Next week is the 13th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers DC Comics March 26 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering DC Comics March 19 2025 new releases.
This week in DC Comics: Camp’s Absolute Martian Manhunter debuts, Gunn’s Peacemaker, Taylor & Co’s final Nightwing collected, Diana’s Sovereign face-off concludes, Lex breaks bad, Golden Batman & Promethea reprints, Justice League tries to extinguish Inferno, a foul Harley Quinn one-shot, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: There’s only one answer for me – the reunion of one of my favorite creative teams of the past decade of comics, Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis on Absolute Wonder Woman (2024) #6! To be fair, I’m also pretty damn excited about the continuing story in Green Arrow (2023) #22, but I absolutely lose my mind over any art from Mattia De Iulis, so seeing him credited on a Wonder Woman book is a dream come true for me!!!
This post includes every comic out from DC Comics March 26 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 26 2025 new releases!
DC Comics March 26 2025 Collected Editions
DC collected editions tend to hit the bookmarket on the same day as the Direct Market (or one day prior), so all of these DC Comics March 26 2025 collected editions should also be available from your local bookseller next week!
Batman: Dark Age
(2025 hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500865 / digital)
See Guide to DC Elseworlds & Alternate Earths. This is the Mark Russell and Michael & Laura Allred collaboration on a series about an elderly Batman who fondly recalls his time as a hero in the swinging 60s. I know Jess AKA OmniDog loves this and the accompanying Superman: Space Age series.
Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500919)
Oof, this really makes me want to bang out a Golden, Silver, & Bronze Age Batman Guide, but I know that’s not quite as simple a task as listing a handful of Golden Age omnis thanks to how many different reprints classic Batman stories have had over the years.
This omni reprint covers Batman comics from 1941 to 1943, covering both Detective Comics (1937) and Batman (1940) as well as a handful of other starring tales. If you’ve never read Golden Age Batman, it’s a very slow read that repeats a lot of story beats verbatim from issue to issue – but, that’s how superhero brands were built in the early 40s! There wasn’t an assumption that readers were collecting every sequential issue… they were picking them up at the newsstand with a spare time.
Harley Quinn Vol. 3: Clown About Town
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500872 / digital)
See Guide to Harley Quinn. This wraps up collecting Tini Howard’s run on Harley, concluding with Harley Quinn (2021) #43.
I enjoy Howard, but I don’t think she ever really captured the heart of what makes Harley special – her zaniness combined with her intellect and the fact that she’s a bit of a softie under all that chaos. As a result, I don’t recommend this run except for to the hardest of hard-core Harley collectors.
Justice League: The New 52 Book Two
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500926)
See Guide to Justice League. This paperback completes the collection of Year Two of Justice League (2011) by Geoff Johns, along with all of Johns’s backups relaunching Shazam and the complete Trinity War storyline.
Even if you can take or leave the New 52’s truncated continuity, these are all fun stories that sees the League engaging big threats for the first time. It’s a very enjoyable binge, even though it features relatively few actual issues of Justice League.
Nightwing Vol. 7: Fallen Grayson
(2025 hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500889 / 2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500896 / digital)
See Guide to Nightwing. This collects the final arc of Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, & Adriano Lucas’s epic multi-year run on Dick Grayson. While every comic book could be someone’s first, I can’t recommend that you pick up here, because this quickly pays off so many story beats from their run in incredibly satisfying ways.
Of course, I say that as someone whose first comic book was X-Men (1991) #3, the final issue of Chris Claremont’s 16-year run, so you do you.
Absolute Promethea Vol. 1
(2025 slipcase hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500902)
This is a reprint of the first of three Absolutes covering all of Alan Moore & J. H. Williams III’s Promethea. In a way, this is Moore’s spin on Wonder Woman, which he wrote for America’s Best Comics never intending for it to live in perpetuity under the umbrella of DC.
I spent a long while hunting down all of the paperbacks of this series and never read past the first few issues, so it remains of of the long reads I’d like to make time for. Of course, first I’d have to hunt those books down in the stacks!
