Everything You Need To Know About Marvel And DC Comics’ Pride 2025 Specials

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June is Pride Month, a month that celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community. Marvel and DC Comics will join the celebrations by publishing 2025 editions of their long-running Pride specials. Each one focuses on stories of LGBTQIA+ heroes by LGBTQIA+ creators, highlighting the importance of the surrounding community.

Read on to find out more about these specials and what else Marvel and DC have planned to celebrate Pride Month.

DC Pride 2025

Written by Vita Ayala, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Maya Houston, Sam Maggs, Tim Sheridan, Josh Trujillo, and Jenny Blake. Art by Don Aguillo, Vincent Cecil, Derek Charm, A.L. Kpalan, Giulio Macaione, Alex Moore, Skylar Partridge, Emilio Pilliu, Max Sarin, Phillip Sevy, and Sara Soler. Coloured by Don Aguillo, Eren Angiolini, Jordie Bellaire, Vincent Cecil, Derek Charm, Triona Farrell, A.L. Kaplan, Marissa Louise, Guilio Macaione, an Alex Moore. Lettered by Aditya Bidikar, Frank Cvetkovic, Luca Gattoni, Ariana Maher, Morgan Martinez, and Jodie Troutman.

DC Pride is back for its fifth year in a row. This 96-page Prestige format anthology features a mix of popular and fan-favourite LGBTQIA+ heroes.

DC Comics is mixing it up this time by transforming the short stories into a single interweaving narrative called “The Heart Wants“. Characters will come together when a century-old tavern, which has been the centre of queer life in Gotham City, announces its closure. The news brings generations of patrons looking to pay their respects. But in doing so, heroes and civilians alike are whisked away to a strange alternate dimension that offers them everything they want but at a cost.

Stories interwoven into The Heart Wants include:

An Alan Scott (Green Lantern) framing story by Tim Sheridan, Emilio Pilliu, and Giulio Macaione
A Jo Mullein story by Vita Ayala, Maya Houston, and Vincent Cecil
A story featuring new character Ethan Rivera by Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Josh Trujillo, and A.L. Kaplan
A Conor Hawk story by Samm Magg and Phillip Sevy
A Bunker story by Josh Trujillo and Don Aguillo
A Harley Quinn story by Maya Houston and Max Sarin
A Blue Snowman story by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Alex Moore
A Renee Montoya (The Question) story by Vita Ayala and Skylar Patridge
And a Midnighter and Apollo story by Sam Maggs and Derek Charm

Additionally, DC Pride 2025 will include the autobiographical Master Planner by Jenny Blake, artist Sara Soler, and letterer Jodie Troutman. The story is a personal tale about Blake’s experience with coming out as transgender.

DC Pride 2025 will be rounded out with a handful of letters, cosplay, and fan art to recognise the impact that comics have made on the LGBTQIA+ identity, journey, or experience.

DC Pride 2025 will be published on 4th June, 2025.

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Marvel United: A Pride Special

Written by Al Ewing, Anthony Oliveira, Wyatt Kennedy, Zoe Tunnel, and others. Art by Kei Zama, Pablo Collar, Bayleigh Underwood, Federica Mancin, and others.

Marvel’s Pride special is back for 2025. This oversized anthology contains stories focusing on LGBTQIA+ characters by creators from the community, interviews, and essays.

This year’s theme is standing up against bigotry and will feature the following stories:

An Aaron Fischer (Captain America of the Railways) by Al Ewing and Kei Zama that see’s the hero face Hate-Monger.
An Arnie Roth story by Anthony Oliveira and Pablo Collar.
A Mystique and Destiny by Wyatt Kennedy and Bayleigh Underwood that follows up on their wedding from last year’s Pride special.
A Black Cat story by Zoe Tunnel and Federica Mancin.

Marvel has hinted that there are additional stories announced at a later date.

Marvel United: A Pride Special will be published on 4th June, 2025.

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What else are Marvel and DC doing for Pride Month?

The specials are not the only thing Marvel and DC Comics will do for Pride Month.

Both publishers will release Pride-themed variant covers. (See Marvel’s here and DC Comics’ here). These will be released throughout June.

DC Comics brings back their previous year’s DC Pride specials in new formats. It includes the 2024 special in a new special hardcover. Titled “DC Pride: To the Farthest Reaches“, this hardcover features the stories from last year’s anthology plus a special preview of The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley. It will be made available exclusively in the bookstore market on 27th May. The first three Pride specials will also be available in a hardcover boxed set.

Finally, DC Comics will publish previous DC Pride stories as part of their DC Go! webcomics. The publisher will take stories from the first four Pride specials and reformat them for vertical scrolling. These will be released on Monday through Friday in June.