Not many surprises in the DC Comics July 2026 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations after the Fall 2026 catalog listings earlier this month. There’s Absolute Batman Vol. 3, featuring part of the first Absolute Universe crossover; there’s Batman: H2sh, though given that — is this right? — the final issue hasn’t even been published yet, I’ll believe it when I see it. We’ve got two volumes of the DC All In Green Lantern Vol. 6 titles, the second volume of Sophie Campbell’s Supergirl Vol. 2: Hometown Horrors, and then also Erica Henderson’s miniseries Harley & Ivy: Life & Crimes.

Among big releases from the Fall 2026 catalog, we’ve got the Red Robin Compendium, probably that catalog’s biggest surprise. There is DC/Marvel: The Cosmic Kiss Caper, collecting the new DC/Marvel crossovers so far. Absolute Power sees an omnibus and also Ram V’s Detective Comics sees an omnibus; I would take or leave reading Absolute Power in an omnibus versus in the various individual volumes, but omnibus is definitely the best way to read Ram V’s Detective.

There’s the DCU by Keith Giffen collection, long overdue, which contains all six issues of Giffen’s Heckler series, and then I imagine there are some fans very happy to see the third book of Rick Veitch’s Swamp Thing; at some point I imagine I’m going to have to go back and do a full read starting with Len Wein, if not Martin Pasko, and going all the way to, what, the final 2000s series?

So let’s get to it; the fall season starts now.¹

• 100 Bullets Book Five (2026 Edition) HC

Issues #81–100 by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso.

• Absolute Batman Vol. 3 HC

In hardcover and paperback in early September, this is Absolute Batman #15–18, the Absolute Batman 2025 Annual #1, and the Absolute Batman: Ark M Special #1. By Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta with Jock, Daniel Warren Johnson, James Harren, Meredith McClaren – and an Absolute crossover!

• Absolute Power Omnibus HC

Includes Absolute Power #1–4, Absolute Power 2024 FCBD Special Edition #1, Absolute Power: Ground Zero #1, Absolute Power: Origins #1–3, Absolute Power: Super Son #1, Absolute Power: Task Force VII #1–7, Batman #148 and #151–152, Green Arrow #12–17, Suicide Squad: Dream Team #1–4, Superman #16–18, Flash #10, Titans #12, Wonder Woman #10–12, and stories from Batman #150, Green Lantern #13–15, and Wonder Woman #13. I’m still wondering about some of that – the Wonder Woman #10 and so on – but it seems complete in the main, and Dream Team is a nice touch.

I read this, among other places, in Absolute Power, Absolute Power: Task Force VII, and Absolute Power: Origins.

• Absolute Y: The Last Man Vol. 1 (2027 Edition) HC

Volume one of three Absolutes, collecting issues #1–18 of the Brian K. Vaughan/Pia Guerra series. That’s Y: The Last Man: Unmanned, Cycles, and One Small Step collections, with issue #18 from Safeword.

• Aquamanateam: More Than a Dream HC

Sequel kids graphic novel by Ben Clanton and Cassandra Federman. Super-powered toots!

• Batman & Son: DC Compact Comics Edition TP

No contents listed in this solicitation, but this was previously said to be Batman #655–658 and #663–666, the same as the original (shortest) collection. I reviewed Batman and Son in 2007.

• Batman: City of Madness TP

Paperback of the three-issue Black Label series by Christian Ward, following the 2024 hardcover.

• Batman: Detective Comics by Ram V Omnibus HC

At the end of five volumes, I had said I thought Ram V’s Detective run would make a good (and inevitable) omnibus, bringing together a story sweeping and operatic, if hampered by a couple of factors. The first of those was its similarity, maybe also inevitable, between this run and Chip Zdarsky’s Batman and others; the second was that many of the backup stories, mostly the ones by Simon Spurrier, seemed important in the beginning but were forgotten halfway through. I hardly need this book, but I’m awfully interested in both Ram V’s introduction and the afterwords by Spurrier specifically and then also by Dan Watters.

This is Detective Comics #1062–1089, Detective Comics 2022 Annual #1, and stories from Batman Secret Files #1, DC’s Crimes of Passion #1, and Strange Love Adventures #1, being Detective Comics Vol. 1: Gotham Nocturne: Overture, Detective Comics Vol. 2: Gotham Nocturne Act I, Detective Comics Vol. 3: Gotham Nocturne Act II, Detective Comics Vol. 4: Gotham Nocturne: Intermezzo: Batman, Outlaw, and Detective Comics Vol. 5: Gotham Nocturne Act III.

• Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham: The Deluxe Edition HC

Finally complete and collected in deluxe, the four-issue miniseries by Rafael Grampa, coming in September.

• Batman: H2SH HC

I’ll believe it when I see it, but this is the solicitation for mid-September 2026, delayed from December 2025. Collects Batman #158–163 by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee. I reviewed Absolute Hush back in 2005!

• Batman: Killing Time TP

Paperback of the six-issue miniseries by Tom King and David Marquez, following the hardcover, in September.

• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2026 Edition) TP

New printing for the 40th anniversary.

• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Deluxe Edition HC

Or you can have it in a deluxe printing, with a tribute cover gallery and extras.

• Batman: White Knight Presents: Generation Joker TP

Paperback, following the hardcover; collects Batman: White Knight Presents: Generation Joker #1–6 by Katana Collins, Clay McCormack, and Mirka Andolfo as part of the Sean Murphy-verse. I reviewed Batman: White Knight Presents: Generation Joker in 2024. More White Knight when?

• Black Canary Ignite (2026 Edition) TP

Young adult graphic novel by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee.

• CORT: Children of the Round Table TP

Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicuolo’s six-issue all-ages miniseries, in paperback in October.

• DC Finest: Batman: The Demon Lives Again TP

Collects Batman #231–245 and Detective Comics #410–429 from the 1970s, with an emphasis on Ra’s al Ghul, but also plenty else – Ten-Eyed Man, Two-Face, the Reaper, and more.

• DC Finest: Events: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two TP

Collects DC Comics Presents #86 and #95, Infinity, Inc. #20–22, Infinity, Inc. Annual #1, The New Teen Titans #13–14, Swamp Thing #44–46, Wonder Woman #328–329, Legends of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths #1, Crisis on Infinite Earths #5, All-Star Squadron #53–56, and Superman #413.

• DC Finest: Harley Quinn: The Ballad of Harley Quinn TP

Collects Harley Quinn #9–25 from the first series, finishing out the run mainly by Karl Kesel and Terry and Rachel Dodson; Harley Quinn: Our Worlds at War; Harley and Ivy: Love on the Lam, by Judd Winick; and Gotham Girls #1–5. This follows the previous DC Finest: Harley Quinn: Birth of the Mirth.

• The DC Universe by Keith Giffen HC

The best time for DC to have published this was before Keith Giffen passed away, and the second-best time is now. I do think the suggestion that this volume will make you “laugh, cry, laugh some more, become confused, and be entertained” is a pretty good distillation of Giffen’s work.

Collects Legion of Substitute Heroes Special #1, Legion of Super-Heroes (1989) #1, Justice League America #45, Justice League #5, Secret Origins #34, Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special #1, Big Book of Urban Legends #1, Blue Beetle #1, 52 #17, Ambush Bug #1–4, and – finally! – The Heckler #1–6. With an introduction by J.M. DeMatteis.

• DC/Marvel: The Cosmic Kiss Caper & Other Stories HC

In hardcover and paperback in September, with new front and back covers by Jim Cheung and Lee Weeks, collecting all the new stuff on DC’s side – DC/Marvel: Batman/Deadpool #1 and DC/Marvel: Superman/Spider-Man #1 and their associated short stories, and the digital comics DC/Marvel: The Flash/Fantastic Four and DC/Marvel: Supergirl/Blade. Do we have any word on the collection from Marvel’s side?

• Fables: No More Happily Ever After: DC Compact Comics Edition TP

Collects issues #1–10 of Fables, being Fables: Legends in Exile and Fables: Animal Farm. I never did finish Fables, leaving off at Fables: Homelands.

• From Comic to Screen: The Art of Supergirl HC

Seems to be a focus on how DC Studios translated Tom King’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow miniseries to the feature film.

• Green Lantern Corps Vol. 2: A New World TP

Issues #10–13 and the DC K.O.: Green Lantern Galactic Slam special, so kind of a DC K.O.: Green Lantern book, by Jeremy Adams, Morgan Hampton, and Fernando Pasarin. Coming in August in paperback.

• Green Lantern Corps: Recharge (2026 Edition) TP

New printing of the five-issue mini in time for the HBO series; I reviewed Green Lantern Corps: Recharge in 2006 (Twenty years? Good lord!).

• Green Lantern Vol. 6: With This Ring TP

In paperback in August, collecting Green Lantern #28–33, including the oversized “600th” issue.

• Harley & Ivy: Life & Crimes TP

Erica Henderson’s six-issue miniseries, in paperback in August. Eager to read it, though skeptical that this is as “definitive” and “canonical” as the solicitation claims.

