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Four years after the line was shuttered, DC has announced the return of iconic imprint DC Vertigo at New York Comic Con 2024 — with a twist.

DC Vertigo — originally titled, simply, Vertigo; the rebrand came in 2018, two years before the line was discontinued in January 2020 — originally launched in 1993 as an outgrowth of editor Karen Berger’s successful line of mature readers titles, including The Sandman, Doom Patrol, Swamp Thing, and Shade, The Changing Man. The line was intended to mix new takes on existing DC characters and concepts with all-new series created and owned by some of comics’ most exciting talents; as such, the debut line-up combined two Sandman spin-offs (including Death: The High Cost of Living, written by Neil Gaiman) with all-new creator-owned titles including Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo’s acclaimed Enigma and Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s steampunk fantasy Sebastian O.

Throughout its initial run, DC Vertigo published some of the defining titles of its time, including Preacher, 100 Bullets, and Y: The Last Man — each one owned or co-owned by the talents responsible for their creation. The new incarnation of DC Vertigo is leaning into this particular legacy: while DC Black Label has become the home for mature readers takes on DC’s intellectual property in the past five years, DC Vertigo will be the home for a new wave of creator-owned stories aimed at the more discerning reader.

The first title in the new DC Vertigo era is a title that DC has already been publishing, as James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno’s The Nice House By The Sea officially gains the DC Vertigo branding for future issues. Attendees to the Jim Lee & Friends panel at New York Comic Con 2024, where the DC Vertigo revival was announced, were the first people to get to see the results for themselves, with a special limited edition DC Vertigo edition of The Nice House By The Sea #1 being given away at the end of the panel.

Watch for more DC Vertigo announcements in the coming weeks and months from DC.

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