Golden Age, Silver Age, more Loeb & Sale Batman, a modern Superman classic — and MORE…
DC Comics in June will publish seven Facsimile Editions, including classics from the Golden Age and Silver Age, as well as popular modern issues.
The issues include 1941’s Batman #9, which has one of comics’ best-known covers (details here) and 1955’s Adventure Comics #210, featuring Krypto’s first appearance (details here).
We’re also getting the previously reported Action Comics #775 from 2001, two ’90s Batman specials by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, plus the final two issues of the 2002-03 Hush storyline, by Loeb and Jim Lee.
You can find those five solicitations below. They’ll be officially released by DC on Friday:
ACTION COMICS #775 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by JOE KELLY
Art by DOUG MAHNKE and LEE BERMEJO
Cover by TIM BRADSTREET
Foil variant cover by TIM BRADSTREET ($6.99 US)
Blank sketch cover ($4.99 US)
Super Powers variant cover by JASON GEYER and ALEX SAVIUK ($4.99)
When a powerful and alarmingly popular new team—the Elite—announces itself by dealing out swift, merciless justice on a global scale under the leadership of the brutal Manchester Black, Superman is forced to defend both his life and his lifelong ideals of truth and justice before the eyes of a skeptical world.
$3.99 US | 48 pages
ON SALE 6/4/25
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BATMAN: GHOSTS – A LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT HALLOWEEN SPECIAL FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by JEPH LOEB
Art and cover by TIM SALE
Foil variant cover by TIM SALE ($8.99 US)
$6.99 US | 48 pages
ON SALE 6/25/25
Bruce Wayne leads a darkly driven life, with his chosen mission as Batman leaving room for little in the way of personal happiness, but need it always be that way? On one feverish night—the night before Halloween—the sad specter of Dr. Thomas Wayne appears to his son, offering a dire warning: “Tonight, beginning when the clock strikes one, you will be visited by the first of three spirits…”
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BATMAN: MADNESS – A LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT HALLOWEEN SPECIAL FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by JEPH LOEB
Art and cover by TIM SALE
Foil variant cover by TIM SALE ($8.99 US)
$6.99 US | 48 pages
ON SALE 6/11/25
Runaway children have been going missing in Gotham Central Park—the latest unwilling guests at the Mad Hatter’s psychotic tea party. When a fight between Captain James Gordon and his newly adopted daughter, Barbara, unwittingly leads to her becoming the Hatter’s latest Alice, it will be up to Batman to ensure Barbara’s first Halloween in Gotham won’t be her last!
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BATMAN #618 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by JEPH LOEB
Art and cover by JIM LEE
Foil variant cover by JIM LEE ($6.99 US)
$3.99 US | 32 pages
ON SALE 6/4/25
Jason Todd lives!…or does he? As Batman battles a frightening foe claiming to be his fallen protégé returned from the grave, new clues are revealed, and new betrayals are brought to light. By the time this fight is over, a trusted friend will meet a tragic end as Hush steps out of the shadows at last.
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BATMAN #619 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by JEPH LOEB
Art and cover by JIM LEE
Foil variant cover by JIM LEE ($6.99 US)
$3.99 US | 32 pages
ON SALE 6/18/25
It’s all led to this! Whose is the face behind the bandages? Why has this mystery mastermind made it his mission to destroy everything Bruce Wayne holds dear? Friends stand revealed as enemies, enemies choose to become saviors, and all the answers are finally revealed in the unforgettable conclusion of “Hush”!
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A couple thoughts:
— The Action Comics #775 Facsimile Edition Super Powers variant is Manchester Black (above). Word on the street is he’ll be in James Gunn’s Superman. The issue’s story — “What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?” — is one of the most highly regarded Superman stories of the Modern Age.
— DC appears to be keeping to its pattern of treasury editions every other month. None for June.
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MORE
— EXCLUSIVE: Classic BATMAN #9 to Get FACSIMILE EDITION Release. Click here.
— EXCLUSIVE: ADVENTURE COMICS #210: KRYPTO’s Debut to Get Facsimile Edition. Click here.
March 20, 2025
I find it ironic that DC is so enamored with “What’s so Funny About Truth Justice and the American Way?” in Action 775, and have reprinted it countless times, and now are issuing a facsimile edition… It is, after all, the story that defends the optimism and heroics of “old” DC, in the face of the inevitable trend of more edgy, modern, violent content, pandering to a more “sophisticated” audience. They have lived long enough to become what they most feared. And it happened within decade of publishing this.
March 20, 2025
5 of the least interesting facsimiles ever. I’ll be saving lots of money
come June!
March 21, 2025
They (the 1980 up reprints) sell as well, if not a bit better then the GA,SA, & BA…though truthfully they all sell very well for being reprints
March 20, 2025
If covers are in… More Fun 54