Batman: The Red Death #1

Dates

Cover date

November 2017

On sale

September 20, 2017

Pages

36

Editions and covers (5)

Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Jason Fabok Cover

  Barcode 76194135298500111

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• 2nd printing

  Second Printing

  Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.

  Barcode 76194135298500112

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• NYCC Comic Con 2017 Convention Exclusive Silver Foil Cover

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• 3rd printing

  Third Printing

  Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.

  Barcode 76194135298500113

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• 4th printing

  Fourth Printing

  Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.

  Barcode 76194135298500114

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Story arc: Dark Nights: Metal

This is part 4 of 25. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #1
2. Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #2
3. Teen Titans (2016) #12
4. Batman: The Red Death (2017) #1
5. Nightwing (2016) #29
6. Batman: The Murder Machine (2017) #1
7. Suicide Squad (2016) #26
8. Batman: The Dawnbreaker (2017) #1
9. Green Arrow (2016) #32
10. Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #3
11. Batman: The Drowned (2017) #1
12. Batman: The Merciless (2017) #1
13. The Flash (2016) #33
14. Batman: The Devastator (2018) #1
15. Justice League (2016) #32
16. Batman: Lost (2017) #1
17. Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps (2016) #32
18. Dark Nights: The Batman Who Laughs (2018) #1
19. Justice League (2016) #33
20. Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #4
21. Hawkman: Found (2018) #1
22. Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #5
23. Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt (2018) #1
24. Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #6
25. Dark Nights: Metal Compendium (2025) #nn

Creators

Stories

• Ride the Lightning · 22 pages

  The Batman of Earth -52 finds himself not being fast enough to stop all crime, so he steals the speed of the Earth -52 Flash. With his new speed, he adopts a new costume and becomes Batman the Red Death. After putting a permanent end to Gotham's villains, he finds that his world is facing doom. An agent of Barbatos convinces him to travel to Earth 0 to help Barbatos take over that world, which leads to a confrontation with The Flash.

Reprinted in

Dark Nights: Metal: Dark Knights Rising (2019), Dark Nights: Metal - Dark Knights Rising (2018), Dark Nights: Metal Compendium (2025)