Wednesday Comics was a weeklyanthology comic book launched byDC Comics on July 8, 2009.^[1] The twelve issues of the title were published in 14" x 20"broadsheet format,^[2] deliberately similar to Sundaynewspaper comics sections. Each edition featured 15 pages, each from a different story by a different creative team.

Wednesday Comics
Cover forWednesday Comics #1.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Weekly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	July 2009
No. of issues	12
Editor(s)	Mark Chiarello
Collected editions
Hardcover	ISBN 1-4012-2747-3

Spearheaded by DCU Editorial Art DirectorMark Chiarello,^[3] creators were approached and asked to develop stories for the characters they would most like to write. Each issue was 16 pages, with each story taking up one full page when folded out.

The first Superman story was printed inUSA Today^[4] and subsequent installments were posted online at the USA Today website.^[5]

Each issue printed the strips in the following sequence:

• Batman – story byBrian Azzarello^[6][7] with art byEduardo Risso. Batman becomes entangled in a battle over who should inherit a murdered man's estate.
• Kamandi – story byDave Gibbons^[8] with art byRyan Sook.^[9] Kamandi rides to the City of the Apes in an attempt to aid the Tiger Army.
• Superman – story byJohn Arcudi with art byLee Bermejo.^[10] An alien attack provokes feelings of unease within the Man of Steel.
• Deadman – story by Dave Bullock/Vinton Heuck with art by Dave Bullock.^[11] While attempting to stop a serial killer, Deadman is pulled into a mystical demonic dimension where he is still alive.
• Green Lantern – story byKurt Busiek^[12] with art by Joe Quiñones. Hal must help an astronaut and former friend who has been transformed into an alien monster.
• Metamorpho – story byNeil Gaiman^[13] with art byMike Allred.^[14][15] Metamorpho accompaniesSimon Stagg to an expedition for a rare diamond in a lost temple in Antarctica.
• Teen Titans – story byEddie Berganza with art by Sean Galloway. The Titans face a dangerous enemy,Trident, hell-bent on destroying the team.
• Strange Adventures – story and art byPaul Pope^[16] andJosé Villarrubia. The warlord Lord Korgo besieges the city of Ranagar intent on acquiring the secret ofAdam Strange's zeta beams.
• Supergirl – story byJimmy Palmiotti^[17] with art byAmanda Conner.^[18] The Girl of Steel has trouble looking after the irrationally behaving SuperpetsStreaky andKrypto.
• Metal Men – story byDan DiDio^[19] with art byJosé Luis García-López andKevin Nowlan. The Metal Men foil a bank robbery only to discover a more sinister motivation behind it.
• Wonder Woman – story and art byBen Caldwell.^[11]
• Sgt. Rock – story byAdam Kubert with art byJoe Kubert^[20] Rock is captured by Nazis and tortured into giving up the whereabouts of theEasy Company.
• The Flash – story byKarl Kerschl^[21][22] and Brenden Fletcher with art by Karl Kerschl. Using his superspeed while attempting to foilGorilla Grodd's plans, the Flash finds himself dealing with a multitude of problems -Iris West's estrangement from him not being the least of them.
• The Demon andCatwoman – story byWalt Simonson^[23] with art byBrian Stelfreeze. Catwoman is hired to steal an artifact from Jason Blood, not knowing that it is all a ploy ofMorgaine le Fey to regain her youth.
• Hawkman – story and art byKyle Baker.^[24]Katar Hol fights off airplane hijackers who are really aliens and ends up landing onDinosaur Island.

Wednesday Comics won the 2010Harvey Award in the category Best Anthology.

The series has been collected into anindividual volume:

• Wednesday Comics (200 pages, DC Comics, June 2010,ISBN 1-4012-2747-3;Titan Books, July 2010,ISBN 1-84856-755-3)

The collected edition contains two stories not printed in the monthly released newsprint:

• Plastic Man – story byEvan Dorkin with art byStephen DeStefano. Plastic Man andWoozy battle Professor Grushenko at the museum over a magic elixir with resultant hijinks.
• Beware the Creeper – story byKeith Giffen with art by Eric Canete. A man in squalor disposes of a dead body, but is met with a surprise.