Next week is the 15th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers DC Comics April 9 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering DC Comics April 2 2025 new releases.
This week in DC Comics: Batman’s Absolute second arc, G. Willow Wilson’s superstar Superman, Finest Batgirl, Aquaman lost in The Blue, Deluxe Fudd by King & Weeks, Snyder & Tynion’s League hits omnibus, Lantern’s journey to the center of Thanagar, the Dark Patterns of a talking tower, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: I know I’m supposed to pick Batman: Dark Patterns (2024) #5 because we are all obsessed with Dark Patterns. And I’m sure it will be amazing, especially after last month’s final page! But, folks, I am just too dang curious about another final reveal from last month – the one that’s leading into Green Lantern Corps (2025) #3. After a gorgeous and super-tense issue #2, I absolutely need to know what’s going on with Thanagar’s unexpected golden center! I’m so curious I would pay extra to read it right now.
This post includes every comic out from DC Comics April 9 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 April 9 2025 new releases!
DC Comics April 9 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 April 9 2025 collected editions should also be available from your local bookseller next week!
Batman / Elmer Fudd: The Deluxe Edition
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1799501022 / digital)
I know what you’re thinking. Batman and Elmer Fudd? A single issue Looney Tunes team-up? In a Deluxe format? And this was by Tom King?!
I am here to inform you that, impossibly, this issue truly is good enough to warrant such attention. And I say that as someone who is generally not an enjoyer of Tom King. But, King playing Elmer Fudd totally straight and un-cartoonish in the gritty world of Gotham is like watching a magic trick unfurl before your eyes – especially as illustrated in perfectly noir style by Lee Weeks. This edition presents the original issue and then repeats it in black and white.
Booster Gold: The Complete 2007 Series Book Two
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799501039)
This is the second of three paperbacks to collect all of a much-loved Booster Gold solo run written entirely by hall-of-famer Dan Jurgens and with art from other industry veterans like Jerry Ordway and Rick Leonardi.
DC Finest: Batgirl – Nobody Dies Tonight
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799501046)
This first Batgirl DC Finest volume has confused everyone! Why? Because it starts with Cassandra Cain starring in Batgirl (2000) #8, part of the series that was voted DC’s #2 Most-Wanted omnibus last year!
Of course, issues #1-7 aren’t going to be enough to fill a prior volume all on their own. So, what else will go in there? Will it be Cassandra’s prior material appearing during “No Man’s Land”? Will it also pull in some Post-Crisis Barbara Gordon material as Oracle, even though all of that should also fit into a Birds of Prey line?
This is one of the only true mapping mysteries of the DC Finest line so far.
Absolute Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War
(2025 oversize slipcase hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500742)
See Guide to Green Lantern – Hal Jordan. This collects a crossover between the main Hal Jordan title and Green Lantern Corps. I’m not familiar with the story, but I’ve always thought it was curious to have the crossover in Absolute but not the highly-regarded 20 issues of Jordan’s title that preceded it.
Justice League by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV Omnibus Vol. 1
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1799501053)
See Guide to Justice League. This first (of three?) omnibuses of the Snyder/Tynion run collects the lead-in Justice League: No Justice (2018) mini-series and all of the “Drowned Earth” crossover issues, in addition to 19 issues and annual of the mains series.
For me, this was a pretty series that went mostly nowhere. The League kept splitting up into different permutations without much intrigue. There was a minor thrill in the next omnibus when it reintegrates the JSA into the DC Universe, but there was nothing especially memorable in this volume for me.
Read on for a summary of all of the DC Comics April 9 2025 single issue releases!
DC Comics April 9 2025 Physical Comic Releases
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Absolute Batman (2024) #7 (digital) – See Guide to DC Absolute Universe. Having resolved its first arc without much of a resolution, now this book stumbles forward into a second arc featuring Joker – so fans are going to eat it up regardless of the middling quality.
Last issue introduced the idea of how easily this hopeless version of Gotham could be incentivized to carry out their very own version of “The Purge,” but there was no texture to it. The hollow story beat was basically “money good, let’s kill people” that got stretched out for an issue until the money went away and everyone said “nah, nevermind.” Great for creating some tension, but not especially deep or revealing.
Meanwhile, Batman punted some people off a boat and stabbed Black Mask in the eyes with his pointy bat ears in a pair of highly meme-able panels. The only real texture was that Bruce revealed himself to some of his his circle of friends (a few of whom would typically be members of his rogues’ gallery).
This almost feels like Batman for people who wanted Nolan’s Dark Knight with less talking. It’s so not revolutionary and lacking in substance that it’s almost regressive – Batman for people who aren’t looking for any innovation or nuance in their Batman.
I won’t go in on a guy that seems genuinely kind (and who has left a few comments here on CK over the years), but this book is an absolute flatline for me at a time when several other creators are creating intensely memorable Batman comics (including one just below!
Action Comics (1938 / 2016) #1085 (digital) – See Guide to Action Comics (1987 – Present). Good riddance to our last “Superstar” writer John Ridley and a very enthusiastic welcome to our incoming superstar G. Willow Wilson for her two-issue run on Supes.
GWW general tends to write just one comic series at a time, so getting her on Action while she’s also penning Poison Ivy’s ongoing feels like a real treat. And, this is more of her environmentally-focused writing, with Superman investigating a technology that could halt global warming.
Aquaman (2025) #4 (digital) – See Guide to Aquaman. I’m hanging onto my benefit of the doubt for Jeremy Adams based on how great his Green Lantern run grew to be, because right now this comic feels like a big pile of nothing.
