Scott and Dan pick the comics they’re most looking forward to…
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Dan Greenfield, editor, 13th Dimension
Batman #227 Facsimile Edition, DC. Fans have been clamoring for this, on the strength of the classic Neal Adams cover riffing on Detective Comics #31. Can’t wait to see it in foil. Oh, and the story — by Denny O’Neil, Irv Novick and Dick Giordano — is a nice piece of early ’70s gothic horror, too. (By the way, I had Skittle Bowl, but not Skittle Pool.)
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Batman & Robin: Year One — Dynamic Duos #3, DC. Robin goes undercover, and that was always a great Golden Age trope.
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The Amazing Spider-Man: Amazing Visions #1, Marvel. A one-shot that presents Lee Bermejo’s recent run of variant covers as a chronological history of Spider-Man, plus commentary and extras. I’m down.
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Batman: Bad Seeds — Gotham Central #2, DC. The first issue was solid. (I so miss the original Gotham Central.)
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Batman: Bad Seeds — Streets of Gotham #1, DC. A one-shot anthology showing how average Gothamites are dealing with the apocalyptic superbloom. Books like this can be hit or miss but I’m chancing it — and getting the Javier Rodriguez cover.
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Archie’s Christmas Spectacular One-Shot, Archie. The Official Comic Book of Christmas is back! Bob Phantom and Black Jack team up, too!
In fact, I’m getting this swell Black Jack variant by Matt Talbot (and the foil one too):
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Barbara Gordon: Breakout #6, DC. Really, this is just a fun prison story. Although maybe “fun” isn’t the right word.
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Captain Britain 50th Anniversary Special #1, Marvel. Featuring new tales by Chris Claremont, Alan Davis, Dan Abnett, and more!
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The Uncanny X-Men #159 Facsimile Edition, Marvel. Storm becomes a vampire! Timed to the launch of Marvel’s new Midnight line, which is not anything like DC’s Absolute line. Like, at all.
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Detective Comics #880 Facsimile Edition, DC. The second go-around for this one. There was one in 2025.
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Scott Tipton, contributor-at-large, 13th Dimension
Star Trek: The Edges of the Final Frontier – IDW Classic Collections, IDW. One of my favorite of my Trek works returns to print this week, as David Tipton, J.K. Woodward and I adapt Harlan Ellison’s original teleplay for The City on the Edge of Forever, widely seen as the best episode of Trek ever.
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DC Finest: Horror — Where Dead Men Walk, DC. A heaping helping of Bronze Age DC horror, from legends like Bernie Wrightson, Gray Morrow, Len Wein, Gerry Conway, and more.
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Animal Man by Grant Morrison Book One, DC. If you’ve never read “The Coyote Gospel,” this is your chance.
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October 12, 2026
Re: Facsimile Batman #227 – I remember Don Adams doing the TV ads for Skittle Pool. I never knew there was a print ad version, too.
October 14, 2026
You know what he said whenever he didn’t make a shot…..
October 12, 2026
Re: Bob’s comment, I remember Vincent Price appearing in commercials for the Hangman game. Perhaps great toy commercials could be a future 13th Dimension installment.
October 12, 2026
Hmmmmmmmmmmm. TOYHEM is coming…
October 12, 2026
There’s a Lego set based on Detective #880 releasing this month. Hence the facsimile.
October 12, 2026
I saw that! That makes sense!
October 12, 2026
You’re my primary source of Facsimile Edition news, but I had absolutely NO idea Detective Comics #880 was getting a second printing! When did you report this?
I hope DC corrected the error from the first printing, where the ads on the inside front and inside back covers were transposed from where they appear in the 2011 original. (The Green Lantern “Rise of the Manhunters” video game ad which appeared on the inside front cover of the 2011 original appears on the inside back cover of the 2025 facsimile, and the Scholastic Books “Calling All Dragons!” ad which appeared on the inside back cover of the 2011 original appears on the inside front cover of the 2025 facsimile.)
Frustratingly, when I mentioned this in a collected editions message board at the time, some said it didn’t matter that the ads weren’t in the right order because it didn’t affect the story – and when I said that it DID matter, they called it trivial. Not everybody gets the concept behind facsimiles, apparently.
October 12, 2026
Y’know, Gary, it came as a surprise to me too! Pretty rare but it happens every once in a blue moon.
October 13, 2026
@Gary Dunaier –
You were right in calling out that error in the first edition facsimile ‘Tec 880.
I could be wrong but my guess is those folks saying you’re being overly critical are the Scott Snyder die-hard fans.
I’ve noticed from my own experience that such fans is they do tend to get a bit overzealous from time to time.
October 12, 2026
I’ve waited for 227 for a looooong time
October 13, 2026
>> my favorite of my Trek works returns to print this week
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I anxiously await my copy from Amazon to arrive. The cover art really pulled me in. I’m sure it’s going to be a fun/great read!