Marvel and DC’s Editors-in-Chief Hint That New Comics Could Be Coming This Year, Following the Reprints of Past Marvel/DC Crossovers

Marvel and DC are joining forces once again to create a new comic crossover. At ComicsPRO in Glendale, California, DC Editor-In-Chief Marie Javins and Marvel Editor-In-Chief CB Cebulski announced that the two companies will release two one-shot issues—one titled Marvel/DC and the other DC/Marvel. This marks the first time in more than 20 years that the two comic giants have teamed up for a project on the page.

The idea came after a successful reprint of the DC vs. Marvel series in a new omnibus. During the keynote speech, Cebulski said, “We really enjoyed working together.” He added, “This was a really good project to have done, but I think there’s another white whale that we got.”

When Javins teased, “I’m trying to figure out what you could possibly be talking about, the only other white whale I can think…“, Cebulski replied, “Another crossover, a modern crossover, are you up for it?” The pair hinted that the new project could come out as early as later this year or in 2025, though details are still under wraps. They mentioned that the next step is to gather some creators and character ideas.

This new crossover comes on the heels of many past team-ups. The two companies have worked together on projects like the 1996 DC vs. Marvel miniseries and the iconic Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man.

In the early 1980s, regular crossovers were common, and the two houses even joined forces briefly for Amalgam Comics. However, in the early 2000s, Marvel’s leadership preferred each company to stand on its own.

As Marvel Comics VP and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort explained in his Substack newsletter, “Marvel isn’t all that interested in doing a lot of crossovers,” and added, “DC for the last several years has seemed much more open to doing them. But whenever Marvel does participate in one, there tends to be some reason for this internally, some objective that making a crossover helps us to achieve.”

He continued, “But each circumstance is different, so I can’t tell you why we do each and every one, nor which instances came from Marvel reaching out to others and which ones were the result of others reaching out to us.”

Not everyone was a fan of crossovers in the past. Longtime DC Publisher Dan Didio once said, “You’re talking to the one person that stopped every Marvel and DC crossover. I’m going to tell you why I stopped it, and I’m going to say this to everyone. My reason was, when you’re in competition with other places you have to have pride in your own work, and you have to believe in your own material. The only reason I’m crossing over is if I’m having really bad sales or there is a problem with the market. If I have to rely on other companies to prop my characters up, then I’m in bigger trouble than I thought. My second reason was, after that comes out, what do you do next? After you cross that over and you get that big moment, you’re still back in the same place you were beforehand, and now it seems less special, because you just removed so many other things away from it.”

With new leadership at DC and fresh enthusiasm from both sides, it looks like this project was bound to happen.

Both Marvel and DC have also worked with other famous characters over the years, from video game legends to movie icons, but a comic book team-up between these two has always sparked excitement. With several big names expected to work on the project, readers can look forward to a fun, fresh take on the classic rivalry turned team-up.

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