I’d simply note to you that these are not omnibus-sized Absolutes – they are only about ~330 pages each at $99 a pop. Thus, this whole series could easily fit into one omnibus. But, DC is always looking to make a maximum amount of dollars off of flogging Moore’s name, so we still don’t have that single omnibus
Read on for a summary of all of the DC Comics March 26 2025 single issue releases!
DC Comics March 26 2025 Physical Comic Releases
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Absolute Martian Manhunter (2025) #1 (of 6) (digital) – See Guide to DC Absolute Universe. After Deniz Camp spent the past year only writing the best-of-superheroes The Ultimates (2024), now he’s had with two new debuts in three weeks! And, supposedly this had over 100k pre-orders, which is wild for a book from outside Spider-Man, X-Men, and DC’s trilogy!
It seems like the vast majority of the internet enjoyed his Assorted Crisis Events (2025) earlier this month, but it seemed surprisingly surface-level to me (and a handful of other people I checked in on).
I have no doubt this one will be welcomed with open arms by fans, who have already crowned Ewing as their next chosen favorite (cf Al Ewing), but will I like it?
Absolute Wonder Woman (2024) #6 (digital) – See Guide to DC Absolute Universe. I’ve had one complaint about this Kelly Thompson comic, and it was that the first arc stretched on a bit too long for the amount of present day material it had to get through.
Well, now that’s in the rear-view mirror AND we have another one of my favorite artists stepping in with the unbelievable art of Mattia De Iulis!!! I know and love him from his work on Jessica Jones and The Cull, both with Kelly Thomspon.
I am obsessed with hyper-realistic, cover-quality artwork on comic interiors, and that’s what De Iulis delivers in every issue. His figures never feel overworked or dead behind the eyes, which is a challenge for artists who do heavy rendering of lifelike figures in their sequential art.
Plus, he’s only on the book for a two-issue arc, which resolves some of my concerns about the laggy first five issues.
Batman (2016) #158 (digital) – See Guide to Batman (1986 – Present). It’s the start of Hush 2 from Jeph Loeb & Jim Lee! This is also being released as Batman Giant-Sized Special Edition #158 in a special double-sized format.
I’m not sure how much else we can say about this without reading the first issue. Some people revere the original Hush while others find it a shallow run though all of Batman’s rogues’ gallery in service of an obvious non-mystery.
I suppose I’m somewhere in the middle. I think Hush was a lot of fun, but maybe wouldn’t be memorable if not for Jim Lee’s art.
Jim Lee of 2025 isn’t Jim Lee of 2002 in the original Hush, or even Jim Lee of 2011 on the New 52 Justice League. Lee’s still a bombastic artist in 2016, but his work on Suicide Squad (2016) has some problems with perspective and scale (apparently due to some vision issues for Lee). So, despite growing up with Lee’s art as the pinnacle of comics, I’m trying not to get my hopes up too far.
Batman: The Long Halloween – The Last Halloween (2024) #6 (digital) – See Guide to Batman (1986 – Present). After last month’s wild Joker issue from Bill Sienkiewicz in this tribute to the original The Long Halloween, this will focus more on Mr. Freeze with art from Enrico Marini.
I understand if you’re feeling some trepidation about a Long Halloween threequel from Loeb without Sale, especially at the same time Loeb also adds a sequel to his classic “Hush” storyline with Lee. However, this comic is absolutely the real deal and something that will resonate with any fan of the storytelling rhythms of Long Halloween.
Black Canary: Best of the Best (2024) #5 (digital) – Tom King continues his “not a Black Label book, yet maybe also not in continuity” Black Canary story.
The Flash (2023) #19 (digital) – See Guide to Flash. Wally West’s family vacation really unravelled last issue, with his family flung in several different directions and Eclipso’s plan being fully unfurled.
I think Spurrier is managing this sillier plot much better than the complex “angels/angles” story of the first year of this title. It feels slightly lightweight to me, but with that comes taking the focus off of constant Speed Force nonsense and putting it back on Flash and his family.
