Dates
- Cover date
- October 2017
- On sale
- August 16, 2017
- In stores
- August 16, 2017
- Pages
- 44
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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
Barcode 76194134892600161
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Second Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 76194134892600112
This edition’s page - Greg Capullo / Jonathan Glapion Midnight Release Black and White Cover
Barcode 76194134892600171
This edition’s page - Comic Hero U Joe Benitez Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600120
This edition’s page - Fried Pie Comics Cliff Chiang Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600137
This edition’s page - KRS Comics Jock Red Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600140
This edition’s page - Unknown Comics Tyler Kirkham Batman & Wonder Woman Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600146
This edition’s page - Unknown Comics Tyler Kirkham Color Your Own Black and White Cover
Barcode 76194134892600147
This edition’s page - Unknown Comics Tyler Kirkham Batman Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600156
This edition’s page - Bulletproof Comics Exclusive Gabriele Dell'Otto Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600116
This edition’s page - Gabriele Dell'Otto Convention Exclusive Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600117
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
Barcode 76194134892600152
This edition’s page - Forbidden Planet / Jetpack Comics Bill Sienkiewicz Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600153
This edition’s page - Exclusive Francesco Mattina Virgin Color Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600130
This edition’s page - Exclusive Francesco Mattina Black and White Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600133
This edition’s page - Exclusive Francesco Mattina Ultimate Batman Unmasked Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600132
This edition’s page - Most Good Hobby Eric Basaldua Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600144
This edition’s page - ComicSketchArt Greg Capullo Color Fade Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600123
This edition’s page - ComicSketchArt Greg Capullo Convention Exclusive Blue Fade Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600124
This edition’s page - ComicXposure Terrificon Tim Bradstreet Joker Virgin Covervirgin
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Barcode 76194134892600127
This edition’s page - NYCC Comic Con 2017 Convention Exclusive Silver Foil CoverThis edition’s page
- 3rd printing
Third Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 76194134892600113
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Story arc: Dark Nights: Metal
This is part 1 of 31. 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
- Justice League #53
- Justice League #54
- Justice League #55
- Justice League #56
- Justice League #57
- Dark Nights: Death Metal The Last 52: War of the Multiverses #1
- Dark Nights: Metal Compendium (2025) #nn
Creators
Publisher’s description
The superstar BATMAN team of writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo reunite for a massive, universe-spanning event! DARK DAYS: THE FORGE and THE CASTING hinted at dark corners of reality that have never been seen till now! Now, as DARK NIGHTS: METAL begins, the Dark Multiverse is revealed in all its devastating danger-and the threats it contains are coming for the DC Universe! DARK NIGHTS: METAL is a DC event unlike any other one that will push Batman, Superman and heroes of the Justice League beyond their limits to take on threats unlike any our world has ever seen! It will take the combined might of the World's Greatest Heroes as you've never seen them before to face what's coming their way!
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)