The Squid

The Squid is one of the bizarre superhero identities accessed through the mysterious dial in DC's Dial H, a New 52 series known for its surreal, inventive heroic forms. The character represents the unpredictable, strange personas the dial conjures for its user.

Born from the darkly inventive imagination of novelist China Miéville and artist Mateus Santolouco, The Squid splashed onto the Modern Age DC scene in the pages of Dial H #1 in 2012 — one of the New 52's most gloriously weird corners of the universe. With only a handful of appearances to their name, The Squid is a rare and curious creature, the kind of offbeat character that makes Dial H collectors dig deep into back-issue bins. Sharing those strange, imaginative pages with figures like Roxie Hodder, Manteau, and Nelson Jent, The Squid is a testament to what happens when literary ambition meets superhero comics at their most wonderfully strange.