Wednesday Comics
Wednesday Comics was a weekly anthology comic book launched by DC Comics on July 8, 2009. The twelve issues of the title were published in 14" x 20" broadsheet format, deliberately similar to Sunday newspaper comics sections. Each edition featured 15 pages, each from a different story by a different creative team.
Wednesday Comics
- Date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Wednesday Comics was published by DC Comics.
- Language
- English
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Wednesday Comics was a weekly anthology comic book launched by DC Comics on July 8, 2009. The twelve issues of the title were published in 14" x 20" broadsheet format, deliberately similar to Sunday newspaper comics sections. Each edition featured 15 pages, each from a different story by a different creative team.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Wednesday Comics. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q7979235 · wikipedia · Wednesday Comics
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Schedule — Weekly • Limited — y • Superhero — y • Publisher — DC Comics • Startmo — July • Startyr — 2009 • Issues — 12 • Editors — Mark Chiarello • Tpb — Hardcover • Isbn — 1-4012-2747-3 • Subcat — DC Comics • Sort — Wednesday Comics
Publication history
Publication history
Spearheaded by DCU Editorial Art Director Mark Chiarello, creators were approached and asked to develop stories for the characters they would most like to write. Each issue was 16 pages, with each story taking up one full page when folded out. The first Superman story was printed in USA Today and subsequent installments were posted online at the USA Today website.
Stories
Stories
Each issue printed the strips in the following sequence: • Batman – story by Brian Azzarello with art by Eduardo Risso. Batman becomes entangled in a battle over who should inherit a murdered man's estate. • Kamandi – story by Dave Gibbons with art by Ryan Sook. Kamandi rides to the City of the Apes in an attempt to aid the Tiger Army. • Superman – story by John Arcudi with art by Lee Bermejo. An alien attack provokes feelings of unease within the Man of Steel. • Deadman – story by Dave Bullock/Vinton Heuck with art by Dave Bullock. While attempting to stop a serial killer, Deadman is pulled into a mystical demonic dimension where he is still alive. • Green Lantern – story by Kurt Busiek with art by Joe Quiñones. Hal must help an astronaut and former friend who has been transformed into an alien monster. • Metamorpho – story by Neil Gaiman with art by Mike Allred. Metamorpho accompanies Simon Stagg to an expedition for a rare diamond in a lost temple in Antarctica. • Teen Titans – story by Eddie Berganza with art by Sean Galloway. The Titans face a dangerous enemy, Trident, hell-bent on destroying the team. • Strange Adventures – story and art by Paul Pope and José Villarrubia. The warlord Lord Korgo besieges the city of Ranagar intent on acquiring the secret of Adam Strange's zeta beams. • Supergirl – story by Jimmy Palmiotti with art by Amanda Conner. The Girl of Steel has trouble looking after the irrationally behaving Superpets Streaky and Krypto. • Metal Men – story by Dan DiDio with art by José Luis García-López and Kevin Nowlan. The Metal Men foil a bank robbery only to discover a more sinister motivation behind it. • Wonder Woman – story and art by Ben Caldwell. • Sgt. Rock – story by Adam Kubert with art by Joe Kubert Rock is captured by Nazis and tortured into giving up the whereabouts of the Easy Company. • The Flash – story by Karl Kerschl and Brenden Fletcher with art by Karl Kerschl. Using his superspeed while attempting to foil Gorilla Grodd's plans, the Flash finds himself dealing with a multitude of problems - Iris West's estrangement from him not being the least of them. • The Demon and Catwoman – story by Walt Simonson with art by Brian Stelfreeze. Catwoman is hired to steal an artifact from Jason Blood, not knowing that it is all a ploy of Morgaine le Fey to regain her youth. • Hawkman – story and art by Kyle Baker. Katar Hol fights off airplane hijackers who are really aliens and ends up landing on Dinosaur Island.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
- United States
Named but not plotted · 1
Wednesday Comics is associated with United States.
