DC Comics Absolute Edition
Sandman
Volume 1DC Comics Absolute Edition is a series of archival quality printings of graphic novels published by
WildStorm Productions and Vertigo
. Each is presented in a hardcover and slipcased edition with cloth bookmark consisting of one or more books which include restored, corrected and recolored versions of the original work, reprinted at 8 by 12 inches (200 mm × 300 mm). Also included are supplemental materials regarding the creation of the work, including sketches, comic scripts and memos.
Titles
The following titles in the series have been released or announced.
The Authority
- Absolute Authority Vol. 1 – collects ISBN 1-56389-882-9. Currently out of print.
- Absolute Authority Vol. 1 (New Edition) – collects The Authority #1–12, Planetary/The Authority: Ruling the World, and a story from Wildstorm: A Celebration of 25 Years. Release date: October 17, 2017. ISBN 978-1401276478
- Absolute Authority Vol. 1 (New Edition) – collects The Authority #1–12, Planetary/The Authority: Ruling the World, and a story from Wildstorm: A Celebration of 25 Years. Release date: October 17, 2017.
- Absolute Authority Vol. 2 – collects The Authority # 13–20, 22, & 27–29. Released in 2003. ISBN 1-4012-0097-4. Currently out of print.
- Absolute Authority Vol. 2 (New Edition) – collects The Authority #13–29, Authority Annual 2000 and stories from Wildstorm Summer Special. Introduction by ISBN 978-1401281151
- Absolute Authority Vol. 2 (New Edition) – collects The Authority #13–29, Authority Annual 2000 and stories from Wildstorm Summer Special. Introduction by
Batman
- Absolute Batman: Hush – reprinting "ISBN 1-4012-0426-0
- Absolute Batman: Incorporated – reprints ISBN 978-1-4012-0426-6
- Absolute Batman: The Court of Owls – collects Batman #1–11. Includes bonus material. Release date: December 8, 2015. ISBN 978-1401259105
- Absolute Batman: Year One – collects ISBN 978-1401243791
- Absolute Batman: The Killing Joke (30th Anniversary Edition) – collects ISBN 978-1401284121
- Absolute Batman: The Black Mirror – collects ISBN 978-1401289553
- Absolute Batman: Arkham Asylum (30th Anniversary Edition) – reprinting of the graphic novel ISBN 978-1401294205
- Absolute Batman: Three Jokers – collects Batman: Three Jokers #1–3. Includes bonus material. Release date: June 27, 2023. 978-1779521828[1]
- Absolute Batman and Son by Grant Morrison - collects Batman #655-658, #663-669, #672-675, and Batman Incorporated (vol. 2) #5. Includes an introduction from ISBN 978-1779527363
- Absolute Batman: Death of the Family - collects Detective Comics (The New 52) #1, Batman (The New 52) #13-17, and more. Release date: October 29, 2024. ISBN 978-1779528308
- Absolute Batman: Zero Year - collects Batman (The New 52) #0, #21-27, #29-33, and Batman: Zero Year Director's Cut #1. Release date: February 4, 2025. ISBN 978-1799500230
The Long Halloween
- Absolute Batman: The Long Halloween – reprints ISBN 1-4012-1282-4
- Absolute Batman: Dark Victory – reprints ISBN 1-4012-3510-7
- Absolute ISBN 978-1401251222
The Dark Knight
- Absolute The Dark Knight – collects ISBN 1-4012-1079-1
- Absolute The Dark Knight (New Edition) – collects Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1–4 and Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again #1–3. Includes bonus design and story pages. Release date: September 8, 2020. ISBN 978-1779506627
- Absolute The Dark Knight (New Edition) – collects Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1–4 and Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again #1–3. Includes bonus design and story pages. Release date: September 8, 2020.
