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DC Pride<\/em>\u00a02025<\/em>: A Triumphant and Timely Story of Community!

<\/strong>The Award-Winning DC Pride Anthology Celebrates Its 5th Anniversary With an All-New Special in an All-New Format!<\/em>

<\/strong>Variant covers featuring Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and more will showcase DC\u2019s community of Super Heroes<\/em>

<\/strong>DC Pride webcomics will be published on DC GO! throughout the month of June<\/em>

<\/strong>DC\u2019s Official Discord Server taking submissions for DC Pride letters column<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BURBANK, CA., March 11, 2025 <\/strong>\u2014 DC today announced the return of its Eisner and Ringo award-winning DC Pride<\/em> anthology comic book this June. This year, for its fifth anniversary spotlighting DC\u2019s LGBTQIA+ Super Heroes, the DC Pride<\/em> anthology transforms from a collection of short stories into a singular story arc of interweaving narratives told by comic book creators Tim Sheridan, Vita Ayala, Josh Trujillo, Skylar Patridge, A.L. Kaplan, Max Sarin, and more. DC Pride 2025<\/em> will be published on June 4, 2025, along with a series of DC Pride-inspired variant covers publishing through the month of June. Visit your local comic book shop to preorder DC Pride 2025<\/em> and add DC\u2019s Pride-themed variant covers to your pull list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Main cover by Kris Anka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

DC Pride 2025 <\/em>brings DC\u2019s heroes together when a century-old tavern, the center of queer life in Gotham City, unexpectedly announces its imminent closure. It\u2019s a huge loss to the community, and generations of patrons return to pay respects to a space they\u2019ve endowed with entire lifetimes of memories, wishes and dreams\u2014including Alan Scott, the Green Lantern. Alan returns, for one last time, to the place he fell for his first love, Johnny Ladd, to touch the wall on which they carved the symbol of their love, to remember the days before everything went to hell for them…and to say goodbye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Variant cover by Jack Hughes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But love is a kind of magic, and, in Alan\u2019s experience, magic can take on a life of its own. Before anyone knows it\u2019s happening, heroes, villains, and civilians alike from across the DCU with powerful ties to this mysterious place\u2014the Question, Midnighter and Apollo, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern Jo Mullein, Bunker, Connor Hawke, and Blue Snowman among them\u2014find themselves spirited away to strange, alternate worlds where everything they ever thought they wanted can be theirs\u2026but at what cost?

\u201cDC Pride 2025<\/em>\u00a0is a celebration of life, love and the power of community\u2014even and especially in uncertain times,\u201d said Tim Sheridan, writer of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated series\u00a0Alan Scott: The Green Lantern<\/em>. \u201cThe roster of talent shaping this story is as epic as the story itself\u2014so all I can say is buckle up for big action, bigger fun, and the biggest stakes yet. This book, as it has been in years past, is a way to reach out to our community and remind them we\u2019re all in this together.”

Framed by Alan Scott\u2019s return to the bar, in stories by Tim Sheridan, Emilio Pilliu and Giulio Macaione,\u00a0DC Pride 2025<\/em>\u00a0will feature Jo Mullein\u2019s story by Vita Ayala, Maya Houston and Vincent Cecil, new character Ethan Rivera\u2019s story by Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Josh Trujillo and A.L. Kaplan, Connor Hawke\u2019s story by Sam Maggs and Phillip Sevy, Bunker\u2019s story by Josh Trujillo and Don Aguillo, Harley Quinn\u2019s story by Maya Houston and Max Sarin, Blue Snowman\u2019s story by Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Renee Montoya\u2019s story by Vita Ayala and Skylar Patridge, and Midnighter and Apollo\u2019s story by Sam Maggs and Derek Charm. By taking a writers room approach to DC Pride, each creative team collaboratively builds towards a common goal: a comic book that\u2019s all in on hope, empowerment, community, and\u00a0chasing light in the dark.

\u201cIt is such a huge honor to be part of the story DC has been telling,\u201d said Jude Ellison S. Doyle, writer of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated series\u00a0The Neighbors<\/em>, \u201cand to help Josh Trujillo bring new character Ethan Rivera\u2014along with my own personal soulmate and\/or best friend, trans icon Blue Snowman\u2014into this universe. It\u2019s also my first chance to work with A.L. Kaplan since\u00a0Maw<\/em>, and he\u2019s a future legend who continues to awe me with his work. It was just really great, and healing, to hang out with a bunch of queer people and make some comics, and I could not have hoped to meet a more talented group of people.\u201d

\u201cWhat made this project extra special to me,\u201d said Vita Ayala, writer of\u00a0the\u00a0GLAAD Media Award-nominated series\u00a0New Mutants,<\/em>\u00a0\u201cwas the way that the collaboration of creating the anthology almost mirrors the framework and ultimate solution of the metaphor at the heart of it. We got together in a (virtual) room, each with ideas for our own piece of the narrative, and at the end of the time we had interwoven our stories in ways that make it hard to tell where one person’s contribution ends and another begins. We approached the work as collaborators, and ended up creating a community space that (we hope) welcomes everyone in from the cold, no matter what door (or which individual short story) people came through.\u201d

