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DC and Marvel are crossing over in 2025. Matt Fraction takes on Batman. Chip Zdarsky takes on Captain America.
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DC and Marvel crossing over.
Matt Fraction takes on Batman.
Chip Zdarsky takes on Captain America.
This is Comic Book Club News for February 24, 2025.
All those drills you’ve been running about what would happen if there was a new DC and Marvel crossover? They’re about to pay off, as two one-shots pitting the publishers against each other are coming later in 2025.
The news comes via The Beat’s Heidi MacDonald from the ComicsPro event, where publishers present their upcoming slates to comic shop owners and others. In a surprise appearance from DC Comics chief Marie Javins and Marvel’s own EIC C.B. Cebulski, the duo showed up to announce the news: two one-shots, seemingly titled Marvel/DC and DC/Marvel, coming later this year.
That’s the long and the short of it, and expect a lot more news to come including who is writing, who is drawing, characters involved, etc. So why now? This is the first crossover between the publishers since 2004’s JLA/Avengers, and in the intervening time former EIC Dan Didio stopping all crossovers for creative reasons.
Turns out, people loved the DC Versus Marvel omnibuses that were released last year. While they were heavily delayed, the duo of over-sized collections have been massive sales successes. And when something sells well? There’s gonna be more of it.
More on this as it develops.
How do you follow up a lauded run on DC Comics‘s Dark Knight by writer Chip Zdarsky, and the presumed-to-be-blockbuster return of Hush from Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb? You relaunch with a new Batman #1, of course. And who better to take it on than writer Matt Fraction, and artist Jorge Jiménez, starting this September.
This is only the fourth time the Batman title has been renumbered in the series’s 85 year history (as of publication date for the new Batman #1), a rarity for a modern comic book title. And to mark the occasion, Batman will get a brand-new blue and gray costume, a brand-new Batmobile… And Gotham City is getting updated, too.
Batman #158 will kick off a six-part storyline by Lee and Loeb, “H2SH,” with the new Batman #1 debuting in September. And when the “new” title debuts, it will be a series of “connected but self-contained stories,” where every issue may be in a new style, and offer up a new challenge for the creative team — and Batman.
Chip Zdarsky just finished up his run on Batman for DC Comics, and now he’s headed to another icon: the writer will take over Captain America for a new series starting this July, alongside artist Valerio Schiti.
In the new series, the arc opens right after Cap emerged from the ice in the modern day, but before he joined the Avengers. And where does he go on his first mission since rejoining the U.S. Army? Where else but to Latveria to encounter the belle of the ball at Marvel this year, Doctor Doom.
Per PR, Marvel teases the book is, “Packed with bold, relevant insights into Captain America’s role and legacy as he learns just how much the world has changed in his absence, this top secret conflict will come back to haunt all involved when the series progresses into present-day storylines. In addition, fans can look forward to Cap suiting up in an all-new stealth uniform and leading an all-new group of Howling Commandos.”
Captain America #1 debuts July 2.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And it’s too bad Marvel and DC don’t have two old friends and former collaborators like, say, Chip Zdarsky and Matt Fraction working for them to tackle this upcoming crossover. Oh well!
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