Gotham City has endured much through its dark, twisted history, and even the cosmic changes wrought by the Crisis on Infinite Earths couldn't give the town a fresh start—the grime is in its DNA. The Crisis did, though, allow for the reintroduction of familiar foes, albeit with a fresh take on the Caped Crusader featuring a back-to-basics approach to crime-fighting. Criminals don't always wear a colorful costumes: some just stalk the shadows with sinister plots and evil intentions. A new threat, a fearsome assassin known as the KGBeast, is prowling the streets of Gotham City and he's out to dismantle America's Strategic Defense Initiative. After saving the United States government, Batman must then solve the mystery of ten murdered women before the killer claims even more victims! An all-star cast of talent, led by writer Jim Starlin (Batman: The Cult, Mystery In Space) and the dynamic art duo of Jim Aparo (The Brave and The Bold, Batman & The Outsiders) and Mike DeCarlo (The Legion Of Super-Heroes), present Batman: The Caped Crusader Vol. 1, collecting Batman #417-425 and #430-431 and Batman Annual #12! Don't miss out on the companion series, Batman: The Dark Knight Detective, to chronicle all of Batman's post-Crisis adventures!

Written by Paul Levitz Art by Steve Lightle, Ernie Colon, Keith Giffen, Larry Mahlstedt and others Cover by Steve Lightle & Larry Mahlstedt Bursting out of the 1980s comes this tale starring the far future's greatest heroes! In this volume, you'll find LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #7-13 as the team discovers a factory hidden between dimensions creating a Sun-Eater. Plus, it's team leader election time!

"Thought-provoking." —Entertainment Weekly "A solid return for the character." —IGN "Excellent from the start." —Comicosity Jefferson Pierce has returned to Cleveland, ready to teach students by day and bring his brand of superhero justice by night. But when criminals with black-market weapons based on alien technology start wreaking havoc on the city, Black Lightning is going to need more than the tech built into his new costume to retake the streets. And once the villainous Tobias Whale reveals himself, turning the citizens and the police against Jefferson, the city's only hope is going to be if Black Lightning manages to recruit some new allies to take down Whale once and for all! Written by Black Lightning co-creator Tony Isabella with shocking art by Clayton Henry (The Uncanny X-Men, Suicide Squad) and Yvel Guichet (Black Panther: Soul of a Machine), this collection brings together the complete Black Lightning: Cold Dead Hands six-issue miniseries and features a never-before-published afterword by Isabella.

Collecting the series that led into INFINITE CRISIS! Six of justice's deadliest enemies band together to start a revolution. Together, they want to take a stand to stop the super-heroic community from tampering with their minds and to prove how deadly they can be! But not everyone agrees to this agenda. Six rogues are recruited by the enigmatic Mockingbird, charged with opposing the Society and given assignments to thwart their rivals and even help their enemies. Who is Mockingbird? Could it be one of the six? Collects VILLIANS UNITED #1-6, SECRET SIX #1-6, VILLIANS UNITED: INFINITE CRISIS SPECIAL #1.

Veteran creator Scott Lobdell (SUPERMAN) is joined by comics' newest sensation, artist Javier Fernández, as they introduce the latest hero to the DC Universe! College freshman Reiser was just another student intern at S.T.A.R. Labs Metropolis until he was accidently exposed to the dreaded Doomsday spores that turned Superman into an unstoppable monster. Now Reiser has the ability to mutate into a hulking monstrosity-and everyone from the Man of Steel to the mysterious Alpha Centurion wants to capture or kill him. Reiser's world has gone from studying for midterms and talking to cute coworkers to battling super-villains and being hunted by Teen Titans like Wonder Girl. Featuring a showdown with the Man of Steel himself and a gigantic menace that is somehow connected-one thing is certain: from now on Reiser's world is doomed! Collects DOOMED #1-6 and DC SNEAK PEEK: DOOMED #1

"SUICIDE SPLITS"! Mistaken for metahumans, thrown in the bowels of Belle Reve, the animal rock band Banana Splits are recruited by Amanda Waller for a secret mission: to save the Suicide Squad! What follows is the weirdest team-up you never thought you'd see! How can Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky stand up to Harley, Deadshot, Katana and Croc? And in the backup feature, Snagglepuss is a Southern gothic playwright working with an ensemble cast of cultural figures, exploring an intensely creative time in the New York City theater scene of the 1950s.

ONE OF THE LEGENDS OF TOMORROW IN HIS OWN EXPLOSIVE ADVENTURE! Gifted with the power of the atom, the superhero known as Firestorm has the building blocks of the universe at his fiery fingertips…but pulling himself together is his biggest challenge of all. Because Firestorm is not just one hero-he's a matrix of minds, including the minds of students Ronnie Raymond and Jason Rusch and the brilliant Professor Stein. Fused together, the fury of Firestorm is a force to be reckoned with. But broken apart, they're a ticking time bomb…and everyone from their worst adversaries to the U.S. government wants to have their fingers on the button. Now Jason, Ronnie and Professor Stein are locked in a race against time-and fearsome foes like Danton Black and Major Force-to preserve the Firestorm Protocol before it falls apart. Can they outrace their enemies and harness the power, or will the fire consume them one by one? Find out in FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MAN, a red-hot action-adventure saga from comics legend Gerry Conway and artist Eduardo Pansica! Collects FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MAN stories from LEGENDS OF TOMORROW #1-6.

The world's strangest super-team faces against the government's dirty little secret. But if the Doom patrol and the Suicide Squad are going to survive this latest caper, they will have to set aside their differences and work together.

Primer introduces a brand-new superhero with a colorful array of superpowers.Ashley Rayburn is an upbeat girl with a decidedly downbeat past. Her father is a known criminal who now sits in federal prison, but still casts a shadow over Ashley's life. Ashley has bounced from foster home to foster home and represents a real challenge to the social workers who try to help her-not because she's inherently bad, but because trouble always seems to find her.Ashley's latest set of (presumably short-term) foster parents are Kitch and Yuka Nolan. Like Ashley, Kitch is an artist, while Yuka is a geneticist working for a very high-level tech company that's contracted out to work for the government and the military. And it's Yuka's latest top-secret project that has her concerned.Developed for the military, it's a set of body paints that, when applied to the wearer, grant them a wide range of special powers. Fearful that this invention will be misused, Yuka sneaks the set of paints home.Ashley comes home from school one day with her new friend Luke and, thinking that the Nolans have purchased a surprise gift for her upcoming birthday, finds the set of paints. It isn't long before she realizes that she's stumbled upon something much bigger...and a lot more dangerous. Although she uses her newly discovered powers for good, it's not long before the military becomes wise to what happened to their secret weapon. And this spells big trouble not only for Ashley, but for her newfound family and friends, as well.

As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics - The New 52 event of September 2011, two high school students worlds apart, Jason Rusch and Ronnie Raymond, are drawn into a conspiracy of super-science that bonds them forever in a way they can't explain or control. As the two boys become caught in the crosshairs of an international special forces team with orders to capture or kill them, Ronnie and Jason seek to discover the secrets behind what has happened to them. What they find will shed light on the secret history of Firestorm! This major new vision of nuclear terror is brought to you by writers Ethan Van Sciver and Gail Simone with astonishing art by Yildiray Cinar! Do not miss this disturbing look into the future of super powers in the DC Universe! Collects issues #1-6.