Illustrator Scott Koblish drew four variant covers for The New History of the DC Universe (2025). This one below, for the first issue, is astonishing for its rigor and obscurities. It includes characters from the Golden Age of DC Comics publishing, as well as Quality and Fawcett Comics (plus Blue Beetle).
In this promotional preview, a few characters are cut off on the right, but images from Koblish's Instagram show them in full. Here is the full image:
Here are the breakdowns:
- Psycho-Pirate is in his Silver Age costume (1965), a totally different person, even.
- Ivanhoe and the Three Musketeers starred in features based closely on their historical originals.
- In the original version, Catwoman appears twice — also as "the Cat." But before print, the decision was made to change the Cat to Betty Bates, Lady at Law (Quality)
- Red Logan appeared with this exact coloring, though his usual coloring was more ordinary.
- Note: The Magno depicted in the promo image is not that from Quality Comics, rather from Ace Comics' Super-Mystery Comics, not the one from Quality. It was corrected before print.
- Many have noted the absence of Speedy, but he was reserved for the cover of issue #2.
- Ibis (Fawcett) is cropped off at the right, but DC's Lando had similar coloring.