List Of Elseworlds Publications

This is a list of ''Elseworlds'' publications from DC Comics, grouped by main character, and in alphabetical order by title. Each title was originally released as a one-shot comic book unless otherwise noted.

Batman ''Elseworlds''

*'' Batman: Thrillkiller'' – one three-part miniseries and one one-shot collected into one volume (SC):
**''Batgirl and Robin: Thrillkiller'' (1997) – Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) and Dick Grayson (Robin) as part of the 1960s counterculture. (three issues)
**''Batgirl and Batman: Thrillkiller '62'' (1998) – Bruce Wayne becomes Batman in the sequel.
*''Batman & Captain America'' (1996) – A Golden Age adventure teaming Batman and Robin with Captain America and Bucky of Marvel Comics against the Joker and the Red Skull of Marvel Comics.
*''Batman/Demon: A Tragedy'' (2000) – Bruce Wayne is possessed by Etrigan the Demon.
*'' Tales of the Multiverse: Batman – Vampire'' (2007) – three graphic novels collected into one volume (SC):
**''Batman & Dracula: Red Rain'' (1991) – Batman faces off against Dracula and must become a vampire himself to effectively face his nemesis. (HC, SC)
**''Batman: Bloodstorm'' (1994) – 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. (HC, SC)
**''Batman: Crimson Mist'' (1998) – 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. (HC, SC)
*'' Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop'' (1993) – Batman teams up with Harry Houdini to fight child-stealing vampires in 1907.
*''Batman/Lobo'' (2000) – In a severely twisted version of Gotham, the Joker hires the infamous "Main Man" 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'' (1992) – Batman and Robin in the American Civil War.
*''Batman: The Book of the Dead'' (1999) – 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'' (1995) – 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'' (2001) – 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'' (1996) – 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'' (1994) – Based on the story of ''Frankenstein'', young Dr. Bruce Wayne attempts to resurrect his father into an avenging Bat-Man to discover who killed his parents.
*''The Batman Chronicles'' (1995–2001) – A quarterly Batman title covering single and/or not necessarily within continuity stories. Two all-''Elseworlds'' issues were published:
** Issue #11 (winter 1998): Features the stories "The Berlin Batman"; "The Bride of Leatherwing" (a sequel to " Leatherwing" from ''Detective Comics Annual'' #7 (1994)) and "Curse of the Cat-Woman".
** Issue #21 (summer 2000): Features the stories "Apocalypse Girl"; "Mystery of Citizen Wayne" (a sequel to "Citizen Wayne" from '' Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Annual'' #4 (1994)) and "Silent Tale of the Bat".
*'' Batman/Tarzan: Claws of the Cat-woman'' (1999) – 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'' (1996) – Batman, Catwoman, and Alfred Pennyworth (Robin) as OSS agents during World War II.
*''Batman/Dark Joker: The Wild'' (1993) – A fantasy tale of the evil wizard known as Dark Joker and his battles against the avenging Bat-Man. (HC, SC and ashcan)
*'' Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty'' (1997) – A centuries-old feud between the Wayne family and the immortal Vandal Savage begins with Bruce Wayne's ancestor Sir Joshua of Wainwright, at the time of the Knights Templar, and ends with his descendant, Vice President Brenda Wayne, in the Gotham of the 25th century.
*''Batman: Dark Knight of the Round Table'' (1998) – Batman as a knight in King Arthur's court.
*''Batman: Detective No. 27'' (2003) – 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. (HC, SC)
*'' Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham'' (2000) – Bruce Wayne is a 1920s pulp fiction adventurer fighting Lovecraft-inspired monsters. Written by Mike Mignola, creator of ''Hellboy'', in which similar villains appear. (three issues)
*''Batman: The Golden Streets of Gotham'' (2003) – 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'' (2001) – A film noir homage set in the late 1940s. Features James Gordon as a main character.
*''Batman: Haunted Gotham'' (1999–2000) Gotham has been taken over by the Dark Lords of Hell and escape is impossible. After watching his parents being killed by a werewolf, a grown-up 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'' (2001) 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'' (1991) – 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'' (1998) – 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'' (1994) – Bruce Wayne becomes the Green Lantern of Earth.
*''Batman: Manbat'' (1995) (three issues)
*''Batman: Masque'' (1997) – Set at the Gotham Opera House in the 1890s. Inspired by ''The Phantom of the Opera'', with Batman and Two-Face sharing the Phantom role.
*''Batman: Nevermore'' (2003) – Batman teams with then-newspaper reporter Edgar Allan Poe to solve a series of raven-themed murders.
*'' Batman: Nine Lives'' (2002) (HC, SC)
*'' Batman: Nosferatu'' (1999) – 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'' (2000) – 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'' – (2004) Batman attempts to break up a spy ring in England during World War II. Co-written and illustrated by Eddie Campbell.
*''Batman: Reign of Terror'' (1998) – 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'' (1996) – A masked avenger helps Eliot Ness take on Al Capone in 1920s Prohibition Chicago.
*'' Batman: Two Faces'' (1998) – 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. Followed by ''The Superman Monster'' (see below).
*''Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham'' (1999) – A heroic Catwoman (based in Kyle Manor) battles a psychotic Batman.
*'' Daredevil/Batman: Eye for an Eye'' (Marvel 1997) – Marvel/DC crossover, officially labelled an ''Elseworlds'' tale.
**Sequel: '' Batman/Daredevil: King of New York'' ( DC 1999)Although not officially labelled an ''Elseworlds'' tale, the story is a sequel to '' Daredevil/Batman: Eye for an Eye'' (Marvel Comics 1997), which ''was'' labelled as an ''Elseworlds'' tale.
*''Gotham by Gaslight'' (1989) – 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'' (1991) – 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'' (1992) – A teenage descendant of Bruce Wayne battles an alien invasion at the turn of the next millennium.

