DC Trade Solicitations for January 2026 - Batman: H2SH, New Gods Vol. 2, Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman, Catwoman: New 52 Omnibus, Mr. Terrific: Year One, Superman: Action Comics: Boy of Steel, Flinch: Complete Collection
A big month for me mainly for regular series in the DC Comics January 2026 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations. Batman and Robin and New Gods are two whose first volumes I liked a lot and I’m eager for the second volumes (a continuation and a conclusion, respectively). There’s Tom King’s Trinity, not exactly the next volume of his Wonder Woman, but I’m eager to see what mysteries are solved in this deceptively comedic mini.
Notable, too, Mr. Terrific: Year One, more tied in to DC All In than I originally expected. I’m apprehensive about Mark Waid’s first volume of Action Comics; I haven’t heard much at all, really, and Waid’s new DC work has been hit or miss for me; see too the next volume of Batman/Superman: Worlds Finest, though I am interested to see Aquaman teamed with Swamp Thing. There’s also the next volume of Elliott Kalan’s Harley Quinn. I just read the first volume and it was OK, not great, with an interesting premise but maybe not a Harley premise, so I’m curious how the second volume will shake out.
I’m probably burying the headline not to say, also, this month sees Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee’s Hush sequel. I guess if anything says 20 years of Collected Editions, it’s a Hush sequel. Back in the day, we were ravenous for when DC would finally collect all 12 issues together; these days, I’m concerned the first six issues may never be followed up by the other reported six.
Also an omnibus of the New 52 Catwoman, controversy giving way to nostalgia, still cracks me up.
Let’s take a look at the full list.
Recent DC Comics Trade Solicitations
- • Batman and Robin Vol. 2: The Gotham Cycle TP
In paperback in February by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and company, collecting issues #20–24. The first volume ended on a big cliffhanger and I’ve been looking forward to this one to resolve it.
- • Batman: H2SH HC
I’ll believe it when I see it, but this is the solicitation for end of March 2026, delayed from December 2025. In paperback and hardcover on the same day; I remember when paperback used to follow the hardcover by a year to try to juice hardcover sales. Not sure if "OK, fine, just have the hardcover" suggests health or worry for the comics industry. Collects Batman #158–163 and the prelude from Justice League Unlimited #1, all by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee. I reviewed Absolute Hush back in 2005!
- • Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 3 (2026 Edition) HC
New printing of the omnibus, collecting Detective Comics #75–91, Batman #16–25, and stories from World’s Finest Comics #10–14, with a foreword by Dick Sprang. Batman #16 is Alfred’s first appearance in the comics.
- • Batman/Superman: World’s Finest Vol. 8: 20,000 Leagues HC
Issues #35–37 and #40–43 (around the “We Are Tomorrow” crossover) by Mark Waid and company, in hardcover and paperback in early March.
- • Catwoman: The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1 HC
Collects the New 52 Catwoman #1–26 (issue #0 isn’t listed but I can’t imagine), Catwoman Annual #1, Batman and Catwoman #22 (from Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason’s Batman and Robin), Batman: The Dark Knight #23.4: Joker’s Daughter, and a story from from Young Romance: The New 52 Valentine’s Day Special #1.
To say this New 52 run started by Judd Winick was controversial when it came out is to wholly undersell the gory violence and tawdry sex that helped put the New 52 on the map. Ten-plus years later, to see it preserved in omnibus like a quaint museum piece, is amazing to say the least; everything becomes a distant memory sometime.
This includes issues from Catwoman Vol. 1: The Game, Catwoman Vol. 2: Dollhouse (continuity, if you’re reading the Detective Comics: New 52 omnibus at the same time), Catwoman Vol. 3: Death of the Family, and Catwoman Vol. 4: Gotham Underground. Those latter two books are by Ann Nocenti, trading crime drama for madcap superheroics, and I wasn’t a fan. The next omnibus should complete Nocenti’s run, plus two DC You volumes by Genevieve Valentine and a finale by Frank Tieri.
- • Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter TP
Paperback of the six-issue sequel Elseworlds miniseries, following the hardcover.
- • DC Finest: The Demon: Birth of the Demon TP
Collects Jack Kirby’s debut of Etrigan the Demon and classic team-ups – Demon #1–16 (1972–1973), Batman Family #17, Brave and the Bold #109 and #137, Detective Comics #482–485, and Wonder Woman #280–282.
