Harley Quinn x Elvira #2

History

The series was officially announced in May 2025 as a joint production of DC Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, and Queen 'B' Productions (the company associated with Elvira actress Cassandra Peterson), making it an unusually three-party licensed co-publication. Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, who launched their landmark Harley Quinn ongoing at DC in November 2013 and guided the character through volumes 2 and 3 into 2018, were recruited to write the full six-issue run — their most extended return to the character since that tenure ended. Interior art duties were assigned to Juan Samu, who had previously drawn Elvira in the Elvira Meets Vincent Price comic for Dynamite, making him a practiced interpreter of the Mistress of the Dark; Conner herself contributed selected interior pages in addition to supplying two cover variants per issue, a triple role (co-writer, interior artist, cover artist) that reflects the ambition Dynamite placed behind the project. Issue #2 was published on November 19, 2025, carrying a January 2026 cover date.

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• Issue #2 is the second chapter of a six-issue limited series co-published by DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment, running from 2025 to 2026 — the first inter-company miniseries to unite Harley Quinn and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
• Written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, the married creative team whose 2013–2018 Harley Quinn run at DC across approximately 91 issues transformed the character into one of DC's top-selling properties.
• Interior artwork is by Juan Samu, a Dynamite veteran who previously illustrated Elvira Meets Vincent Price, with Amanda Conner also contributing selected interior story pages alongside Samu.
• Cover gallery for issue #2 includes variants by Amanda Conner (two covers, including a foil edition), Chad Hardin, Joseph Michael Linsner, and Ben Caldwell — the same core cover team as issue #1.
• The story in #2 escalates the Halloween block-party fundraising scheme introduced in issue #1: after Brooklyn criminals target their growing cash pool, Harley and Elvira are forced to 'go international' to keep the money safe, with the narrative venturing into a surreal alien 'Wonderland' setting.
• Elvira's in-story motivation across the series is saving her television show from cancellation following a corporate takeover — a plotline that parallels the real-world history of Cassandra Peterson's long battle to maintain creative ownership of the Elvira character.
• The series was produced with the direct involvement of Cassandra Peterson (Elvira's creator and performer) through her company Queen 'B' Productions, giving Peterson an official producing role in the comic adaptation.
• The issue is rated Teen+ and runs 32 full-color pages, consistent with the series format established in issue #1.

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