Superman-related September 2021 Solicitations

DC Comics has released their September 2021 solicitations, and we’ve highlighted for you all the Superman-related comics and products listed.

COMIC BOOKS

ARE YOU AFRAID OF DARKSEID? #1
Story by ELLIOTT KALAN, COLLIN KELLY, JACKSON LANZING, JEREMY HAUN, KENNY PORTER, CALVIN KASULKE, TERRY BLAS, ED BRISSON, and more
Pencils and Inks by MAX DUNBAR, MIKE NORTON, JESÚS HERVÁS, CHRIS MITTEN, GARRY BROWN, and more
Cover by DAN HIPP
Variant cover by TK
$9.99 US | 80 PAGESs | ONE-SHOT | PRESTIGE FORMAT
ON SALE 10/5/21
Gather ’round the fire, fellow campers, because it’s time for that most terrifying of traditions—campfire stories so scary you’ll never sleep without a night-light again! The Teen Titans guide those brave enough through tales of Batman and the hidden killer, Superman and Lois Lane and the killer in their back seat, Harley Quinn and Darkseid versus a furious Bloody Mary, and four more stories so hair-raising you’ll call your momma to come pick you up. So toast your marshmallows, pull up a s’more, and answer the only question that matters this Halloween: Are you afraid of Darkseid?

TITANS UNITED #1
Story by Cavan Scott
Pencils by Jose Luis
Inks by Jonas Trindade
Cover by Jamal Campbell
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | 1 of 7
Variant cover by Kael Ngu
1:25 Variant cover by Junggeun Yoon
$4.99 US (Card Stock)
ON SALE 9/14/21
The Titans face their greatest challenge—their own powers! Nightwing, Donna Troy, Superboy, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, and Red Hood kick off a thrilling new case that will lead one of their own to question not only their place on the team, but their very existence.

ACTION COMICS #1035
Writers: PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON and SEAN LEWIS
Artists: DANIEL SAMPERE and SAMI BASRI
Cover: DANIEL SAMPERE
Variant Cover: JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO
$4.99 | 40 pages | $5.99 US Variant (Card Stock)
ON SALE 9/28/21
Superman keeps the abandoned Warworld weapon out of the hands of anyone who might misuse it. But now the Justice League questions his judgment. It’s time for Clark Kent to put up or shut up. In “Tales of Metropolis,” the Guardian comes to the city. Is this another step toward Future State?

CHALLENGE OF THE SUPER SONS #6
Writer: PETER J. TOMASI
Artist: EVAN STANLEY
Cover: SIMONE DI MEO
Variant Cover: NICK BRADSHAW
$3.99 US | 32 PGS | 6 of 7 | $4.99 US VARIANT (Card Stock)
ON SALE 9/14/21
The Super Sons were trapped in the past by Felix Faust and Vandal Savage so they could unlock the secrets of the future. A young sorceress named Rora has teamed up with Superboy and Robin to get them back to their own time—if they can overcome their über-magical captors!

INFINITE FRONTIER #6
Writer: JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
Artist: XERMANICO
Cover: MITCH GERADS
Variant Covers: BRYAN HITCH
$4.99 | 40 PGS | 6 of 6 | $5.99 US VARIANT (Card Stock)
ON SALE 9/7/21
One story ends and the next phase of the DC Multiverse begins. We have one name for you: DARKSEID.
Our heroes knew that someone had been pulling the strings this entire time, but are they prepared for it to be the biggest bad of all? As President Superman, Alan Scott, Roy Harper, and the rest converge for a showdown, the secret of Omega Planet is revealed. Plus, Barry Allen is put on a path he may never get off!

JUSTICE LEAGUE #68
Writers: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS and RAM V
Artists: SIYA OUM and SCOTT GODLEWSKI
Cover: DAVID MARQUEZ
Variant Cover: ALEXANDER LOZANO
$4.99 US | 40 PGS | $5.99 US VARIANT (Card Stock)
ON SALE 9/21/21
THE TOUR! The Justice League has some new members. And those members get a tour of the Hall of Justice from the legends who helped build it while they learn about the people who have dedicated their entire lives to its higher calling.
Merlin and his army of the aquatic dead have taken over Atlantis! Can Zatanna handle him and the horror she is hiding within?

