DC Comics August 2023 Collection Solicitations

DC’s August 2023 solicitations are out, and we’re here to look at the collected editions.

This month has plenty of great material within in. There are a few new Omnibus Editions, like the Batman & Robin Eternal Omnibus, the Dead Boy Detectives Omnibus, and plenty more. There are also a few new Deluxe Editions, like The Nice House on the Lake: the Deluxe Edition and DCeased: The Deluxe Edition. Finally, there are plenty of other hardcovers and paperbacks on top of these other releases.

DC Comics August 2023 Collection Solicitations

• The Nice House on the Lake: the Deluxe Edition HC
  • Collects the entire 12-issue first cycle and features a brand-new cover, original character outlines, and a gallery of development art and behind-the-scenes extras.
  • Release Date: October 17, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • From Eisner Award-winning horror maestro James Tynion IV and his artistic collaborator Álvaro Martínez Bueno comes a tale of psychological terror that plays on the anxieties of the 21st century. Walter has always seemed a little strange. But after he invites 10 friends to a weekend getaway at a secluded house on a lake, they discover just how different he is when he reveals his true face and announces that life as they knew it will never be the same again. 
• Ghost-maker/Clownhunter TP
  • Collects Batman backups #107-111, Batman Secret Files: Clownhunter #1, Batman: The Joker War Zone #1, and stories from Batman 2022 Annual and Batman Annual #5.
  • Release Date: October 3, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Ghost-Maker is the ultimate rival to Batman, trained by the same teachers to harness the power of the mind and body with one goal: become the ultimate weapon against crime! Unlike Batman, his approach is much deadlier, and he’s about to go head-to-head with the Dark Knight!
    • Also, Clownhunter’s brutal mission to hunt down all the clowns from the Joker War continues! The untrained but focused vigilante stalks a boss-level clown, but his luck might be running out as he walks into an ambush set by Punchline! In a horrific parallel to his days at Gotham Academy, Clownhunter finds himself overwhelmed and outgunned…just the type of odds he likes!
• DCeased: The Deluxe Edition HC
  • Collects DCeased #1-6 and DCeased: A Good Day to Die #1 along with a massive variant cover gallery and an extensive behind the scenes featuring never-before-seen artwork and more. 
  • Release Date: October 3, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Six hundred million people. That’s how many fall victim when a mysterious techno-organic virus is unleased on Earth. Six hundred million infected. Six hundred million turned into mindless, rampaging killers bent on death and destruction. And that’s just the beginning.
    • Cities. Nations. Undersea kingdoms and paradise islands. One by one, they fall to the monstrous hordes. Now only Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the rest of the Justice League stand between Earth and utter annihilation…
    • But for how long?
    • Nothing they’ve ever faced has prepared them for an onslaught of this magnitude. Nothing they’ve ever seen can match the scale of the tragedy and terror that have been unleashed. As heroes and villains, gods and monsters are wiped out, only one question remains: What happens to the World’s Greatest Heroes if the world ends? 
• DC Horror Presents: Sgt. Rock vs. the Army of the Dead HC
  • Collects DC Horror Presents: Sgt. Rock vs. The Army of the Dead #1-6.
  • Release Date: October 3, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Berlin, 1944. The Nazis are besieged on all fronts by the Allied forces. Defeat is inevitable. But Hitler and his team of evil scientists attempt a last-ditch effort that may turn the tide of the war and rewrite history itself—a serum that allows them to resurrect their dead soldiers, stronger than they were in life, and send them back onto the battlefield. Now Sgt. Frank Rock and Easy Company have been dispatched into enemy territory to face off against the strangest, most horrific enemies they’ve ever encountered: Nazi zombies! Horror icon Bruce Campbell and comics legend Eduardo Risso bring you a terror-soaked Sgt. Rock tale like no other! 