Country
Collected editions
The series has been collected into an individual volume: • Wednesday Comics (200 pages, DC Comics, June 2010; Titan Books, July 2010) The collected edition contains two stories not printed in the monthly released newsprint: • Plastic Man – story by Evan Dorkin with art by Stephen DeStefano. Plastic Man and Woozy battle Professor Grushenko at the museum over a magic elixir with resultant hijinks. • Beware the Creeper – story by Keith Giffen with art by Eric Canete. A man in squalor disposes of a dead body, but is met with a surprise.
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Wednesday Comics”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q7979235: Wednesday Comics
General reference · Wikidata
Awards
Wednesday Comics won the 2010 Harvey Award in the category Best Anthology.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Wednesday Comics #1. DC Comics.com.
- 2.Sunday Comics on Wednesday? DC's New 'Wednesday Comics'. Newsarama. March 19, 2009.
- 3.Brady, Matt. Creating 'Wednesday Comics' - Talking to Mark Chiarello. Newsarama. March 20, 2009.
- 4.Colton, David. Superman to leap off these pages. USA Today. June 15, 2009.
- 5.Brady, Matt. Heroes Con '09 - 'DC Nation' Panel. Newsarama. June 20, 2009.
- 6.Trecker, Jamie. Wednesday Comics Thursday: Brian Azzarello on Batman. Newsarama. September 3, 2009.
- 7.Renaud, Jeffrey. Wednesday Comics: Brian Azzarello. Comic Book Resources. August 19, 2009.
- 8.Renaud, Jeffrey. Wednesday Comics: Dave Gibbons. Comic Book Resources. August 26, 2009.
- 9.Trecker, Jamie. Wednesday Comics Thursday 4: Ryan Sook Brings Kamandi to Life. Newsarama. August 6, 2009.
- 10.Renaud, Jeffrey. Wednesday Comics: Arcudi & Bermejo. Comic Book Resources. September 16, 2009.
- 11.Renaud, Jeffrey. Wednesday Comics: Ben Caldwell and Dave Bullock & Vinton Heuck. Comic Book Resources. September 10, 2009.
- 12.Renaud, Jeffrey. Wednesday Comics: Kurt Busiek & Eddie Berganza. Comic Book Resources. August 5, 2009.
- 13.Geddes, John. Neil Gaiman on 'Metamorpho' and 'Wednesday Comics'. USA Today. May 25, 2010.
- 14.Minnick, Remy. Gaiman & Allred on Metamorpho. Comic Book Resources. January 30, 2009.
- 15.Renaud, Jeffrey. Wednesday Comics: Mike Allred. Comic Book Resources. July 8, 2009.
- 16.Renaud, Jeffrey. Wednesday Comics: Paul Pope. Comic Book Resources. September 23, 2009.
- 17.Renaud, Jeffrey. Wednesday Comics: Jimmy Palmiotti. Comic Book Resources. July 15, 2009.
- 18.Trecker, Jamie. Wednesday Comics Thursday: Amanda Conner Brings the Cute. Newsarama. August 20, 2009.
- 19.Renaud, Jeffrey. Dan DiDio Talks Wednesday Comics!. Comic Book Resources. June 18, 2009.
- 20.Renaud, Jeffrey. Wednesday Comics: The Kuberts. Comic Book Resources. July 22, 2009.
- 21.Renaud, Jeffrey. Wednesday Comics: Karl Kerschl. Comic Book Resources. July 29, 2009.
- 22.Trecker, Jamie. Wednesday Comics Thursday #5: Kerschl and the Flash. Newsarama. September 2, 2009.
- 23.Renaud, Jeffrey. Wednesday Comics: Walt Simonson. Comic Book Resources. September 2, 2009.
- 24.Renaud, Jeffrey. Wednesday Comics: Kyle Baker. Comic Book Resources. August 12, 2009.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Comics and comic art
9,920 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Weapons of the GodsSeries
- Weather WomanSeries
- WeathercraftSeries
- Wedding PeachSeries
- Wee PalsSeries
- Weird FantasySeries
- Weird War TalesSeries
- Weird Western TalesSeries
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a copy of Wednesday Comics?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.