- • DC Finest: The Flash: The Fastest Man Dead TP
Collects World’s Finest Comics #198–199, Flash #197–229 (not Flash #197–204, #206–212, and #215–229, as listed previously), and Brave and the Bold #99. For reference, the issues collected in Flash: The Death of Iris West begin with Flash #270.
- • Elseworlds: Batman Omnibus Vol. 1 HC
Looks like the three Elseworlds: Batman trades all together in one volume, plus the relevant 1994 Elseworlds annuals: Batman Annual #18, Detective Comics Annual #7, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight #1, Batman: Holy Terror #1, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Annual #4, Batman & Dracula: Red Rain #1, Batman: Master of the Future #1, Robin Annual #3, Robin 3000 #1–2, Batman: The Blue, the Grey, and the Bat #1, Batman: Shadow of the Bat Annual #2, Batman/Houdini: The Devil’s Workshop #1, Catwoman Annual #1, Batman: Dark Joker: The Wild #1, Batman: In Darkest Knight #1, Batman: Castle of the Bat #1, Batman: Bloodstorm #1, Batman: Knight Gallery #1, Batman: Man-Bat #1–3, and Batman: Brotherhood of the Bat #1.
- • The Flash: Rebirth: DC Compact Comics Edition TP
No contents listed for this Compact Comics collection, but previous solicitations said it was Geoff Johns' six-issue Flash: Rebirth and the first eight issues of his subsequent series, collected in Flash: The Dastardly Death of the Rogues.
- • Flinch: The Complete Collection TP
Under the revitalized DC Vertigo imprint, this collects the 16-issue Vertigo horror anthology, in March in paperback, with stories by Brian Azzarello, Greg Rucka, Bill Willingham, Garth Ennis, Jen Van Meter, and more.
- • Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit TP
The second modern Gotham City Sirens team-up event, collecting the five-issue mini by Leah Williams and Haining, in paperback in late February.
- • Harley Quinn Vol. 2: Friends With Detriments TP
Coming in March in paperback, the second collection DC All In by Elliott Kalan, collecting issues #50–57 (including the issue marked as Harley’s 200th overall). I have read the first volume and thought it was interesting as a social commentary comedy, though maybe not a great fit for the Harley character; we’ll see how this one goes.
- • John Constantine, Hellblazer by Paul Jenkins and Sean Phillips Omnibus HC
No contents listed, but previous solicitations said this was John Constantine, Hellblazer #51, #85–128, and #250; Vertigo: Winter’s Edge #1; and Hellblazer/Books of Magic #1–2.
- • Justice League: The New 52 Book Three TP
Collects Forever Evil and the tie-in issues from Justice League #24–35; I reviewed Forever Evil and Justice League Vol. 5: Forever Heroes, both by Geoff Johns, in 2014.
- • Kanga-U: Lost in a Labyrinth TP
Second young readers graphic novel about Jumpa and friends from Sholly Fisch and Yancey Labat.
- • Lobo: Back to Back TP
In early March in paperback, collecting the four-issue miniseries Lobo: The Last Czarnian and Lobo’s Back by Keith Giffen and Alan Grant with Simon Bisley, also found in Lobo by Giffen and Grant Vol. 1.
- • Mr. Terrific: Year One TP
In paperback in February, collecting the six-issue miniseries by Al Letson, Valentine De Landro, and Edwin Galmon. “In five years time, I might not know you …”
- • The New Gods Vol. 2: Edge of Darkness HC
In hardcover and paperback in May, issues #7–12, the conclusion of the miniseries by Ram V. I read Ram V’s New Gods Vol. 1: The Falling Sky this past September and thought it was exceptional.
- • The New Teen Titans Omnibus Vol. 2 (2026 Edition) HC
If I’ve followed this correctly over the years, this should be New Teen Titans #21–40, New Teen Titans Annual #1–2, Tales of the Teen Titans #41, and Batman and the Outsiders #5 (being the second edition of the second volume of the New Teen Titans Omnibus, not the one that originally skipped issue #38).
- • Nightwing: Leaping Into the Light: DC Compact Comics Edition TP
No contents listed, but we can assume this is at least Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo’s Nightwing Vol. 1: Leaping Into the Light, issues #78–83, if not more.
- • Supergirl: Bizarrogirl (2026 Edition) TP
New printing of the final volume of Sterling Gates' run on Supergirl, collecting issues #53–59 and, this solicitation says, the Supergirl Annual #2, which was written by Gates but that I don’t think was in the original collection. I reviewed Supergirl: Bizarrogirl in 2012.