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• Power Girl Returns TP
  • Collects Lazarus Planet: Assault on Krypton #1, Action Comics #1051-1053, and Power Girl Special #1.
  • Release Date: October 3, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • With new powers and a new mission, Power Girl faces a challenge unlike any she’s experienced before! With Omen’s guidance, she now strives to battle the demons—literal and figurative—lurking within the minds of some of the greatest superheroes in the DC Universe. But the nefarious Johnny Sorrow has been searching for a connection to Earth-0, and the superheroines’ work may unwittingly give him the means to make their world his personal stage! Can Power Girl and her estranged Super-Family bring down the curtain on Sorrow’s evil plans? And at what cost?
• Tim Drake: Robin Vol. 1: Mystery At The Marina TP
  • Collects DC Pride: Tim Drake Special #1 and Tim Drake: Robin #1-6.
  • Release Date: September 26, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • A mystery over a year in the making takes shape. A new villain who’s been hounding Tim from afar decides to take things up close and personal, putting Bernard and everyone else Tim cares about in peril, and things go from bad to worse for the world’s oldest and canonically tallest Robin (no, I will not be fact-checking that). All that as Tim finally carves out a corner of Gotham City just for himself and sets up shop in his very own…murder-shack boat? Fan-favorite writer Meghan Fitzmartin teams up with beloved Harley Quinn artist Riley Rossmo to define the next chapter in Tim’s life.
• Wonder Woman: Blood And Guts: The Deluxe Edition HC
  • Collects Wonder Woman #0-12 and featuring a brand-new wraparound cover by Cliff Chiang. 
  • Release Date: October 10, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • When Wonder Woman is willing to take a stand against Hera, queen of the gods, she makes herself an enemy. But Hera isn’t the one Wonder Woman should be worried about…Hera’s daughter, Eris, has a secret that will shatter Wonder Woman’s life. Plus, Hades and Poseidon need to settle who will be king of the gods, and Wonder Woman can’t let their turf war decimate the realm of man! And what true story of the gods is complete without a little trip to hell? Read all this and more in Wonder Woman: Blood and Guts: The Deluxe Edition. 
• Batman & Robin Eternal Omnibus HC
  • Collects Batman & Robin Eternal #1-26 and Batman: Endgame Special Edition #1. Features a brand-new cover by Tony S. Daniel. 
  • Release Date: September 19, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Taking place after Batman Eternal, Batman & Robin Eternal follows former Boy Wonder Dick Grayson rallying together Red Hood, Red Robin, Robin, Bluebird, Cassandra Cain, and the rest of the Bat-Family as they strive to maintain order in a Gotham without Batman. With no Dark Knight to guide them, do they stand any chance of defeating a long-forgotten foe named Mother, whose specialty is turning trafficked humans into weapons? Join the all-star creative team of James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, Tim Seeley, Tony S. Daniel, and more in this complete volume. 
• Zatanna & The Ripper Volume One TP
  • Collects the first 11 episodes of Webtoon’s smash-hit series, optimized for a brand-new reading experience in print.
  • Release Date: October 3, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • On her 21st birthday, Zatanna Zatara is attacked and bested by a mysterious sorceress. Before the final blow is dealt, her father, Giovanni, casts a spell of his own, warping the magic of his attacker and sending Zatanna out of the frying pan and into ye olde garbage bin. Zatanna arrives in Whitechapel, London, in the year 1888. She soon discovers a serial killer plaguing the streets of the city—Jack the Ripper. Unable to return home and certain that the supernatural killer has answers, Zatanna sets out in pursuit of the Ripper alongside the denizens of Whitechapel and one John Constantine.

