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DC Omnibus Announcement: Animal Man by Jamie Delano and Steve Pugh Omnibus

August 4, 2026 by krisis Leave a Comment

We’re seeing even more omnibus announcements roll out from DC Comics in anticipation of their 2027 January to June catalog arriving at the end of this week. Their second omnibus announcement for 2027 shows off DC’s renewed commitment to finishing omnibus lines, as this book pulls us within a single collected edition of completing a famous Vertigo title that only had its most famous run collected for a long time: Animal Man by Jamie Delano and Steve Pugh Omnibus!

When his ongoing series began in 1988, Animal Man was a deeply obscure Silver Age DC hero with just a handful of appearances to his name. That included being a member of a group literally called “The Forgotten Heroes” who popped up in Superman to remind him (and readers) that they still existed.

Animal Man (1988) launched before Vertigo was an imprint at DC comics. However, Vertigo energy had already been established by the long-running Swamp Thing and was being echoed in other titles launching that year – which included both The Sandman (1988) and Hellblazer (1988)!

The launch of Animal Man (1988) was helmed by Grant Morrison and… the rest is history. Morrison echoed a touch of Alan Moore’s deconstruction from Miracleman, blending it with social commentary on the environment and the natural world and building up to the most famous self-insert in all of comics.

And then the run kept running! by Peter Milligan and then Tom Veitch & Steve Dillon penned the next two years of the title, from Animal Man (1988) #27-50, which we received in omnibus just a few months ago. Now, we’re getting the next sequential book in that omnibus line with the Animal Man by Jamie Delano and Steve Pugh Omnibus. [Read more…] about DC Omnibus Announcement: Animal Man by Jamie Delano and Steve Pugh Omnibus

DC Comics Announcement: DC Finest Batgirl – Silent Knight

August 3, 2026 by krisis Leave a Comment

Now we know what the first DC Finest volume of 2027 will be, and it’s a big surprise… because we also had an announcement of this same material in an omnibus just last week! That’s right, DC Comics are keeping up their trend of releasing some of the most hotly-demanded material in both oversize hardcover omnibus and paperback DC Finest during the same quarter with the announcement of: DC Finest Batgirl – Silent Knight.

DC Finest Batgirl: Silent Knight was the #4 most-wanted DC Finest volume era in the Most-Wanted DC Finest Poll… and, of course, the #1 Tigereyes DC Most-Wanted Omnibus for two years running.

When fans saw the contents of DC Finest Batgirl: Nobody Dies Tonight, we had some questions. That book begins with Batgirl (2000) #7. Why start a DC Finest for a character on the second arc of her first comic… when DC Finest volumes are typically 500-640 pages long?!

In the year since that volume was released, we intrepid mappers have figured some things out – which were exactly confirmed by the contents of this book and the companion omnibus. Essentially, the true first arc of Cassandra Cain are her origins in the Batman Event “No Man’s Land.” Once we calculated those issues as part of the DC Finest mapping, everything made perfect sense.

Also in that same period, DC figured something out, too: Cassandra Cain is in high demand! Despite DC Finest Batgirl – Nobody Dies Tonight coming out as the 2025 Tigereyes Most-Wanted DC Omnibus Poll was happening, that was the year that Cass’s omnibus took the #1 spot. And, in the year between its release and this year’s Tigereyes poll, that first volume sold out and went back to a second printing.

Meanwhile, Cass topped the Tigereyes poll again. Plus, she nabbed two of the Top 10 spots in the first ever Most-Wanted DC Finest Poll just two months ago – one for this volume, and one for a volume to follow Nobody Dies Tonight.

Based on all of that, it’s no surprise that DC put this volume on the schedule at the very top of 2027. [Read more…] about DC Comics Announcement: DC Finest Batgirl – Silent Knight

DC Comics Announcement: DC Finest Romance – Escape From Loneliness

August 3, 2026 by krisis 2 Comments

It’s the week leading up to the release of the new DC Comics collected editions catalog, and you know what that means: new book announcements! I won’t be covering every new DC collected edition announcement, but I will be devoting a post to every new DC Omnibus and DC Finest paperback. And, our first new DC Finest is a major coup – it’s a new line, a new genre line, and something that just missed the on-air results of the DC Finest Most-Wanted Poll! The first DC Finest announcement for 2027 is: DC Finest Romance – Escape From Loneliness!

Even though DC Finest Romance – Escape From Loneliness picks up five different DC romance comics midway through their runs, it is effectively “Volume 1” of this DC Finest genre line. That is because this book picks up after DC purchased two other Romance comics from Prize Comics – Young Love and Young Romance.

Though Prize sold off its romance line to DC in 1963, the prior issues are not DC Comics. It’s unclear on if DC has the right to reprint them, and they might not have access to archival copies.

As a result, many of us are speculating the line begins here so that the subsequent volume can pick up the Prize books.

