List of Elseworlds publications


This is a list of Elseworlds publications from DC Comics, grouped by main character, and in alphabetical order by title.

Batman ''Elseworlds''

Batman: Thrillkiller – one three-part miniseries and one one-shot collected into one volume:
  • * Batgirl and Robin: Thrillkiller – Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson as part of the 1960s counterculture.
  • * Batgirl and Batman: Thrillkiller '62 – Bruce Wayne becomes Batman in the sequel.Batman & Captain America – Marvel/DC crossover; a Golden Age adventure teaming Batman and Robin with Captain America and Bucky of Marvel Comics against the Joker and the Red Skull.Batman/Demon: A Tragedy – Bruce Wayne is possessed by Etrigan the Demon.Tales of the Multiverse: Batman – Vampire – three graphic novels collected into one volume :
  • * Batman & Dracula: Red Rain – Batman faces off against Dracula and must become a vampire himself to effectively face his nemesis.
  • * Batman: Bloodstorm – Batman fights an army of vampires led by the Joker in Gotham City while battling a hunger for blood that dooms him in the end.
  • * Batman: Crimson Mist – A now-fully vampiric and evil Batman is revived by a tormented Alfred and goes on a killing spree of all of his former enemies.Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop – Batman teams up with Harry Houdini to fight child-stealing vampires in 1907.Batman/Lobo – The Joker hires Lobo to take out the Dark Knight. After Lobo kills everyone close to Batman, the Joker is forced to call him off after the revelation that the Joker is Batman's long-lost twin, Joey Wayne.Batman: The Blue, the Grey, and the Bat – Batman and Robin in the American Civil War.Batman: The Book of the Dead – The Waynes are a rich archaeologist family and the story revolves around a lesser-known but important Egyptian bat-god.Batman: Brotherhood of the Bat – Fifty years in the future, Batman is dead and the planet is within the grip of a plague set off by Ra's al Ghul, who uses Bruce Wayne's various rejected costume designs to create a league of costumed assassins and is confronted by Tallant, the son of Batman and his daughter Talia al Ghul.
  • * Sequel: Batman: League of Batmen – Tallant's efforts to cure the plague with his own costumed Bat-force are hampered by a still-alive, but much more demonic, Ra's al Ghul.
  • * Prequel: Batman: KnightGallery – Collection of artwork on which the two stories were based, written as a journal of Bruce Wayne found in the future many years after his death.Batman: Castle of the Bat – Based on the story of Frankenstein, Bruce Wayne attempts to resurrect his father into an avenging Bat-Man to discover who killed his parents.The Batman Chronicles – A quarterly Batman title covering single and/or not necessarily within continuity stories. Two all-Elseworlds issues were published:
  • * Issue #11 : Features the stories "The Berlin Batman"; "The Bride of Leatherwing" and "Curse of the Cat-Woman".
  • * Issue #21 : Features the stories "Apocalypse Girl"; "Mystery of Citizen Wayne" and "Silent Tale of the Bat".Batman/Tarzan: Claws of the Cat-woman – Dark Horse Comics/DC crossover; a 1930s Batman teams up with Lord Greystoke/Tarzan to assist the priestess of an African cat-cult in protecting her people's treasures from the Two-Face-like mercenary Finnigan Dent. Batman: Dark Allegiances – Batman, Catwoman, and Alfred Pennyworth as OSS agents during World War II.Batman/Dark Joker: The Wild – A fantasy tale of the evil wizard known as Dark Joker and his battles against the avenging Bat-Man.Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty – A centuries-old feud between the Wayne family and Vandal Savage begins with Bruce Wayne's ancestor Sir Joshua at the time of the Knights Templar, and ends with his descendant, Brenda Wayne, in the Gotham of the 25th century.Batman: Dark Knight of the Round Table – Batman as a knight in King Arthur's court.Batman: Detective No. 27 – In 1938, Bruce Wayne becomes a secret crimefighter without donning a costume. The title is a reference to Detective Comics #27, the comic book in which Batman first appeared.Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham – Bruce Wayne is a 1920s pulp fiction adventurer fighting Lovecraft-inspired monsters. The story is co-written by Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy, in which similar villains appear.Batman: The Golden Streets of Gotham – Turn-of-the-century Gotham is full of greedy industrialists who gain profit by degrading and tormenting their workers. Bruno Vaneko is a railroad worker whose parents were factory workers killed in a fire akin to the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Desperate for justice, he dons a bat costume and joins a citywide worker strike.Batman: Gotham Noir – A film noir homage set in the late 1940s. The story features James Gordon as a main character.Batman: Haunted Gotham – Gotham has been taken over by the Dark Lords of Hell and escape is impossible. After watching his parents being killed by a werewolf, Bruce Wayne becomes the Batman, as per his father's instructions from beyond the grave, and sets out to free Gotham with the help of a living skeleton named Cal and a shapeshifting gypsy seer named Cat Majik.Batman: Hollywood Knight – A severe head trauma causes an actor who plays Batman in film serials to believe that he actually is the Dark Knight.Batman: Holy Terror – The first story to carry the Elseworlds logo and the second officially published Elseworlds story. The Reverend Bruce Wayne becomes Batman to fight corruption in a theocratic future world.Batman: I, Joker – A futuristic Gotham City is led by a cult that follows Batman's descendant, a self-proclaimed god known only as the Bruce. The current Joker must find a way to survive long enough to face his nemesis and free Gotham from his influence.Batman: In Darkest Knight – Bruce Wayne becomes the Green Lantern of Earth.Batman: Manbat Batman: Masque – Set at the Gotham Opera House in the 1890s, the story is inspired by The Phantom of the Opera, with Batman and Two-Face sharing the Phantom role.Batman: Nevermore – Batman teams with then-newspaper reporter Edgar Allan Poe to solve a series of raven-themed murders.Batman: Nine Lives Batman: Nosferatu – Sequel to Superman's Metropolis which combines the Batman mythos with the films Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.The Batman of Arkham – Set in 1900, Bruce Wayne is an early psychiatrist and the head of Arkham Asylum, with Jonathan Crane as his corrupt assistant.Batman: The Order of Beasts – Batman attempts to break up a spy ring in England during World War II. This story is co-written and illustrated by Eddie Campbell.Batman: Reign of Terror – Set during the French Revolution, with Bruce Wayne as a French nobleman who becomes a masked crimefighter carrying convicted innocents out of France, a la The Scarlet Pimpernel.Batman: Scar of the Bat – A masked avenger helps Eliot Ness take on Al Capone in 1920s Prohibition Chicago.Batman: Two Faces – A recasting of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as a Victorian era Bruce Wayne tries to purge both his own evil side, which is a version of the Joker, and that of Two-Face. The story is followed by The Superman Monster.Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham – A heroic Catwoman battles a psychotic Batman.Daredevil/Batman: Eye for an Eye – Marvel/DC crossover, officially labelled an Elseworlds tale. Batman teams up with Daredevil to take on Two-Face and Mister Hyde.
  • * Sequel: Batman/Daredevil: King of New York – Batman and Daredevil team up once again to stop Scarecrow from taking over Kingpin's criminal empire in Manhattan.Gotham by Gaslight – The first officially published Elseworlds story, though it does not carry the Elseworlds logo. A Victorian-era Batman fights Jack the Ripper.
  • * Sequel: Batman: Master of the Future – The Victorian Batman faces off against a maniacal genius who is unwilling to allow the 20th-century's technological advances to enter Gotham.Robin 3000 – A teenage descendant of Bruce Wayne battles an alien invasion at the turn of the next millennium.

