Next week is the 12th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers DC Comics March 19 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering DC Comics March 12 2025 new releases.
This week in DC Comics: Absolute Flash debuts, two generations of Robins in peril, Zatanna vs. ghosts of magic past, Finest Bronze Age team-ups, Nightwing does a heist, the Justice League races to defeat Darkseid with Sonic, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: This is a surprisingly close call, as there are several comics in this week’s pull that I am very excited to read more of – especially Jamal Campbell’s Zatanna (2025) #2! However, my undisputed winner of the week is Detective Comics (1937 / 2016) #1095. Every time I think back to last issue and where we left Damian my heart starts racing all over again. When I can still remember every page of one of 200+ new issues I’ve read in the past month, we’ve got a winner on our hands.
This post includes every comic out from DC Comics March 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 March 19 2025 new releases!
DC Comics March 19 2025 Collected Editions
Batman / Catwoman
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799503842 / digital)
A trade collection of the outgrowth of Tom King’s Batman run (retroactively labeled as Black Label) that stretches into an alternate future of the Bat/Cat relationship that DC said “no thanks” to including in official continuity.
Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter
(2025 hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500797 / digital)
See Guide to DC Elseworlds & Alternate Earths. This breaks ground on collecting the 2024 installment of Tom Taylor’s Dark Knights of Steel.
Dark Nights: Metal Compendium
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500841)
An all-in-one paperback collection of DC’s 2017 Scott Snyder event.
DC Finest: Team-Ups – Chase to the End of Time
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500827)
More DC Finest, baby! And, this line seems like it will be tackling DC’s Bronze Age team-up books. I love that is this is collecting material from both DC Comics Presents (1978) featuring Superman and The Brave and the Bold (1955) featuring Batman into one line.
That’s an elegant way to not double-dip on comics where the two of them team-up together, which suggest’s to me that further volumes of this line will pick up some material from World’s Finest (1941) if it dips back into the Silver Age.
Doom Patrol: The Silver Age Omnibus
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500834)
See Guide to Doom Patrol. This is a straight reprint of the existing Doom Patrol Silver Age tome, which is an incredibly complete collection of their early adventures (which roundaboutly inspired The X-Men)!
Given that they also released more than half of this material in an affordable paperback DC Finest, the timing of this reprint is a bit curious – but I do enjoy them keeping it in print in oversize format!
Scalped Omnibus Vol. 2
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500278)
The second half of Jason Aaron’s grounded Vertigo series about crime on the Prarie Rose Indian Reservation
Zatanna: Bring Down The House
(2025 hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500803 / digital)
See Guide to DC Elseworlds & Alternate Earths – Black Label. A Black Label series (and thus out of continuity) by Mariko Tamaki.
Read on for a summary of all of the DC Comics March 19 2025 single issue releases!
DC Comics March 19 2025 Physical Comic Releases
Absolute Batman (2024) #6 (digital) – See Guide to DC Absolute Universe. The first story arc of Scott Snyder & Nick Dragotta’s story arc wraps here.
As with all of the Absolute books, it will be interesting to see how the resolution of this first tightly-defined conflict sets up Batman’s status quo in Gotham and the wider world.
Absolute Flash (2025) #1 (digital) – See Guide to DC Absolute Universe. It’s the first new Absolute book to drop after the opening arcs from the Trinity – and this is The Flash as rendered by Jeff Lemire and Nick Robles.
I’d generally rather clip my toenails than read a Jeff Lemire superhero book, but Nick Robles is high on my list of favorite artists, so I’m going to try to go into this with an open mind.
Batman / Superman: World’s Finest (2022) #37 (digital) – See Guide to… whoops, I don’t have a Batman/Superman guide yet! Let me cook.
I’m already over this undersea plot vying for control of Atlantis. I don’t know that Mark Waid makes particularly good use of any of our cast here – they all just float around to their assigned parts. Superman breaking out of his magic chains last issue was fun, as was the appearance of Swamp Thing. Beyond that it felt insubstantial to me without enough fun to make up for it.
I know Waid has an established track record of making this continuity link to modern day stories, so there’s a solid chance this winds up connecting to the current Aquaman (2025) run in some way, but the whole thing is very “ho hum, here’s a continuity-free comic we must pump out every month” for me.
Batman and Robin: Year One (2024) #6 (of 12) (digital) – See Guide to Robin(s) or Guide to Batman (1986 – Present). I caught up on this Mark Waid and Chris Samnee retcon tale last month for The Pull List. I know I love a Waid/Samnee team-up from their past work on Daredevil and Black Widow, and I might be enjoying this even more than either of those – which is saying a lot!
