DC Comics December 2022 Collection Solicitations

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

This month is a little light on collections but many of them are really exciting. The most significant item on the list may be the Absolute Batman: Three Jokers collection, especially considering another upcoming Absolute Edition was recently revealed. In addition to this, the Milestone Compendium Two continues to collect Milestone content, Aquaman: Andromeda presents a unique take on Aquaman, and Monkey Prince Vol. 1: Enter the Monkey starts a new series by Gene Luen Yang.

DC Comics December Spotlight Books

• Absolute Batman: Three Jokers HC
  • Collects Batman: Three Jokers issues #1-3 in the stunning Absolute Edition format.
  • Release Date: May 23, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Batman doesn’t understand how or why, but the fact is certain: the man he has spent a lifetime chasing isn’t one man at all. There are three Jokers. Now that he knows the unbelievable truth, Bruce needs real answers. Joined by Barbara Gordon and Jason Todd, two former victims of The Joker’s brutality, the Dark Knight is finally on a path to defeat the madman once and for all. Every last one of him. Geoff Johns (Doomsday Clock, Batman: Earth One) and Jason Fabok (Justice League: The Darkseid War) reunite to present one of the most overwhelming comics events in years. 
• Milestone Compendium Two TP
  • Collects Blood Syndicate #13-23, Hardware #13-21, Icon #11-21, Shadow Cabinet #1-4, Static #9-20, Superboy #6-7, Superman: The Man of Steel #35-36, Steel #6-7, and Worlds Collide #1.
  • Release Date: January 31, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Worlds collide when the characters of Milestone meet Superman, Superboy, and Steel from the DC Universe! Will their combined efforts be powerful enough to defeat a force that threatens to destroy both of their realities? Find out in Milestone Compendium Two.
• Black Adam – The Justice Society Case Files TP
  • Collects Black Adam – The Justice Society Files: Hawkman #1, Black Adam – The Justice Society Files: Cyclone #1, Black Adam – The Justice Society Files: Atom Smasher #1, and Black Adam – The Justice Society Files: Dr. Fate #1.
  • Release Date: January 23, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Discover the heroes of the Justice Society in these four thrilling adventures. Join Hawkman as he battles a vengeful ghost, Cyclone as she faces monsters and crooked cops on the streets of her hometown, Atom Smasher as he strives to be the hero his uncle knows he could be, and Doctor Fate as he experiences a terrible vision of the future and a demon from his worst nightmare. Four champions with one destiny. Individually they are heroes. Together they will face Black Adam. Plus, delve more into the early days of Teth-Adam and the country of Kahndaq.
• Batman Beyond: Neo-Year TP
  • Collects the six-issue miniseries.
  • Release Date: January 31, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Neo-Gotham is alive and has killed Bruce Wayne. It’s rejected Terry McGinnis as Batman and offered him the chance to escape. Terry turned it down—he is the city’s protector, and he will uphold the legacy of Batman. Now Neo-Gotham will do everything in its power to destroy Terry, including creating brand-new villains to fight him. Terry’s first year without Bruce Wayne begins…does he have a fighting chance? From the rising-star creative team of Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing (Kang the Conqueror) and Max Dunbar (Batman: Urban Legends, Robin), a new future for Batman Beyond has begun!

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• Batman: Urban Legends Vol. 4 TP
  • Collects contents not currently listed. 
  • Release Date: January 17, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • FEAR THE FUTURE, FIND ALLIES IN THE PRESENT! The fourth volume of Batman: Urban Legends is full of serialized stories from the best talents working in comics today. Ram V and Anandrk unravel the mystery of the Wight Witch. Mohale Mashigo and Arist Deyn bring Eternity to Gotham. Che Grayson and Serg Acuña create a brand-new Birds of Prey for a new era. All of that in addition to Batman teaming up with Aquaman, Plastic Man, the Flash, the Question, Black Adam, and…Alfred Pennyworth?
• Aquaman: Andromeda HC
  • Collects the Aquaman: Andromeda series. 
  • Release Date: February 21, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Deep in the Pacific Ocean sits Point Nemo: the spaceship graveyard. Nations of the world have long sent their crafts there on splashdown, to sink beneath the seas. But there is something…else at Point Nemo. A structure never made by human hands. And that structure seems to be…waking up. The crew of the submarine Andromeda have been chosen to investigate, but the mystery at the bottom of the sea has also attracted Black Manta. And anything that attracts Black Manta attracts his lifelong foe, the Aquaman! But heaven help them all when the doors of the mystery at Point Nemo swing wide to admit them in…
• Aquaman: 80 Years of the King of the Seven Seas The Deluxe Edition HC
  • Collects stories from Aquaman #0-37, JLA: Our Worlds at War #1, Aquaman #17, Outsiders: Five of a Kind – Metamorpho/Aquaman #1, Adventure Comics #120-137, 232-266, 269-475, More Fun Comics #73, Aquaman #11-35, 46-62, Aquaman #1; Aquaman #1; Aquaman Special #1 and Aquaman #25.
  • Release Date: February 14, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Celebrate Aquaman’s comic book debut in the pages of More Fun Comics #73 with this deluxe volume of iconic stories selected from eight decades of high-seas adventures. Featuring over 400 pages of classic and modern tales such as “Aquaman Joins the Navy,” “The Legend of Aquaman,” and “The Trench”—plus historical commentary from former Aquaman writers and editors Mark Waid, Paul Kupperberg, Robert Greenberger, and Paul Levitz—this edition is the perfect companion piece to the upcoming motion picture Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom!
• Monkey Prince Vol. 1: Enter the Monkey HC
  • Collects The Monkey Prince #1-6, and a story from DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration.
  • Release Date: January 3, 2023
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Introducing the newest hero in the DCU, the great sage, equal to the heavens, better than his predecessor the legendary Monkey King, even better than the Justice League and definitely the Teen Titans (actually, all the heroes combined), everyone put your hands together for…the Monkey Prince!
    • Marcus Sun moves around a lot because his adoptive parents are freelance henchpeople. This month he finds himself as the new kid at Gotham City High School, where a mysterious man with pig features asks Marcus to walk through a water curtain to reveal himself as who Marcus really is: someone who has adventured through the Journey to the West, can transform into 72 different formations, can clone himself using his hairs, and is called…the Monkey Prince!

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