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DC’s June 2023 Solicitations

DC has posted their full complement of solicitations for June 2023, and here are all the ones relating to the Flash. It’s actually a month of Flash variant covers, as the movie is out in June and there are film variants sprinkled through DC’s line. Plus, Flash #800 is out that month, which is the final issue before the series is relaunched with new renumbering in September. It features multiple writers and artists, and also has a ton of variant covers.

You can see the solicits in full — including all those variants — at Adventures In Poor Taste.

THE FLASH #800
Written by JEREMY ADAMS, MARK WAID, JOSHUA WILLIAMSON, GEOFF JOHNS, and SIMON SPURRIER
Art by FERNANDO PASARIN & OCLAIR ALBERT, TODD NAUCK, CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO, SCOTT KOLINS, and MIKE DEODATO JR.
Cover by TAURIN CLARKE
Variant covers by MICHAEL CHO, JEFF DEKAL, SIMONE DI MEO, DAVID NAKAYAMA, and OTTO SCHMIDT
Special foil variant cover by FRANCIS MANAPUL ($6.99 US)
1:25 variant cover by JAVIER RODRIGUEZ
1:50 variant cover by MATT TAYLOR
The Flash movie variant cover by JONBOY MEYERS
$4.99 US | 48 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 6/6/23
An oversize anniversary issue concludes writer Jeremy Adams’s acclaimed tenure, with special guests Mark Waid, Joshua Williamson, and Geoff Johns joining the celebration! As the Adams run races to the finish line, get a prelude to the new Dawn of DC chapter of the Fastest Man Alive’s adventures from the dream team of Simon Spurrier (Coda, Detective Comics) and Mike Deodato Jr. (Avengers)!

TITANS #2
Written by TOM TAYLOR
Art and cover by NICOLA SCOTT
Variant covers by JEN BARTEL and CLAY MANN
1:25 variant cover by EVAN “DOC” SHANER
1:50 variant cover by NICOLA SCOTT
Swimsuit variant cover by JOE QUINONES
The Flash movie variant cover by EDWIN GALMON
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 6/20/23
A Titan is murdered!
Will the new era for the Titans end almost as soon as it’s begun? After one of their own is found dead, the remaining Titans must look for answers before more blood spills. Can they outrun the horrible fate they’ve been dealt? Plus, a new Brother Blood rises as the team begins to fall apart!

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #7
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art and cover by MIKEL JANIN
Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE
1:25 variant cover by DEMETRIUS DAWKINS
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 6/27/23
Reunions are cut short when the JSA and the Lost Children to face down a new threat! Can this group of heroes and sidekicks find their rhythm or will it be curtains for both. What happens here has massive ramifications for the next stage of THE NEW GOLDEN AGE!

DC PRIDE 2023 #1
Written by GRANT MORRISON, NICOLE MAINES, CHRISTOPHER CANTWELL, NADIA SHAMMAS, and others!
Art by HAYDEN SHERMAN, PAULINA GANUCHEAU, STEPHEN SADOWSKI, SKYLAR PATRDIGE, MILDRED LOUIS, and others!
Cover by MATEUS MANHANINI
Wraparound variant cover by GABRIEL PICOLO
Variant cover by OSCAR VEGA
Special foil variant cover by JEN BARTEL ($11.99 US)
$9.99 US | 104 pages | One-shot | Prestige | (all covers are card stock)
ON SALE 5/30/23
DC Pride is back again with a brave and bold and all-new collection of stories starring DC’s fan-favorite stable of LGBTQIA+ characters—many of whom will find themselves in thrilling team-ups the likes of which you’ve never seen before!
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy go to extreme measures to get a little alone time…but there’s nowhere on the planet Crush can’t crash! Jon Kent gets a comprehensive course in dark magic when John Constantine sics a golem on him. Tim Drake and Connor Hawke learn that there’s nothing more awkward than reuniting with an old friend after you’ve both come out and one of you was indoctrinated by the League of Shadows for a while. Circuit Breaker struggles to stifle his powers after the Flash of Earth-11 leaps out of the time stream and knocks them both into another dimension. Just how far would Flashlight go to honor his lost love? All these stories and many more in DC Pride 2023!
This year’s anthology also includes:
• An introduction by Phil Jimenez!
• A 5-page preview of Dreamer’s YA debut written by Nicole Maines and drawn by Rye Hickman!
• A parade of pinups by Babs Tarr, Maria Llovet, Brandt & Stein, Noah Dao, Travis G. Moore, and more!