Superman ''Elseworlds''

*''Son of Superman'' (1999) – 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'' (2001) – Inspired by the heroes of the 20th century, a 30th-century-raised Superboy forms his own Legion of Super-Heroes.
*''Supergirl: Wings'' (2001) – A reworking of the Supergirl as Earth angel story, in which Matrix is a cynical guardian angel to Linda Danvers. Features angelic versions of various DCU characters.
*''Superman: A Nation Divided'' (1998) – Superman as a Union soldier during the American Civil War.
*'' Superman: At Earth's End'' (1995) – Earth has suffered through an apocalypse and Superman attempts to save Gotham City.
*'' Superman: The Dark Side'' (1998) – Kal-El's rocket lands on Apokolips, and Superman is raised by Darkseid.
*''Superman: Distant Fires'' (1998) – A nuclear holocaust destroys civilization and deprives Superman and many other surviving heroes of their powers.
*''Superman, Inc.'' (1999) – Superman is raised to suppress his powers and becomes a sports superstar and a ruthless businessman.
*''Superman: Kal'' (1995) – 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'' (2010) – Jor-El, Lara and baby Kal-El all arrive on Earth. (three issues)
*'' Superman: Last Son of Earth'' (2000) – 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.
** Sequel: '' Superman: Last Stand on Krypton'' (2003)
*''Superman's Metropolis'' (1997) – The first story of a trilogy that is continued in '' Batman: Nosferatu'' and '' Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon'' and which combines the Superman mythos with Fritz Lang's film ''Metropolis''.
*''The Superman Monster'' (1999) – A ''Frankenstein'' pastiche in which Vicktor Luthor finds a crashed rocket with a dead infant inside and sets about bringing it back to life using his experimental machinery. This story is the sequel to '' Batman: Two Faces'' (see above).
*'' Superman: Red Son'' (2003) – Kal-El's rocket crash-lands in Ukraine, and the Man of Steel becomes the U.S.S.R.'s main hero. (three issues, collected)
*'' Superman: Speeding Bullets'' (1993) – Kal-El is raised by Thomas and Martha Wayne, who are murdered by a mugger, and he becomes a superpowered version of Batman.
*'' Superman/Tarzan: Sons of the Jungle'' (2001, co-published with Dark Horse) – Kal-El is raised by apes in this amalgamation of the two characters.
*'' Superman: True Brit'' (2004) – Kal-El lands in the English countryside and is raised to be "ordinary" and not draw attention. Nonetheless, he becomes a British superhero, before the tabloids try to knock him down. This story was co-written by Monty Python's John Cleese and long-time Python chronicler Kim "Howard" Johnson.
*'' Superman: War of the Worlds'' (1998) – The Golden Age Superman encounters the Martian invaders from H. G. Wells

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