DC Comics Extends POISON IVY From Limited Series To Ongoing Starting This June

By Chad Burdette

on February 11, 2023

Pamela Isley’s solo comic book journey, which kicked off in June of 2022 as part of DC’s annual Pride celebration, has grown beyond her original plan as today the publisher announced that the Poison Ivy mini-series originally planned to be six issues then expanded into a second six-issue arc in December 2022, will continue as an ongoing comic book series beginning in June 2023 with Poison Ivy #13!

The first story arc focusing on “an Ivy who is both a giver of mercy and merciless, who is beautiful and deadly, broken and fierce” and with psychedelic art and a host of new characters and ethical quandaries that brought Ivy up to the edge of horror from issue to issue will be collected in Poison Ivy Vol. 1: The Virtuous Cycle, collecting Poison Ivy #1-6 in a gorgeous hardcover book, arrives on May 16, 2023, wherever books are sold.

Poison Ivy’s second story arc kicked off with two issues of interior art by Atagun Ilhan, a graduate of DC’s Milestone Initiative, who brought both a haunting, evocative vision to Ivy’s newest adventure, with impressive shadow work and explosive action scenes and delivered emotional eco-horror energy while building off what came before to enter a new phase for the green-loving villain, saw series regular artist Takara return to interior art in February’s Poison Ivy #9, available now wherever comics are sold.

Comic Watch Review: Poison Ivy #9: Happy Valentine’s Gay

Coming this summer:

POISON IVY #12

Ivy and Janet’s celebrity wellness excursion comes to a horrifically tantalizing close as Pamela Isley faces the unintended fruits of her murderous road trip. Will she make it back home to Harley in one piece or is Ivy going to be added to GLØP’s body count?

Written by G. WILLOW WILSON
Art by MARCIO TAKARA
Cover by JESSICA FONG
Variant cover by JENNY FRISON

Variant cover by XERMÁNICO

1:25 variant cover by MATEUS MANHANINI
1:50 foil variant cover by JENNY FRISON
Cover Price/Page Count: $3.99 Variant $4.99 (card stock)| 32 pages |
On Sale: May 2, 2023

When Poison Ivy #13 publishes in June 2023, and the hit DC title becomes an ongoing comic book series, Pamela Isley returns back to Gotham City!

Poison Ivy #13 will have a DC Pride variant cover by Claire Roe along with main cover by Fong and variants by Kai Carpenter, Frank Cho and Mindy Lee.

POISON IVY #13

There sure is nothing quite like a romantic night with your sweetie in the swamp to make your mouth water. It’s the dawn of a new day as Pamela Isley makes her return to Harley and Gotham City with a lovestruck Janet-from-HR in tow.

The tension’s so thick you could cut it with a fan boat’s propeller!