Action Comics #1101
(W) Mark Waid (A) Osvaldo Pestana Montpeller
KINGDOM OF ZOD: PART TWO! SUPERMAN IS BACK! Superman returned in last month’s landmark #1100 issue! Now the Man of Steel crashes into the present day and finds himself thrown into the war with Zod! With a few stowaways along for the ride including… young Clark Kent?! The battle for Zod’s Kryptonite Kingdom has already begun! Is Superman’s return too late?
Absolute Batman #23
(W) Scott Snyder (A) Nick Dragotta
BATMAN VS. BATMAN! In a climactic showdown, Batman is forced to battle an unyielding enemy in not just the Robins but in himself. More than one dead character signals a call for help… and a symbol of hopelessness as more friends become enemies.
Batman and Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos #1
(W) Mark Waid, Chris Samnee (A) Chris Samnee
MARK WAID AND CHRIS SAMNEE RETURN TO THEIR FAN-FAVORITE SERIES EXPLORING BATMAN AND ROBIN’S EARLY YEARS!
Batman and Robin are back in action! The Dark Knight and the Boy Wonder have been hard at work cleaning up the streets of Gotham City, and their partnership has only gotten tighter. But when a gang of street kids starts causing mischief, Batman and Robin will need to get to the bottom of where these kids came from and who is in charge! Mark Waid and Chris Samnee return to Gotham to tell another tale of the early days of the Dynamic Duo!
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We open up our fifth box and it’s the Batmobile from… The Batman!
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This September, DC celebrates the life and legacy of legendary artist, writer, and educator Joe Kubert on what would have been his 100th birthday.
Across a career that spanned generations, Kubert helped define the visual language of comic book storytelling through his groundbreaking work on characters including Sgt. Rock, Hawkman, Enemy Ace, Ragman, Tarzan, and many others. His dynamic artwork, unforgettable covers, and commitment to nurturing future generations of artists through the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art continue to influence comics today.
To honor Kubert’s centennial, DC will publish a series of special releases celebrating his artistry, storytelling, and enduring impact on the medium.
Leading the celebration is DC Special #5 Facsimile Edition, accompanied by a newly commissioned artist-jam homage cover that brings together members of the Kubert family and acclaimed Kubert School alumni to celebrate Joe Kubert’s enduring influence on generations of comic book artists.
Contributors to the commemorative cover include Adam Kubert, Andy Kubert, Emma Kubert, Jan Duursema, Tom Mandrake, Ron Wagner, Amanda Conner, Rick Veitch, Stephen R. Bissette, Lee Weeks, Ron Randall, Steve Lieber, and colorist Brad Anderson.
Originally curated by Joe Kubert himself, DC Special #5 presents four of the creator’s personal favorite stories and stands as a fitting tribute to an artist whose influence continues to shape the industry decades after his work first appeared on newsstands.
DC Special #5 Facsimile Edition arrives September 16 and features additional foil and blank sketch cover variants celebrating Kubert’s legacy.
Also arriving in September is Joe Kubert: 100 Years – A Life in Covers, a comic book gallery showcasing some of the most memorable covers from Kubert’s remarkable career.
Spanning multiple decades of DC history, the collection highlights Kubert’s work on titles including The Brave and the Bold, House of Mystery, Sgt. Rock, Ragman, and more, demonstrating the versatility, emotion, and storytelling power that made Kubert one of comics’ most recognizable visual voices.
The one-shot also includes a special foreword by Katie Kubert, offering a personal perspective on her grandfather’s enduring legacy.
Joe Kubert: 100 Years – A Life in Covers #1 arrives September 16.
Rounding out the centennial celebration is Sgt. Rock by Joe Kubert: Deluxe Edition, a hardcover collection spotlighting many of Kubert’s defining stories featuring the character most closely associated with his career.
Presented in fully restored color, the collection showcases Kubert’s mastery of visual storytelling across stories of heroism, sacrifice, and humanity set against the backdrop of war.
Whether depicting battlefield action or quieter character moments, Kubert’s work on Sgt. Rock remains a benchmark for comic book storytelling and continues to inspire readers and creators alike.
Sgt. Rock by Joe Kubert: Deluxe Edition arrives September 15.
A Legacy That Lives On
One hundred years after Joe Kubert’s birth, his influence can still be seen across the comics industry through the artists he inspired, the stories he created, and the generations of creators who followed in his footsteps.
This September, DC invites readers to celebrate the life and work of a creator whose contributions helped shape the history of comics and whose artistic legacy continues to endure.
DC’s Joe Kubert centennial releases will be available this September wherever comics, books, and graphic novels are sold.
As The Deadman #3 arrives in comic shops this week, DC has announced that The Deadman, originally solicited as a six-issue limited DC Next Level series, will now continue through issue #12.
