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DC Finest: Batman: A Death in the Family #nn
Dates
- Cover date
- 2026
- On sale
- April 21, 2026
- Pages
- 644
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Editions and covers
Story arc: A Death in the Family
This is part 6 of 6. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Batman (1940) #426
- Batman (1940) #427
- Batman (1940) #428
- Batman (1940) #429
- DC Comics Classics Library: Batman - A Death in the Family (2009) #nn
- DC Finest: Batman: A Death in the Family (2026) #nn
Creators
Stories
- Slade's Demon · 38 pages
- The Back-Up · 8 pages
Jason's teacher chides him for his lack of after school activities and Jason regrets not being able to do more. Three students ask him to help as a stagehand that afternoon. They show him how to navigate the school using the catwalks. They intend to change their grades in a locked office but run out of time and promise to meet later. Jason arrives early and sees them making the change. As he wonders what Batman would do, he remembers Bruce telling him, "let the criminals trip themselves up." The next day it's revealed the administration has caught the error and identified the perpetrators.
- [Fables: Part One] The Monkey Trap · 38 pages
- You Shoulda Seen Him... · 22 pages
- An American Batman in London · 22 pages
When American veterans are attacked and killed by foreign agents, Batman traces their leader to London, only to find he is planning an attack on the Houses of Parliament.
- The Diplomat's Son · 22 pages
Felipe hides behind diplomatic immunity to terrorize Gloria. He falls to his death after being confronted by Robin.
- Aborigine! · 22 pages
An aborigine from the Australian Outback comes to Gotham seeking a sacred relic stolen from his land and death for those responsible.
- Consequences · 22 pages
- Book One: Ordeal · 46 pages
Batman is captured and brainwashed.
- Book Two: Capture · 46 pages
Batman shrugs off Deacon Blackfire's drug treatment and returns to the sewer lair to confront him. Batman is taken prisoner by the Deacon's men who realize that they cannot break his will. The Deacon orders Batman to be taken to the bathing room and killed. Batman breaks away from them and dives beneath the sewers. Robin tracks him down and finds Batman sitting atop of a mound of corpses.
- Book Three: Escape · 46 pages
Robin helps Batman escape the sewers. Batman is still shaken by his experience and has difficulty fighting. Robin asks him for help and Batman snaps out of it. Deacon Blackfire's army of homeless force the National Guard to withdraw and the Governor recommends Gotham City evacuate but about half the people remain. Sewer snipers eliminate a spec ops group sent in and barricades keep the army at bay. Once they leave the sewer, Batman asks Robin to phone Alfred and get him to pick them up. Batman tells the Boy Wonder that they are leaving Gotham City and not coming back because Blackfire has won.
- Book Four: Combat · 46 pages
Batman regains his fighting spirit as he realizes that he did not become the Batman to avenge his parent's deaths, but to deal with the fear. He and Robin return to Gotham for a showdown with Deacon Blackfire. Blackfire plans to embrace his death at the hands of Batman as a religious leader, but once Batman physically overpowers him and makes him beg for mercy, his followers lose their faith in Blackfire and tear him to pieces.
- A Death in the Family, Chapter 1 & 2 · 44 pages
Jason discovers that his "real" mother was really his step-mother, and his birth mother is still alive. Joker escapes from Arkham and Batman chases him to the Middle East where he runs across Jason looking for one of the women he thinks is his mom.
- A Death in the Family, Chapter 3 & 4 · 44 pages
Jason meets his real mother, Sheila Haywood, but she turns out to be working for the Joker and allows her son to fall into his deadly hands inside a warehouse. Joker beats Robin with a crowbar and leaves him for dead as a badly beaten Robin attempts to save his mom and himself from the dynamite left behind by the Joker as he leaves them both to a horrible fate. Batman watches in horror as the warehouse containing Jason and Sheila blows up, too late to stop the Joker.
- A Death in the Family, Chapter 5 · 22 pages
Death of Sheila Haywood. Burial of Sheila Haywood and Jason Todd. Joker becomes the Iranian Ambassador to the U.N.
- A Death in the Family! Chapter 6 · 22 pages
- The Fear, Part One · 22 pages
When Batman investigates a body of a man found with his heart ripped out, witnesses describe seeing suspects that look like Jesus and Abraham Lincoln.
- The Fear, Part Two: Diary of a Madman · 22 pages
Batman confronts Cornelius Stirk, who uses his psi-powers to induce fear in others, including the Caped Crusader.
- Ecstasy · 22 pages
Currency trader Ed Hallen gets high on Ecstasy and hears voices in his head that convince him to take revenge on drug dealers by blowing them up.
- Our Man in Havana · 22 pages
- Cold Cuts · 14 pages
Batman battles Mr. Freeze at S.T.A.R. Labs.