New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: DC Comics – February 19 2025

Next week is the 8th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers DC Comics February 19 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering DC Comics February 12 2025 new releases.

This week in DC Comics: a new god on Earth, answers for The Question, long-awaited Golden Age Wonder Woman, Titans get psycho, Red Hood’s Hill, a perfectly imperfect Shazam, a Milestone climax, and more!

The Krisis Pick of the Week: Despite being excited for several comics this week, this is an easy pick – The New Gods (2024) #3! Just the idea of seeing one more page of Evan Cagle’s artwork colored by Francesco Segala makes me giddy, which says nothing of the intergalactic mystery of this story.

This post includes every comic out from DC Comics February 19 2025, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats.

This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and review every in-continuity series with a new issue out this week. Plus, for most new releases, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to DC Comics to find out how to collect that title in full!

There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.

And now, onto DC Comics February 19 2025 new releases!

DC Comics February 19 2025 Collected Editions

Batman Knightfall Omnibus Vol. 2: Knightquest
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500469)
See Guide to Batman (1987 – Present). This collects “The Crusade” and “The Search” storylines from the second year of the overall Knightfall saga.

The Brave and the Bold Vol. 2: Book of Destiny
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500476 / digital)
This oft-reprinted volume collects the second arc of The Brave and the Bold (2007), written by Mark Waid with George Pérez & Jerry Ordway.

DC Finest: Harley Quinn – Birth of the Mirth
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500483)
See Guide to Harley Quinn. This is a must-buy DC Finest Collection for Harley Quinn fans! It gathers together all of Harley’s earliest non-continuity appearances in-universe appearances, then switching into continuity material starting with her in-universe debut in Batman: Harley Quinn (1999) OGN and her appearances in “No Man’s Land.”

Justice Society of America Vol. 2: Long Live the JSA
(2025 hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500384 / digital)
See Guide to Justice Society of America – JSA. The second half of Geoff Johns’s much-delayed farewell to the JSA from 2024.

Prez by Mark Russell and Ben Caldwell: The Deluxe Edition
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500490 / digital)
Non-continuity political satire about a kid president.

Red Hood: The Hill
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500391 / digital)
This was a peculiar little series that extended Jason Todd’s connections with and adventures in “The Hill” from the aborted final two issues of Red Hood: Outlaw (2020) #51-52 in the wake of “Joker War.”

I really hated those issues, so I wasn’t expecting much from a redux of the story from Shawn Martinbrough four years later. However, giving Martinbrough a full six issues to dig into this community and Jason’s place in it made for a compelling story. It didn’t hurt that the art from Sanford Greene and Tony Akins (both colored by Matt Herms) really popped and made a huge cast of unpowered characters feel distinct.

However, in the long run this felt like a story about a neighborhood full of distrust and scandal more than it felt like a Red Hood book.

This was solid. The art was AMAZING. I still can barely tell what the fuck is going on, but this had a lengthy scene with all of the main vigialante cast in one place recapping who they were, so that helped – and, Red Hood was actually a presence in this issue. Things clicked a lot more than in the past two and, again, the art was AMAZING.

Shazam! Vol. 2: Moving Day
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500407 / digital)
See Guide to Shazam! After feeling a bit soft on the cynical start to this Billy Batson series by Mark Waid, I seriously fell in love from this second volume to present.

The challenges of Billy in managing his connection with The Captain as well as trying to keep his foster family together was full of fun and heart. Whether you already love this character or are looking for a place to sample him, I think this is a great place to dive in – and it’s true to the YA tone that all of Shazam’s series ought to have.

Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 6
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1779525970)
See Guide to Wonder Woman. Finally, it’s here!!! This long-solicited penultimate Golden Age volume has been teased for years now and I was starting to fear it might never arrive. This covers dozens of issues that have previously never been collected in color, including the end of Wonder Woman’s run in Sensation Comics! Now we need just one more volume to resolve the rest of Wonder Woman (1942) through issue #97 and we will have every Golden Age Wonder Woman story collected.

Read on for a summary of all of the DC Comics February 19 2025 single issue releases!

