EXCLUSIVE: John Constantine’s first appearance in Saga of the Swamp Thing #37, Batman: Hush, Crisis and MORE…
DC is following up January’s seven Facsimile editions, with six more — including 1985’s Saga of the Swamp Thing #37, featuring the first appearance of John Constantine. The ish will even include a Super Powers variant cover! (More on that below.)
There are also two installments of Batman: Hush, Crisis on Infinite Earths #11, and more — including 1939’s Detective Comics #31.
You can click here for the full rundown on ’Tec ’31, but here are the solicitations for the rest. They’ll be formally unveiled by DC later Friday:
SAGA OF SWAMP THING #37 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by ALAN MOORE
Art by RICK VEITCH and JOHN TOTLEBEN
Cover by STEPHEN R. BISSETTE and JOHN TOTLEBEN
Foil variant cover by STEPHEN R. BISSETTE and JOHN TOTLEBEN ($6.99 US) Blank sketch cover ($4.99 US)
Super Powers variant cover ($4.99 US)
$3.99 US | 32 pages
ON SALE 2/12/25
The Swamp Thing is pondering questions about who—and what—he really is, but does he truly want the answers? Only a mysterious visitor cloaked in cigarettes and a trench coat seems to have them—and he’ll require certain services from Alec before he’s willing to share. The enigmatic and eminently cool John Constantine makes his DC debut—just in time for the end of the world!
Jason Geyer and Alex Saviuk’s Super Powers variant
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BATMAN #610 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by JEPH LOEB
Art by JIM LEE and SCOTT WILLIAMS
Cover by JIM LEE and SCOTT WILLIAMS
Foil variant cover by JIM LEE and SCOTT WILLIAMS ($4.99 US)
$3.99 US | 40 pages
ON SALE 2/12/25
Someone’s stolen a 10-million-dollar ransom right out of the clawed hands of a desperate Killer Croc, and all signs point to a certain feminine feline. Has Catwoman returned to her old ways? Who hired Croc in the first place? The Dark Knight suspects a deadly new player may be playing everyone in chapter three of “Hush”!
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BATMAN #611 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by JEPH LOEB
Art by JIM LEE and SCOTT WILLIAMS
Cover by JIM LEE and SCOTT WILLIAMS
Foil variant cover by JIM LEE and SCOTT WILLIAMS ($4.99 US)
$3.99 US | 32 pages
ON SALE 2/19/25
The trail of Poison Ivy leads to Metropolis—and Catwoman has made it clear what will happen should she get her claws on Ivy first—so Bruce Wayne must visit the City of Tomorrow. When the three Gothamites collide, it’s bound to be trouble—but could Batman possibly be prepared to handle Ivy’s new “muscle”?
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CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #11 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by MARV WOLFMAN
Art by GEORGE PÉREZ and JERRY ORDWAY
Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ
Foil variant cover by GEORGE PÉREZ ($5.99 US)
Blank sketch cover ($4.99 US)
$3.99 US | 32 pages
ON SALE 2/19/25
Where once an endless Multiverse was home to countless Earths, now a new dawn breaks on a brand-new—and singular—Earth! In this brave new world, only a precious few are aware of all that’s been lost and won, while some are horrified to learn they never existed at all! Before our heroes can even begin to adjust, their newly won world finds itself in dire peril!
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A few thoughts:
Mondo variant
— Interesting use of the Super Powers schtick. I hope we see more of these; marrying them to 40th anniversary issues is very clever. (There is also a Mondo variant of Swamp Thing #37.)
— The sixth Facsimile Edition is The Sandman #8, by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III. It’s on sale Feb. 26.
— Obligatory Price Comparison: An unslabbed, high-grade copy of Swamp Thing #37 recently sold on eBay for $266.
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MORE
— Classic DETECTIVE COMICS #31 to Get FACSIMILE EDITION Release. Click here.
— The Brilliantly Clever Vision of the SHIRTLESS BATMAN SUPER POWERS Variant. Click here.
November 15, 2024
>>… some are horrified to learn they never existed at all!
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I didn’t take it that way. I understood it as they existed, they fought to save their world of friends and family but they lost. No last minute rescue or come from behind victory would be. Heroes lost. The comic world would never be the same again. Things really started to get dark from there.
November 15, 2024
I think this is referencing the few “redundant” characters from Earth-2 who had no retroactive backstory on the new Earth-0. Off the top of my head, the JSA’s Superman, Wonder Woman, Robin, Huntress, and Green Arrow all had to deal with being characters with no history on the new world. (Power Girl was spared this through an altered history.)
November 15, 2024
DC: financially killing me with the facsimile issues. (I wonder if they calm down when Crisis and Hush are done.)
November 15, 2024
Imagine if DC did a surprise variant for the Sandman 8 that had the Karen Berger editorial 🙂