DC is rolling out an ambitious publishing initiative tied to the upcoming Supergirl film, which comes out June 26, and the comics line supporting it spans multiple formats and creative teams.
Just like we saw with Superman last year, DC has declared this summer the “Summer of Supergirl,” which will kick off with the previously announced Supergirl: The World anthology on June 2. June will also bring:
- Summer of Supergirl Special #1, an anthology one-shot
- Supergirl: Survive #1, an Elseworlds tale
- Facsimile editions of Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #23 and Lobo #1
- An oversized artbook DC W.I.P.: Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1
- Variant covers across many of DC’s June titles
- And of course, the regular Supergirl monthly title by Sophie Campball.
You can find more details on each of them below.
Arriving June 24 is Summer of Supergirl Special #1, a 48-page anthology one-shot bringing together three creative teams to celebrate Kara Zor-El’s legacy. The lead story by Campbell and Belén Ortega pits Supergirl against intergalactic bounty hunter Lobo in the quiet town of Midvale. Two backup stories round out the issue — one by Mark Waid and Cian Tormey, and another by Gail Simone and Emma Kubert — each honoring Supergirl’s place in the DC Universe.
The main cover is illustrated by Ortega, with variant covers by Tula Lotay and Pablo Villalobos, plus a Supergirl movie variant cover by Mahmud Asrar.
Supergirl: Survive, a new DC Elseworlds series written by Ethan S. Parker and Griffin Sheridan, with art and covers by Rod Reis. The series reimagines Kara Zor-El’s origin as a harrowing survival story, with teenage Kara and infant Kal-El launched into a hostile universe together as Krypton burns around them, trapped in a prototype rocket in a cosmos that doesn’t care whether they make it.
The variants for the first issue are by Taurin Clarke and Guillem March. It arrives June 3.
The anchor of the line-up is Sophie Campbell’s ongoing Supergirl series, which continues in June with issue #14. The story finds Black Flame consolidating power in the bottled city of Kandor while Lena Luthor races to locate Kara before it’s too late, with the secrets of the S-Matrix at the center of the conflict. Campbell handles both writing and art duties on the series, which has been one of DC’s most visually distinctive ongoing titles (It was one of my top favorites of 2025).
Supergirl #14 arrives June 10, with a cover by Campbell and variants by Terry Dodson, Chrissie Zullo-Uminga, a movie variant by Jim Lee and Bruno Redondo.
Rounding out the June titles are facsimile editions of Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #23 and Lobo #1, an oversized artbook in DC W.I.P.: Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1, and Supergirl-themed variant covers across DC’s line — including movie variants by Mahmud Asrar on the Summer of Supergirl Special and Jim Lee on Supergirl #14. DC hasn’t revealed many of those yet, beyond what I posted above, but here is Dan Mora’s variant for Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #52:
