The world's strangest super heroes are back! When it comes to the bizarre and the strange, forget the Justice League and call the Doom Patrol! Plus, a Metal Men backup feature by written Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis with art by Kevin Maguire!

The World’s Strangest Heroes are back! After the events of Lazarus Planet, more people than ever have active metagenes! Most of these new metahumans have become misfits, shunned and imprisoned by a fearful society. They are hidden away in the dark, lost to a system that only sees them as weapons or guinea pigs—ticking time bombs that can only be defused by the Unstoppable Doom Patrol! Led by Crazy Jane’s mysterious new alter known as the Chief, Robotman, Elasti-Woman, and Negative Man are joined by their brand-new teammates Beast Girl and Degenerate on a mission to save the world—by saving the monsters! Collects Unstoppable Doom Patrol #1-7 and the Doom Patrol story from Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1.

The quest heats up as one of the Challengers of the Beyond becomes an enemy. Plus, could finding Ray Palmer prove fatal?

They were four middle-aged men who seemed to have it all. Wealth. Power. Fame. Their names and likenesses appeared on every conceivable piece of merchandising...even a mountain and town were named after them. All this adoration is based on a long-ago event and the illusion of the four men--Rocky Davis, Ace Morgan, Red Ryan and Prof. Haley--the team the world knows as the CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN. Unfortunately, in a single devastating instant, all their fame and popularity is destroyed when an experiment conducted by Prof. Haley seemingly goes wrong, destroying Challengerville and the theme park, killing hundreds along with Prof. and his assistant, June.

Spinning out of Absolute Power and the DC All In Special, the terror of the Darkseid shockwave has cascaded across the DC Universe…tearing open the very fabric of time and space itself! Only one band of super-scientists have the right stuff to challenge the fate of a universe…enter: THE CHALLENGERS OF THE UKNOWN. Alongside the Justice League—where the Challengers run day-to-day operations for the massive Watchtower base in orbit above Earth—Ace Morgan, June Robbins, Prof Haley, Red Ryan, and Rocky Davis must team with Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the rest of the League to seal the rifts that threaten the galaxy. But a mysterious foe from the Challengers' past lurks in the shadows, and its connection to the godshock will put the DCU on borrowed time!

The Dark Knights ride through the farthest reaches of the Multiverse to track down the unlikeliest of teams: The Flash, Cyborg, Raven and Detective Chimp. The mission: keep these heroes from completing their desperate quest to save all of existence! Plus, Challengers' Mountain crackles with dark energy that will release an army of the world's worst nightmares into the streets of Gotham City! This one-shot also answers the question: Where are the Metal Men? And who is the latest addition to the team?

A mysterious man known only as the Chief calls three people who have all escaped certain doom but were left outcasts because of their experiences. Plus, The the Chief informs the Doom Patrol of an alien spaceship that has landed on Earth carrying a super-weapon.

On their way back from Skartaris, the team's T-Jet lands outside the spooky town of Lost Junction, where the lifestyle has remained mysteriously unchanged since the 1800s—a lifestyle that includes cannibalism!

Spinning out of the best-selling DARK NIGHTS: METAL epic comes NEW CHALLENGERS, a group of fearless explorers who will uncover the worst--and weirdest--the DC Universe has to offer. A new team of misfits are given a second chance at life by the mysterious figure "The Professor"...but only if they're willing to explore the most unknown reaches of the universe. Seeking a set of powerful artifacts, the team must defeat a rival group of explorers to combine them...or the world as we know it could end. From legendary artist Andy Kubert (BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT: MASTER RACE) and writer Scott Snyder (DARK NIGHTS: METAL, BATMAN), NEW CHALLENEGERS emerges as one of the flagship titles of The New Age of Heroes! Collects NEW CHALLENEGERS #1-6. The DC Universe just got bigger! In the New Age of Heroes, DC introduces a bold new line of comics starring a thrilling array of heroes--some you know, some you may have glimpsed in the pages of Dark Nights: Metal. They embody a spirit of epic, adventurous bravery--the kind you may remember from another era, but updated in an exciting way for today. Illustrated by DC's Master Class of artists, including legendary names like Jim Lee, Andy Kubert, John Romita Jr., Ivan Reis, Tony S. Daniel and others, these new series are great entry points for new readers and a welcome addition for longtime fans of the DC library.