DC Comics Announces Early Reader, Middle Grade Reader, and Young Adult Graphic Novels for 2027
DC Comics has announced its 2027 titles for its Early Reader (ages 5-7), Middle Grade Reader (ages 8-12) and Young Adult Reader (ages 13-27) lines. Early Readers get Supergirl's: Zoo-Per Heroes: Scent of Justice while Middle Grade Readers can enjoy Princess of the DC Universe and Green Lantern: Destiny. Finally, for the Young Adults DC offers up Gotham Academy: First Year and The Manifestations of Bobby Park.
Supergirl's: Zoo-Per Heroes: Scent of Justice is an Early Reader story by Rob Justus that takes place after the events of Supergirl's: Zoo-Per Heroes: Krypto's Big Break. The Zoo-per Heroes have escaped the zoo and zookeeper Cass. "But they know the clock is ticking on their freedom… and Supergirl is counting on their help to track down the rest of the Justice League’s enchanted laundry!
Krypto has a plan to follow the scent of magic down into the stinky underbelly of Metropolis—where every animal for miles knows the best food can be found! And who knows what secrets and mysteries lurk in the dark, as well?" (DC Comics)
Supergirl's: Zoo-Per Heroes: Scent of Justice goes on sale on February 2, 2027.
Princess of the DC Universe is a Middle Grade Reader from Tilly Bridges, Susan Bridges, and Alba Glez starring Wonder Girl and her teen girl superhero squad. Yara Flor isn't sure she's up to the task of leading a superhero squad. Their first meeting is crashed by Princess Maxima who has been swamped with princess duties. "While planning her coming-of-age ceremony, she realizes she’s been so busy she doesn’t have any friends to invite! No matter: by royal decree, Yara Flor, Steel, and Miss Martian legally have to accompany Maxima to her planet! Surely, they’ll become friends during their road trip…through the stars!
But when their ship is stolen, a simple trip turns into an epic adventure! Can they get their ship back, find some socks, help Superman escape a dungeon, rescue an entire planet, and make it back to Maxima’s home world in time for her ceremony?" (DC Comics)
Princess of the DC Universe goes on sale on March 2, 2027.
Green Lantern: Destiny, from Minh Lê and Andie Tong, concludes the story of Tai Pham from Middle Grade Readers Green Lantern: Legacy and Green Lantern: Alliance. Tai continues his training under John Stewart, but "Tai knows Xander Griffin was just a distraction from Sinestro’s more nefarious plans. And while the Yellow Lantern leader’s imminent arrival has the Justice League concerned, Tai can’t seem to convince them of just how helpful he could be in stopping Sinestro from taking over Earth—Tai is just a kid, after all. If only he could help prepare for what’s coming!" (DC Comics)
Green Lantern: Destiny goes on sale on April 6, 2026.
Gotham Academy: First Year is a Young Adult Graphic Novel from Brenden Fletcher, Karl Kershl, Becky Cloonan, and Marco Ferrari that serves a a prequel to Gotham Academy. "Olive Silverlock has a problem, and it is shaped like Gotham’s favorite hero: Batman. He “saved” her when her mom lost control, got Commissioner Gordon to pawn her off on Bruce Wayne, who promptly shuffled her off to Gotham Academy. Boarding school. With a bunch of awful rich kids! As if she wasn’t traumatized enough already!
How will Olive navigate her trauma as a new student? Who will she share her first kiss with? And…why are the existing fans talking so much about maps?" (DC Comics)
Gotham Academy: First Year goes on sale on March 2, 2027.
The Manifestations of Bobby Park is a Young Adult Graphic Novel from Jeremy Holt and Chong Hou that will introduce a new teen hero to the DC Comics Universe. "Sixteen-year-old Bobby Park is a devoted son, helping at his immigrant parents’ laundromat business in Central City’s Koreatown. Despite their modest income, Bobby’s genius-level aptitude for science and biology earns him a full scholarship to an elite academy, but after a racially charged attack puts his father in the hospital, his stress and anxiety manifest as painful acne that detracts from all his joy and pride. Frustrated by failed attempts to clear up his skin and tired of dissociating to tolerate his life, he takes matters into his own hands, concocting his own cure using the academy’s state-of-the-art facilities.
The trial serum is an instant success but comes at a great cost. Beyond his newly acne-free face, Bobby sees the reflection, and hears the voice, of an alter ego named Atlas Ahn; a muscled extrovert with catalog-model features—the exact opposite of how Bobby sees himself. And when an attack at the academy leaves Bobby critically wounded, Atlas convinces him to take his hand, which unwittingly unleashes a hulking monster known as Gemini." (DC Comics)
The Manifestations of Bobby Park goes on sale on April 6, 2027.
(Images via DC Comics - Cover of Supergirl's: Zoo-Per Heroes: Scent of Justice, Princess of the DC Universe, Green Lantern: Destiny, Gotham Academy: First Year, and The Manifestations of Bobby Park)
1 July 2011 | Princess Máxima and Prince Willem Alexander attend a reception after the civil ceremony of the Royal Wedding of Prince Albert II of Monaco to Charlene Wittstock at the Prince's Palace of Monaco Monte Carlo, Monaco.
The Prince of Orange, Princess Maxima, Princess Catharina-Amalia and Princess Alexia of the Netherlands during The Dutch Royal Family's Ski Holiday in Lech, Austria | February 11, 2007
