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DC and Marvel have captured the attention of the entire comic book marketplace with their historic return to doing a crossover with each other for the first time in nearly 25 years, and now that Marvel/DC: Deadpool/Batman is a major hit (and DC/Marvel: Batman/Deadpool hasn't even been released yet), the two companies are already announcing their follow-up crossover event.
In March and April 2026, DC and Marvel will be going back to the start of their crossover events, and bringing Superman and Spider-Man back together in two one-shots, one from DC in March (Superman/Spider-Man #1), and one from Marvel in April (Spider-Man/Superman #1).
When did Superman and Spider-Man first team up?
As we noted recently, DC and Marvel actually first sort of crossed over with each other in 1975, when the two companies agreed to jointly produce a Wizard of the Oz special comic book, instead of each releasing competing versions (DC had the license to the movie, while Marvel had the license to the original book by L. Frank Baum). That spirit of cooperation led to their first "true" crossover with each other, 1976's Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle of the Century, which featured a story by Gerry Conway (who had written for both DC and Marvel at the time) and art by Ross Andru (who was then currently the artist on Amazing Spider-Man, and had previously been the artist on Superman a few years earlier).
That comic was a huge success, and so it was followed up in 1981's Superman and Spider-Man (also known as Marvel Treasury Edition #28), by co-writers Jim Shooter and Marv Wolfman (both longtime writers at both DC and Marvel) and art by John Buscema (then Marvel's top artist, and also the guy who drew the aforementioned Wizard of Oz one-shot).
How else is DC and Marvel celebrating these new team-ups?
In January, DC will be releasing a facsimile edition of Treasury Edition 50th Anniversary of Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man #1. That will be released on January 7th, 2026.
A month later, DC and Marvel Present: Superman and Spider-Man Treasury Edition #1 will be released on February 4th. These are both oversized comic books, and have long been out of print (outside the recent DC/Marvel omnibus), so this is a major chance for comic book fans to collect a piece of DC and Marvel history.
That, then, will set the stage for the NEW editions of Superman and Spider-Man's comic book team-ups in March and April. The details of who the creators will be on the two different projects, whether the one-shots will also include back-up team-ups like Deadpool/Batman, and what the variant covers will look like, will be announced in the coming months from DC and Marvel, respectively.
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