DC Comics February 19 2025 Physical Comic Releases

Batman / Superman: World’s Finest (2022) #36 (digital) – This retcon series continues an undersea team-up with Aquaman against the Floronic Man that didn’t make a single lick of sense last issue. I couldn’t make heads or tails of the plot or the action.

Batman and Robin: Year One (2024) #5 (digital) – See Guide to Robin(s). This retro, retcon series from Mark Waid, Chris Samnee, Mat Lopes, and Clayton Cowles reaches its penultimate issue.

Catwoman (2018) #73 (digital) – See Guide to Catwoman. I’ve been hot on this Torunn Grønbekk run on the whole, but last issue was a bit slow for me.

I think having Catwoman’s first big heist of this run include so much walking around with a lantern and groping for things in the dark was realistic, but maybe realistic isn’t the most exciting way to go. The threat of this crime family that Selina used to be entangled with and what they might know that is so dangerous still feels very oblique after a few issues of this run.

I still think Grønbekk has the best internal voice for Selina that we’ve had in quite a while, but I need the plot to go from a simmer from a boil in this issue or else I’m going to start losing faith in this run.

Challengers of the Unknown (2024) #3 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Justice League (for now!). I’m deeply into this Challengers run, which reunites the team as the regular human tech crew of the League’s Watchtower… except they may have only been invited aboard so the League can keep an eye on them due to a mysterious connection to Darkseid.

In issue #2, Christopher Cantwell laid out an engaging mystery across the work of multiple artists in just one issue that was understandable to me as someone who never read Challengers – but who knows if it would make sense to someone who had.

This reminds me of Hickman’s GODS but much, much cooler – exploring hidden slices of continuity and uncovering connections that could lead to something bigger, but while being sure to tell a complete story in each issue.

DC Horror Presents: Creature Commandos (2024) #5 (of 6) (digital) – David Dastmalchian concludes the adventures of DC’s horror-themed squad.

Jenny Sparks (2024) #7 (of 7) (digital) – See Guide to Authority. Tom King continues his out-of-continuity Black Label book.

Milestone Universe: The Shadow Cabinet (2024) #4 (of 4) (digital) – See Guide to Milestone Universe (eventually). This is the conclusion of this limited series, another in a chain of short runs extending the continuity of DC’s classic 90s Milestone Universe.

If I’m being honest, reading this comic can sometimes be a little bit of a mess. That messiness might just be my unfamiliarity with a whole universe of character while I wait for DC to complete their Milestone Compendium line so I can dive in and read it all in one binge. It reminds me of Doomsday Clock in a way – a story of an entire world crammed into one comic.

It’s all incredibly compelling and the beats pull me along to keep the pages turning, even if I don’t always understand their resonance. On one hand, this feels like a somewhat small story of just one hero being offered a place in the mysterious Shadow Cabinet. On the other hand, their arrival feels like a portent for something larger about the Milestone world – something that might be irreparably broken.

I think if you’re not obsessed with shared Universes in the same way I am this could fall a bit flatter for you, but for me the hint of that bigger story is like catnip. I can’t help but want to read more, both in the past and the future.

The New Gods (2024) #3 (digital) – See Guide to Mister Miracle. I’m so excited for another issue of this series, which has been embedded in my list of my Top 10 series of 2025 ever since the release of issue #2.

Before I can even touch my excitement over the story, I have to talk about Evan Cagle’s artwork colored by Francesco Segala. It feels like something incredible and new that is not only different from other Big Two books, but unlike anything else I’m seeing in comics right now. He draws a detailed, realistic world, but his figures have a subtle statuesque, wide-eyed quality that transfixes me. There’s a shade of Moebius, perhaps?

And then… then there the plot. A true new god has been detected on Earth in the wake of Darkseid’s seeming departure from DC’s prime reality. Is this child Darkseid reborn? The sign of a new power structure emerging in the universe? Something else?

The godlike ruler of Apokolips isn’t fond of any of the potential answers, which is why he has dispatched Orion to deal with the child. He in turn recruits Mister Miracle, who tries to shirk his partner Big Barda to know avail.