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• Dead Boy Detectives Omnibus HC
  • Collects The Sandman #25, The Children’s Crusade #1-2, The Sandman Presents: The Dead Boy Detectives #1-4, Dead Boy Detectives #1-12, and Jill Thompson’s The Dead Boy Detectives; an original middle chapter to the Children’s Crusade from Free Country: A Tale of the Children’s Crusade; stories from Vertigo: Winter’s Edge #3, Ghosts #1, Time Warp #1, and The Witching Hour #1; and pages from Death: At Death’s Door, Swamp Thing Annual #7, and Doom Patrol Annual #2. It features a brand-new introduction by Mark Buckingham and a brand-new cover by Chris Bachalo, along with an extensive behind-the-scenes gallery of never-before-seen artwork, sketches, proposals, and more. 
  • Release Date: October 10, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Stepping out of the pages of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, the Dead Boy Detectives are thrust into the mystery of a lifetime.
    • Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine were murdered at boarding school, but that hasn’t stopped them from living out their dreams. While avoiding Death (literally) they enjoy a ghostly afterlife by reading mystery novels, watching thrillers, and hanging out in their clubhouse. Aspiring to the (un) life of a detective, the two will take on their first case and unwittingly fall prey to supernatural horrors galore and a life(less)long obsession with solving creepy, scary capers.
• Static Up All Night TP
  • Collects the original graphic novel. 
  • Release Date: November 7, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • What happens when The New York Times bestselling writer Lamar Giles and illustrator Paris Alleyne take their heroes on an epic night that goes from bad…to worst?
    • When Virgil Hawkins revealed his secret identity as Static to his girlfriend, Daisy, he thought that was going to make their relationship a lot easier. But Daisy is tired of all the super-heroics interrupting their date nights on a regular basis. Now, just as Virgil is about to invite her to the big Dakota music festival for her birthday, she’s calling it quits and breaking up with him.
    • Determined to distract his best friend, Virgil’s buddy Richie Foley (also known as the superhero Gear) convinces him that they should use the tickets themselves. When they run into Raquel Ervin and Isadora Wellington—who each have secret identities of their own—what follows is a night that nobody was ready for: a blackout, some super-villains, and a rapper in disguise are just the start. And even worse, there’s Daisy with a new guy…
    • Virgil is about to learn not even superpowers can conquer a broken heart.
• Batgirl: Year One (2023 Edition)
  • Collects Batgirl: Year One #1-9 as well as extensive character and cover sketches from Martin and a brand-new introduction from Scott Beatty.
  • Release Date: September 26, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Offered again! Meet Gotham’s newest Batling! Batgirl may be untested, but she doesn’t take orders from anyone and is determined to make a name for herself—one way or another.
    • From writers Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon and illustrators Marcos Martin and Álvaro López, Batgirl: Year One chronicles the early days of Batgirl as she slowly shapes her legacy. 
• Batgirls Vol. 3: Girls to the Front
  • Collects Batgirls #13-19 and Batgirls 2022 Annual.
  • Release Date: October 3, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • It’s a wacky Wednesday as the Batgirls have a body-swap bonanza! Perfect timing for Cass and Steph to each be kidnapped by their respective parents to have a chat…especially for Steph to speak Cass’s mind for her and scold Lady Shiva for being a bad mother. Later, Gunbunny and Gunhawk target the Batgirls for a reason revealed to be tied to the Saints, and it’s up to the Batgirls to stop them before more people in the Hill get hurt.

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• Batman Knightfall Omnibus Vol. 1 (2023 EDITION)
  • Collects the storyline from Batman #484-500, Batman: Shadow of the Bat #16-18, Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1, Detective Comics #654-666, and Showcase ’93 #7-8.
  • Release Date: September 19, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Offered again! The Dark Knight’s deadliest enemies have escaped Arkham Asylum! The Joker, Two-Face, the Mad Hatter, the Riddler, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Killer Croc, Firefly, and Zsasz—one by one, Batman must face them in mortal combat. But lurking at the end of this seemingly endless gauntlet is the deadliest menace of all—a mysterious man-mountain known as Bane who has one goal: to break the Bat! 
• Batman 4: The Cowardly Lot TP
  • Collects Batman #106-111 and Infinite Frontier #1.
  • Release Date: October 3, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Is the new gang in Gotham connected to the resurgence of the Scarecrow? Meanwhile, Mayor Nakano meets with shadowy billionaire Simon Saint, who comes to Gotham to pitch the concept of an advanced law-enforcement project known as…the Magistrate!
    • It’s always darkest before the dawn, especially in Gotham City! 
• Batman One Dark Knight TP
  • Collects the complete limited series Batman: One Dark Knight #1-3.
  • Release Date: September 19, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Iconic Batman artist Jock delivers a bare-knuckle brawl through the blacked-out streets of Gotham! Batman just has to get the dangerous electromagnetic super-villain E.M.P. across the city and into Blackgate Prison during a citywide power outage…but Gotham’s gangs, and even a dangerous subset of its police, have very different plans for E.M.P.’s abilities!
• Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 10 HC
  • Collects full-color restorations of the Dark Knight’s capers in Batman #86-100, Detective Comics #211-232, along with a brand-new foreword by the originator and executive producer of the Batman film franchise, Michael Uslan.
  • Release Date: September 26, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • The Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder return for another thrilling tome of adventures that close out the Golden Age of comics. In this volume, marvel at the voyage of the first Batmarine, see the Dark Knight fall head over heels in love, fight the likes of the Joker and Catwoman, and meet Ace the Bat-Hound, Mad Hattter,and the Batmen of All Nations for the very first time! 
• DC Horror Presents: Soul Plumber TP
  • Collects DC Horror Presents: Soul Plumber #1-6.
  • Release Date: October 3, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • From the creators of The Last Podcast on the Left, exorcism just got a whole lot easier. After attending a seminar hosted in a hotel conference room by a mysterious group called the Soul Plumbers, Edgar Wiggins—disgraced former seminary student—discovers what he thinks is the secret to delivering souls from the thrall of Satan. But after stealing the blueprints and building the machine himself, out of whatever he can afford from his salary as a gas station attendant, Edgar misses the demon and instead pulls out an interdimensional alien, with dire consequences for all humankind. Get ready for things to turn bizarre, barfy, and biblical!

