Dates
- Cover date
- October 2017
- On sale
- August 16, 2017
- Pages
- 44
Editions and covers (50)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Greg Capullo / Jonathan Glapion Midnight Release Color Cover
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Second Printing
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This edition’s page - Greg Capullo / Jonathan Glapion Midnight Release Black and White Cover
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This edition’s page - Comic Hero U Joe Benitez Virgin Covervirgin
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This edition’s page - Fried Pie Comics Cliff Chiang Virgin Covervirgin
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This edition’s page - Unknown Comics Tyler Kirkham Color Your Own Black and White Cover
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This edition’s page - Unknown Comics Tyler Kirkham Batman Virgin Covervirgin
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This edition’s page - Bulletproof Comics Gabriele Dell'Otto Black and White Cover
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This edition’s page - Forbidden Planet / Jetpack Comics Bill Sienkiewicz Color Cover
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This edition’s page - Forbidden Planet / Jetpack Comics Bill Sienkiewicz Black and White Cover
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This edition’s page - Forbidden Planet / Jetpack Comics Bill Sienkiewicz Virgin Covervirgin
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This edition’s page - Exclusive Francesco Mattina Virgin Color Covervirgin
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This edition’s page - Exclusive Francesco Mattina Black and White Virgin Covervirgin
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This edition’s page - Exclusive Francesco Mattina Ultimate Batman Unmasked Virgin Covervirgin
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This edition’s page - Most Good Hobby Eric Basaldua Virgin Covervirgin
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This edition’s page - ComicSketchArt Greg Capullo Color Fade Virgin Covervirgin
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- 3rd printing
Third Printing
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Story arc: Dark Nights: Metal
This is part 1 of 25. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #1
- Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #2
- Teen Titans (2016) #12
- Batman: The Red Death (2017) #1
- Nightwing (2016) #29
- Batman: The Murder Machine (2017) #1
- Suicide Squad (2016) #26
- Batman: The Dawnbreaker (2017) #1
- Green Arrow (2016) #32
- Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #3
- Batman: The Drowned (2017) #1
- Batman: The Merciless (2017) #1
- The Flash (2016) #33
- Batman: The Devastator (2018) #1
- Justice League (2016) #32
- Batman: Lost (2017) #1
- Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps (2016) #32
- Dark Nights: The Batman Who Laughs (2018) #1
- Justice League (2016) #33
- Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #4
- Hawkman: Found (2018) #1
- Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #5
- Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt (2018) #1
- Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #6
- Dark Nights: Metal Compendium (2025) #nn
Creators
Stories
- Metal [Part One] · 28 pages
Mongul has captured the Justice League and forces them to fight for their lives on his new War Moon. Batman leads the League in turning the tables to defeat Mongul. Returning to Earth, they discover a mysterious mountain that has suddenly appeared in the middle of Gotham City. There they encounter the Blackhawks led by Kendra Saunders, who warns them of an ancient threat from the Dark Multiverse that was being investigated by Hawkman before he disappeared. Kendra warns the League that somehow Batman is the key to this threat.
Reprinted in
Dark Nights: Metal: The Deluxe Edition (2018), Dark Nights: Metal Director's Cut (2018), Dark Nights: Metal (2019), Dark Nights: Metal Compendium (2025)