What happens when evil wins? That's the question Superman, Batman, the Justice League and every being in the DC Universe must face when Darkseid and his otherworldly legion of fanatical followers defeat the World's Greatest Heroes. How will they rally back? More importantly...can they? Collects FINAL CRISIS #1-7, DC UNIVERSE #0, FINAL CRISIS: SUPERMAN BEYOND #1-2 and BATMAN #682-683 as a DC Essential Edition!

For months now readers have witnessed the unimaginable and unthinkable as New Gods across the DC Universe have seemingly died, with Lightray's death in Countdown the biggest of them all. Now, the carnage continues but the mystery and adventure is just beginning! This is an epic tale of death and destruction on a scale never seen before. With a cast of hundreds and cameos by the entire DC Universe, this cannot be missed!

Warwolf is on the loose and destroying evidence against Harlan Ryker, the former boss of Michael Collins (aka Deathlok). The history of how Michael Collins was transformed into Deathlok is revealed. Deathlok is out for one thing, he wants to find his human body and Harlan Ryker is the key to finding it. Will he stop Warwolf from destroying all the evidence against Ryker and will he get Ryker to reveal where his human body is?

This issue also comes with a cover by one of comics most respected artists - Howard Chaykin!"

The Zombie (Simon William Garth) is a fictional supernatural character in the Marvel Comics universe, who starred in the black and white, horror comic magazine series Tales of the Zombie (1973-1975) in stories mostly by Steve Gerber and Pablo Marcos. The character had originated 20 years earlier in the standalone story "Zombie" by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, published in the horror anthology comic book Menace #5 (July 1953) from Marvel forerunner Atlas Comics.As Lee had done years before in reviving Henry Pym from a standalone science fiction story to become the superhero Ant-Man, then editor in chief Roy Thomas likewise plucked a character from, in this case, a pre-Comics Code horror tale. The initial modern story, co-scripted by Thomas and Steve Gerber and drawn by John Buscema and Tom Palmer, was a 12 page tale that led into a seven page reprint of the 1950s story (with the art slightly altered to give the Zombie shoulder-length rather than short hair). That original story was also reprinted in 1975's Tales of the Zombie Annual #1, and again two decades later in Curse of the Weird #4 (March 1994), the final issue of a short-lived Marvel horror reprint series...