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This year’s anthology effort for Black History Month isn’t a one-off for DC: not only will DC Power: Rise of the Power Company tie into the storyline of the current Black Lightning comic book series, but it’ll lead into an all-new DC All In title to debut this April, reviving a superhero team that hasn’t headlined its own comic book in two decades.

This year’s DC Power special — the third such anthology, following 2023’s DC Power: A Celebration and last year’s DC Power 2024 — spins out of the third issue of Black Lightning, which makes its way into stores January 15. That issue, by Brandon Thomas, Fico Ossio and Ulises Arreola, reintroduces Josiah Power to the DC Universe. As the name might suggest, Power was the founder of the Power Company, a DC super-team that debuted back in 2002 and headlined an eponymous series from April 2002 through September 2003.

The DC Power: Rise of the Power Company anthology sees creators including Thomas, Zipporah Smith, John Jennings, Vita Ayala, Ray-Anthony Height, Caanan White, Kelsey Ramsay and Charles Stewart III team a number of mainstream characters — including Green Lantern, Cyborg, Batman, and Vixen — with lesser-known faces including the Signal and Bolt in a round-robin tour of the current All In DCU, laying the groundwork for April’s newly announced The Power Company: Recharged.

That April one-shot comes from Ultimate Black Panther writer Bryan Edward Hill and artists Khary Randolph and Alitha Martinez, as they bring together a new generation of the Power Company — one that includes Vixen, the Jace Fox Batman, and Black Lightning — to stop a serial-killer targeting superpowered individuals in Atlanta. The issue will come with covers from Edwin Salmon, Ryan Benjamin, Sanford Greene, and Paris Alleyne. Take a look at the covers in the gallery below.

DC Power: Rise of the Power Company will be released January 29, ahead of February’s Black History Month. (Covers come from Khary Randolph, Alitha Martinez, Davi Go, and Valentine De Landro; you can see them in the gallery below.) The Power Company: Recharged will be released April 30.

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