Dates
- Cover date
- January 2018
- On sale
- November 1, 2017
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
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- 2nd printing
Second Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 76194135299200112
This edition’s page
Story arc: Dark Nights: Metal
This is part 14 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
- Symphony of Destruction · 22 pages
On Earth -1, Superman had turned evil. The Justice League of that world believed they could save him, but after he killed his Lois Lane, Batman realized he was too far gone. Transforming himself with a Doomsday virus, Batman became the Devastator and killed Superman. Realizing his world was about to die, he is recruited by The Batman Who Laughs to travel to Earth 0 where his mission is to steal cosmic tuning force from the Fortress of Solitude and bring it to Barbatos, who plans to use it to change Earth 0's vibrational frequency to cause it to fall into the Dark Multiverse.
Reprinted in
Dark Nights: Metal - Dark Knights Rising (2018), Dark Nights: Metal: Dark Knights Rising (2019), Dark Nights: Metal Compendium (2025)