• Harley Quinn Vol. 2: Keepsake TP
  • Collects Harley Quinn #7-12. 
  • Release Date: October 10, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Hugo Strange, out-of-control orderlies, kidnapped clowns, and a new villain named Keepsake…it’s a lot for any one former villain turned antihero turned real hero with impeccable fashion sense to handle. I’m talkin’ about me, if that wasn’t clear. With all the Fear State happening in Gotham, I thought it would be a good time to go on a little camping trip. But, turns out, Gotham is gonna be Gotham. Keepsake’s forming a new army, Hugo’s playin’ dress up, and the city is literally tearing itself apart. This looks like a job for Harley Quinn, Kevin, and…the Gardener? Oh yeah, there’re a few other familiar faces…so keep your eyes peeled! 
• Izombie: The Complete Series Omnibus HC (2023 Edition)
  • Collects iZombie #1-28.
  • Release Date: October 24, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Offered again! Gwen Dylan doesn’t remember too much about her life before she died, but she does know that she’ll lose what little memory she has left if she doesn’t consume fresh brains at least once a month. So after landing a job as a gravedigger in her hometown of Eugene, Oregon, she makes herself at home in one of its crypts, where she can live her afterlife in peace…or so she thinks! From Chris Roberson, Michael Allred, and Laura Allred comes the complete quirky collection that inspired the hit show. 
• The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries Vol. 3 TP
  • Collects issues #1-6 of the second series of The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries, with stories by Sholly Fisch, Ivan Cohen, Matthew Cody, Amanda Deibert, Dario Brizuela, Erich Owen, and Scott Jeralds. 
  • Release Date: September 19, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. team are thrilled to work with Batman and friends solving mysteries. Together they’ll face Ra’s al Ghul in Turkey, Poison Ivy and the Court of Owls in Batman’s hometown of Gotham, go on a beach vacation, and chase down a Rat Pack! But when a mysterious fortune-teller warns the Scooby gang to avoid the Dark Knight Detective, will anyone be safe? 
• The Fellspyre Chronicles: Book 1 TP
  • Collects the complete Fellspyre Chronicles: Book 1 saga along with Songs of Lost Children and Tales from the Book of Ages.
  • Release Date: October 17, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Two fellowships of heroes struggle with the same threat…thirty years apart. One group will doom their world. The other must try to save it. Thirty years ago, a band of heroes traveled beyond the borders of creation to kill the last living god and save the realm of Cain Anuun. But when the foul legions of the Last God march again and begin to destroy all of Cain Anuun, it will be revealed that the aging fellowship may not be the great heroes they claimed to be. With the world burning down around them, a new group of unlikely champions will come together to try to bring peace to their world. They’ll have to kill the Last God, once and for all. 
• Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 5 HC
  • Collects Wonder Woman #35-47 and Sensation Comics #90-104.
  • Release Date: October 17, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, stronger than Hercules, and swifter than Mercury, Wonder Woman has been the preeminent female superhero icon since her debut in 1942. This next exciting omnibus covers the late 1940s to the early 1950s and features tales such as “The Girl Who Saved Paradise Island,” “The Fatal Beauty,”
• Wonder Woman: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 HC
  • Collects Wonder Woman #124-149 in fully restored color and contains a brand-new foreword by comics historian Trina Robbins, the first female artist to draw Wonder Woman. 
  • Release Date: October 3, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Journey back to the 1960s with writer Robert Kanigher and artist Ross Andru as they continue their prolific Wonder Woman run. In this second Silver Age volume, join Diana in adventures such as “Wonder Tot and Mister Genie!,” “The Amazing Amazon Race!,” “The Last Day of the Amazons!,” and more as she continues to fight for justice and peace.

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