- • Superman: Action Comics Vol. 1: Boy of Steel TP
In March in paperback, collecting Action Comics #1087–1092 by Mark Waid and Skylar Patridge.
- • Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman TP
In paperback in March, collecting the six-issue miniseries by Tom King and Belen Ortega. A comedic story, it seems, but there certainly are some mysteries in King’s Wonder Woman that this might help unravel.
Since you bring up the New Gods collection (as well as the Hush collection history in a way), I'm very concerned with how DC if bringing in the "six ish collection" even if it splits the story in two or ends in a cliffhanger (such as the recent JSA one). I'm a trade reader and these two left me cold, since I stopped reading issues, amongst other reasons, for the sense of not reading ever a full story anymore. Now the collections are doing the same...
ReplyDeleteYeah, that *is* an annoying thing that happens. I feel like there was an era where DC was doing it *a lot,* circa Batman: Hush and Superman: For Tomorrow (back when you’d see an Absolute before you’d ever seen an all-together hardcover), then they stopped doing it — Strange Adventures, Rorschach, to name two — but then I feel like we started to see it again with Dark Knights of Steel, Human Target — heck, I don’t think Danger Street is set for an all-in-one collection at all.
DeleteSo I get it. I don’t know that I can necessarily fault DC for splitting regular series, though. At some point a collection can only be so many issues, and even though Batman and Robin Vol. 1: Memento and Wonder Woman Vol. 3: Fury both ended on “cliffhangers,” it really was the shocking end of one story leading into the beginning of the next, and that keeps me eager for the subsequent book, at least. I haven’t read JSA, though I do agree New Gods ended kind of sudden — though, again, I’m more at ease about it for regular series or in-continuity books than I am for gloried graphic novels split into 12 parts.
Not a whole lot for me in this list, but glad to see it all the same. Especially glad to see the Compact Editions playing the hits, going for more recent stuff, and hitting the occasional curious choice.
ReplyDeleteH2SH ought to be Part 1, unless they've shift plans and are wrapping things up in the much-delayed final issues. If it's still a two-parter, I think I'll just wait for the inevitable deluxe edition.
New Gods is supposedly continuing past #12, after a brief hiatus. Can't wait for the compendium trade. (The single issues have been FIRE.)
And as for Trinity, such a delightful book. Lots of antics abound, but King seems to be setting up a plotline that I'm surprised DC has left dormant as long as it has. No spoilers...
All the more eager now for New Gods and Trinity. Happy to hear New Gods is ongoing (which does also help excuse cutting the 12 issues into two books, though I wonder if that'll get a deluxe).
DeleteIt's mildly worrisome that H2SH doesn't say Vol. 1. I assume it'll eventually be deluxe, too, but odd that right this second they're not treating this volume like "the first."
Like Zach, I'm going to wait until the story is completed and in one collection for 2 Hush, 2 Furious.
ReplyDeleteNew Gods, Action (like our host, I'm mixed on Waid but there may be a long game I need to pay attention to), Trinity, Terrific, and B&R for sure. Bizarrogirl I'm pretty sure on - between it and the New Krypton omnis, that'll be all of Gates' run on SG
And to our gracious host's question re: Bizarrogirl, not sure if it made the original printing but the annual was in at least the 2016 edition (which is the one I have).
DeleteProbably 'bout time for a Supergirl by Sterling Gates omnibus, if not now then in time for the movie. I don't know why I thought the original Supergirl: Bizarrogirl trade didn't have the annual — I mentioned it in my very own review: https://www.collectededitions.blog/2012/02/review-supergirl-bizarrogirl-trade.html
DeleteDid you like Kennedy's B&R Vol. 1, Bob? My review will be along soon. Much as some of the characterization of Damian bothered me, I thought the book was wonderfully creepy overall.
Yes, I liked PKJ's first volume of B&R. I think Damian's characterization was a bit of a departure, but if we're allowed to be realistic for a moment, teenagers try out new personas all the time. I think this one works pretty well for this title - Batman and Batman-Lite as a father-son book was never as interesting a pair as, for example, Dick and Damian who were more mismatched. B
DeletePlus, like Jeremy Adams' first volume of GL, I won't be surprised if we get a better refinement of the characterization and how it works with the plot as we go along.