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Penguin: Pain & Prejudice (2011)

Antihero
Gangs
Organized Crime
Superhero
Bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz examines the painful and dark past of one of Batman's most devious foes. How did young Oswald Cobblepot go from being the apple of his mother's eye to the leader of underworld gangs and adversary of the Caped Crusader?
Plastic Man (2003-2006)

Fighting
Humor
Superhero
Master cartoonist Kyle Baker writes and illustrates this update of the classic, off-the-wall 1940s super hero known as Plastic Man! Plastic Man is back in action — with cartoonist Kyle Baker writing and drawing his adventures. In this title that collects Plastic Man’s 2004 series in its entirety for the first time, Plastic Man must come to terms with his criminal past when the FBI assigns...
Poison Ivy (2022-)

Leading Ladies
Political
Superhero
Pamela Isley has been a lot of things in her life: a living god, a super-villain, an activist, a scientist, and dead. In a new body that she didn’t ask for and with a renewed sense of purpose, Ivy leaves Gotham and sets out to complete her greatest work: a gift to the world that will heal the damage dealt to it…by ending humanity. But plans have a tendency of changing, and Ivy realizes life...
Robin: Son of Batman (2015-)

Family
Fighting
Superhero
Bruce Wayne’s son is Robin in this thrilling new series from Patrick Gleason (BATMAN AND ROBIN) and artists MICK GRAY and JOHN KALISZ. Back from the dead, Damian Wayne is reassessing his life-and that includes being raised and trained by Talia and Ra’s al Ghul. To complete that training, he spent a year doing seemingly impossible tasks in the service of the Demon’s Head-the Year of Blood....
Rorschach (2020-)

Gangs
Interdimensional
Mature
Murder
Organized Crime
Superhero
It’s been 35 years since Ozymandias dropped a giant interdimensional squid on New York City, killing thousands and destroying the public’s trust in heroes once and for all. And since that time, one figure in a fedora, mask, and trench coat has become a divisive cultural icon. So, what does it mean when Rorschach reappears as a gunman trying to assassinate a candidate running against President...
Suicide Squad (2011-2014)

Antihero
Superhero
Supernatural
A NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller!As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics-The New 52 event of September 2011, writer and co-creator of the CW show Supernatural Adam Glass rolls out an all-new team of death-row super villains recruited by the government totake on missions so dangerous-they're sheer suicide! The story begins with the Suicide Squad defeated, imprisoned and being interrogated about their...
Suicide Squad (2021-)

Antihero
Fighting
Superhero
Recruited to lead Task Force X, Peacemaker's first mission forces him into Gotham's Arkham Asylum, where he and his team must free the deadly assassin known as Talon. But forming his team is only one of the peace-loving hero's hurdles as he must also face the threats of Red X from Teen Titans Academy and the perils of Earth-3.
Suicide Squad: Get Joker! (2021-)

Antihero
Murder
Superhero
Two of comics’ most celebrated creators, Brian Azzarello and Alex Maleev, team up to pit Task Force X against their deadliest target yet—The Joker! Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets, Batman: Damned) and Eisner Award-winning art legend Alex Maleev (Daredevil, Event Leviathan) collaborate for the first time in this DC Black Label series pitting Red Hood,...
The Batman Who Laughs (2018-)

Fighting
Monsters
Superhero
The Batman Who Laughs is enacting a sinister plan across the Multiverse-something both terrifying and oddly familiar. When Bruce Wayne realizes the only way to stop this madman is to kill him, he must consider violating the very rule Batman can’t ever break...the rule that created the Batman Who Laughs! As Bruce begins to realize that all the mistakes he’s made are somehow connected, the...
The Batman's Grave

Fighting
Murder
Superhero
The World’s Greatest Detective must try to inhabit the mind of a murder victim to solve a case-without filling the empty grave next to those of his parents. Can Batman imagine the life of a corpse with a half-eaten face, without dying himself? A man was murdered, and the Batman knows how it happened. All he has to do now is survive his own deduction. Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, the creative...
The Joker Presents: A Puzzlebox (2021-)

Murder
Mystery
Superhero
You can call The Joker a lot of things-psychopathic, murderous, disturbed, obsessed, anarchic, maybe even genuinely funny. But one thing no one would call him, regardless of what side of the law they might fall on, is dependable. The Joker will double-cross his own partners on a whim, let alone anyone trying to stop him. Yet when it comes to solving one of the strangest, most perplexing mysteries...
The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing (2022-)

Antihero
Murder
Superhero
The world holds its breath as the Joker strikes again! But how far is he willing to go this time? From the twisted minds of Matthew Rosenberg and Carmine Di Giandomenico comes a violent, mind-bending new series that picks up from the cataclysmic end of The Joker and follows the mayhem across the United States. With the Clown Prince of Crime setting out on his most bizarre caper yet, will...