- Absolute Batman: The Dark Knight: The Master Race – collects ISBN 978-1401299620
Batman and Robin
- Absolute Batman and Robin: Batman Reborn – reprints ISBN 1-4012-3737-1
- Absolute All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder – collects ISBN 978-1401247638
- Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths – unlike most of the other Absolute Editions which are a single slipcased book, this was a set of two volumes, with the separate 96-page book containing most of the supplementary material. In addition to memos, notes, sketches, and commentary by the creators, it includes some of the information from ISBN 1-4012-0712-X
Danger Girl
- Absolute Danger Girl – contains two volumes in a slipcased hardcover set. A 262-page collection of ISBN 1-4012-0096-6
Dark Nights: Metal
- Absolute Dark Nights: Metal – collects ISBN 978-1779515278
- Absolute Dark Nights: Death Metal – collects ISBN 978-1779515278
Daytripper
- Absolute Daytripper – Collects ISBN 978-1401287634
DC: The New Frontier
- Absolute DC: The New Frontier – collects ISBN 978-1401210809
- Absolute DC: The New Frontier 15th Anniversary Edition – collects DC: The New Frontier #1–6 with the 13 additional story pages from the previous edition, Justice League: The New Frontier Special, a "New Frontier" story from ISBN 978-1779501394
- Absolute DC: The New Frontier 15th Anniversary Edition – collects DC: The New Frontier #1–6 with the 13 additional story pages from the previous edition, Justice League: The New Frontier Special, a "New Frontier" story from
Final Crisis
- Absolute Final Crisis – collects ISBN 978-1-4012-3511-6
Flashpoint
- Absolute Flashpoint – Collects ISBN 978-1401286262
- Absolute Fourth World by ISBN 978-1779500861
- Absolute Fourth World by Jack Kirby Vol. 2 – collects Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #146–148, The Forever People #7–11, The New Gods #7–11, Mister Miracle #7–18, Jack Kirby's New Gods (reprint series) #6, DC Graphic Novel #4: The Hunger Dogs and Kirby's On the Road to Armagetto. Also includes a new foreword by ISBN 978-1779513335
Green Arrow
- Absolute Green Arrow – collects ISBN 978-1-4012-5548-0
Green Lantern
- Absolute Green Lantern: Rebirth – collects ISBN 978-1401225742
- Absolute Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War – collects Green Lantern #21–25, Green Lantern Corps #14–19 and Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1. Released in September 2012. ISBN 978-1401237356
- Absolute Blackest Night – collects Blackest Night #0, Blackest Night #1–8, Untold Tales of the Blackest Night #1, DC Universe #0, Blackest Night Director's Cut #1, and Green Lantern #43–48 and 50–52. Release date: June 26, 2013. ISBN 978-1401240738
Green Lantern/Green Arrow
- Absolute Green Lantern/Green Arrow – collects the early 1970s team-up stories written by ISBN 978-1401257965
Identity Crisis
- Absolute Identity Crisis – collects ISBN 978-1401232580
Infinite Crisis
- Absolute Infinite Crisis – collects ISBN 978-1-4012-6535-9
Justice League
- Absolute Justice League: Origin – reprinting ISBN 978-1401274375
- Absolute Justice League: The World's Greatest Super-Heroes – reprinting ISBN 978-1401273705
Justice
- Absolute Justice – reprinting ISBN 978-1-4012-2415-8
Kingdom Come
- Absolute Kingdom Come – collects Mr. Mxyzptlkare offered as a complement, as well the original "epilogue" not found at the regular editions is printed here, called "One Year Later". Additional and extended "Apocrypha" section (originally shown at TPB editions as "Apocrypha" and "Revelations") where each hero and villain is identified, along with detailed sketches and excerpts by Alex Ross, original art for trading cards, posters, and action figures.
- Absolute Kingdom Come (New Edition) – collects Kingdom Come #1–4 by Alex Ross and Mark Waid. Release date: October 16, 2018. ISBN 978-1401284626
- Absolute Kingdom Come (New Edition) – collects Kingdom Come #1–4 by Alex Ross and Mark Waid. Release date: October 16, 2018.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. I: Absolute Edition – two-book slipcase which collects ISBN 1-4012-0052-4
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. II: Absolute Edition – two-book slipcase which collects ISBN 1-4012-0611-5
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier: Absolute Edition – collects the original graphic novel ISBN 1-4012-0751-0
Mister Miracle
- Absolute Mister Miracle – collects Mister Miracle #1–12 by Tom King and Mitch Gerad, original script pages and concept art, creator commentary, and a newly commissioned cover illustrated by Gerad. Expected release date: November 12, 2024. ISBN: TBD[2]
Multiversity
- Absolute Multiversity – collects ISBN 978-1779515612
Planetary
- Absolute Planetary Book One – collects ISBN 1-4012-0327-2
- Absolute Planetary Book One (New Edition) – collects Planetary #1–12. Includes the full script from issue #1. Release date: July 13, 2010. ISBN 978-1401203276
- Absolute Planetary Book One (New Edition) – collects Planetary #1–12. Includes the full script from issue #1. Release date: July 13, 2010.
