CATALOG RECORD
Dark Nights: The Batman Who Laughs #1
Dates
- Cover date
- January 2018
- On sale
- November 15, 2017
- In stores
- November 15, 2017
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (3)
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- 2nd printing
Second Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 76194135304300112
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Third Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 76194135304300113
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Story arc: Dark Nights: Metal
This is part 18 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
Stories
- The Batman Who Laughs · 23 pages
On Earth -22, Batman has a final confrontation with the Joker that ends with Batman killing the Joker. However upon his death, a virus is released from his body which infects Batman. As a result, Batman's mind becomes evil and twisted like the Joker, leading him to murder all of that world's other heroes. After conquering his Earth, he accepts the invitation of Barbatos to travel to Earth 0 to help bring that world into the Dark Multiverse.
Publisher’s description
As the events of DARK NIGHTS: METAL rock the DC Universe, the creatures of the Dark Multiverse stand ready to invade our world! How can the World’s Greatest Heroes stop a horde of deadly beings that appear to be powerful nightmare versions of familiar figures?
Characters
Reprinted in
Dark Nights: Metal - Dark Knights Rising (2018), Dark Nights: Metal: Dark Knights Rising (2019), Dark Nights: The Batman Who Laughs 1 (Special Edition) (2019), Dark Nights: Metal Compendium (2025)