Mark your calendars…
Last week’s announcement that DC and Marvel will team-up to re-release 2003-04’s JLA/Avengers, by Kurt Busiek and George Perez, as four Facsimile Editions rocked the comics world.
Now, we have new details — the date each issue will be released.
We already knew that Issue #1 would be out May 27, 2026…
… but here are the other dates you should mark on the calendar:
Issue #2: June 24, 2026
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Issue #3: July 22, 2026
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Issue #4: Aug. 26, 2026
The first issue is priced at $5.99. Presumably, the others will be the same. The issues will also feature all-new variant covers, with the first by Ryan Stegman.
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MORE
— DC and MARVEL Team Up to Re-Release Entire JLA/AVENGERS Series as Facsimile Editions. Click here.
— DC COMICS to Publish SIX Facsimile Editions in MAY. Click here.
— 1968’s SILVER SURFER #3: Marvel Sets Date for FACSIMILE EDITION Featuring MEPHISTO’s Debut. Click here.
February 26, 2026
This is definitely going to be a MUST BUY!!!
February 26, 2026
Soon enough Disney will buy DC, and this will be on the regular
February 26, 2026
Will these be followed by a trade collection?
February 28, 2026
I really hope so!
February 26, 2026
Somebody needs to declare 2026 the “Year of the Facsimile” between this and all the 1986 gold we’re getting from DC. (Marvel, looking at you with your noticeably declining facsimile program.)
If we can get the rest of Man of Steel plus all of Watchmen, hoo, this will be a great year.
February 26, 2026
Current facsimile count through August 2026 (does not include subsequent reprintings; joint-company crossovers are counted with the publisher who releases them):
DC: 157 (slight cheat in that it includes the Treasury-sized Untold Legend of the Batman and the “faux-simile” Batman #428)
Marvel: 161
February 26, 2026
These would be amazing as treasury-sized editions.
February 28, 2026
The first issue just went up for preorder on MyComicShop.
March 2, 2026
I cannot imagine a more useless thing for this series than cover art by somebody, anybody, other than George Pérez.
March 8, 2026
@ Calli Beecher Grey – I completely agree! When I was adding the first issue to my cart for preorder, for a split second I was thinking about also getting the variant. I quickly removed it from my cart and decided to just add another copy of the original cover to my order. Who knows if and when this will ever get another reprint?
March 11, 2026
As time goes on the more and MORE excited I get for this JLA/Avengers facsimile set.
I’ve never actually read this series before. Will probably wait until I have all four issues then read ‘em in one go.