Dates
- Cover date
- November 2017
- On sale
- September 27, 2017
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (4)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- NYCC Comic Con 2017 Convention Exclusive Silver Foil CoverThis edition’s page
- 2nd printing
Second Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 76194135301200112
This edition’s page - 3rd printing
Third Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 76194135301200113
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Story arc: Dark Nights: Metal
This is part 6 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
- Heavy Metal · 22 pages
On Earth -44, after the death of Alfred at the hands of Gotham's villains, Batman, with the help of Cyborg, develops the Alfred Protocol, a computer program with Alfred's personality to help guide Bruce. In an effort to protect Bruce, the Alfred program murders the villains of Arkham, and then infects Bruce, turning him into a machine-like being capable of murder. Learning that Earth -44 is doomed, Batman the Murder Machine travels to Earth 0 to help Barbatos to take over the world, leading him into a conflict with Cyborg.
Reprinted in
Dark Nights: Metal - Dark Knights Rising (2018), Dark Nights: Metal: Dark Knights Rising (2019), Dark Nights: Metal Compendium (2025)