DC Comics June 2022 Collection Solicitations

DC’s June 2022 solicitations are out and we’re here to look at the collected editions.

This month has an exciting list of expected collections while also containing a few surprises. The solicitations start with a focus on Pride, featuring already released collections, like I Am Not Starfire and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, that focus on LGBTQIA+ characters and themes. Then, the new collections feature a range of awesome hardcovers, ranging from Icon & Rocket: Season One to Batman: No Man’s Land Omnibus Vol. 2. Plus, these solicitations feature two newly announced Omnibus re-releases, one for the Brightest Day Omnibus (2022 Edition) and the other for The Animal Man Omnibus (2022 Edition).

Note: the Batman: Earth One Complete Collection, Brightest Day Omnibus (2022 Edition) and The Animal Man Omnibus (2022 Edition) do not currently have product pages up. We’ll be adding those pages to this article when they become available.

DC June 2022 Pride Backlist

• I Am Not Starfire TP
  • Collects the graphic novel. 
  • Release Date: On Sale Now
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Seventeen-year-old Mandy, daughter of Starfire, is not like her mother. Mandy is not a sparkly superhero and has no powers. She dyes her hair black and hates everyone. But when a threat from her mother’s past suddenly arrives, Mandy may need to become a hero—on her own terms.
• Poison Ivy: Thorns TP (Review)
  • Collects the graphic novel. 
  • Release Date: On Sale Now
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Pamela Isley doesn’t trust other people. But when a cute goth girl comes into her life, she makes Pamela feel like opening up. With dark secrets lurking deep within the Isley house, will Pamela welcome the possibilities of love, or give in to the thorny vines of revenge?
• The Low, Low Woods TP
  • Collects The Low, Low Woods #1-6.
  • Release Date: On Sale Now
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania’s woods have rabbits with human eyes, a deer woman who stalks hungry girls, and swaths of skinless men. And the people of Shudder-to-Think aren’t doing so well either. When El and Octavia wake up in a movie theater with no memory of the last few hours of their lives, the two teenage dirtbags embark on a horrifying journey to uncover the truth about the strange town they call home. 
• You Brought Me The Ocean TP
  • Collects the graphic novel. 
  • Release Date: On Sale Now
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Jake Hyde is full of secrets, including his crush on the swim team captain and the strange blue markings on his skin that glow when in contact with water. What power will he find when he searches for his identity, and will he turn his back to the current or dive headfirst into the waves?
• Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles TP
  • Collects The Snagglepuss Chronicles #1-6.
  • Release Date: On Sale Now
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Drama! Comedy! Tragedy! For the renowned Southern playwright called Snagglepuss, these are the ingredients that have made him a star of the New York stage and the glittering world that surrounds it. But the year is 1953, and behind the bright lights, darkness is brewing. Snagglepuss is gay…and his enemies are out to destroy him for it. 
• Suicide Squad: Bad Blood HC
  • Collects Suicide Squad #1-11. 
  • Release Date: On Sale Now
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Task Force X takes on a mission to neutralize a group of international super-terrorists known as the Revolutionaries—and the survivors are forced to join the Squad! Whom can Harley Quinn and Deadshot trust when their new teammates are the very people their crew was assigned to kill? This Suicide Squad might survive their next mission, but they may not survive each other. 

DC June 2022 Collection Solicitations

• Icon & Rocket: Season One HC
  • Collects Milestone Returns: Infinite Edition #0 and Icon & Rocket: Season One #1-6.
  • Release Date: August 2, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • When Raquel Ervin discovered a centuries-old alien living in her city, she had no idea she would be awakening a power that would make the world tremble…and transform the pair of them into the superheroes Icon and Rocket! When they declare all-out war on the drug trade, their actions topple a chain of dominoes that nearly unravels the global economy, and brings a sadistic extraterrestrial killer into their own homes! 
• Batman’s Mystery Casebook TP
  • Collects the graphic novel. 
  • Release Date: August 30, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Batman is a great detective, but he rarely works alone. His sidekicks Robin and Batgirl, his butler Alfred, and the police of Gotham City all play a role in helping him keep his city safe. You can too!
    • Look for clues!
    • Analyze evidence!
    • Solve riddles!
    • Learn history!
    • Help the Batman as he goes on his adventures and see if you can spot the answers to these mysteries before he logs them into his casebook.
• My Buddy, Killer Croc TP
  • Collects the graphic novel. 
  • Release Date: August 30, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Andy, like a lot of kids, feels a little lost and out of place when he moves to Gotham. Unlike most kids, he’s less excited about the idea of meeting Batman than he is about seeing his childhood hero, the wrestler Waylon Jones…a.k.a. Killer Croc! If Andy can find him and ask for some wrestling tips, he can have it all. Trouble is, Batman is looking for Andy’s childhood hero, too.
    • In My Buddy, Killer Croc, Sara Farizan and Nicoletta Baldari unite to tell a charming tale of a boy in a new school, his new friends and enemies, and the super-villain who teaches him how to put the bullies in their place.
• Batman: Earth One Complete Collection TP 
  • Collects Batman: Earth One Vols. 1-3.
  • Release Date: August 2, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • In a Gotham City where friend and foe are indistinguishable, Bruce Wayne’s path toward becoming the Dark Knight is riddled with more obstacles than ever before. Focused on punishing his parents’ true killers and the corrupt police who allowed them to go free, Bruce Wayne’s thirst for vengeance fuels his mad crusade, and no one, not even Alfred, can stop him.
    • Geoff Johns and Gary Frank reimagine a new mythology for the Dark Knight, where the familiar is no longer the expected.

