Posted By Dan Greenfield on Jan 19, 2026 | 7 comments

Scott and Dan pick the comics they’re most looking forward to…

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Dan Greenfield, editor, 13th Dimension

Absolute Batman 2025 Annual #1 (Second Printing), DC. I have yet to read an issue of Absolute Batman, and for the most part it’s because I don’t have the bandwidth to get sucked into a whole other universe of stories. But when I heard about all the sturm und drang over this issue, in which Batman obliterates a bunch of white supremacists, well, how could I say no? Thing is, the first printing skyrocketed in value before I could get a copy, so here we are.

Maybe I should pick up the Daniel Warren Johnson flamethrower variant too, while I’m at it:

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Batman #676 Facsimile Edition, DC. The rare case where I’m not picking up a DC Facsimile Edition, simply because I don’t feel compelled to. It’s just too recent for my needs and, frankly, I think Batman R.I.P. was actually a fairly weak section of Grant Morrison’s run. (As always with Morrison, his Batman stories were alternately brilliant and impenetrable.) Actually, check that. I am picking up this issue — but for the foil cover variant because I bet this Alex Ross image looks fab all shiny and whatnot.

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Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #47, DC. The longest-running series on my pull list. Just pointing that out.

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Catwoman #83, DC. The Mahmud Asrar variant that asks the question: How does Catwoman defy gravity?

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Superman #75 Facsimile Edition, DC. Belongs in any collection that doesn’t include the original.

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Civil War #6 Facsimile Edition, Marvel. I say this every month: I didn’t read this the first time around but I’m digging it now.

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Fantastic Four #7, Marvel. Love Joe Jusko’s corner-box variants.

There’s also another Leonardo Romero Silver Age homage variant that was originally slated for the cancelled Mighty Marvel Masterworks book line:

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The Mortal Thor #6, Marvel. And again with the Romero variants:

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Spider-Man ’94 #5, Marvel. Please, Marvel, give us Spider-Man ’67. Pretty please. With sugar on top.

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X-Men #24, Marvel. Boy, it’s a variant-heavy week, huh? This is the latest Bicentennial Calendar cover. I just never realized that Thor was a mutant.

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Scott Tipton, contributor-at-large, 13th Dimension

DC Finest: The Doom Patrol — The Death of the Doom Patrol!, DC. For once, a title that’s not exaggerating.

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New History of the DC Universe, DC. DC continuity reinterpreted for the new era by Mr. Mark Waid and some of comics’ top artists, now collected.

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The Thing: The King of Yancy Street, Marvel. I like the look of this new Ben Grimm tale from Tony Fleecs and Justin Mason. Collects the recent mini.