I think the magic for me comes from the carefree, gleeful way they are writing this Year One version of Dick Grayson, and the way Batman seems to think he might be a lot more fragile than he actually is. That’s such a wonderful beat to play from their early relationship. And, having one big story set so explicitly in their shared history works better for me than Waid’s World’s Finest, which jumps around freely between periods of continuity.
Catwoman (2018) #74 (digital) – See Guide to Catwoman. This issue of Torunn Grønbekk’s Catwoman feels like it’s going to be make-or-break for my opinions on the run as a whole.
This run gets Selina’s voice very right in every issue, but it feels like we’ve been through a solid six months of setup without a payoff – both for us as readers and for Selina as a character.
I know a Catwoman comic isn’t going to resolve into big explosive action – that’s not who she is. But, after so much cat-and-mouse between her and a crime family she was once entangled with, I need to see some rewards to break up the chase sequences.
Challengers of the Unknown (2024) #4 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Justice League (for now). I was hypnotically engaged by last issue from start to finish, just like I have been in every issue of this Christopher Cantwell series.
I like that there is a meta mystery of “How are the Challengers connected to Darkseid,” but also a micro mystery of how each one of them fits into this equation. The detente here between the Challengers as investigators on behalf of the League versus their insurgency to want to break out and figure things out on their own keeps this occupying my thoughts between issues.
Hopefully this isn’t just a mystery box, but something with a tangible and rewarding conclusion coming next month with the final issue! I think five issues was the right length for this – anything longer and the tension would fizzle as the mystery dragged on too long. But… I wouldn’t mind more Challengers stories to follow.
DC x Sonic the Hedgehog (2025) #1 – See Guide to DC Elseworlds & Alternate Earths. I was never a SEGA kid, so I don’t have any nostalgia for his games or character. Yet, I am informed by reliable sources that people are as obsessed with Sonic as I am with GI Joe. Plus, he’s now had three successful films that have spawned an endless stream of memes that make even a humorless asshole like me laugh out loud.
What is this little blue hedgehog going to do with the Justice League? Race the Flash? Have Superman create a vortex that sucks up all of the coins at once? What’s that? Darkseid has invaded Sonic’s world to attain ultimate power?
I… I might actually be curious in reading that story. Damnit.
Detective Comics (1937 / 2016) #1095 (digital) – See Guide to Detective Comics (1987 – Present). After last issue I am fully on-board with Tom Taylor’s run on Detective Comics. The way he’s putting Bruce through the ringer and putting Damian at real risk totally excuses needing to invent a new character from Bruce’s youth to set up the situation.
Last issue was thrilling and at points genuinely scary as Damian went undercover to infiltrate a prison for youth offenders. It goes from a bad idea to a good idea to an even worse idea in a way that kept my stomach in knots. It was a tremendous use of Damian as a rash and justice-minded character.
And then… to have Mikel Janín drawing this? Every page of this arc so far!? Janín exists in that exact sweet spot I love of making figures in comics look dynamic and ripped from real life while still maintaining an elevated and unreal world worthy of superheroes.
Per usual, Taylor isn’t exactly the most subtle when it comes to his social commentary, but if you can’t stomach a social justice approach to introducing kids into a prison state I don’t know what to tell you.
The New Gods (2024) #4 (of 12) (digital) – See Guide to Mister Miracle. Y’all, last issue gave me exactly what I wanted in the worst possible way, which dropped this book out of my Top 10 of 2025.
The thing that I wanted? Internecine intergalactic continuity drawn by the always jaw-dropping Riccardo Federici.
The worst possible way? I found that continuity impossible to parse. Nothing about it stuck with me. And, it meant Federici drew all but a handful of pages, so there was barely any of Evan Cagle’s equally jaw-dropping art as the primary artist on the book following the story of Mister Miracle and Big Barda on Earth.
(I’ve heard some folks say I would enjoy it more if I know my Kirby New Gods lore, and… eh? I hold every book up to the standard of making sense as its own story first and as a continuity deep dive second. It’s the same reason I slagged some of Hickman’s work on X-Men, and I know X-Men better than 99% of comic readers.)
Beyond the balance of the story pages last issue, it also hit on something that often worries me about Ram V: deep dives into lore early in a run that never quite pay off. I feel like that’s a fair concern after his aborted run with Al Ewing on Venom (2022) and his lumpy just-concluded run on Detective Comics (2016) that started strong and then stalled hard.
When it comes down to it, all of my evidence of Ram V’s brilliance comes from 5- and 6-issue mini-series. This one has a cap of 12 issues, so he’s still working with limited page real estate. I’m very curious to see if this issue restores the tension between world-building and the present day that made the first two issues so incredibly sharp. (Plus, I want more pages from Cagle!)