Superman ''Elseworlds''

Son of Superman – With Superman missing, Lex Luthor takes control of the Justice League. Meanwhile, Superman's young son Jonathan begins manifesting superpowers and rebelling against the "heroes" he comes across.Superboy's Legion – Inspired by the heroes of the 20th century, a 30th-century-raised Superboy forms his own Legion of Super-Heroes.Supergirl: Wings – A reworking of the Supergirl as Earth angel story, in which Matrix is a cynical guardian angel to Linda Danvers. This story features angelic versions of various DCU characters.Superman: A Nation Divided – Superman as a Union soldier during the American Civil War.Superman: At Earth's End – Earth has suffered through an apocalypse and Superman attempts to save Gotham City.Superman: The Dark Side – Kal-El's rocket lands on Apokolips, and Superman is raised by Darkseid.Superman: Distant Fires – A nuclear holocaust destroys civilization and deprives Superman and many other surviving heroes of their powers.Superman, Inc. – Superman is raised to suppress his powers and becomes a sports superstar and a ruthless businessman.Superman: Kal – Baby Kal-El lands in medieval England, where he grows up to become a blacksmith and forges the sword Excalibur and a suit of armor out of the metal of his spaceship.Superman: The Last Family of Krypton – Jor-El, Lara and baby Kal-El all arrive on Earth.Superman: Last Son of Earth – The infant Clark Kent arrives on the planet Krypton in a rocket from the doomed planet Earth. While struggling to find his place there as an adult, he discovers a Green Lantern power ring.

Superman/Batman ''Elseworlds''

Elseworld's Finest – Batman and Superman in a 1920s pulp adventure; the title is a play on the phrase World's Finest, which was the title of a long-running DC Comics series that featured these two heroes in team-up stories.Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl – In a world in which Bruce Wayne never became Batman and the infant Kal-El did not survive the destruction of Krypton, the orphaned Barbara Gordon becomes Gotham's near-dictatorial protector as Batgirl and Kara Zor-El joins the Justice Society as Supergirl. No connection to the above story with a similar title.Superman & Batman: Doom Link – A cyberpunk story. This book was only available with Kenner Toys' Cyber-Link Superman and Batman Action Figure Two-Pack.Superman & Batman: Generations – A retelling of the Superman and Batman mythos, with the heroes and characters in the DC Universe aging in real-time from a first meeting in 1939 and stretching onwards.

