DC Comics pulls Batman Day Sampler over inclusion of Red Hood. Marvel’s Age of Revelation event is ending two months earlier than expected. Diamond has successfully sued new owners Sparkle Pop.
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DC Comics pulls Batman Day Sampler.
Marvel’s Age of Revelation ends early?
Diamond beats Sparkle Pop!
This is Comic Book Club News for September 15, 2025.
DC Comics Pulls Batman Day Sampler Over Red Hood Inclusion:
The fallout from the sudden cancellation of DC Comics’ Red Hood continues, as the publisher is now pulling an upcoming Batman Day Sampler, as well.
As reported by Bleeding Cool, the annual celebration of the first publication of Batman is being held on September 20, and was supposed to include the free for fans — but not for comic book shops — Batman Gotham Sampler. The preview issue included excerpts from the new Batman #1, Red Hood #1, and more.
However, DC is instead requesting that “retailers do not hand out the BATMAN GOTHAM SAMPLER on Batman Day 2025.” Instead, DC will credit retailers for all invoiced copies, and all reorders have been canceled, as well.
If you missed the initial story, the extremely short version here is that Red Hood was canceled on Wednesday, September 10, after writer Gretchen Felker-Martin made comments online about the death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. A feature in The Comics Journal, which included an interview with Felker-Martin, clarified what Comic Book Club had heard: that the cancellation was due to multiple violations of DC’s social media policy, with the Kirk posts being the last straw. Felker-Martin, for her part, blamed the posts on “poor impulse control” but “had no regrets.”
DC earlier requested that Red Hood #1 no longer be sold, canceled orders for upcoming issues, and the initial issue has been pulled from digital retailers, as well.
Marvel’s Age Of Revelation Event Ending Two Months Earlier Than Expected:
Marvel’s X-Men-focused Age of Revelation event is ending earlier than expected. While Marvel didn’t announce anything in particular in advance about when Age of Revelation would end, and editor Tom Brevoort has been pretty cagey about how long the event would run in interviews, an interview with writer Gail Simone pegged the Age of Apocalypse homage as running five months, through next February. Well, it’ll actually run three months and end on December 31, with X-Men: Age of Revelation Finale #1.
So, what happened here? Did Marvel abruptly change course from five months to three months? Is this the end of the X-Men??? Ummm… No. Instead, alongside the December solicits for X-Men titles, Marvel teases that after Age of Revelation is done, shocker of shockers, there will be fallout throughout the line. Specifically, once the titles return to the present — Age of Revelation is set 10 years in the future of the current Marvel Universe — there will be “exciting new solo titles, returning X-Men titles, and more!”
While the main event and the line being supplanted will last three months, it’s likely that we’ll get a month or two of Age of Revelation — Aftermath! or whatever in January and February. We’ll hear more during next month’s New York Comic Con.
Diamond Successfully Sues Sparkle Pop:
Forget Marvel vs. DC, the only titanic clash of titans we care about is the zombie remains of Diamond Comics Distributors versus Sparkle Pop, the new owners of Diamond. And this past week, the old Diamond successfully sued the new Diamond.
Specifically, per The Beat, Diamond successfully stopped Sparkle Pop from selling consignment inventory, which means comics and graphic novels held over from publishers. However, the court seems to be holding the money Sparkle Pop made from selling said inventory, which amounts to approximately $1.4 million.
While that fight seems to have ended in a bit of a weird stalemate, the bigger fight is coming on September 30, when individual publishers will each go up against old Diamond, DC K.O. style, to determine whether they can get their inventory back — or Diamond can go ahead and sell it, and keep the money.
More on this as it develops.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And look, as long as we find out Revelation’s age, I’ll be happy.
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