Detective Comics #986

Dates

Cover date

Early October 2018

On sale

August 9, 2018

In stores

August 9, 2018

Pages

36

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #986 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Original edition

  Barcode 76194134373098611

  This edition’s page
• Mark Brooks Cover

  Barcode 76194134373098621

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  Variant CoverMetron

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Story arc: On the Outside

This is part 4 of 5. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Detective Comics (2011) #983
2. Detective Comics (2011) #984
3. Detective Comics (2011) #985
4. Detective Comics (2011) #986
5. Detective Comics (2011) #987

Creators

Publisher’s description

Black Lightning, the Signal and Cassandra Cain are working very well together…but now they’re up against a foe who can tap directly into their worst emotions and play them like music! When you’ve seen the kinds of horrors these poor souls have, there’s plenty of trauma to work with…and with that, you can turn these heroes into deadly weapons! Meanwhile Batman’s “side project” has been revealed—what are the Brainiac Files, and what, exactly, does Batman plan to do with them?

Reprinted in

Batman: Detective Comics (2017)