow… $4 a pop? No thank you.
February 14, 2024
$4 is very fair, thinking they might have been $5 to $7
February 15, 2024
Agreed. It’s the typical cost of a comic today.
February 15, 2024
Inflation. At 12 issues, you about arrive at the price of a decent hard cover copy. I’m content with that though I might get a few copies of #1 just for the spinner.
February 14, 2024
They should release them at the same price they released the originals
February 16, 2024
And I would like my ice cream to have the same price as it had 40 years ago.
February 16, 2024
Here’s hoping they go back to the original colors. The Crisis #8 Facsimile from a few years ago used the (now dated feeling) recoloring from the 1998 hardcover that’s been used in all reprints since. Would have also been fun if DC got one of their big gun artists to do variants for the whole series as well.