Justice League ''Elseworlds''

JLA: Act of God – When a strange energy hits Earth, heroes and villains alike lose their superpowers. Some refuse to give in to defeat, while some disappear into the woodwork and others undergo a rebirth as the Phoenix Group.JLA: Age of Wonder – A Justice League created during the Industrial Age.JLA: Created Equal – A cosmic plague hits Earth, killing all men except for Superman and Lex Luthor.JLA: Destiny – In a world where Superman and Batman never existed, Thomas Wayne creates his own Justice League.JLA: The Island of Dr. Moreau – Set in the 1880s, the League is combined with Dr. Moreau's animal-men.JLA: The Nail – The world is without Superman after a punctured tire prevents the discovery of baby Kal-El by the Kents. The Justice League is a group of heroes whom the media deem as dangerous aliens as a lethal conspiracy seeks to undermine all that they stand for.

Justice Society ''Elseworlds''

JSA: The Liberty Files – two two-issue miniseries collected into one volume:

DC Universe ''Elseworlds''

Conjurors – In a magic-centric reality, the machinations of Jonathan Arcane set those who control magic against those from whom it was stolen.Elseworlds 80-Page Giant #1 Flashpoint – A world where the Flash was the only superhero until he lost the use of his legs.Kamandi: At Earth's End – A grown Kamandi finds himself caught in a battle between Mother and Superman.
  • * Sequel: Superman: At Earth's End.Kingdom Come
  • * Associated: The Kingdom – Technically not an Elseworlds story, but a loose sequel to Kingdom Come. The collected series of comic books consists of:
  • ** New Year's Evil: Gog – A young boy saved from the Kansas attacks by Superman becomes a prophet to the hero that he deems Heaven-sent, but when he learns of his savior's transgressions, his worldview shatters, and the group of demigods known as the Quintessence attempt to give him a new purpose.
  • ** The Kingdom #1 – With Gog on a time-travelling rampage against Superman, the future heroes must band together to save the child of Superman and Wonder Woman. In addition, the Linear Men select a group of younger heroes to assist in the effort.
  • ** The Kingdom: Nightstar – Focusing on Mar'i Grayson, the daughter of Dick Grayson and Starfire, and her efforts to save the child.
  • ** The Kingdom: Son of the Bat – Ibn al Xu'ffasch, the son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul, tries to restore the balance to his reality by recruiting various former villains to his aid.
  • ** The Kingdom: Offspring – The son of Plastic Man attempts – in his rather comical way – to prevent the end of the world that he knows.
  • ** The Kingdom: Kid Flash – Iris West, daughter of Wally West combats her feelings of abandonment from her father, the apathy of her brother, and the crisis that could destroy her reality.
  • ** The Kingdom: Planet Krypton – A young runaway working as a Supergirl waitress at Booster Gold's hero-themed restaurant Planet Krypton starts seeing ghosts of other realities; superheroes that may or may not have existed.
  • ** The Kingdom #2 – Circumstances force the future Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman to recruit the help of their younger modern-day selves to save the most powerful child in Hypertime in the final clash with Gog.
  • * Associated: Justice Society of America Kingdom Come Special: Superman – Part of the "Thy Kingdom Come" storyline, and not an actual Elseworlds, it fills in details about Lois Lane's death at the hands of the Joker as mentioned in Kingdom Come.

Green Lantern ''Elseworlds''

Green Lantern: Evil's Might – Featuring Green Lantern, the story is set in New York City around 1888.Green Lantern: 1001 Emerald Nights – A Green Lantern story in a classical Arabic setting.

Teen Titans ''Elseworlds''

Teen Titans: The Lost Annual – The original Teen Titans go into space to save John F. Kennedy. It was originally planned for release in 2003 as the Teen Titans Swingin' Elseworlds Special, but its release was cancelled even though the book was finished. DC Comics released the book in January 2008 as a "Lost Annual".Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone – A futuristic manga-style Teen Titans tale. The story was originally intended as the Titans' installment of the 1996 Legends of the Dead Earth Annuals, but was reworked as a standalone Elseworlds special.

Wonder Woman ''Elseworlds''

Wonder Woman: Amazonia – A Victorian era Wonder Woman battles Jack the Ripper and the society that created him.Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon – Sequel to Superman's Metropolis and Batman: Nosferatu, which combines the Wonder Woman mythos with the films The Blue Angel and Dr. Mabuse the Gambler.

''Elseworlds'' ''Annual''s (1994)

The DC Annuals in 1994 featured Elseworlds stories.Action Comics Annual #6 – "Legacy" – A Kryptonian named Gar-El flees Krypton and conquers 18th-century Earth. 200 years later, his descendant Kal fights against his rule. This story is written and drawn by John Byrne.

Collected editions

Superman/Batman: Alternate Histories – reprints the stories "Leatherwing", "Legacy", "Crucible of Freedom" and "Citizen Wayne" from the above.