- Absolute Planetary Book Two – collects Planetary #13–27. Release date: July 7, 2010. ISBN 1-4012-2701-5
- Absolute Planetary Book Two (New Edition) – collects Planetary #13–27. Includes 14 pages of additional content. Release date: July 20, 2010. ISBN 978-1401227012
- Absolute Planetary Book Two (New Edition) – collects Planetary #13–27. Includes 14 pages of additional content. Release date: July 20, 2010.
- Absolute Planetary – collects Planetary #1–27, Planetary Vol. 1: All Over the World and Other Stories, Planetary/Batman: Night On Earth #1, Planetary Vol. 2: The Fourth Man, Planetary: All Over the World and Other Stories, Planetary: Crossing Worlds, Planetary Vol. 3: Leaving the 20th Century, Absolute Planetary Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Planetary Vol. 4: Spacetime Archaeology, Wildstorm: A Celebration of 25 Years. Release date: February 9, 2021. ISBN 978-1779509079
Preacher
- Absolute Preacher Book One – collects ISBN 978-1401264413
- Absolute Preacher Book Two – collects Preacher #27–40. Release date: May 9, 2017. ISBN 978-1401268091
- Absolute Preacher Book Three – collects Preacher #41–66. Release date: April 25, 2018. ISBN 978-1401278489
Promethea
- Absolute Promethea Book One – collects ISBN 978-1-4012-2372-4
- Absolute Promethea Book Two – collects Promethea #13–23. Release date: September 29, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4012-2842-2
- Absolute Promethea Book Three – collects Promethea #24–32 (issue #32 is included as both a comic and a standalone poster), an excerpt of ISBN 978-1401229474
Ronin
- Absolute Ronin – collects ISBN 978-1-4012-1908-6
Sandman
- Absolute Sandman Vol. 1 – collects ISBN 1-4012-1082-1
- Absolute Sandman Vol. 2 – collects The Sandman #21–39. Extras include the ISBN 978-1-4012-1083-0
- Absolute Sandman Vol. 3 – collects The Sandman #40–56, "Fear of Falling" from Vertigo Preview #1, and Sandman Special #1. Extras include the Desire story "How They Met Themselves" from Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3, script and thumbnails from The Sandman #50 ("Ramadan"), art galleries from The Sandman #50 and Sandman Special #1, a gallery of works inspired by the Endless, a section on ISBN 978-1-4012-1084-7
- Absolute Sandman Vol. 4 – collects The Sandman #57–75 (including three "lost" pages from The Sandman #72, originally published in ISBN 978-1-4012-1085-4
- Absolute Sandman Vol. 5 – collects "The Last Sandman Story" from Dust Covers: The Collected Sandman Covers, ISBN 978-1-4012-3202-3
Death
- Absolute Death – collects The Sandman #8 ("The Sound of Her Wings") and #20 ("Facade"), ISBN 978-1401295578
Overture
- Absolute Sandman: Overture – collects ISBN 978-1-4012-8047-5
Scarlet
- Absolute Scarlet – collects ISBN 978-1401289720
Superman
- Absolute Superman: For Tomorrow – reprinting the ISBN 978-1-4012-2198-0
- Absolute All-Star Superman – reprinting the ISBN 978-1-4012-2917-7
- Absolute Superman: For All Seasons – reprinting the ISBN 9781779522887
- Absolute Superman by Geoff Johns & ISBN 978-1779524713
- Absolute Superman: Red Son – reprinting ISBN 978-1799501558
- Absolute Death of Superman – reprinting ISBN 9781799501749
Superman/Batman
- Absolute Superman/Batman Vol. 1 – collects ISBN 978-1401240967
- Absolute Superman/Batman Vol. 2 – collects Superman/Batman #14–26. Extras include pencilled pages and character sketches. Release date: May 20, 2014. ISBN 978-1401248178
Luthor/Joker
- Absolute Luthor/Joker – contains two volumes in a slipcase hardcover set by Brian Azzarello and ISBN 978-1401245047
Swamp Thing
- Absolute Swamp Thing by ISBN 978-1779517302