DC Pride 2025<\/em>, a triumphant and timely story of community written by Vita Ayala, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Maya Houston, Sam Maggs, Tim Sheridan, and Josh Trujillo with art by Don Aguillo, Vincent Cecil, Derek Charm, A.L. Kaplan, Giulio Macaione, Skylar Patridge, Emilio Pilliu, Max Sarin, and Phillip Sevy, and more, will publish on June 4, 2025. The 96-page Prestige format comic will feature a main cover by Kris Anka and variant covers by Sozomaika, Julia Reck and Jack Hughes (1:25), all priced at $9.99 US (card stock).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Variant cover by Julia Reck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, the DC Community team wants to hear DC Pride stories directly from fans! Submissions are open from March 3 to March 28 through the DC Official Discord Server for fans to share how the legacy of DC\u2019s storytelling has impacted, or reflected, their LGBTQIA+ identity, journey or experience. Once submissions have closed, DC\u2019s editorial team will select a handful of letters, cosplay and fan art, to be published in a letters column within the pages of DC Pride 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JSA #6 variant cover by Don Aguillo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0Wonder Woman #22 variant cover by Kevin Wada<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Throughout its line of monthly comic books, DC will continue to highlight DC Pride-themed variant covers on series that feature queer characters in regular and lead roles. This year, look for DC Pride covers on Detective Comics<\/em> #1098 (Stephen Byrne), Harley Quinn<\/em> #52and Poison Ivy<\/em> #34 (Betsy Cola), Justice League Unlimited<\/em> #8 (Hayden Sherman), JSA<\/em> #6 (Don Aguillo), Superman<\/em> #27 (Rachael Stott), and Wonder Woman<\/em> #22 (Kevin Wada).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Detective Comics #1098 variant cover by Stephen Byrne<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Superman #27 variant cover by Rachael Stott<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For the book market, the fourth iteration of DC\u2019s multiple-award-winning Pride celebration,\u00a0DC Pride: To the Farthest Reaches\u00a0<\/em>(ISBN 9781799501527), is available as a hardcover collection wherever books are sold on May 27, 2025, for $19.99 US. In this universe-spanning travelogue with a cover by Kevin Wada, DC\u2019s beloved queer characters take readers on a raucous tour through the Fourth World, Naltor, A-Town, the Phantom Zone, Portworld, the Oblivion Bar, and more in a volume that celebrates how the LGBTQIA+ community is everywhere and belongs anywhere\u2014even the very farthest reaches of the universe. This hardcover collects\u00a0DC Pride 2024<\/em>\u00a0and additional stories spotlighting queer characters as realized by DC\u2019s vast stable of queer and allied creators, including Phil Jimenez, Al Ewing, Ngozi Ukazu, Nicole Maines, Stephen Byrne, Claire Roe, Giulio Macaione, and more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DC Pride: To the Farthest Reaches cover by Kevin Wada
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Also on May 27, 2025, DC will publish\u00a0DC Pride Box Set (<\/em>ISBN\u00a09781799501589),\u00a0<\/em>a $39.99\u00a0US bright, bold, and beautiful box set with a cover by Gabriel Picolo collecting the first three hardcover volumes of DC Pride! The\u00a0DC Pride Box Set<\/em>\u00a0includes over 70 incredible queer-focused stories and illustrations, brought to you by an all-star lineup of queer and ally talent including Grant Morrison, James Tynion IV, Mariko Tamaki, Nicole Maines, Trung Le Nguyen, Klaus Janson, Vita Ayala, Zoe Thorogood, and many, many more. Also featuring an extensive tribute to trailblazing writer Rachel Pollack and Kevin Conroy\u2019s celebrated autobiographical comic \u201cFinding Batman,\u201d in which the man behind the beloved voice of the Dark Knight details his journey from childhood to hero in the hearts of fans everywhere. This three-book set features hardcover editions of\u00a0DC Pride: Love and Justice<\/em>,\u00a0DC Pride: The New Generation<\/em>, and\u00a0DC Pride: Better Together<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DC Pride Box Set cover art by Gabriel Picolo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In addition to\u00a0DC Pride: To the Farthest Reaches\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0DC Pride Box Set<\/em>, DC has a vast catalogue of books to add to your TBR pile, pull list, Pride-themed book club, in-store Pride display, and to share with friends. Priced at $9.99 US and available everywhere books are sold on June 17, 2025,\u00a0Batwoman: Elegy: DC Compact Comics Edition<\/em>\u00a0is the latest classic DC adventure to hit shelves. Written by bestselling writer Greg Rucka with art by acclaimed artists J.H. Williams III, Jock, and Scott Kolins,\u00a0Batwoman: Elegy<\/em>\u00a0is a visually stunning landmark tale which reveals the shocking origin that set the foundation for one of the DC Universe\u2019s most prominent LGBTQIA+ characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DC also announced that it will add DC Pride comics to its DC GO!webcomics collection beginning in June, adapting titles from the past four DC Pride<\/em> anthologies into the vertical scroll format. During June, DC GO! will release two DC Pride episodes a day, Monday through Friday for the entire month, with all 42 episodes available to read in the same format as original DC GO! webcomics<\/a> like Harley Quinn in Paradise<\/em>, Nothing Butt Nightwing<\/em>,and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Batwoman: Elegy: DC Compact Comics Edition cover by J.H. Williams III<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Justice League Unlimited #8 variant cover by Hayden Sherman<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For more information about DC Pride, visit the DC website at http:\/\/www.dc.com\/<\/a> and follow DC on social media at @DCOfficia<\/a>l<\/a>. Fans can catch up on everything DC Pride by visiting the DC Pride hub<\/a> on DC.com and the DC Universe Pride collection page<\/a> on DCUI, DC\u2019s premium digital comic book service. DCUI subscribers can download comics for unlimited offline reading on their favorite iOS<\/a> and Android devices<\/a>, while registered users will find a selection of free-to-read Pride titles available. For more information on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE, visit the DCUI website at https:\/\/www.dcuniverseinfinite.com\/<\/a>. DCUI is not available in all countries and is not intended for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay tuned for more DC Pride announcements from DC between now and June!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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