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• Superman ’78 HC
  • Collects issues #1-6 of the Superman ’78 miniseries. 
  • Release Date: July 19, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Fly into director Richard Donner’s Superman once more in Superman ’78! Written by Robert Venditti (Superman: Man of Tomorrow) and drawn by Wilfredo Torres (Batman ’66), Superman ’78 tells a brand-new adventure in the world of the beloved film. A bright, shining day in Metropolis is interrupted by a mysterious drone that crash-lands in the city and starts wreaking havoc. This looks like a job for Superman! But where did the metallic menace come from, what is its purpose, and who is Brainiac? As Metropolis is invaded by this being and its mechanical drones, Superman must make a life-changing sacrifice and leave Earth once and for all. But once aboard Brainiac’s ship, the Man of Steel finds he might not be the last son of Krypton as he believed. 
• Batman Vol. 6: Abyss HC
  • Collects Batman #118-121 and #124.
  • Release Date: August 2, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • As Gotham celebrates surviving Fear State, Batman retreats alone into the darkness. But when he learns of a mystery involving Batman Inc., it forces the Caped Crusader to leave Gotham for a brand-new adventure where he will face an old enemy and a unique, deadly new one. 
• Batman: No Man’s Land Omnibus Vol. 2 HC
  • Contents currently unlisted. 
  • Release Date: August 9, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Months after a massive earthquake cut off Gotham City from the rest of the United States, Batman and his allies are still struggling to maintain law and order. When an unlikely savior arrives offering to help rebuild Gotham, their assistance might come at a grave cost. The epic conclusion to Gotham’s darkest hour includes all of the crossover issues from one of the biggest story events in DC Comics history.
• Batman: Secret Files TP
  • Collects Batman Secret Files: The Signal #1, Batman Secret Files: Huntress #1, Batman Secret Files: Clownhunter #1, Batman Secret Files: Peacekeeper-01 #1, Batman Secret Files: Miracle Molly #1, and Batman Secret Files: The Gardener #1. 
  • Release Date: July 19, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Batman and Detective Comics scribes James Tynion IV and Mariko Tamaki are joined by a cadre of incredible collaborators to tell the heretofore-untold origin stories of some of Batman’s greatest allies and archrivals. Discover the mysteries of breakout characters from Fear State and Joker War such as Miracle Molly, Clownhunter, and the Gardener!
• The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mystery Vol. 2 TP
  • Collects The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #7-12.
  • Release Date: July 19, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Batman is the DC Universe’s greatest detective, but he still needs help! The teen sleuths of Mystery Inc. and their faithful hound Scooby-Doo are always willing to lend a hand…mostly to pull off various miscreants’ masks! Their adventures continue as the Caped Crusader and the curious canine tackle dognappers, Riddlers, Creepers, and villains galore! 

