A love letter to the comics of the past…
DC’s Wednesday Comics, one of the most inventive and acclaimed series of the Modern Age, is getting a new hardcover edition after spending years out of print.
Dig the official description from online sales sources:
WEDNESDAY COMICS (2025 EDITION)
Back in print for the first time in years, it’s Wednesday Comics—DC’s tribute to Sunday newspaper comics, featuring unique and dynamic stories from the top talents in comics!
This 11″ x 17” hardcover edition collects the entire award-winning anthology series that reinvented the classic weekly newspaper comics section!
Wednesday Comics features 16 different stories starring the World’s Greatest Super Heroes, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and the Flash, as well as lesser known characters including Metamorpho and Metal Men. Each story is written and illustrated by comics luminaries from multiple styles and eras including Batman by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso (100 Bullets), Kamandi by Dave Gibbons (Watchmen) and Ryan Sook (Legion of Super-Heroes), Hawkman by Kyle Baker (Plastic Man), Sgt. Rock from the father and son team of Adam Kubert and Joe Kubert, Adam Strange by Paul Pope (Batman: Year 100), Metal Men by Dan DiDio and José Luis García-López and Kevin Nowlan, and many more!
Plus, this volume includes two stories exclusive to the collected edition: Plastic Man by Evan Dorkin and Stephen DeStefano, and Beware the Creeper by Keith Giffen and Eric Canete.
This volume collects Wednesday Comics #1-12.
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A few thoughts:
— This was a brilliant concept — spearheaded by the fab Mark Chiarello, whose latest is the beautifully illustrated The Last Halloween #3 — and one that should have been repeated. It was great fun going to the comics shop every Wednesday and picking up each issue, which was an oversize broadsheet on newsprint. (Each story page measured 14″ x 20″, so when you folded it out, it was a whopping 28″ x 20″.)
— The 200-page hardcover is due Aug. 26, 2025, and lists for $75. At 11″ x 17″, it’s plenty big, even if it’s dwarfed by the original. The series came out in 2009.
— Kyle Baker’s Hawkman story went a long way toward getting me to appreciate the character. I said then, “Damn, I’d read a monthly like this.” Other highlights for me included Dave Gibbons and Ryan Sook’s incredible Kamandi, done in the style of Hal Foster and Alex Raymond; and Supergirl by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner.
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MORE
— KAMANDI AFTER KIRBY: The Brilliant WEDNESDAY COMICS Strip. Click here.
— Complete Classic THE UNTOLD LEGEND OF THE BATMAN to Be Re-Released As a Special Edition. Click here.
December 5, 2024
To reprint this volume in a smaller size defeats the purpose of this project in the first place. So glad I have the original collected edition.
December 5, 2024
This is the same size as the original collected edition: 11×17.
December 8, 2024
Sorry, misread it. You meant smaller than the individual issues themselves!
December 5, 2024
I’m loving Steve Rude’s oversized Nexus “Sunday Newspaper strip” collections too!
December 5, 2024
This was such a fun idea in its day. I absolutely looked forward to the next week’s edition. I’ll buy this just because I know the original prints won’t hold up under re-reading. The newspaper comic strip is a lost art.
December 5, 2024
The first I’d seen of this! Wish it had appeared in my paper!
December 6, 2024
They didn’t appear in local newspapers. DC published a “Wednesday Comics” newspaper tabloid every week…you bought them in your local comic book store. After the run was completed, DC published all of the tabloids in book form on high quality paper.
December 6, 2024
It’s great that this is being reprinted. I still have my copy…I lugged it to many a comic book convention for signatures and quick sketches.
One of the best things DC ever did…I don’t understand why DC never did a follow up.
December 6, 2024
Once is special, twice is a gimmick, I guess. Or DC wanted to distance itself from Mark Chiarello, whose lay off was not well received across the comic book industry.
December 10, 2024
My copy of the collected edition sits proudly on my bookshelf. Before Covid hit, I took it to all the Cons I attended (mostly Baltimore) to get it signed by as many creators as possible. Sadly, I never got everyone. But I did get: Brian Azzarello, José Luis García-López (PBHN), Dan Didio, Amanda Connor, Jimmy Palmiotti, Dave Bullock, Brian Stelfreeze, Walt Simonson, and Keith Giffen (for the Creeper page).
Maybe someday I’ll go to cons again and try and get the rest that are possible. It was a fun treasure hunt!