• House of Secrets: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (2026 Edition) HC

No contents listed here, but previously this was said to be issues #81–111, with creators including Bernie Wrightson, Len Wein, Alex Toth, Marv Wolfman, Gerry Conway, Neal Adams, Jim Aparo, and Sergio Aragonés.

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 2: The Absolute Edition (2027 Edition) HC

Pretty sure this collects all six issues of the second miniseries.

• Poison Ivy: The Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 HC

Quite deserving, this is G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara’s Poison Ivy #1–12, plus stories from Batman #124 and Gotham City Villains Giant, in deluxe size in October. The story is scary and gripping, the art is lush, and this is quite a good jumping on point if you haven’t already. Collected in trades as Poison Ivy Vol. 1: The Virtuous Cycle and Poison Ivy Vol. 2: Unethical Consumption.

• Red Robin: Tim Drake Compendium TP

This is an unexpected one. Not sure if I might say “unwelcome,” not because these stories were poor necessarily (I recall enjoying them) but because there’s still a sizable gap in the collections of the Robin series begun by Chuck Dixon, and this does little to close it.

Contents are said to be Robin #175–183, Red Robin #1–26 (by Christopher Yost and then Fabian Nicieza), just Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #6 (where previous solicitations had all of it), Blackest Night: Batman #1–3, Bruce Wayne: The Road Home: Red Robin #1, World’s Finest #1 (by Sterling Gates), Adventure Comics #3, Batgirl #8, Teen Titans #92, Batman #709, Gotham City Sirens #22, Superman/Batman #62, and a story from DCU Halloween Special ’09. That Superman/Batman issue was published at the same time as the Red Robin series but doesn’t feature Tim’s Red Robin identity, I don’t think. Batman #709 and Sirens #22 are part of the “Judgment on Gotham” crossover with Red Robin #22, though Batman #708 should maybe also be in there.

These stories were previously collected for the most part in Robin: Search for a Hero, Red Robin: The Grail, Red Robin: Collision, Red Robin: The Hit List, Red Robin: Seven Days of Death, Batman: Gotham Will Be Judged, and World’s Finest.

• Sgt. Rock by Joe Kubert: Deluxe Edition HC

Collects G.I. Combat #68; Our Army at War #83, #91, #117, #135, #141, #158, #165, #196, #233, and #238; Sgt. Rock #302–304 and #368; Sgt. Rock Special #1; Joe Kubert Presents #5; and Showcase #45. What had previously been listed as the “never-before-seen” story “What’s to Tell?” is now just called “never-before-seen artwork.”

• Supergirl Vol. 2: Hometown Horrors TP

In paperback in September, collecting Sophie Campbell’s Supergirl #7–10 plus the Summer of Supergirl Special with work by Mark Waid, Gail Simone, Belen Ortega, and Joe Quinones.

• Superman: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 HC

Collects Action Comics #266–288 and Superman #138–153, with Mr. Mxyzptlk, Supergirl, Krypto, Bizarro, and more, with work by Jerry Siegel, Otto Binder, Wayne Boring, and Curt Swan.

• Swamp Thing by Rick Veitch Book Three: Time Upon a Once TP

Collects Swamp Thing #80–87, Swamp Thing Annual #5, and Swamp Thing 1989 #1–4, Veitch’s unpublished issues #88–91.

• The Unwritten Compendium Two TP

The second and final compendium collection of Mike Carey and Peter Gross’s Vertigo series. I’m not doing justice to its premise but it’s about a man who was the childhood inspiration for a series of fantasy novels, but things get metaphysical from there. Collects Unwritten #31, #31.5, #32, #32.5, #33, #33.5, #34, #34.5, #35, #35.5, and #36–54, as well as The Unwritten: Apocalypse #1–12, including appearances by the Fables characters.

• Wonder Woman: Rebirth by Greg Rucka Omnibus HC

Every Wonder Woman book by Greg Rucka is a book worth reading. I would venture that this, his Rebirth run, does not quite hold up to his original pre-Infinite Crisis run, but still, see point A, and also I think this reads a lot better linearly than it did split between even and odd issues in the original first and second volumes.

Collects Wonder Woman #1–25, Wonder Woman: Rebirth #1, and stories from DC Holiday Special 2017, Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special #1, Wonder Woman Annual #1, and Wonder Woman #750. I read these beginning in 2017 as Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Lies, Wonder Woman Vol. 2: Year One, Wonder Woman Vol. 3: The Truth, and Wonder Woman Vol. 4: Godwatch.