DC announces early reader Superman book

Word Balloons #1237: ‘Death and Sparkles’ creator Rob Justus to pen ‘Superman’s Good Guy Gang’

As someone who became a Superman fan before I even started school, I tend to think there’s no age too young to start with the Man of Steel. 

With a new Superman film set for July 2025, DC will also be reaching out to young Superman fans with an early reader book (ages 5-7) set for July 1, 2025, release. 

Here’s the description of the graphic novel from DC: 

Nine-year-old Clark Kent is pretty super: super fast, super strong, and super cool! But being so super can also be super lonely, until he meets fellow super-powered kids, Kendra Saunders and Guy Gardner a.k.a. Hawkgirl and Green Lantern! Together, they’ll form a club where other supers can be themselves, test their powers, grow together, and maybe earn some good guy points along the way.

The super-powered buddy comedy is from the creator behind “Death and Sparkles,” Rob Justus. It’s the launch title in DC’s early reader books timed to the Superman movie in July 2025.  Future books in the series are slated to include Mr. Terrific, Batman, and Wonder Woman as the Good Guy Gang grows.

“Superman’s Good Guy Gang” is available for preorder.

Looking for something to hold over a young Superman fan that’s available now? 

Brad Meltzer and Chris Eliopoulos, the creators of the “Ordinary People Change the World” books, created a fictional biography of Superman in 2022 to launch the “Stories Change the World” series.

For ages 5-9, “I am Superman” introduces the Man of Steel and his secret identity of Clark Kent, following him from his birth planet Krypton to his adoption and childhood on Earth. According to the publisher, “I am Superman” focuses on the ways Clark Kent was super because of his actions, not just his powers.

Matthew Price, matthew@matthewLprice.com, has written about the comics industry for more than two decades. He is the co-owner of Speeding Bullet Comics in Norman.