DC PRIDE: THROUGH THE YEARS #1
Written by GREG RUCKA, WILLIAM MESSNER-LOEBS, STEVE ORLANDO, VITA AYALA, and TIM SHERIDAN
Art by J.H. WILLIAMS III, GREG LaROCQUE, JAMAL CAMPBELL, and CIAN TORMEY
Cover by DEREK CHARM
$9.99 US | 80 pages | One-shot | Prestige
ON SALE 6/13/23
Take a journey through over 30 years of fan-favorite LGBTQIA+ characters in the DC Universe with this collection that not only remembers and celebrates three landmark issues of days past but also teases exciting new stories yet to come!
DC Pride: Through the Years collects:
• The Flash #53 (1991), in which villain-turned-hero Pied Piper comes out to his friend the Flash and helps thwart a dastardly villain
• Detective Comics #854 (2009), the thrilling beginning of Batwoman’s first solo series, which would launch her into stardom
• Supergirl #19 (2018), which tells the story of Lee Serano—a nonbinary teenager who befriends the Girl of Steel
• An all-new story starring Alan Scott, which will light the way to his next great adventure as Green Lantern!

MULTIVERSITY: HARLEY SCREWS UP THE DCU #4
Written by FRANK TIERI
Art by LOGAN FAERBER
Cover by AMANDA CONNER
Variant cover by MEGHAN HETRICK
1:25 variant by TRAVIS MERCER
$4.99 US | 32 pages | 4 of 6 | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 6/13/23
How can Harley stop herself from screwing up the timeline if her future self has already screwed it all up? First she discovered she totally stopped Superman and the Flash from ever existing, and now she’s finding out that she totally time-traveled right over Wonder Woman’s and Aquaman’s origins too! Harley has to stop Harley, or at least try to put the pieces of the DCU she’s broken back together again. With a time machine and a tough, scary, alternate-universe Harley at her side, maybe—just maybe—she can make things right again.

Flash Book To Be Relaunched With New Creative Team

As part of the current “Dawn of DC” era, Jeremy Adams’ Flash title will end at #800 and be relaunched with new creative team Si Spurrier and Mike Deodato Jr. The new series will be renumbered and have a distinctly horror-themed bent, and begins in September. Here’s the descriptive blurb from DC:

Wally West has never been quicker, more fulfilled, more heroic. His loving family is around him. And yet something is off. Very off. His evolving understanding of his powers has opened Wally to new avenues of sci-fi adventure, and attuned his senses to strange new ideas. Something whispers from the dark vibrations beyond the Speed Force, and as Wally experiments with creative new approaches to his powers he encounters new realms, mysterious allies and mind-shattering terrors. Starting with a prelude in the soon-to-be-legendary The Flash #800, the chronicles of the Fastest Man Alive take an action-packed turn towards cosmic horror.

But the news also comes with the announcement of Flash #800, which will include a smorgasbord of past Flash writers and artists such as Adams, Mark Waid, Geoff Johns, Scott Kolins, Carmine Di Giandomenico, and more. As noted above, it will be the final issue of the current series and will lead into the new one. It’ll likely be out in June, but the new series won’t relaunch until September.

Excited for the new run, dismayed, or indifferent? Share your thoughts here!

Flash #794 Preview

DC has posted several preview pages from next week’s issue of The Flash, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features Irey confronting Miss Murder to protect her dad’s friends, with a little assistance from unexpected sources. Check it out at the link!

 

THE FLASH #794
Written by JEREMY ADAMS
Art by ROGER CRUZ and WELLINGTON DIAS
Cover by TAURIN CLARKE
Variant cover by MARCO D’ALFONSO
Variant cover by GEORGE KAMBADAIS
1:25 variant cover by ELEONORA CARLINI
1:50 foil variant cover by TAURIN CLARKE
Shazam! Fury of the Gods movie variant cover by JERRY ORDWAY and ALEX SINCLAIR
$3.99 US | 32 pages | $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 3/7/23
The Fraction is moments away from victory, but they forgot about one thing…an almost-10-year-old with red hair and the power to turn things around. Finally, Irey West has found her new superhero name, and she intends to use it while saving the Flash Family from certain doom!

Flash #793 Preview

DC has posted several preview pages from Flash #793, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features the Flash Family questioning the young man liberated from the Fraction’s ship last issue, while Irey is troubled about the condition of her twin. Check it out at the link!

 

THE FLASH #793
Written by JEREMY ADAMS
Pencils and inks by ROGER CRUZ and WELLINGTON DIAS
Cover by TAURIN CLARKE
Variant cover by MARCO D’ALFONSO
Variant cover by DANIEL BAYLISS
1:25 variant cover by SCOTT KOLINS
1:50 foil variant cover by TAURIN CLARKE
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 2/21/23
“The One-Minute War” part four! After the deadly impact of the Fraction’s arrival, the Flash Family must come together and figure out what is going on and how to stop this speedster invasion!