Last issue promised some kind of connection between Aquaman and Darkseid. Instead, Aquaman and his new allies climb a very tall wall and then told a big story about YET ANOTHER universal force of nature in The Blue. (DO NOT WANT)
It was super dumb and then it ended with Aquaman getting kidnapped. Again. There’s absolutely nothing about his personality or agency in this book.
I’m trying to take deep breaths and have some patience for Adams’s plot, but this is cruising dangerously close to a drop for me based on how pointless it is after three issues.
Batman and Robin (2023) #20 (digital) – See Guide to Robin(s). I’ve been up and down on this Phillip Kennedy Johnson series. I think he’s getting a lot of the characterization of Damian totally wrong. Yet, I find PKJ’s mystery of a timeless serial killer incredibly engaging.
Last issue was harrowing in an entertaining way. I think it continued to lean on making Damian overly emotional to sell both his trauma response and his tense relationship with Batman. But, that yielded a tense faceoff for Damian and some genuinely creepy moments from a babbling Scarecrow.
However, looking at this solicits for upcoming issues, this arc – which started at issue #14 – will be stretching out until at least issue #22. That’s just too long for one decompressed story arc, especially one that’s getting one of its titular stars so wrong month after month purely in the name of placing him in peril.
I’m trying to put aside how this Damian grinds my gears and enjoy the mystery elements as they unfolds, but pales in comparison to superior Bruce/Damian work from Tom Taylor on Detective Comics.
Batman: Dark Patterns (2024) #5 (digital) – See Guide to Batman (1986 – Present). It’s time for more Dark Patterns from Dan Watters, Hayden Sherman, Tríona Farrell, & Frank Cvetkovic!
I absolutely raved about this team’s work last month on the first issue of this new arc, “The Voice of the Tower.” Sherman’s layouts of the issue were mind-bendingly good, I loved the range of Farrell’s colors, Cvetkovic’s letters kept my eyes moving through the swirling pages, and the final twist from Watters was unexpected and campy.
This book has major Legends of the Dark Knight energy, DC’s original prestige Batman book telling stories from early in his career. I think the market is different enough today that a single book anthologizing 2-4 issue stories from different creators couldn’t last, but I love giving one maxi-series to an all-star team who use it to tell multiple short arcs rather than one big story.
The only thing keeping this from being my favorite comic book of 2025 is that it feels like both FML (2024) and The Nice House by the Sea (2024) are being custom-crafted to push dopamine buttons in my brain. But, this one isn’t far behind eithe rof them!
DC Horror Presents: Creature Commandos (2024) #6 (of 6) (digital) – Originally scheduled for last week and delayed until this one. This is the final issue of David Dastmalchian’s spin on a DC horror team that loosely corresponds to the recent DC TV cartoon.
DC vs. Vampires: World War V (2024) #8 (digital) – See Guide to DC Elseworlds & Alternate Earths. I have to say, as someone who is deeply into vampire bullshit I am getting increasingly curious about a three-way war between human heroes, vampire heroes, and Darkseid.
Curious enough to dive into this Matthew Rosenberg Elseworld? I dunno, but he does keep using Zealot from WildCATs, another brand of bullshit I am deeply, deeply into.
Fire & Ice: When Hell Freezes Over (2025) #1 (digital) – This is a second Fire & Ice mini-series from Joanne Starer, this time with art from Stephen Byrne (who I love).
From the birth of the New 52 in 2011 onward, Fire & Ice were the mascots of my complaints about the revised DC Universe. They both appeared at the start of New 52 in Justice League International, a book and cast that felt like it got immediately memory-holed upon its cancellation for not fitting in with Geoff Johns’s streamlined idea of the core Justice League.
Within a compressed version of the DC Universe that centered on a League full of multi-media powerhouses, where had all of these minor league team book heroes gone? Even the secondary League title was chock full of major players like Martian Manhunter and Green Arrow. It didn’t feel like there was any room left in the DC Universe for smaller heroes unless they were a Bat character or at least appeared in a cartoon.
Thus, a big part of what I’ve enjoyed about the past five years of the DC Universe – and especially about this current era driven by continuity-junky Mark Waid – is that the universe feels big again. And, arriving as if to specifically prove my point, we have this new mini-series!
I tried Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville (2023) when it came out because I was so excited to support Fire & Ice but it just wasn’t to my sense of humor. However, last week I (surprisingly) really liked Starer’s take on Harley Quinn’s fart book last week. I think I’ll give Welcome to Smallville another chance before next NCBD to get ready for this new series.
Green Lantern Corps (2025) #3 (digital) – See Guide to Green Lantern Corps. We’ve established I’m a sucked for any space book with gorgeous artwork from Fernando Pasarin, but last issue was absolutely crackling with action and energy!
Last issue, John Stewart led a tactical crew of Lanterns (and one particularly ornery Hawkwoman) against a pirate crew mining the cracked remains of Thanagar. Were they too late to stop them from discovering what lay in the core of the fractured planet, or just in time to discover it?.
I find that I am absolutely vibing with the concept of the Lantern Corps dealing with the power structures emerging in the wake of the return of emotional power rings without central power batteries. That’s exactly the kind of big idea that can fuel a pair of duel flagship books, and maybe even a tertiary solo series here or there.
Add in Sorrow as a new villain, amassing his own powerful pitiful corps and you’ve got a book that floats right to the top of my stack.. Sorrow is both genuinely creepy and also hilariously sadsack thanks to his origin being that Hal Jordan – the biggest asshole in the universe not named Guy Gardner – broke up his impending nuptials. Honestly, it’s the perfect amount of tragic and DC Silver Age dumb to fit right in with the intergalactic origins of the various Lanterns.
That’s for DC Comics April 9 2025 new releases! What were you already pulling? And, did I convince you to check out anything new? Sound off in the comments below.