Pride Month is just around the corner, and DC Comics is teasing a first look at their queer anthology, DC PRIDE 2024 #1. This year’s book is described as “a universe-spanning travelogue like you’ve never seen!”, taking readers to varied DC locales like The Phantom Zone, The Oblivian Bar, Portworld, and more.
The 104-page Prestige format comic, which drops May 28, includes a main cover by Kevin Wada (see below), an open-to-order wraparound variant cover by David Talaski (seen above), foil and card stock variants by Babs Tarr (see below), and Wada’s main cover offered as a 1:25 card stock variant.
![DC Pride 2024 Cover art by Kevin Wada.](https://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/dcpridecover.jpg?w=666&resize=666%2C1029)
![Harlivy variant cover for DC Pride 2024 by Babs Tarr](https://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DC-PRIDE2024_Cv1_OTO_VAR_BT_001311.jpg?w=666&resize=666%2C1025)
The anthology includes a special preview of DC’s upcoming YA original graphic novel The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley written by Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely), with art from Jenn St-Onge (JEM & THE MISFITS) and Jeremy Lawson. The graphic novel hits stores on September 3.
![Preview art from 'The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley'.](https://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/strangecaseofharleenandharley.jpg?w=1200&resize=1280%2C914)
The anthology also features an autobiographical story written by industry legend Phil Jimenez (Wonder Woman), with art from Giulio Macaione (Stella di Mare) and Frank Cvetkovic.
![Art preview from Phil Jimenez's "Spaces" for DC PRIDE 2024, featuring a little boy spinning like Wonder Woman.](https://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/spacesdcpride.jpg?w=1200&resize=1400%2C700)
According to DC’s press release, other stories in the anthology include:
“Dreamer makes a first-time pilgrimage to her ancestral planet, Naltor, in a story by Nicole Maines and Jordan Gibson; Poison Ivy and Janet from HR go spore-hunting on Portworld in a story by Gretchen Felker-Martin and Claire Roe; Superman (Jon Kent) gets Jay, Bunker, and the Ray together for a boys’ night out in A-Town in a story by Jarrett Williams and D.J. Kirkland; Steel (Natasha Irons) works up the courage to face Traci 13 at the Oblivion Bar’s Pride party for the first time since they broke up in a story by Jamila Rowser and ONeillJones; Aquaman (Jackson Hyde) catches an unexpected ride to the Fourth World just in time for their annual Love Festival in a story by Ngozi Ukazu; Circuit Breaker’s unstable powers fritz him into the Phantom Zone in a story by Calvin Kasulke and Len Gogou; plus a Blue Starman story written by Al Ewing and character pinups, in a volume celebrating how the LGBTQIA+ community is everywhere and belongs anywhere—even the farthest reaches of the known and unknown worlds!”
Other special releases for Pride Month include DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack, which features the return of DC’s first trans superhero, Coagula of Doom Patrol fame. Also available is DC Pride: Uncovered #1, a collection of gorgeous variant covers from past Pride issues and anthologies. Uncovered will feature a main cover by Jen Bartel, with variant covers by Oscar Vega; Luciano Vecchio; Mateus Manhanini; and Jim Lee, Scott Williams, and Tamra Bonvillain. DC Pride: Uncovered #1 will be scripted by DC editor Andrea Shea.
DC PRIDE 2024 hits stores on May 28.
(featured image: DC Comics)