DC’s May 2023 Solicitations

DC has posted their full complement of solicitations for May 2023, and here are all the ones relating to the Flash. That month sees a crisis for the Wests and a trip to Apokolips to save their new baby, while Wally continues to appear in the Titans book and Nightwing. Plus, Jay Garrick finally meets someone special in the Justice Society of America series.

You can see the solicitations in full at Adventures In Poor Taste.

THE FLASH #798
Written by JEREMY ADAMS
Art by FERNANDO PASARIN and OCLAIR ALBERT
Cover by TAURIN CLARKE
Variant cover by MIKE PERKINS and MIKE SPICER
Variant cover by ETHAN YOUNG
1:25 variant cover by SERG ACUÑA
1:50 foil variant cover by TAURIN CLARKE
$3.99 US | 32 pages | $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 5/2/23
Tragedy befalls the West family, which uncovers a mystery that will take our favorite
red-headed hero beyond time and space! Mister Terrific joins Wally along with a few
surprise guests to help him on a mission to save the Flash Family!

THE FLASH #799
Written by JEREMY ADAMS
Art by FERNANDO PASARIN and OCLAIR ALBERT
Cover by TAURIN CLARKE
Variant cover by MIKE PERKINS and MIKE SPICER
Variant cover by ETHAN YOUNG
1:25 variant cover by EDWIN GALMON
1:50 foil variant cover by TAURIN CLARKE
$3.99 US | 32 pages | $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 5/16/23
Uncovering the truth about what happened to their third child, Wally and team
must infiltrate the dangerous compound known as the Nest in hopes of saving
their newborn, while battling the formidable Granny Goodness!

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #6
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art and cover by MIKEL JANÍN
Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE
1:25 variant cover by EDWIN GALMON
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 5/23/23
The Huntress and the JSA collide with Stargirl and the lost children! As this new
team tries to find its footing, how will they handle coming face-to-face with a
group of sidekicks they didn’t realize existed?! And what does this mean for Jay
Garrick as he meets his daughter Judy for the first time?! Be sure to pick up this
tie-in to The Dawn of DC!

TITANS #1
Written by TOM TAYLOR
Art and cover by NICOLA SCOTT
Variant cover by JIM LEE
Variant cover by JEN BARTEL
1:25 variant cover by DAN MORA
1:50 variant cover by SIMONE DI MEO
Blank variant cover
1:100 foil variant cover by NICOLA SCOTT
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 5/16/23
The Dark Crisis is over, and the Justice League is no more. Now, a new team
must rise and protect the Earth…Titans, go!
The Teen Titans are ready to grow up. Each member joined as a much younger
hero, certain that one day they’d be invited to join the Justice League. But
the time has come for them not to join the League…but to replace it! Are the
no-longer-teen heroes ready for the big leagues? Danger lurks around every
corner as heroes and villains alike challenge the new team before they’ve
even begun. Will the DCU ever be the same? Find out in this landmark first
issue brought you by the all-star creative team of Tom Taylor (Nightwing,
DCeased) and Nicola Scott (Wonder Woman Historia, Earth 2)!

NIGHTWING #104
Written by TOM TAYLOR
Art by TRAVIS MOORE
Cover by BRUNO REDONDO
Backup written by C.S. PACAT
Backup art by EDUARDO PANSICA
Variant cover by AMANCAY NAHUELPAN
Variant cover by JAMAL CAMPBELL
1:25 variant cover by VASCO GEORGIEV
1:50 foil variant cover by AMANCAY NAHUELPAN
$4.99 US | 40 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 5/16/23
Nightwing and the Titans realize the only way to save Olivia is to…go to hell!
Seeing how ineffective his punching was when he last confronted Neron’s demons,
Nightwing is temporarily powered up by magic in order to make it through the
depths of hell alive…literally.
Then, in the backup: Nightwing and Jon Kent find an important clue as to who’s
behind the circus murders, and that person may be connected to Dick Grayson…

HARLEY QUINN #30
Written by TINI HOWARD
Art and cover by SWEENEY BOO
Backup by NICOLE MAINES and MINDY LEE
Variant cover by JENNY FRISON
1:25 variant cover by DAVID NAKAYAMA
1:50 variant cover by NIMIT MALAVIA
$4.99 US | 40 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 5/23/23
Here I am in the midst of a veritable midlife extradimensional existential crisis
of epic proportions, and if that’s not bad enough…I got a giant, bloodthirsty,
killer anthropo-whatsit rabbit man with a big ol’ carrot-shaped axe to grind
after me. Good thing I got my hyena spiritual advisors, Bud and Lou, to guide me
on this fiendish foray into a frenzy of ferocious furballs. Plus: the introduction of
my very own cosmic workout gear that is in no way an infringement on the Flash’s
intellectual property.
Also, in this month’s In-Continuity Dreams of Harley Quinn, we’ve cooked up a
real doozy for ya! It’s got swords, armor, fair maidens, and more side quests than
you can shake your tuchus at!