JUSTICE LEAGUE INFINITY #3
Writers: J.M. DeMATTEIS and JAMES TUCKER
Artist: ETHEN BEAVERS
Cover: DAN MORA
$3.99 US | 32 PGS | 3 of 7
ON SALE 9/7/21
As the worlds continue to bleed in and out of each other, the Justice League looks to the cosmos to learn how to stop the chaos that’s been wrought. Meanwhile, Superman’s journey through the Multiverse brings him face to face with another Man of Steel, but is this one friend or foe?

JUSTICE LEAGUE: LAST RIDE #5
Writer: CHIP ZDARSKY
Artist: MIGUEL MENDONÇA
Cover: DARICK ROBERTSON
Variant Cover: DIKE RUAN
$3.99 US | 32 PGS | 5 of 7 | $4.99 US VARIANT (Card Stock)
ON SALE 9/14/21
APOKOLIPS—NOT AS SAFE A PLACE TO HIDE A WAR CRIMINAL AS YOU’D THINK!
The Justice League has been tasked with bringing the master of war crimes, your one and only Lobo, to trial in order to account for a life of treachery. But while the League thought Apokolips would be the safest place to store a wanted murderer, there are others out on the hunt for Lobo…

RWBY/JUSTICE LEAGUE #6
Writer: MARGUERITE BENNETT
Artists: EMANUELA LUPACCHINO and
WADE VON GRAWBADGER
Cover: MIRKA ANDOLFO
Variant Cover: SIMONE DI MEO
$3.99 US | 32 PGS | 6 of 7 | $4.99 US VARIANT (Card Stock)
ON SALE 9/28/21
Team RWBY’s assault on the creature begins! As they enact their plan, the group quickly learns they underestimated the monster’s resources and power as he wages a war with all of Remnant! Can the girls defeat Team JNPR and break them out of their trance, or will they fall under the spell of the beast below?

SUICIDE SQUAD #7
Writer: ROBBIE THOMPSON
Artists: EDUARDO PANSICA and JULIO FERREIRA
Cover: EDUARDO PANSICA
Variant Cover: KEVIN MAGUIRE
$3.99 US | 32 PGS | $4.99 US VARIANT (Card Stock)
ON SALE 9/7/21
Amanda Waller pulls in her newest recruit to Task Force X: the unstoppable and outstanding Ambush Bug! With a mission that literally takes the Squad to hell and back, the sometimes fourth-wall-breaking hero may be the team’s only chance at survival. Embarking on a quest to gain access to the Rock of Eternity, the Squad must also face the threat of Rick Flag, who’s on the hunt for Waller’s head.

SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW #4
Writer: TOM KING
Artist: BILQUIS EVELY
Cover: BILQUIS EVELY
Variant Cover: ROSE BESCH
$4.99 US | 32 PGS | $4.99 US VARIANT (Card Stock)
ON SALE 9/21/21
Supergirl sets her sights on the Brigands, a group of dastardly nomads hell-bent on slaughtering all they come across. Nowshe must follow their path of destruction to find the fugitive they’ve been hiding who set her on this intergalactic journey in the first place!

SUPERMAN ’78 #2
Writer: ROBERT VENDITTI
Artist: WILFREDO TORRES
Cover: BEN OLIVER
Variant Cover: BRYAN HITCH
$3.99 US | 32 PGS | 2 of 6 | $4.99 US VARIANT (Card Stock)
ON SALE 9/28/21
After a battle with a rampaging robot, Superman enlists an unlikely ally to crack the code behind who sent it. He needs an intelligent technological genius, and that can only mean one person: Lex Luthor!

SUPERMAN AND THE AUTHORITY #4
Writer: GRANT MORRISON
Artist: MIKEL JANÍN
Cover: MIKEL JANÍN
Variant Cover: GENE HA
$4.99 US | 40 PGS | 4 of 4 | $4.99 US VARIANT (Card Stock)
ON SALE 9/7/21
Is the team ready for what’s next?
Will the Man of Steel’s new super-group fall apart before they even begin? The Ultra-Humanite has put together his own team of rogues designed to match the Authority fist for fist. This series comes to an explosive conclusion that will threaten to split the Man of Steel in half!

SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #3
Writer: TOM TAYLOR
Artist: JOHN TIMMS
Cover: JOHN TIMMS
Variant Cover: INHYUK LEE
$3.99 US | 32 PGS | $4.99 US VARIANT (Card Stock)
ON SALE 9/14/21
Jonathan Kent hasn’t been Superman for long, but he’s upset some powerful people with his heroism. And the underground news source known as the Truth is helping Jon open his eyes to evils in the world that could be more powerful than the new Man of Steel.
Continuing the brand-new saga of Superman from Tom Taylor, the writer of Nightwing, and John Timms, artist on Future State: Superman of Metropolis.

LOONEY TUNES #262
Writer: DEREK FRIDOLFS
Artists: WALTER CARZON and HORACIO OTTOLINI
Cover: DEREK FRIDOLFS
$2.99 US | 32 PGS
ON SALE 9/21/21
With print publications on the way out and information going online, newspaper reporter Cluck Trent is out of a job. But at least he has his heroic identity of Stupor Duck to fall back on. Or does he? “Up there in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Uh… what is that? Who cares?”

COLLECTED EDITIONS

BATMAN/SUPERMAN VOL. 2: WORLD’S DEADLIEST
Writer: JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
Artists: NICK DERINGTON, CLAYTON HENRY, MAX RAYNOR,
GLEB MELNIKOV, DALE EAGLESHAM, and ANDREI BRESSAN
Cover: DAVID MARQUEZ
$19.99 US | 272 PGS | 6 5/8″ x 10 3/16″ | Softcover
ISBN: 978-1-77950-920-8
ON SALE 10/26/21
In the aftermath of a deadly duel with the Batman Who Laughs, trouble abounds for the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight. From the zombie resurrection of the Bottle City of Kandor, to battling the combined might of General Zod and Ra’s al Ghul, to being turned into living bombs by the Ultra-Humanite, Batman and Superman are in over their heads and need help in their battle against evil. Batman/Superman Vol. 2: World’s Deadliest collects Batman/Superman #7-15 and Batman/Superman Annual #1.

SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL VOL. 4
Writers: JOHN BYRNE, JERRY ORDWAY, PAUL KUPPERBERG, and ROGER STERN
Artists: JOHN BYRNE, JERRY ORDWAY, KARL KESEL, JOHN BEATTY, and OTHERS
$49.99 US | 520 PGS | 6 5/8″ x 10 3/16″ | Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-77951-321-2
ON SALE 10/19/21
A bold new reimagining of the life and times of the Man of Steel, crafted by legendary comics writer and artist John Byrne! This final volume collects Doom Patrol #10, Superman #16-22, The Adventures of Superman #439-444, Action Comics #598-600, and Superman Annual #2.

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Juan Ricardo
Juan Ricardo
June 18, 2021 12:50 pm

What t’ he ll is wrong with Superman in CHALLENGE OF THE SUPER SONS #6?

Looking forward to the Superman 78 series

Superman2878
June 18, 2021 4:19 pm

The only Superman comic that I’m really interested in reading at this time is the Superman 78 comic series. I’m just not feeling the current stories that are being advertised. Speaking of Superman 78, how about a Brandon Routh Superman HBOmax series WB? Routh’s and Reeve’s Superman are basically the same Superman, so how about it? We now hove more Reeve Superman stories in comic book form, Routh’s Superman would be perfect for HBOmax. I’m thinking a August to February time slate would be great. That way Superman and Lois would have February to August. They’d rotate. Routh’s Superman for… Read more »

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bhof
bhof
June 18, 2021 9:27 pm

It’s too bad they’re stopping the 80s reprints with this Man of Steel Vol. 4. I’m not surprised these collections are ending with Byrne, but I think the books got better after he left. I’d love to have reprints of some of the stuff between Exile and Death of Superman.

Juan Ricardo
Juan Ricardo
June 19, 2021 8:55 am
Reply to  bhof

To continue reading the stories you’ll have to get Superman Exile Omnibus, after that Superman titles had their moments especially Panic in the Sky

afriend
afriend
June 20, 2021 7:06 pm

Dear DC,
Re: Superman’s look,

PICK A LANE!

Preferably with a classic look.

Love,
afriend