Detective Comics #678

Dates

Cover date

September 1994

On sale

July 28, 1994

Pages

36

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #678 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Direct Sales

  Barcode 76194120019467811

  Source ↗
• Newsstand edition

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 07098930465909

  This edition’s page
• DC Universe Corner Box

  This edition’s page

Story arc: Zero Hour

This is part 17 of 72. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Showcase '94 (1994) #8
2. Showcase '94 (1994) #9
3. Batman (1940) #511
4. Flash (1987) #94
5. Legionnaires (1993) #18
6. Superboy (1994) #8
7. Superman: The Man of Steel (1991) #37
8. Valor (1992) #23
9. Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (1994) #4
10. Batman: Shadow of the Bat (1992) #31
11. Green Lantern (1990) #55
12. Hawkman (1993) #13
13. Justice League America (1989) #92
14. Superman (1987) #93
15. Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (1994) #3
16. Adventures of Superman (1987) #516
17. Detective Comics (1937) #678
18. Justice League Task Force (1993) #16
19. L.E.G.I.O.N. '94 (1994) #70
20. Outsiders (1993) #11
21. Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (1994) #2
22. Action Comics (1938) #703
23. Anima (1994) #7
24. Catwoman (1993) #14
25. Damage (1994) #6
26. Green Arrow (1988) #90
27. Justice League International (1993) #68
28. Legion of Super-Heroes (1989) #61
29. Robin (1993) #10
30. Showcase '94 (1994) #10
31. Steel (1994) #8
32. Team Titans (1992) #24
33. The Darkstars (1992) #24
34. Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (1994) #1
35. Guy Gardner: Warrior (1994) #24
36. Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (1994) #0
37. Flash (1987) #0
38. Superman: The Man of Steel (1991) #0
39. Wonder Woman #0
40. The New Titans #0
41. Green Lantern (1990) #0
42. Superman #0
43. The Ray #0
44. Catwoman #0
45. Damage (1994) #0
46. Gunfire (1994) #0
47. Robin #0
48. Aquaman (1994) #0
49. Action Comics #0
50. Adventures of Superman #0
51. Anima #0
52. Batman #0
53. Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #0
54. Batman: Shadow of the Bat #0
55. Deathstroke: The Hunted #0
56. Detective Comics #0
57. Fate #0
58. Green Arrow #0
59. Guy Gardner: Warrior #0
60. Hawkman #0
61. Justice League America #0
62. Justice League Task Force #0
63. Lobo #0
64. Manhunter #0
65. Primal Force #0
66. Steel #0
67. Superboy #0
68. Booster Gold #0
69. Green Lantern: Kyle Rayner Rising Compendium (2023) #nn
70. DC Finest: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time: Part One (2024) #nn
71. DC Finest: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time: Part Two (2025) #nn
72. DC Finest: Catwoman: Vengeance and Vindication (2025) #nn

Creators

Stories

• Yesterdays Gone · 22 pages

  Batman finds himself in an altered timeline where Thomas and Martha Wayne survived the mugging that instead claimed the life of young Bruce Wayne. Batman hunts Joe Chill to avenge the death of young Bruce.

Publisher’s description

A ZERO HOUR tie-in! The events of ZERO HOUR unexpectedly grant Bruce Wayne his fondest wish: a world in which his parents were never killed! Now Batman must struggle with the question of finding some way to repair the timestream, or leaving it as he always wished it could be!

Reprinted in

Batman Zero Hour (2017), DC Finest: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time: Part One (2024)