MULTIVERSITY: HARLEY SCREWS UP THE DCU #3
Art by LOGAN FAERBER
Cover by AMANDA CONNER
Variant cover by TYLER KIRKHAM
1:25 variant cover by AMANDA CONNER
$4.99 US | 32 pages | 3 of 6 | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 5/9/23
Harley Quinn…and that OTHER Harley Quinn, well, they got a problem. Somehow, someway,
one of these Harley Quinns rode off in baby Kal-El’s lil’ rocket ship before he could leave
Krypton way back whenever that was. She also, just MAYBE, distracted Barry Allen before
that lightning bolt could hit, and don’t get me started about all the other heroes. So now the
whoooole DC Universe is all screwed up and these two HQs gotta figure out a way to put baby
Supes back in the rocket before Krypton goes boom, Barry back in front of that lightning bolt,
and stop that other Harley before…well, you get the picture. It’s going to be bananas.

THE FLASH VOL. 18: THE SEARCH FOR BARRY ALLEN
Written by JEREMY ADAMS
Art by FERNANDO PASARIN and MATT RYAN, AMANCAY NAHUELPAN
Cover by TAURIN CLARKE
$24.99 US | 248 pages | Softcover | 6 5/8″ x 10 3/16″ | ISBN: 978-1-77952-017-3
ON SALE 6/27/23
The next collection of Jeremy Adams’s acclaimed Flash run is here! In this volume, Wally West
clashes with Mirror Master at the Flash Museum, investigates mysterious activity at Iron
Heights Prison, and joins the Flash Family in a quest across the Multiverse to rescue Barry Allen
from Pariah’s clutches in a story that directly ties into Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths! Also, Wally
competes for an intergalactic wrestling tag-team championship with a rowdy alien visitor to
Central City. Collects The Flash #780-789.

CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS BOOK 3: COUNTDOWN TO CRISIS
Written by GERRY CONWAY, GEORGE PÉREZ, MARV WOLFMAN, and others
Art by DICK DILLIN, GEORGE PÉREZ, RICH BUCKLER, DON HECK, and others
Cover by KEVIN NOWLAN
$39.99 US | 472 pages | 6 5/8″ x 10 3/16″ | Softcover | ISBN: 978-1-77952-176-7
ON SALE 6/27/23
The Justice League of America and their predecessors, the Justice Society of America,
return for another collection of Bronze Age team-up stories that will set the stage
for the greatest Crisis event to strike the DC Universe! This final softcover edition of
the Crisis on Multiple Earths series collects Justice League of America #171-172,
#183-185, #195-197, #207-209, #219-220, #231-232; All-Star Squadron #14-15; and
DC Comics Presents Annual #1.

DC: MECH
Written by KENNY PORTER
Art and cover by BALDEMAR RIVAS
$24.99 US | 160 pages | 6 5/8″ x 10 3/16″ | Hardcover | ISBN: 978-1-77951-858-3
ON SALE 7/11/23
JUSTICE GETS AN UPGRADE! The age of the superhero ended after World War II, when
an invasion from Darkseid and his Parademons ushered in the age of the mech.
The world has stockpiled colossal battle suits piloted by elite warriors waiting for
another invasion, and it’s finally here. The Earth’s greatest mech pilots—Batman, The
Flash, the Green Lanterns, Wonder Woman, and the last son of a dying world named
Kal-El—must suit up and join forces. Collecting DC: Mech #1-6.

Flash #792 Preview

DC has posted several preview pages for next week’s issue of The Flash, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features the Flash Family strategizing to defeat the alien invasion, while Wallace decides to follow Bart’s plan to keep him out of trouble. Check it out at the link!

 

THE FLASH #792
Written by JEREMY ADAMS
Pencils and inks by ROGER CRUZ and WELLINGTON DIAS
Cover by TAURIN CLARKE
Variant cover by DANIEL BAYLISS
Variant cover by SERG ACUÑA
1:25 variant cover by SCOTT KOLINS
1:50 foil variant cover by TAURIN CLARKE
Black History Month variant cover by MATEUS MANHANINI
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 2/7/23
“The One-Minute War” part three! The Flash Family is in dire straits as the Fraction begin their takeover. Looking for a way to push them back, Impulse has an idea…the kind of idea that usually gets people in trouble. It’s up to Kid Flash to keep him company on a daring mission that could help turn the tide against this extraterrestrial threat!