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Billions (and billions) of years of DC Comics history - from beginning to end - will be covered in just 120 comic pages this summer in the four-part New History of the DC Universe. Just now at WonderCon 2025, series writer (and former DC editor) Mark Waid made his first public comments about the awe-inspiring (and inspired) task ahead of him and his artistic partners.

Popverse's Jules Chin Greene was on hand at DC Comics' official Superman panel at WonderCon 2025, giving play-by-play for our members as the event went on. At the event, Waid said that the New History of the DC Universe will be a timeline of DC history as if you are a person living inside the DC Universe. Each issue of the extra-sized four-part series will have an inclusive timeline featuring more details not in the comic itself, as well as some additional characters.

Waid says that as a longtime DC fan-turned-editor-turned-writer-but-always-a-fan, DC continuity has a lot of contradictory information, but that he worked closely with DC's editorial team - including DC editor-in-chief Marie Javins who was on hand at the panel - to steer him the right direction.

They managed to “narrow it down to what works,” says Waid. The writer says the guiding principle of the whole story is answering the question 'What are the most important moments in the DC Universe?'.

The New History of the DC Universe #1 (of 4) will launch June 25.

Get ready for what's next with our guide to upcoming comics, how to buy comics at a comic shop, and our guide to Free Comic Book Day 2025.