EXCLUSIVE! Including WATCHMEN #1, V FOR VENDETTA #1, and the latest SUPER POWERS variant…
DC in September will release a startling seven Facsimile Editions. A lot of them deserve their own spotlight, so make sure you check out the links at the bottom of this post. You will be so glad you did.
Three of those issues are Watchmen #1 and V for Vendetta #1 — an Alan Moore two-fer — and 1993’s Wonder Woman #72, which includes the latest Super Powers variant.
Dig the solicitation info for all three, to be released by DC officially later Thursday:
WATCHMEN #1 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by ALAN MOORE
Art and cover by DAVE GIBBONS
The epic series that changed comics forever, now in full facsimile format!
$3.99 | 32 pages
ON SALE 9/23/26
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V FOR VENDETTA #1 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by ALAN MOORE
Art and cover by DAVID LLOYD
Foil variant cover by DAVID LLOYD
In a post-nuclear world, Great Britain has emerged as a Fascist state. When young Evey Hammond is saved by a mysterious masked stranger, she is pulled into his quest to fight back and overthrow the government.
$3.99 US | 32 pages
ON SALE 9/23/26
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WONDER WOMAN #72 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by WILLIAM MESSNER-LOEBS
Art by LEE MODER
Cover by BRIAN BOLLAND
Foil variant cover by BRIAN BOLLAND ($6.99 US)
Blank sketch cover ($4.99 US)
Super Powers variant cover by JASON GEYER and ALEX SAVIUK ($4.99 US)
Having returned from her exile in space, Wonder Woman recounts to her friends the story of the Amazons (as well as her own incredible origin), while discovering with growing alarm that circumstances have changed for herself and Themyscira in her absence.
$3.99 US | 32 pages
ON SALE 9/23/26
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Buncha thoughts:
— Since this is Watchmen’s 40th anniversary year, I figured this Facsimile would be coming. I wondered whether we’d get the full 12-issue run across a year, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. (UPDATED: Yes, it IS the case. Click here for the details.)
— No variants listed for Watchmen, but that can change.
— V for Vendetta, which was first published in the UK, is not celebrating an anniversary but a TV show is in development at HBO.
— Obligatory Price Comparison #1: An unslabbed, NM original 1986 Watchmen #1 recently sold on eBay for $275.
— Obligatory Price Comparison #2: An unslabbed, high-grade original 1988 V for Vendetta #1 went for $60.
— Obligatory Price Comparison #3: An unslabbed, NM original Wonder Woman #72 went for $152.50
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MORE
— WATCHMEN: DC to Release All 12 Issues as Monthly FACSIMILE EDITIONS. Click here.
— 1960’s SUPERMAN #141: One of the Man of Steel’s Greatest to Be Released as a Facsimile Edition. Click here.
— 1942’s Landmark BATMAN #11 to Get Facsimile Edition — Finally! Click here.
— DC to Re-Release the BATMAN #251 Facsimile Edition — This Time With Foil and Sketch Variants. Click here.
— DC to Salute JOE KUBERT’s CENTENNIAL With a Facsimile Edition and a Special Retrospective Issue. Click here.
June 18, 2026
I’m going to be very disappointed if they don’t give us the entire 12 issue run of Watchmen!
I’ll have to wait and see if issue two is announced before I even consider buying issue one.
For me, this would be just like when they released a facsimile of Batman #676 without completing the rest of the issues through #681. In that instance I only bought the foil variant.
June 18, 2026
The practice of releasing a facsimile because it’s got a hot cover but leaving the story incomplete is awful.
I got the Iron Man #149 facsimile yesterday (via eBay, because the blind bag thing is a whole other problem). Great story, great art, famous for the cover of Iron Man visible in Dr. Doom’s eye. It ends on a cliffhanger and Iron Man #150 would be a great facsimile as well. (Iron Man! Dr. Doom! Great cover! Double-sized story where they fight in Camelot!) Hasn’t happened.
June 18, 2026
@Adam –
It’s for that very reason why I passed on preordering myself Detective Comics #31, knowing that the rest of the story concludes in Tec #32.
I should have at least gotten the foil variant. As I absolutely love the cover art for Tec #31. But I already have both stories collected in the Batman Golden Age omnibus as well as the paperback edition.
It also really pained me to pass on the facsimile of The Laughing Fish. But without the conclusion of Sign Of The Joker, it just feel empty to me. On that note, DC really needs to reprint Batman Strange Apparitions already. I was so upset when the planned deluxe edition was cancelled.
June 18, 2026
Six new facsimiles? You’re killing me, Dan.
By September, DC will be up to 186 published (or announced) facsimiles. They’re now WELL ahead of Marvel, who will be at 167 in September. (Two of DC’s are announced but not scheduled yet: Batman #497 and Swamp Thing #1.)
I had to expand my list a little. It turns out that DC had some convention exclusives of Booster Gold #1, The Authority #1, and, gak, All-Star Comics #58. They’re only available on eBay at this point, and not cheap. I’m adding them to the tally, though–and hopefully I can splurge for a reasonably price someday.
Batman continues to dominate at 66 reprints between “Batman” and Detective, plus various assorted specials. In the early issues, we now have Batman #1, 5, 9, and now 11. Maybe they should just reprint #2-4, 7-8, 10, and 12 to round out Batman’s first year.
Superman finally gets another issue. About time. He’ll probably never catch up to Batman, but good for him for trying.
Watchmen gives us one more comic that, up until now, had a DC Millennium Edition but not a full facsimile. That leaves, oh, 29 books that still only have a Millennium copy. Maybe we’ll get that Superboy #1 or Gen 13 #1 someday.
June 18, 2026
@Adam –
Imagine if DC decided to begin a continuous facsimile print run of Detective Comics starting with issue #27 as well as the Batman Spring issue #1, and just kept them going as long as the sales stayed strong?
I know I’d go along for the ride. I’d certainly enjoy it a lot more than most of what DC had been releasing since 2011 and on.
June 18, 2026
>>Imagine if DC decided to begin a continuous facsimile print run of Detective Comics starting with issue #27…
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I’d really be happy if they just did the early issues before everything changed with the invention of Robin. Those early issues would be great to have. Not to say if they did what you are proposing I wouldn’t buy all of those too. I just think the market isn’t there. Be nice to be wrong but I don’t have any real data to back up either argument – right or wrong. Maybe not in my lifetime but I can see a day where publishing is able to print ala the iTunes music store model. Where the reader selects the issues they’d like to purchase and it is printed by demand.
June 18, 2026
Not sure how necessary Watchmen #1 or V for Vendetta #1 are. That WW 72 price just can’t be right.
June 19, 2026
Watchmen facsimile only $3.99? Wasn’t this originally printed as some kind of prestige format or something? DC going with newsprint this time?
June 20, 2026
A continuous run of the Fawcett Captain Marvel and all the separate books is all I would like to see. Very unlikely as DC just cannot get those titles right.
June 21, 2026
Have you looked at what https://www.psartbooks.com/ is doing? I’ve purchased a few of their Captain Marvel editions.
July 6, 2026
I haven’t explored the PS Artbooks facsimiles, but they have a lot of titles I would love to delve into. So their facsimiles have full ads and all original material, or are they just the story/art?
July 12, 2026
Best I can tell at least with the single issue facsimile I purchased (Captain Marvel #18), the original ads are there. But I’d reach out to them directly and not take my word as absolute. I’ve just not purchased enough to say decisively.