Find Out All About Marvel And DC’s 2024 Pride Specials

Marvel and DC are celebrating Pride Month again this year. Both publishers have released Pride-themed anthologies over the past few years celebrating LGBTQIA+ characters and creators. This year they’ll be doing it again. DC Comics will publish the 2024 edition DC Pride anthology, featuring several queer characters for their deep catalogue. On the other hand, Marvel will mix things up with a big X-Men wedding.

Read on to discover what Marvel and DC have planned for Pride Month in 2024. This includes breaking down the characters involved, story details, and the additional plans that the publishers have to celebrate Pride Month.

DC Pride 2024

The multi-ward-winning DC Pride anthology is back for another year. In the 2024 edition there are nine new stories you enjoy, featuring a mix of popular and cult-favourite characters, over 104 pages.

DC Pride 2024 will also include pin-up art by Robin “Zombie” Higginbottom, Chloe Brailsford, Ego Rodriguez, Helen Mask, Valentine Smith, and Bailie Rosenlund.

DC Pride 2024 stories

Find below details on all the stories featured in DC Pride 2024.

Hello, Spaceboy
Written by Al Ewing. Art by Stephen Byrne. Lettered Aditya Bidikar.
Character featured: Starman

The Rivers And The Lakes That You’re Used To
Written and art by Ngozi Ukazu. Lettered by Lucas Gatton.
Character featured: Kaldur (Aqualad)

Maramus
Written by Gretchen Felker-Martin. Art by Claire Roe. Coloured by Triona Farrell. Lettered Aditya Bidikar.
Character featured: Poison Ivy

Steeling Time
Written by Jamila Rowser. Art by Oneilljones. Lettered by Jodie Troutman.
Character featured: Natasha Irons

Bros Down In A-Town
Written by Jarrett Williams. Art by D.J Kirkland. Art by Lucas Gatton.
Character featured: Jon Kent

Lessons In Astral Projection
Written Nicole Maines. Art by Jordan Gibson. Lettered by Ariana Maher.
Character featured: Dreamer

Phantom Rodeo
Written by Calvin Kasulke. Art by Lem Gogou. Coloured by Marissa Louise. Lettered by Morgan Martinez and AndWorld Design.
Character featured: Circuit Breaker

The Strange Case of Harleen And Harley
Written Melissa Marr. Art by Jenn St-Onge. Coloured by Jeremy Lawson. Art by Lucas Gattoni.
Character featured: Harley Quinn

Space
Written by Phil Jimenez. Art by Giulio Macaone. Lettered by Frank Cvetkovic.
Note: Space is an autobiographical story by Phil Jimenez that talks about the stories that shaped him.

DC Pride 2024 will be published on 29th May.

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X-Men: The Wedding Special #1

Written By Kieron Gillen, Tini Howard, Yoon Ha Lee, Tate Brombal, and Wyatt Kennedy. Art By Rachael Stott, Phil Sevy, Stephen Byrne, Emilio Pilliu, and Jenn St. Onge.

Marvel has published Pride anthologies similar to DC’s offering in previous years. This year they’re mixing things up with a wedding instead. X-Men: The Wedding Special highlights the wedding between Mystique and Destiny.

The mutant pair have been a couple for more than 100 years. While they refer to each other as “wife”, readers have never seen their wedding – until now. This Pride-themed one-shot explores the never-before-seen wedding.

While this isn’t the first same-sex marriage in Marvel’s publication history, Astonishing X-Men #51 from 2012 comes to mind. However, this special is the publisher’s first marriage between two women.

X-Men: The Wedding Special #1 will be published on 29th May.

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What else are Marvel and DC doing for Pride Month?

The Pride Month specials are not the only things Marvel and DC are doing to celebrate. Both publishers will release character-centric Pride variant covers. You can see all of the DC Comics ones here and Marvel’s covers for their superhero and Star Wars comics too.

Beyond variant covers, DC will be releasing some Pride-centric books as well.

On 6th June, the publisher will publish DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack. This 96-page one-shot honours the memory of Rachel Pollack, a prominent transgender writer from the 1990s – best known for following Grant Morrison’s legendary run on Doom Patrol – who passed away in 2023. The collection will include Doom Patrol #70, written by Pollack, which introduced DC Comics’ first transgender superhero, Coagula; the previously unavailable Vertigo Visions: The Geek, with art by Mike Allred; and a new Coagula story written by Joe Corallo and art by Rye Hickman.

DC Comics will also publish DC Pride: Uncovered #1 on 11th June. This art book collects Pride-themed covers that the publisher has previously published. This fantastic collection will include contributions from Jen Bartel, Phil Jimenez, Jim Lee, Joshua “Sway” Swaby, David Talaski, Babs Tarr, Kris Anka, and others.

DC also understands that Pride doesn’t have to only be celebrated in June. Last month they published Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story written by Nicole Maines, drawn by Rye Hickman, coloured by Bex Glendining, and lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. This YA graphic novel tells the untold origin story of Dreamer, the first trans superhero to appear on TV.

The publisher will also release The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley on 3rd September. A preview of this YA graphic novel will be included in DC Pride 2024.

Where can I find these Pride Comics?

All of the above mentioned Pride comics and graphic novels can be found at all good comic book shops, online retailers, eBay, and Amazon/Kindle.

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