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• Black Manta TP
  • Collects the Black Manta short from Aquaman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1 and Black Manta #1-6.
  • Release Date: August 2, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Black Manta is dying. After unearthing a rare and powerful metal at the bottom of the ocean, Manta finds himself plagued by excruciating pain. But the hunt for his salvation puts Manta in the crosshairs of Devil Ray, a dangerous new rival who aims to become the new Scourge of the Seven Seas! 
• Brightest Day Omnibus (2022 Edition) HC
  • Collects issues #0-24 of the series.
  • Release Date: August 30, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Offered again! In this follow-up to Blackest Night, 12 heroes and villains were resurrected by a white light expelled from deep within the center of the earth. Now Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Firestorm, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Deadman, Jade, Osiris, Hawk, Captain Boomerang, and Zoom must discover the mysterious reason behind their return and uncover the secret that binds them all in this massive hardcover collecting issues #0-24 of the hit series!
• Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Zero – The Complete Collection TP
  • Collects Injustice: Year Zero #1-14.
  • Release Date: July 12, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • The beloved, fan-favorite series Injustice is back! And this time, with a prequel…Year Zero: “The Fall of the Old Gods”! Before Superman, Batman, or the Justice League were household heroes, there was the JSA! But when a secret begins to unravel within the JSA, will it lead to the unraveling of the heroes we know today? Is there a traitor within the ranks of our heroes? Or is someone hiding something that could ruin every DCU superhero forever? No one is safe in Injustice: Year Zero!
• Legends of the Dark Knight TP
  • Collects Legends of the Dark Knight #1-8.
  • Release Date: July 12, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • The iconic series Legends of the Dark Knight is back! Comics legends and rising stars alike tell iconic stories across the Batman mythos. Anchored by a three-part story by Darick Robertson (co-creator of The Boys), this is a can’t-miss collection of Gotham City sagas. This collection’s villains include The Joker, the Scarecrow, the Penguin, the Riddler, Solomon Grundy, Killer Croc, and brand-new antagonists who will change the Batman mythos forever!
• New Teen Titans Vol. 14 TP
  • Collects stories from The New Teen Titans #41-49, The New Teen Titans Annual #4, Secret Origins #13, Secret Origins Annual #3, and Tales of the Teen Titans #91.
  • Release Date: July 19, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • In the final volume of the second New Teen Titans series, the Titans face off against Wildebeest, Godiva, and Mother Mayhem once more, and encounter an enemy capable of infiltrating their dreams. Plus, discover the origins of Nightwing!
• Pennyworth TP
  • Collects Pennyworth #1-7.
  • Release Date: July 26, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Loyal butler to the Wayne family. Surrogate father to Bruce Wayne. Batman’s most trusted ally. Alfred Pennyworth is all of those things, but a top secret, Cold War-era mission left uncompleted during his days as an MI6 counterintelligence agent will drag our present-day butler back into his globe-trotting, espionage-laden past. From the frozen wastes of Russia to the Giza Plateau, from his school plays to his encounter with genetically modified super-soldiers, Pennyworth collects the thrilling tale of adventure that spans Alfred’s most exciting mission of his secret-agent past. 

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• Suicide Squad Vol. 2: Ambushed!
  • Collects Suicide Squad #7-15.
  • Release Date: July 26, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Amanda Waller has sent her newest iteration of the Suicide Squad into war zones, and even outer space—but this group has members that have already come back from the dead, so they’re not intimidated by whatever the Wall throws at them. As members plot against one another, and Rick Flag makes his move to take Waller out, everything comes to a head on Earth-3! 
• Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow TP
  • Collects the entire miniseries Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1-8.
  • Release Date: July 26, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Kara Zor-El can no longer find any meaning or purpose in her life. But all that changes when an alien girl seeks her out to help her take revenge on the bad guys who destroyed her world. Now a Kryptonian, a dog, and an angry, heartbroken child head into space on a journey that will shake them to their very core. It’s Supergirl like you’ve never seen her before in a character-defining sci-fi/fantasy masterpiece! 
• Teen Titans Academy Vol. 1: X Marks The Spot TP
  • Collects Suicide Squad #3, Teen Titans Academy #1-5, Infinite Frontier #0, and Teen Titans Academy 2021 Yearbook #1.
  • Release Date: July 12, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • The original New Teen Titans have reteamed and formed the Titans Academy to teach the next generation of super-powered teens…if the students can survive the training. Nightwing, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Donna Troy are the teachers at the school and will pass along their knowledge to the young recruits looking to learn how to use their powers to reach their full potential. 
• The Animal Man Omnibus (2022 Edition) HC
  • Collects Animal Man #1-26 and a tale from Secret Origins #39.
  • Release Date: August 23, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Offered again! Grant Morrison’s epic run on Animal Man collected in one massive hardcover.
    • Buddy Baker has been experiencing visions of aliens, people transforming into strange pencil-like drawings, and hints of a terrible crisis. As his odyssey of self-discovery gives way to spiritual enlightenment as well as the depths of despair, Buddy meets his maker: a writer named Grant Morrison! 
• The Green Lantern Season Two Vol. 2: Ultrawar TP
  • Collects The Green Lantern Season Two #7-12, along with a sketchbook section. 
  • Release Date: July 19, 2022
  • Solicitation Details:
    • In the lethal aftermath of the war with the Anti-Matter Lanterns, Hal finds himself in a bizarre afterlife facing the judgment of the Young Guardians. Nothing will ever be the same again as the truth about the coming Ultrawar and the Cosmic Grail is finally revealed. What monstrous forces gather in the shadows? What mind-bending and heartrending secrets will surface from this backdrop of cosmic conspiracy and shady interstellar politics? And as the divisiveness spreads from world to world, can love prevail? Hal must prepare himself to face both death and rebirth in hopes of saving the universe…one more time. New York Times bestselling author Grant Morrison and world-renowned artist Liam Sharp’s epic run on the Emerald Knight comes to a close!

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