Posted By Dan Greenfield on May 25, 2026 | 1 comment

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

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Dan Greenfield, editor, 13th Dimension

JLA/Avengers #1 Facsimile Edition, Marvel/DC. Probably the year’s most anticipated Facsimile Edition. Issues #2 and #3 come in July, with #4 in August.

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Swamp Thing ’89 #2, DC. AKA Swamp Thing #89, this continues Rick Veitch’s notoriously aborted final arc from the ’80s. Art by Tom Mandrake and colors by Trish Mulvihill. (Veitch cover.)

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Saga of the Swamp Thing #21 Facsimile Edition. Where Alan Moore’s run really kicked off.

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #4 Facsimile Edition, DC. I’m getting the Super Powers variant.

But don’t sleep on the Miller cover, which I really dig:

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Superman/Spider-Man #1 Second Printing, DC/Marvel. Good week for variant covers and this one is in my pull file, because obviously.

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Archie’s TV Laugh-Out #79 Facsimile Edition, Archie. Archie does Jawsmania!

There are a couple variants, but this foil job is the, ahem, killer:

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Detective Comics #1109, DC. To be candid, I’m behind. But I’ve been enjoying the book. So there you go. This latest arc is Batman teaming with Green Arrow and Black Canary.

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Doomquest #1, Marvel. Has Doctor Doom been taken over by a symbiote yet? Given that Doom is in virtually every title now, and that everyone else has been taken over by a symbiote at one point or another, it seems like the Marvel Universe would fold in on itself if it happened. Dig the Francesco Mobili variant.

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Batman #163, DC. For those still paying attention: Concluding the first part of Hush 2, which began, what, 1,000,006 years ago?

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Superman: Father of Tomorrow #1, DC. A new, 6-ish Elseworlds series where Jor-El is the sole survivor of Krypton, by Kenny Porter and Danny Earls. It’s not a particularly novel take, but I’m putting it on the radar because if it gets buzz, I’ll go back and pick this up.

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Zatanna #2, DC. Another terrific variant this week. Adam Hughes, of course. I would pay good money to watch Zatanna play Dueling Banjos.

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The Rocketeer: The Island #3, IDW. The Dave Stevens variant, natch.

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

Battleworld, Marvel. This modern-day riff on Secret Wars got my vote just for the return of Hank Pym.

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DC Finest: Deadman — How Many Times Can a Guy Die?, DC. All the earliest Silver and Bronze Age tales of Boston Brand, collected herein!

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Camelot 3000, DC. The underrated gem by Mike W. Barr and Brian Bolland returns to print!

Dan adds: It’s funny to think of this as “underrated” but Scott’s right. Of all the groundbreaking ’80s series, this one often gets forgotten in the wake of Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. It’s not at that seismic level, but Camelot 3000 was a big deal when it came out, and a definite fave of the comicscenti.

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