EXCLUSIVE: That makes TWO treasuries for February 2026!
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As promised, we’ve got a ton of DC Facsimile Edition news this week. Click here and here for more! Far out! — Dan
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DC has not one, but two, treasury Facsimile Editions coming in February. 1981’s Superman and Spider-Man is now joined by 1975’s Limited Collectors’ Edition #C-39, aka the first volume of Secret Origins (of) Super-Villains.
Dig the solicitation info, which will be released officially later this week:
LIMITED COLLECTORS’ EDITION #C-39: SECRET ORIGINS SUPER-VILLAINS VOL. 1 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by E. NELSON BRIDWELL, BILL FINGER, JERRY SIEGEL, JOHN BROOME, BILL PARKER, and CARY BATES
Art by MURPHY ANDERSON, LEW SAYRE SCHWARTZ, CURT SWAN, AL PLASTINO, CARMINE INFANTINO, DICK GIORDANO, C.C. BECK, and DICK DILLIN
Cover by DICK GIORDANO
Foil variant cover by DICK GIORDANO ($19.99 US)
$14.99 US | 64 pages
ON SALE 2/25/26
Lex Luthor! The Joker! Captain Cold! Dr. Sivana! Terra-Man! Learn the secret origins of all these diabolical villains—and more! Witness the tragic circumstances, twists of fate, and karmic comeuppances that lead to the creation of some of the DCU’s very best of the worst!
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Several thoughts:
— I believe this is the first time DC has scheduled two treasury Facsimile Editions in the same month — and the first time they’ve done it three months in a row, when you add in December’s Christmas With the Super-Heroes and January’s Superman vs. Spider-Man. (Correct me if I’m wrong.)
— You want the full table of contents? The Grand Comics Database has you covered, as usual.
— Among those stories is The Man Behind the Red Hood! from 1950’s Detective Comics #168. Of all of DC’s Facsimiles that they’ve yet to publish, I’m stunned by ‘Tec #168 the most. Even if you get the story here, it’s such a natural.
— This brings us to four of seven Facsimiles coming from DC in February. Check out the links below for info on the three others. On Thursday, we’ll bring you the rest.
— Obligatory Price Comparison: A VF+ original recently sold on eBay for about $40.
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MORE
— WHOA! SUPERMAN VS. SPIDER-MAN Treasury Facsimile to Get ALEX ROSS Variant. Click here.
— ACTION COMICS #419 — Featuring NEAL ADAMS’ Classic Cover — to Get FACSIMILE EDITION. Click here.
November 19, 2025
Love this – because I was an eleven-year-old kid when this came out, and like kids do, I cut out the diorama on the back…
November 19, 2025
Hoping for the follow up , Limited Collector’s Edition C-45 , “ More Secret Origins of Super Villains “ that I received Christmas Day as an 8 year-old way back in 1976.
November 19, 2025
I’m down for it! Remember getting this like it was yesterday. “Tempus fugit”
November 19, 2025
I wonder if the “Pow Wow Smith, Indian Lawman” banner is why we haven’t gotten ‘Tec #168,
November 20, 2025
DC could easily lead off a word or the whole banner if they felt like it would offend. I think most would recognize it as a historical piece if they left it on, though.
November 19, 2025
Can I hold out hope for a spring re-release of C-35, The Bible, in time for Easter and Passover? (I do have the hardcover rerelease from a few years ago, and yes, I keep it with my other LCE/ANCE facsimilies even though it’s in the wrong format.)
Anxiously awaiting tomorrow’s other three announcements.
November 19, 2025
That would be great (if DC did).
November 19, 2025
Because I’m a sucker for lists, here’s the LCE/ANCEs we have and the ones we still need in facsimile.
