Next week is the 18th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers DC Comics April 30 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering DC Comics April 23 2025 new releases.
This week in DC Comics: Ewing does Detective, Grodd’s reign continues in Waid’s League, All-In Special hits paperback, Power Company recharges, a Silver Lantern omnibus, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: It’s slim pickings this week, but there’s one book I’m sure everyone is curious about: Al Ewing writing Batman in Detective Comics (1937 / 2016) Annual 1/2025! Despite my slight weariness with Ewing in 2025, I have to admit I’m curious to see what he’ll do with a single issue story of Batman. Ewing could be a fine writer to take up the “creepy detective story” vibe of Dark Patterns when the Dan Watters & Hayden Sherman maxi-series ends.
This post includes every comic out from DC Comics April 30 2025, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats. April 30 is the fifth Wednesday of the month and DC does not typically release issues of ongoing series on a fifth week. Instead, this week we have a chapter of a maxi-series, the conclusion of a mini-series, and several one-shots and annuals – as well as Free Comic Book Day.
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 30 2025 new releases!
DC Comics April 30 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 30 2025 collected editions should also be available from your local bookseller next week!
DC All In Saga
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799506423 / digital)
See Guide to Justice League or Guide to DC Absolute Universe. This is a key trade to pick up to understand the current goings on in the DC Universe!
That’s because this collects the crescendo of Absolute Power (2024) from issue #4 as well as tie-ins from the Trinity, plus it’s the only book so far to collect the absolutely massive DC All In Special (2024) #1. That’s the issue that launched the Absolute Universe, but it also set into motion the events of Justice League Unlimited (2024) and all of its helper titles – Black Lightning (2024), Challengers of the Unknown (2024), Justice League: The Atom Project (2025), and The Question: All Along the Watchtower (2024). It follows that up with the first issue of Justice League Unlimited (2024) just for fun.
I’m not usually one to say “you’ve GOT to read THIS THING so everything will MAKE SENSE,” but even if you don’t pick up this peculiar trade you really ought to read at least DC All In Special (2024) #1 – especially if you are into DC’s new Absolute Universe!
Batman and Robin Vol. 2: Batman vs. Robin
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799501213 / digital)
See Guide to Batman by Grant Morrison. This is a slim paperback reprint of the second of four arcs of Grant Morrison’s Batman and Robin (2009) starring Dick Grayson as Batman and Damian Wayne as Robin.
I absolutely adore this run, but I think it’s weird to see DC go back to print on these original slim trades rather than thicker versions that also exist.
Green Lantern: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1799501220)
See Guide to Green Lantern – Hal Jordan. This is a reprint of the 2018 version of this Volume 2 omnibus, which collects a totally different range of issues. So, if you’ve got a Volume 1, make sure it’s the 2017 or 2023 version of Volume 1 before picking this up!
This is all there is to collect of Silver Age Hal Jordan – he’s next in the famous “Hard Travelin’ Heroes” material with Green Arrow and back-ups in Flash, which has been collected in deluxe format many times over.
Read on for a summary of all of the DC Comics April 30 2025 single issue releases!
DC Comics April 30 2025 Physical Comic Releases
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Batman / Superman: World’s Finest (2022) Annual 1/2025 (digital) – See Guide to Justice League, because this annual is Part Three of the “We Are Yesterday” crossover between Mark Waid’s pair of titles – this one and Justice League Unlimited (2024).
Waid is weaving between past and present, showing how Grodd’s first conflict with an early version of the League inspired his plan to infiltrate the League in the modern day in the wake of Absolute Power. I enjoy making Grodd out to be a heavyweight schemer who does some serious evil to his plant in the League, but I’m less excited that his plan is apparently to simply re-assemble a version of the Legion of Doom of baddies who have failed a hundred times before. It feels like Waid had a cool seed of a plot idea but wound up just playing the hits.
Batman: The Long Halloween – The Last Halloween (2024) #7 (digital) – See Guide to Batman (1987 – Present). Jeph Loeb’s tribute to his work with Tim Sale continues its artist-go-round with Dave Johnson, the artist behind Vertigo’s 100 Bullets.
Last issue felt a bit uneven to me. It dragged an early version of Amanda Waller into this “Year Three” type story seemingly just for the wink of what she would become, and the conflict centered again on putting a young Dick Grayson in peril as Robin.
I appreciate that the Sale/Loeb stories have always had an elemental simplicity to them, but I don’t feel like they’ve ever stalled in the middle quite as hard as this has in the past two issues. I’m still enjoying the plot and the way it resolves threads from the original Long Halloween, so I’m hoping this issue can get things back on track.
Detective Comics (1937 / 2016) Annual 1/2025 (digital) – See Guide to Detective Comics (1987 – Present). This annual arrives in a break between storylines on Tom Taylor’s run on ‘Tec. It is a one-shot mystery story by Al Ewing with a trio of art teams.
Ewing is one of the comparatively few creators who can create instant sales for Marvel and DC at the moment, and I’m sure fans will flock to the chance to see him writing Batman! I’ve felt Ewing has been stretched a bit thin lately, but it will be fun to see him in mysterious mode in contrast to his “wacky” and “fun” showing on Metamorpho: The Element Man (2024) (which I had to drop because it was so “wacky” and “fun”).
Free Comic Book Day! DC Comics is offering a trio of FCBD offerings for 2025. Free Comic Book Day 2025: DC All In Special Edition #1 has the second Dan Slott Superman story as well as a Jeff Lemire Absolute Mirror Master tale. The other two FCBD issues are previews of upcoming young readers graphic novels – Free Comic Book Day 2025: Kanga-U – Tests and Tournaments Special Edition #1 and Free Comic Book Day 2025: Superman’s Good Guy Gang Special Edition #1.
The Power Company: Recharged (2025) #1 (digital) – This one-shot from Bryan Hill follows on the heels of the remarkably dull DC Power: Rise of the Power Company (2025) one-shot in January… not exactly a great advertisement for its quality. A framing story by Brandon Thomas connected Josiah Power to Steel and Black Lightning, which is a plot that could have possibly improved Thomas’s equally-dull Black Lighting (2024) series.
I’m not sure if it’s a positive or a negative that this continuation is from a different writer – Bryan Hill. I’ve generally enjoyed Hill more at DC than Marvel, so we’ll see how far he can push the idea of forming a Power Company team in this new one-shot.
The Question: All Along the Watchtower (2024) #6 (of 6) (digital) – See Guide to Justice League (for now). This is the grand finale of this Renee Montoya side series by Alex Segura with her investigating problems on the League’s Watchtower satellite.
I’ve been a vocal fan of the idea of the main Justice League Unlimited (2024) title surrounding itself with side series carrying specific League subplots, but in the long run this one has not felt vital. It began as an attempted-murder mystery, but as it quickly devolved into super-fighting it started to feel like scenes existed just to fill pages rather than due to plot importance or the change to flesh out characters.
It’s a shame to see a rare Montoya feature sputter, especially one with such great art and a solid villain. Ultimately, I don’t think it did enough to serve a mystery and the action has felt empty.
That’s for DC Comics April 30 2025 new releases! What were you already pulling? And, did I convince you to check out anything new? Sound off in the comments below.