That plot intrigues me both at the big idea level and at the small, interpersonal level. There is tiny, fragile, human emotion in the midst of all of the movement of gods (who are perhaps just mortals closer to the source). Also, there’s a brief, spacey intro to each issue drawn by someone other than Cagle that hints at the bigger galactic picture emerging. I have a certain wariness about it all, because Ram V sometimes starts with big ideas and poetry and then gets lost in the middle. Yet, he doesn’t always have an art partner who is hitting THEIR MOMENT this hard, and he doesn’t always have the benefit of a pair of beloved characters like Mister Miracle and Big Barda to hang his plot upon.

I. Love. It. What a book. Hook it into my veins.

Nightwing (2016) #123 (digital) – See Guide to Nightwing. It’s puzzling to me how flat this story is falling, consider the thrill that writer Dan Watters is delivering on Batman: Dark Patterns (2024)!

If I can find a positive in this marginal plot, it’s that it  has some of the best Dexter Soy artwork I’ve ever seen – especially last issue! During an extended flashback sequence, Soy draw in a style that was looser and less-inked than his typical line work and it was phenomenal!

That said, Watters’ story is so far a hard NOPE from me

There is a way to write Batman comics without inserting constant retcons to inspire every story, I promise. But, beyond my annoyance with needing to retcon a villain into every plot, the plot itself feels inconsequential. One technological baddie with some bombs SO FUCKING MARGINAL. Who cares about this villain technology being used to bomb stuff and start a gang war? It is so inconsequential and it doesn’t give us anything of value about Nightwing other than him being angry at his half-sister and Maggie Sawyer being totally OOC.

Let’s end this run after one arc please. Or, at least, let’s see Watter’s take a hard pivot into a different plotline.

The Question: All Along the Watchtower (2024) #4 (digital) – See Guide to Justice League (for now!). I’ve been enjoying this “murder on the Watchtower” mystery from Alex Segura, Cian Tormey, Romulo Fajardo Jr., and Dave Sharpe. It’s fun, thrilling, good-looking, and it has terrific lettering!

I love a super-powered whodunnit, although with the reveal at the end of last issue this might edge closer to a super-powered throwdown.

I’m sure some fans are frustrated with getting Renee Montoya in such spandex-covered surroundings. I think it creates a dynamic contrast between her down-to-earth character versus the fantastical powers (and personalities) of the Justice League. In turn, that positions her ex Batwoman as an uneasy ally, since Kate Kane also tends to bristle against some of the trappings of superpowered life.

I’m really enjoying the “it’s all connected” aspect of the DC Universe right now and of the handful of League-adjacent, Watchtower-focused books out right now I think this one is using the setting the best.

Titans (2023) #20 (digital) – See Guide to Titans. I continue to love every issue of this new John Layman & Pete Woods run on Titans!

Last issue, Layman continues to show he really has the goods when it comes to making a great Titans comic. It has a very similar feel to Tom Taylor’s but it’s a bit denser, a bit funnier, a bit more tightly paneled.

Speaking of the paneling, last issues guest art team of Serg Acuña & Matt Herms was so damn good filling in for Woods! Acuña really delivereds on facial acting and dynamic figures. His panels felt full without being over-detailed, as aided by Herms’s colors). Together, they had a knack for drawing my eyes across the action – even in a big splash page with many charactrrs.

Last issue focused entirely on Killer Frost, an anti-hero I love. Layman & Woods play a very neat rhetorical trick of making Frost’s pivot back to villainy something we can root for – which means briefly rooting against the Titans in their own book. That not only does a service to Frost’s character, but it emphasizes the theme of their DC All In arc, which has been comprised of one-shot stories of several minor league villains butting heads with the team.

Now, all of their motivations are a bit clearer – as is the major conflict heading toward the unaware team of Titans. It seems like this issue is masquerading as a simple Valentine’s Day story, but it will really expose the team to the villain who has been manipulating all of their enemies – Psycho Pirate!

Wonder Woman (2023) #18 (digital) – See Guide to Wonder Woman. This is the penultimate issue of Tom King’s length arc of Wonder Woman versus The Sovereign.

Zatanna (2025) #1 (digital) – Zatanna gets her own in-continuity series for the first time in a long while, both written and drawn by the remarkable Jamal Campbell!

That’s for DC Comics February 19 2025 new releases! What were you already pulling? And, did I convince you to check out anything new? Sound off in the comments below.