C-20 “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
C-21 “Shazam!” (Captain Marvel Adventures #19, 68, 115, 121; Captain Marvel, Jr. #11; and Marvel Family #85)
C-22 “Tarzan” (Tarzan #207-210)
✓ C-23 “House of Mystery” (House of Mystery #175, 179-180, 182, 186, and 202)
C-24 “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer #3, 5, and 8 and Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Annual #13)
C-25 “Batman” (Batman #4, 14, 24, and 221 and Detective Comics #355 and 404)
✓ C–26 “Action Comics #1” (reprinted, but not in Famous First format)
C-27 “Shazam!” (Captain Marvel Adventures #25, 53, 121, 127; Captain Marvel, Jr. #54; and Marvel Family #2, 20-21, and 82)
✓ C–28 “Detective Comics #27” (reprinted, but not in Famous First format)
C-29 “Tarzan” (Tarzan #219-223)
C–30 “Sensation Comics #1”
C-31 “Superman” (Action Comics #22, 29; Superman #60, 142, 204 and The Amazing World of Superman, Metropolis Edition)
C-32 “Ghosts” (Ghosts #1, 3-6)
C-33 “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer #9)
C-34 “Christmas with the Super-Heroes” (Batman #239; Captain Marvel Adventures #69; Teen Titans #13; and Action Comics #117)
C-35 “Shazam!” (Captain Marvel Adventures #100, 129, 148 and Marvel Family #17)
✓ C-36 “The Bible” (released in hardcover format in 2012)
✓ C-37 “Batman” (Batman #8, 43, 45; World’s Finest Comics #3)
C-38 “Superman” (Superman #40, 48, 157 and Action Comics #315-316)
C-39 “Secret Origins of Super-Villains” (Detective Comics #168; Adventure Comics #271; Showcase #8; Whiz Comics #15; and Superman #249) – February 2026
C-40 “Dick Tracy”
C-41 “Super Friends” (Justice League of America #36 and 61)
C-42 “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
C-43 “Christmas with the Super-Heroes” (Superman’s Christmas Adventure #1; Batman #219; House of Mystery #191; Sensation Comics #14; and Adventure Comics #82) (coming December 2025)
C-44 “Batman”
C-45 “More Secret Origins Super-Villains” (Batman #62; The Flash #105; Superboy #78; and Wonder Woman #6)
C-46 “Justice League of America” (Justice League of America #24 and 34)
C-47 “Superman Salutes the Bicentennial” (Star Spangled Comics #121, 126-127; More Fun Comics #70; and Tomahawk #45)
✓ C-48 “Superman vs. the Flash” (Superman #199 and The Flash #175)
C-49 “Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes” (Adventure Comics #369-370)
C-50 “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
✓ C-51 “Batman” (Batman #232 and 242-244)
C-52 “The Best of DC” (Batman #237; House of Mystery #201; The Flash #148; Our Army at War #241; Tomahawk #136; and Superman #156)
C–53 “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (new)
✓ C–54 “Superman vs. Wonder Woman” (new)
C–55 “Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes” (new)
✓ C–56 “Superman vs. Muhammad Ali” (new)
C-57 “Welcome Back, Kotter”
✓ C–58 “Superman vs. Shazam!”
✓ C-59 “Batman’s Strangest Cases” (The Brave and the Bold #93; Swamp Thing #7; Batman #227 and 250; and Detective Comics #410)
C–60 “Rudolph’s Summer Fun”
✓ C–61 “Superman #1” (reprinted, but not in Famous First format)
C–62 “Superman: The Movie”
✓ C–63 “New Fun #1” (reprinted, but not in Famous First format)
✓ F–4 “Whiz Comics #2” (reprinted, but not in Famous First format)
✓ F–5 “Batman #1” (reprinted, but not in Famous First format)
✓ F–6 “Wonder Woman #1” (reprinted, but not in Famous First format)
✓ F–7 “All Star Comics #3” (reprinted, but not in Famous First format)
✓ F–8 “Flash Comics #1” (reprinted, but not in Famous First format)
November 19, 2025
This is great, Adam!
November 19, 2025
Love what DC are doing here, and would also love that Red Hood issue. I’d like them to re-release some of the earlier facsimiles that didn’t get foil variants the first time, too, but that’s likely being very optimistic.
Hoping we get the remaining Batman treasury editions, and Marvel follows soon with theirs…
November 19, 2025
Talking to my LCS. They said they absolutely hate (not from a personal standpoint as they grew up on them) but as a retailer. They can’t sell them.
November 19, 2025
DC wouldn’t be doing them if they weren’t selling.
November 20, 2025
They sell out at all of the LCSs in my area, except one, which orders many extra copies for future sales.