Superman and Batman Elseworlds Comics Return to Print After DC Revives Imprint

Last year, DC Comics announced the return of Elseworlds: The DC imprint for out-of-continuity comics like Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham and Superman: Red Son. After relaunching its lineup of Elseworlds-branded books with June’s Gotham by Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age #1, July’s Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter #1, and August’s DC vs. Vampires: World War V #1 — with Batman the Barbarian, Green Lantern Dark, and Batman: Nightfire still to come — DC is bringing back to print some of the imprint’s most famous stories in new editions of the Elseworlds graphic novel collections.

This week’s Elseworlds: Superman Vol. 1 paperback, which returns to print for the first time since 2018, follows the just-released Elseworlds: Batman Vol. 1 and Elseworlds: Justice League Vol. 1. The complete vampire Batman trilogy will be collected in Elseworlds: Batman Vol. 2, out in October, while Superboy and Supergirl take flight in Elseworlds: Superman Vol. 2 in November. 

The paperback collections average 300 pages and retail for $34.99 each. We’ve rounded up the 2024 editions of DC’s Elseworlds collections below, along with the comics contained in each volume.

Elseworlds: Batman Vol. 1 (2024 Edition)

In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings andput into strange times and places—some that have existed, or might haveexisted, and others that can’t, couldn’t or shouldn’t exist.

The result: heroes you know…in worlds you don’t.

Batman’s prestige format Elseworlds tales are collected in this graphic novel collection.

FeaturingBatman as a holy priest, Harry Houdini alongside the Dark Knight, Dr.Wayne reanimating a Frankenstein-like Bat-Man, Batman as a GreenLantern, a supernatural Bat-Man fighting the evil wizard known as theDark Joker, a future Robin fighting offan alien invasion and othertales!

Collects BATMAN: HOLY TERROR; BATMAN: THE BLUE, THE GREY,AND THE BAT; ROBIN 3000 #1-2; BATMAN/DARK JOKER: THE WILD;BATMAN/HOUDINI: THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP; BATMAN: CASTLE OF THE BAT; BATMAN:IN DARKEST KNIGHT and BATMAN: DARK ALLEGIANCES!

On sale now

Elseworlds: Justice League Vol. 1 (2024 Edition)

The Justice League in the Wild West?

A world where Supergirl and Batgirl protect Metropolis and Gotham City?

Wonder Woman fighting Jack the Ripper in Victorian England?

Featuringthe League of Justice battling the insane sorcerer Luithorr, DianaPrince and the Justice Riders against the evil robber baron MaxwellLord, Batman and Superman as pulp heroes, a gender reversed World’sFinest teaming up to save Lex Luthor, and other tales!

CollectsELSEWORLD’S FINEST #1-2, ELSEWORLD’S FINEST: SUPERGIRL & BATGIRL #1,JUSTICE RIDERS #1, LEAGUE OF JUSTICE #1-2, TITANS: SCISSORS PAPER STONE#1, and WONDER WOMAN: AMAZONIA #1.

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Elseworlds: Superman Vol. 1 (2024 Edition)

FeaturingSuperman as the Dark Knight, Kal-El raised in medieval times, Supermanas the sole survivor of a nuclear Armageddon, Private Atticus Kent as anabolitionist superhero in the American Civil War, Superman the greatestathlete on Earth and Golden Age Superman at war with Mars!

CollectsSUPERMAN: SPEEDINGBULLETS, SUPERMAN: KAL, SUPERMAN: DISTANTFIRES,SUPERMAN: A NATION DIVIDED, SUPERMAN, INC. and SUPERMAN:WAR OF THEWORLDS!

On sale now

Elseworlds: Justice League Vol. 2 (2024 Edition)

This collection includes a dystopian tale of Metropolis in the throes ofa revolution at the hands of the Super-Man, Nosferatu and Diana ofHeaven, a world where the powers of all superhumans are taken away, astory about the super-sons of Batman and Superman, and other bizarretales!

Collects BATMAN: NOSFERATU #1, ELSEWORLDS 80-PAGE GIANT#1, JLA: ACT OF GOD #1-3, SUPERMAN: METROPOLIS #1 and WONDERWOMAN: THEBLUE AMAZON #1!

On sale September 24th

Elseworlds: Batman Vol. 2 (New Edition)

GothamCity is caught in a vortex of corruption and decay, and those who feedon blood and despair are about to suck any remaining life from her dyingveins.

All that stands against them is the Batman, theirlegendary companion in the darkness—the last line of defense between theinnocent and the screaming chaos of mindless appetite.

To combatthis primeval threat, however, the Dark Knight must give up everythinghe holds dear, including life itself—for death is only the first steptowards thefinal reckoning between good and evil.

Written by DOUGMOENCH and illustrated in full gothic glory by KELLEY JONES, JOHNBEATTY and MALCOLM JONES III, ELSEWORLDS: BATMAN VOLUME TWO gives freerein to the darker side of the World’s Greatest Detective, collectingBATMAN & DRACULA: RED RAIN, BATMAN: BLOODSTORM, and BATMAN: CRIMSONMIST.

On sale October 8th

Elseworlds: Justice League Vol. 3 (2024 Edition)

This collection includes a dystopian tale in which all the men on Earthhave died save for Superman and his unborn child, a story of the Flashcrippled and desperate to stop Vandal Savage, a Bat-Mite and Mr.Mxyzptlk adventure across realities and more!

Collects CONJURORS#1-3, FLASHPOINT (1999) #1-3, SUPERMAN AND BATMAN: WORLD’S FUNNEST #1,JLA: CREATED EQUAL #1-2 and GREEN LANTERN: 1001 EMERALD NIGHTS!

On sale October 22nd

Elseworlds: Batman Vol. 3 (2024 Edition)

Featuring tales of Batman and Eliot Ness taking on Al Capone, a futureleague of Batmen protecting the night with an iron fist, a mysteriousknight defending Camelot as an armor-clad Bat and a 19th-century Batmanentwined in an operatic tale of love, horror and obsession.

CollectsBATMAN: BROTHERHOOD OF THE BAT, BATMAN: DARK KNIGHT OF THE ROUND TABLE#1–2, BATMAN: KNIGHT GALLERY, BATMAN: MASQUE and BATMAN:SCAR OF THE BAT!

On sale November 5th

Elseworlds: Superman Vol. 2 (2024 Edition)

This volume includes the story of Superman’s son growing up without afather, the Superman of England, a Superman raised in the 30th centuryand an angel’s attempt to help Linda Danvers (Supergirl) overcome thedarkness within.

Collects SON OF SUPERMAN, SUPERBOY’S LEGION #1-2, SUPERGIRL: WINGS and SUPERMAN: TRUE BRIT!

On sale November 19th