DC Finest Romance – Escape From Loneliness is solicited for release in January 2027. It will collect:

Falling in Love (1955) #58-61, Girls’ Romances (1950) #91-94, Girls’ Love Stories (1949) #94-97, Heart Throbs (1957) #83-85, and Secret Hearts (1949) #86-89 – all of which contain multiple stories per issue.

This line could be running for many volumes. The final issues of these series were Falling in Love (1955) #143 in 1973, Girls’ Romances (1950) #159 in 1971, Girls’ Love Stories (1949) #180 in 1973, Heart Throbs (1957) #138 in 1978, and Secret Hearts (1949) #152 in 1971. Plus, Young Love (1960) runs from #39-126 and Young Romance (1947) runs from #125-208.

DC Omnibus Announcement: Batgirl – Cassandra Cain Omnibus Vol. 1

August 1, 2026 by krisis Leave a Comment

Batgirl: Cassandra Cain Omnibus Vol 1 This is the week that the DC Catalog for January to June 2027 drops, and before it does DC comics shared one very special and totally exclusive DC Omnibus announcement via Near Mint Condition. Why is this book being announced through Omar and Near Mint? Because the Minties who watch the channel and the thousands of voters on the DC Tigereyes Most-Wanted Omnibus Poll have made it clear that this is the most-wanted DC Omnibus on all of the internet: Batgirl – Cassandra Cain Omnibus Vol. 1!

WE DID IT, Y’ALL!

Batgirl: Cassandra Cain Omnibus Vol. 1 was the #2 result on our first DC Tigereyes Most-Wanted Omnibus Poll in 2024, just barely losing to Batman by Tom King Omnibus Vol. 1 in the final hours of voting. Then, in 2025 and 2026, this book has been #1 on the poll with a tremendous lead over every other result. It maintained that lead even after the announcement and release of a Batgirl DC Finest that contains about half of the material for this book.

Why is Cassandra Cain so popular with collected edition fans? We’ve dug into this year after year for our polls.

I think a part of it is that she was the Batgirl of most of the 00s, when a lot of current readers and collectors formed their opinions and tastes. Also, her 00s series was never completely collected in a single format despite a few false starts, so folks really want to see it on the shelf.

However, I think there’s also something to Cassandra Cain’s character that makes her so appealing. In a way, she is more like a typical Marvel hero than typical major DC hero. She is not an icon with an infallible power, knowledge, or fortune. Instead, she has a tragic history, a connection to an iconic villain, and a determination to be an instrument of good in the world. [Read more…] about DC Omnibus Announcement: Batgirl – Cassandra Cain Omnibus Vol. 1

DC Finest Announcement: DC Finest Western – Requiem for a Gunfighter

July 25, 2026 by krisis Leave a Comment

Whoa, nelly! After two months full of Marvel Omnibus announcements, now it’s time to begin shifting our attention to DC catalog announcements – including new DC Finest Volumes! I collect every one of these comprehensive paperbacks of DC’s pre-Flashpoint history and I was incredibly proud to partner with DC to present the first ever DC Finest Most-Wanted Poll! And, today I’m happy to take a look at what seems to be the final DC Finest volume of 2026: DC Finest Western – Requiem for a Gunfighter.

DC Finest: Western – Requiem for a Gunfighter is a book from the #23 most-demanded era on the 2026 DC Finest Poll, which we voted on as “Western: Jonah Hex (1972 & on) [volumes after The Hangman Never Loses].”

In fact, this is the volume that immediately follows The Hangman Never Loses, which included the first appearances of Jonah Hex.

DC Finest: Western – The Hangman Never Loses was released in March 2026 and collects following contents:

Tomahawk (1950) #130-140 (the final issue of this title); All-Star Western (1970) #2-8 & 10-11; Weird Western Tales (1972) #12-17; material from Super DC Giant (1970) #S-15 (“Stand Proud the Warrior Breed”); and the covers of All-Star Western (1970) #1 & 9 (both of which were all-reprint issues) and Super DC Giant (1970) #S-14 & #S-22

That takes a bit of explaining, which will also help to explain the contents of this new volume.

DC and Marvel both released many Western comics from the 1940s through the 1960s, although the genre was beginning to die off as we reached the start of the Bronze Age in 1970-1972. At DC, the surviving Western title at that time was Tomahawk (1950), which primarily starred Thomas Haukins, a white 18th Century soldier of the French and Indian Wars who later became a frontiersman.

The Hangman Never Loses collects the final two years of bi-monthly issues of Tomahawk (1950). It also collects the newly-launched All-Star Western (1970), which ran alongside those issues. It was an unremarkable title in its first year, until issue #10 – the final issue of 1971, which introduced a new gunslinger named Jonah Hex. [Read more…] about DC Finest Announcement: DC Finest Western – Requiem for a Gunfighter