This issue wraps the arc that began with issue #14, with a new story arc starting next month (but, it seems to grow out of this one, so you might as well start from #14).
Green Arrow (2023) #22 (digital) – See Guide to Green Arrow. I have become utterly addicted to this Chris Condon & Montos arc about mild-mannered citizens turned eco-terrorists after they were invited to move into a neighborhood with toxic groundwater.
I love the complex problem that creates for our incredibly leftist, incredibly ethical Green Arrow. He hates what was done to these people and he is absolutely on their side, but because of his corporate history he’s also one of their targets!
This run feels incredibly reverent of Mike Grell’s classic late-80s and 90s run on the character, right down to how Montos is illustrating Ollie’s fact. Jump on with issue #18 and enjoy what is quickly becoming one of my favorite DC comic books.
Green Lantern (2023) #21 (digital) – See Guide to Green Lantern. The war of the two Lantern titles continues! I’m not talking about a story arc featuring a fight between them, but how both of these Jeremy Adams titles seem to be fighting each other to tell the same exact story.
It seems like this arc won’t just focus on The Sorrow but will also diver deeper into his connection to the subplot of Kyle Rayner, Superboy, and Odyssey investigating inconsistencies at the Source Wall, which to me has been the best part of the past two issues. I’m interested to see how Jeremy Adams incorporates Hal into that story and makes this feel distinct from Green Lantern Corps (2025).
To pick this up, just jump on at Green Lantern (2023) #19! Sure, there’s a year-and-a-half of stories before that which create The Sorrow and pair of specials, but I don’t think you need all of that to decide of the current story is working for you.
Harley Quinn (2021) #49 (digital) – See Guide to Harley Quinn. Y’all, I absolutely love this Elliott Kalan & Mindy Lee series and it is unfathomable to me so many Harley fans are rejecting it when I dip my toe into various comic discourses.
What exactly do they want!? This is funny, full of heart, has terrific art that can sell a punchline, and is nimbly telling one-shot stories that all connect to Harley’s overarching war against gentrification of her old stomping grounds. It’s irreverent while not feeling totally held apart from Harley’s place in continuity as it relates to Poison Ivy.
To me, that’s everything you could want from a Harley Quinn book and I continue to appreciate it every issue. Even last month’s Professor Pyg issue managed to delicately tread the line between funny and subversive in a way that few Pyg stories manage to do.
I don’t profess to understand the psychology of any Harley fan, but as someone who genuinely enjoys this character when she’s written as an actual character instead of a walking meme machine I’ve enjoyed everything about this run so far.
Harley Quinn Fartacular: Silent Butt Deadly (2025) #1 (digital) – See Guide to Harley Quinn. I’m speechless about this comic. Totally speechless. How could they!? How could they release a Harley Quinn special THE SAME WEEK as a regular issue?!
I suppose it makes sense – if a big Harley fan is in the story for their ongoing issue, why not snap up a special. And, if this purportedly scent-enhanced issue draws in some folks with a grosser sense of humor, maybe they’ll actually climb aboard Harley’s main ongoing. But, it does somewhat puzzle me that this is a PG-13 rated comic, when fart humor seems like it should be an All-Ages graded book – since you know little kids will see this on the shelf and think it looks funny.
Justice League Unlimited (2024) #5 (digital) – See Guide to Justice League. I came away from the last issue of this Mark Waid & Dan Mora series feeling like it was empty calories.
It was a huge League-wide effort to reverse the devastation of the Amazon rainforest, but in terms of story beats it was a mere deep cut Swamp Thing character and a bunch of “let’s travel through The Green” handwaving to reach a resolution.
This issue promises to put the focus on the League’s new foes, Inferno. Waid has a number of intriguing subplots simmering here, but I’m starting to wonder if a few of the many mini-series spun out of this book (e.g., Black Lightning, Challengers, Question, & Atom Project) might have made it stronger if their sub-plots stayed integrated into this main series with cowriters or backup stories.