Nightwing (2016) #124 (digital) – See Guide to Nightwing. I’ve been complaining about the “seen it before” quality of this Dan Watters & the Dexter Soy run on Nightwing, but last issue finally broke that trend for me.
Why? Because it set aside this dull “nefarious police tech supplier versus gangs” plot and got into some body horror beneath Blüdhaven in a story that tied into a 00s-era Nightwing arc.
I’m not even a 00s-era DC continuity connoisseur, but there was something satisfying about using the literal surface-level conflict in this book to unearth something creepier. Not only did that make the book more interesting, but I feel like that’s where Watters’s specific strengths lie.
This issue promises a heist story, so I hope that Watters can continue to play with that overarching story as an engine to tell smaller, more-unusual tales with Dick Grayson in his adopted city. I also hope that Dexter Soy keeps exploring slight alterations on his well-known style, which have been fun to see!
The Question: All Along the Watchtower (2024) #5 (of 6) (digital) – See Guide to Justice League (for now). I’ve enjoyed every issue of this “fish out of water” series for Renee Montoya, having her run security on the Watchtower satellite just as a hidden foe makes himself known.
With the villain now out in the open, last issue was mostly set-up to tilt us towards a big finale. I’m curious to see how Alex Segura creates a satisfying resolution with Question against a Superman-level threat. Of course, she’s also got Batwoman, Animal Man, the Atoms, and several other heroes on her side – so these next two issues are not going to be a standard punch-up. But, there has to be a real sense of “only Question could engineer this” for this series to pay off in full.
I think that’s really the pivotal question (hah) of the entire series and why some people just haven’t clicked with it despite strong craft, including some great art from Cian Tormey. Issue #1 was a terrific set-up of the League heavies basically telling Montoya “we need your brain and we need your lack of of connection with these other characters.” However, after that it didn’t feel like she had a ton of agency as an investigator, and the main plot driver was her relationship the one heroic character she does have a connection with – Batwoman!
So, I can appreciate why some folks cooled on this book: it didn’t necessary keep its promise to feel unique and specific to The Question. Despite that, I do think it had a mystery to unravel, and the way that it concludes could still bring that specifity.
Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor (2023) #2 (of 3) (digital) – See Guide to DC Elseworlds & Alternate Earths – Black Label. Somehow, this Black Label series released it’s first issue in July 2023 and is just now releasing its second issue!
How?! Mark Waid is known for his incredible speed in pumping out scripts, so I suspect it could be artist Bryan Hitch. I’m not trying to libel anybody here, but Hitch isn’t always the #1 fastest artist and he’s been drawing Ghost Machine’s Redcoat in the time since this #1 came out.
Supposedly issue #3 is already completed, so no more waiting to wrap this up!
Titans (2023) #21 (digital) – See Guide to Titans & Young Justice. John Layman has been building up to a big double-crossing reveal through his recent series of one-shot villains stories, and it all came to a climax last issue. Psycho Pirate has the Titans in the palm of his hand!
I think last issue had some charming moments, but it was also the most mechanical of Layman’s run so far. I love whenever Bumblebee turns up, but she was totally devoid of personality other than “science lady who advances the plot.”
It didn’t bug me too much, because Layman has so carefully built up to this turning point over the past few issues. It’s not a failure to have a “moving the chess pieces into place” sort of issue every now and then. It doesn’t lessen my excitement to see the story continue in this new issue n the slightest, especially with Pete Woods continuing on art!
Zatanna (2025) #2 (of 6) (digital) – See Guide to Zatanna (eventually). Jamal Campbell delivered an utter spectacle with the first issue of this magical in-continuity mini-series.
When the issue began with Zatanna loading in for a magic show I groaned slightly. Comics about heroic performers on tour can be canned affairs with dull “monster of the week” plots.
Campbell quickly allayed my fears in two clever ways. First, he quickly makes the crew of Zatanna’s show an endearing part of the story, not only by giving them things to do but by making it clear that touring a show is still a family affair for Zatana. These supporting cast members aren’t D-list superheroes. They are just regular people she feels responsible for – both for their livelihood and their safety.
That really resonated with me, and it made the second detail even more enjoyable: Zatanna’s foe isn’t a random mystical DC villain, but a ghost in the very theatre she just loaded into! And, the ghost is haunting her via posts for films and past shows, using them to briefly come alive and suck in Zatanna’s crew.
Of course, Campbell drew the everliving hell of each of the potentially deadly posters and the magical realities inside of them!
This was a terrific construction with a smart plot, gorgeous art, and a conflict that has me feeling very eager for the next page after a month of waiting! A pity this is the final book on my huge pull list this week… maybe it’s a week to read from Z to A!
That’s for DC Comics March 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.
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