Magnificent…
DC Comics on Wednesday announced the upcoming miniseries New History of the DC Universe, by Mark Waid and a team of artists, including Jerry Ordway.
The series kicks off with Book One on June 25 and you can get the skinny here.
The main cover will be by Chris Samnee but the beautiful variant covers deserve their own post, so here we are. Artists include Dan Mora, Ryan Sook and Michael Cho. There will also be two foil covers: one by Stanley “Artgerm” Lau (not yet released) and a group shot by Sook that will be presented vertically. There will also be a series of connecting wraparounds for the series, by Scott Koblish, showing DC’s characters through the years.
Dig these:
Scott Koblish variant
Ryan Sook variant
Sook variant
Michael Cho variant
Dan Mora variant
If you can name everyone on that Koblish cover without looking it up, you deserve a medal.
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— NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE Kicks Off in JUNE. Click here.
— EXCLUSIVE: Rare GEORGE PEREZ 1980s DC POSTCARDS to Be Reprinted as Variant Covers. Click here.
March 19, 2025
Is the trade dress purposefully left off or will it be added when published? Also, the one by “Scott Koblish” is the wraparound and the others rotated? Was hoping Ordway had a cover but nevertheless I’m glad to see him getting some work.
I’ll most likely get this. Love me some retro JSA for sure.
March 19, 2025
“retro JSA”?
Sign me up!
March 19, 2025
Do I see Lady Luck on that Scott Koblish cover?
March 19, 2025
I don’t see her but I do see Madam Fatale!
March 20, 2025
I think you’re right about Lady Luck there. She’s behind Jay Garrick, Johnny Quick, and Wesley Dodds. This cover is a delight!
April 14, 2025
Lady Luck is right where Will Everett’s Amazing Man was on the original artwork. Somebody at DC obviously decided that retrospectively-inserted characters shouldn’t count. Unfortunate in one obvious respect, but at least we were spared all the recently invented extra sidekicks.
April 21, 2025
I spoke too soon on the “lost children” sidekicks invented by Geoff Johns in 2022 as they are in the next part of Scott Koblish’s artwork. Besides the kids being ill conceived in the first place (with the suggestion that the original comics timeline is somehow not authentic), that does make the removal of Amazing Man look damn odd.
March 19, 2025
Moon Girl?!?
(on the Sook variant cover)
March 19, 2025
Scott Koblish variant features some obscure Quality characters, and I spoted the original Blue Beetle and Spy Smasher (Any other Fawcett heroes?)
March 20, 2025
I remember seeing Minute Man and, I believe, Ibis, the Invincible. Bulletman, Bulletgirl, Mr. Scarlett and Pinky, the Whiz Kid.
I think I also saw Mr. Mystic, which is odd since the Eisner estate owns the character (and Lady Luck too).
Who’s the guy who looks like a poor man’s Red Tornado, wearing the bushel basket on his head? (Speaking of Ma Hunkel, I was glad to see the original RT and the Cyclone Kids and Scribbly too!)
April 14, 2025
The poor man’s Red Tornado is Bob Daley, Mister America / Tex Thompson’s sidekick.
April 14, 2025
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Fatman
March 20, 2025
Wow, big picture I never seen before when I was born in 1965, I know Dc universe go back in 1938 with Superman was very first superhero before Batman was start later
March 20, 2025
Let’s get a guide to all those characters on the wraparound cover, please!
March 20, 2025
Man, this is Great news for those of us who love the Golden Age of the DCU…
April 26, 2025
I see Neptune Perkins here but wasn’t he a retconned member of the Young All-Stars replacing the Golden Age Aquaman (at least in spirit and similar powers?) I don’t see any of the rest of the Young All-Stars so I guess he just is a stand-in for all of them? These continuing back and forths gives one a whiplash but I love it.
April 27, 2025
Neptune Perkins was a real Golden Age character (although with only a couple of supporting appearances in Flash Comics) so he is the least retconny of the Young All-Stars – after Dan the Dyna-Mite, who is also there.
April 27, 2025
Oh, and Huntress Paula Brooks, I guess, who appeared as Tigress in later issues.