THE DEADMAN IN HELL! OR…
The third edition of this morbid disquisition concerning the attrition/detrition of the human condition, which, in the weekly tradition, boasts a four-color exhibition on some printer’s emission. Here, by order of an anonymous optician, watch closely this vision of our titular apparition (armed, you’ll remember, with fresh erudition) try and survive—by another’s volition—a dire and dangerous mission through the hissin’, Stygian conditions of putrid and pockmarked Perdition—a kind of new rendition (depicted as a living, breathing, country-sized conniption), which is rich in its list of sick compositions: e.g., reason’s egregious abolition; a pyrotechnic passel of pernicious seditions; hideous, bulging buck-toothed dentition; admittedly ambitious demonic deglutition…of gargoyles and ghouls in decomposition…not to mention an array of impossible physical positions that a physician might consider the work of magicians. So please accept our contrition for this rude imposition, our addled transmission this ungodly, offset-press parturition—one that we wish some brave obstetrician would bring to fruition its quick decommission.
With six additional issues from W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran, and Good Ol’ Neon, Boston Brand’s journey through life, death, and the strange spaces in between is only beginning.
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The One:12 Collective welcomes Dr. Fate, the most powerful heroic sorcerer on Earth.
The One:12 Collective Dr. Fate wears a fitted bodysuit underneath his fortified light-up chest armor, a leather-like cape with integrated posing wire, a leather-like tasset, and knee-high boots. The Master of Magic comes complete with two head portraits including a Helmet of Fate portrait with light-up eyes and an unmasked Kent Nelson portrait. An additional Helmet of Fate is included that can be held.
Dr. Fate proves his magical prowess is unmatched, complete with three different magic projection effects that attach to his wrist-mounted posing post and the Book of Thoth, a magic tome containing dangerous spells. The Book of Thoth can open and close, features real paper pages, and comes with an additional wrist-mounted posing post.
Harnessing magical powers older than the beginning of human civilization, Dr. Fate has been defending the side of light since the days of ancient Egypt. If there is a supernatural power that threatens to engulf planet Earth, rest assured that Dr. Fate will be at the ready.
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U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguin has set a trial date for March 2, 2027 for the antitrust lawsuit regarding Paramount‘s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The trial will conclude by March 19.
On July 13, a dozen attorneys general filed a lawsuit to stop the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance. The lawsuit raised antitrust concerns and a decrease of competition. On July 20, a temporary restraining order was granted that prevented the deal from “closing” or “consummating” or taking any steps that would integrate or consolidate the operations. That temporary restraining order was extended an additional two weeks and then on July 24 Paramount agreed to halt its acquisition while the court case played out, possibly to June 2027.
The delay is a big one because if the deal isn’t completed by September 30, the price increases 25 cents per share per quarter it’s not approved. That would add $627 million to the cost of the overall deal each quarter, or roughly $7 million per day. That means this will increase the cost roughly $1.3 billion if the trial goes the entire time.
Paramount Skydance‘s attempt to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery has even more stink surrounding it. Two government watchdog groups have requested for an investigation into ethics violations by Federal Communications Commission members. Members accepted luxury gala tickets while Paramount was working to get government approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
The Democracy Defenders Fund and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have cited an investigation by ProPublica about how CBS or its parent company (which is now Paramount) have given tickets to FCC commissioners to the Kennedy Center honors gala. CBS sponsors the event. That gift acceptance included while the Paramount/Warner Bros. deal was going through the government approval process as well as other major business from Paramount, including multiple mergers.
Commissioner Olivia Trusty‘s financial disclosure lists two tickets to the December 2025 gala worth more than $12,000. Trusty voted to approve Paramount’s merger with Skydance.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr‘s financial statements shows he accepted tickets eight times since 2017 which is over $75,000 in gifts. He sat in a private skybox at December’s gala with Paramount’s CEO David Ellison and other Paramount and CBS executives. Carr voted for the Paramount-Skydance merger.
According to ProPublica, seven of the ten commissioners who have served since 2016 accepted tickets with a value of more than $260,000.
Federal ethics rules ban employees from taking gifts from any entity that does business with, is regulated by, or seeks action from the agency.
The Democracy Defenders Fund says that Carr and Trusty broke the rules on accepting gifts or even criminal laws from accepting illegal gratuities. Carr and Trusty should be required to repay Paramount the “fair market value” for their gifts and their annual disclosures should not be certified until they do so. The organization is also requesting Carr to be disqualified from any decision concerning the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
Paramount had announced it was making a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery hours after the gala and Carr endorsed the deal three months later.
The Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal is on hold while a court case plays out between the company and a dozen attorneys general. The business deal is also facing other litigation as well as unknown decisions from other governments.