I suspect all of them will resolve in a way that Waid pays off back in this main series, because Waid is very good at his job. But, right now this feels like it’s already doing some of Waid’s familiar wheel-spinning after a strong pair of launch issues.
Metamorpho: The Element Man (2024) #4 (digital) – I find this Al Ewing & Steve Lieber Silver-Age pastiche incredibly tiresome. It’s true – they’re perfectly parodying the style of a late-60s DC Comic. But, there’s a reason that DC were thought of as overwritten kids’ comics that didn’t evolve while Marvel dominated everyone’s imaginations with groundbreaking storytelling.
That’s because DC’s late Silver Age comics were more foolish than memorable. And, if you enjoy both the Silver Age and Ewing in foolish mode, these are dense with exactly that.
Personally, I find them impenetrably boring. But, the positive side of that equation is that each of these issues overstuffed with narration makes a fine standalone tale – just like in the Silver Age! You don’t need to go back to issue #1 to pick this one up.
Peacemaker Presents: The Vigilante / Eagly Double Feature (2025) #1 (digital) – All you need to know about this new Black Label book from a “will it sell?” perspective is that James Gunn is the top-credited creative on the front cover.
It turns out it’s just a story idea from Gunn that connects to his Peacemaker TV show, as executed by Tim Seeley & Mitch Gerads – who themselves are pretty massive draws.
I could take or leave Gunn wading into comics, but I think it’s interesting that DC is happy keeping Peacemaker as an occasional Amanda Waller lackey in official continuity while going back to the well repeatedly with Black Label series for the character. Honestly, I think it’s pretty smart. He’s not a big enough character to drive sales of an ongoing run, but he’s well-known enough to sell a solid number of issues (and, especially, trade paperbacks) to his engaged multimedia fans if they sound like cool standalone stories.
Power Girl (2023) #19 (digital) – Power Girl continues to fight dinosaurs in the Jurassic bubble in her headquarters in this penultimate issue of her series.
I’ve loved this team-up of past X-Factor (2020) collaborators Leah Williams & David Baldeón. Baldeón is delivering some of the most astonishing artwork I’ve seen from him in his lengthy career. It looks great, and it’s lots of fun, but Power Girl remains a vaguely-defined character in her own comic.
I suspect that’s why this one is getting the boot at the same time we’re about to get a new Sophie Campbell Supergirl series. Power Girl has just been playing “substitute Supergirl” without ever shifting out of that gear, and there isn’t room for two of that book on the market. If this did more to re-establish this modern version of Power Girl, maybe there could be room for both.
Superman (2023) #24 (digital) – See Guide to Superman (1986 – Present). I still love this book, but I was left slightly dissatisfied with last month’s resolution of the big Doomsday arc. It didn’t feel like it really went anywhere after a lot of intriguing build-up.
However, I’m still very much tuned in to all of this books Supercorp characters and storylines, so I’m ready for this new arc to kick off Lex Luthor reclaiming more his memories and – apparently – his villainy. That makes this a great place to pick up this title, though you could also track back a few months to Superman (2023) #19 for the start of DC All-In.
Personally, I’m one of those people who is always more interested in a neutral or somewhat good version of Lex versus an evil or cruel one. I think he’s so much more intriguing as a potential ally to Superman as a constant enemy. We’ll see if his newest heel turns puts me off this run, or if I continue to vibe with Williamson’s writing.
Wonder Woman (2023) #19 (digital) – See Guide to Wonder Woman. Tom King concludes his lengthy Sovereign arc! I’ll probably check back in next month to see what he’s up next while writing my favorite character. It pains me to skip her book, but not as much as reading Tom King writing her pains me!
I just spotted that Caitlin Yarsky, who wrote and illustrated Living Hell (2024), will be drawing issue #22. I think she is a flawless cartoonist, so that’s an issue I’ll absolutely pick up despite King’s name on it!
That’s for DC Comics March 26 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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