Saga of the Swamp Thing
- Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. 1 – collects ISBN 978-1401284930
- Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. 2 – collects Saga of the Swamp Thing #35–49. Release date: October 27, 2020. ISBN 978-1779502827
- Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. 3 – collects Saga of the Swamp Thing #51–64 and DC Comics Presents #85. Release date: March 25, 2022. ISBN 978-1779512192
Top 10
- Absolute Top 10 – collects ISBN 978-1401238254
Transmetropolitan
- Absolute Transmetropolitan Vol. 1 – collects ISBN 978-1401254308
- Absolute Transmetropolitan Vol. 2 – collects Transmetropolitan #19–39 and Filth of the City. Release date: May 24, 2016. ISBN 978-1401261153
- Absolute Transmetropolitan Vol. 3 – collects Transmetropolitan #40–60, a new introduction by series author ISBN 978-1401285456
V for Vendetta
- Absolute V for Vendetta – reprinting ISBN 978-1-4012-2361-8
Watchmen
- Absolute Watchmen – reprinting ISBN 1-401-20713-8) it (along with other editions and material) was re-released on November 12, 2008, about six months ahead of the film adaptation.
Doomsday Clock
- Absolute Doomsday Clock – collects ISBN 9781779515605
WildC.A.T.s
- Absolute WildC.A.T.s by Jim Lee – collects ISBN 978-1401274955
Wonder Woman
- Absolute ISBN 9781779511553
The New 52
- Absolute Wonder Woman by Brian Azzarello & Cliff Chiang Vol. 1 – collects Wonder Woman (vol. 4) #0–18 from ISBN 9781401268480
- Absolute Wonder Woman by Brian Azzarello & Cliff Chiang Vol. 2 – collects Wonder Woman (vol. 4) #19–35, Azzarello's and Chiang's story from ISBN 9781401277499
Y: The Last Man
- Absolute Y: The Last Man Vol. 1 – collects ISBN 978-1-4012-5429-2
- Absolute Y: The Last Man Vol. 2 – collects Y: The Last Man #21–40. Release date: September 20, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4012-6113-9
- Absolute Y: The Last Man Vol. 3 – collects Y: The Last Man #41–60. Release date: July 4, 2017. ISBN 978-1401271008
Cancelled titles
The following titles in the series were previously solicited by DC, but later cancelled.
Adam Hughes
- Absolute Art of Adam Hughes – originally solicited to feature the best of ISBN 978-1401294915
Batman
- Absolute Batman: Gotham by Gaslight – originally solicited to contain the ISBN 978-1401299828
Fables
- Absolute Fables Vol. 1 – originally solicited to contain ISBN 978-1779500205
Flash
- Absolute Flash: Rebirth – originally solicited to contain ISBN 978-1779509284
Unofficial titles
The following titles are not officially part of the Absolute series, but are similar to actual labeled Absolute editions in terms of their contents and size.
Deadman
- The ISBN 1-5638-9849-7
Green Lantern/Green Arrow
- The Green Lantern/Green Arrow Collection – collects the 1970s run by ISBN 978-1401257965
JLA/Avengers
- JLA/Avengers: The Collector's Edition – collects ISBN 1-4012-0207-1
See also
References
- ^ "DC to Publish 'Absolute Batman: Three Jokers'".
- ^ "DC is reviving Mister Miracle by Tom King & Mitch Gerads for an all new hardcover Absolute edition". February 16, 2024.
- ^ "DC Comics Cancels Challengers of the Unknown, Hard Traveling Heroes, and Engines of Chaos Batman Statue". May 23, 2019.
- ^ "DC Comics Cancels Absolute Gotham by Gaslight". January 2, 2020.
- ^ "DC Cancelled Collections – Absolute Fables, John Byrne's Man of Steel Omnibus, Golden Age Batman and Road to Legion". December 15, 2019.
- ^ "DC Comics Rebirth: What Got Cancelled, What Got Merged, What Got Saved – and Who Are in Silhouette?". February 18, 2016.
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