These original stories from DETECTIVE COMICS #27-45, BATMAN #1-3 and NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR COMICS #1 include the origin of the Dark Knight, as well as the debuts of Robin, Commissioner Gordon, Professor Hugo Strange, The Joker, Catwoman and more!

Spinning out of the finale of DETECTIVE COMICS #701 and the conclusion to the "Legacy" storyline, the man who broke the Bat--the villainous Bane hijacks a ship carrying nuclear weapons and sets his sights on Gotham City!

The Huntress must keep her life from unraveling when she becomes the prime suspect in a brutal gangland murder! Helena Bertinelli must re-enter the world of the Mafioso to find clues to prove her innocence.

Explosive first issue! It's said there's no honor amongst thieves. Add to that a thief operating in the occult underground, and it's whole different kind of nasty! Luci Jenifer Inacio Das Neves, Lucifer for short, takes a new job that will expose her to the macabre underbelly of the city, and a secret that she'd rather nobody know. A brand new series by Michael Alan Nelson, the critically acclaimed author of Fall of Cthulhu, and hot new art talent Emma Rios! Available with two covers by Emma Rios and Joe Pekar.

Harvey Bullock. Vicki Vale. Dr. Leslie Thompkins. Stephanie Brown. These four ordinary people living extraordinary lives look to regain their balance in a city that turns lives upside down in the wake of the death and return of Batman!

WHY BOOM! LOVES IT: After publishing FAIRY QUEST, we kinda have a thing for Fablewood, where all fairy tales and bedtime stories live side-by-side. So when Paul Jenkins came up with a mystery and fantasy mash-up adventure set there and enlisted his CIVIL WAR: FRONT LINE artist Ramon Bachs, we hopped aboard faster than Alice went down the rabbit hole. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: In FICTION SQUAD, every nursery rhyme is a crime scene in the making. If you like your mystery mashed up with fantasy, this has got you covered. Fans of FABLES and ONCE UPON A TIME will find a lot to love. And if you enjoyed Humberto Ramos' art on FAIRY QUEST, then you will not be disappointed when you see Ramon Bachs' gorgeous line work. Plus, the project has thousands of Kickstarter co-publishers like you! WHAT'S IT ABOUT: Fablewood is a pretty dangerous place, but no area is more dangerous than the City of Rimes, deep in the heart of the Children's Realm. After transferring in from the realm of Mystery, a failed detective from an unfinished prose novel, Frankie Mack, is about to uncover a conspiracy that could unmake storytelling itself. After Humpty Dumpty is pushed to crack and Jack (of Jack and Jill) goes AWOL, Frankie and his partner, Simple Simon, are put on the case.

A duel between retro-punk rappers from the white-hot music scene in Las Vegas ends with one of them murdered. The problem for Gil Grissom and his team of crime scene investigators isn't a lack of suspects, it's too many - each with his or her own reason to want Busta Kapp dead. But when the suspects start becoming murder victims themselves, Grissom knows he's got to solve this case in a hurry... before the victim list goes off the charts!

“Second Chance In Hell” begins the first of three standalone issues, this one focusing on Gnarly the bartender and telling the story of the last days of his life as a boxer and revealing how the Undertow bar came into his hands. It’s a hard-hitting period-piece, set in the grimy early 70s, where crime, seduction and betrayal go hand-in-hand. And on top of this longer-than-usual length main story, CRIMINAL now features an expanded back-pages section, as well – with articles by Brubaker and other top crime writers, from novelists to screenwriters to comic writers. These noir articles have become a popular piece of the CRIMINAL package, and are something that can only be found in the comics, not in any collections. So please take this SECOND CHANCE IN HELL to find out what everyone’s been talking about!

The series follows private Investigators in New Orleans made up of a Vietnam War vet Jacob Ashe and his partner Cinder Du Bois, the child of a war vet and a Vietnamese woman.

A new 12-issue maxiseries by GREEN ARROW's Judd Winick delves into the world of organized crime in turn-of-the-century San Francisco! The first of three 4-issue story arcs (the latter two illustrated by John Severin and Tom Fowler, respectively) tells the tale of Izzy and Jacob Weiss, brothers and co- workers for San Francisco's Jewish Mafia who've done the dirtiest work for years. But this time, their Boss may have pushed them too far!

Hard-boiled feline detective John Blacksad is back in the latest tour de force from the multiple-award-winning duo of writer Juan Díaz Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido! Taking a much-needed break after the events of A Silent Hell, Blacksad lands a side job driving a rich Texan’s prized yellow Cadillac Eldorado across 1950s America, hitting the back roads from New Orleans to Tulsa. But before long, the car is stolen and Blacksad finds himself mixed up in another murder, with roughneck bikers, a shifty lawyer, one down-and-out Beat generation writer, and some sinister circus folk! When John Blacksad goes on the road, trouble is dead ahead!

Detective John Blacksad returns, with a new case that takes him to a 1950s New Orleans filled with hot jazz and cold-blooded murder! Hired to discover the fate of a celebrated pianist, Blacksad finds his most dangerous mystery yet in the midst of drugs, voodoo, the rollicking atmosphere of Mardi Gras, and the dark underbelly that it hides! Features an extensive making-of section, with tons of prelim sketches and watercolor studies. 2011 Eisner and Harvey Award-winner!

This kick-off to the 12-part ''Bruce Wayne: Murderer?'' storyline is a one-shot you can't afford to miss! When Batman responds to a series of crimes, little does he know that a crime is also occurring in the one place in the world he considers safe--his home!

Nightwing and Robin guest-star in a one-shot that finds that the only event that can pull the Dark Knight away from "No Man's Land" is the DAY OF JUDGMENT! While Batman's outside Gotham, dead gangsters are rising from their graves and trying to take back their old territories. It's up to Robin and Nightwing to hold down the fort and rescue several of Oracle's operatives who've crossed paths with the gang. The battle lines are drawn between good and evil in Gotham, with Oracle herself caught in the middle.

"Private investigator Frank Armstrong barely scrapes by in the Los Angeles underbelly until "the big one" hits his desk. Locate and retrieve the daughter of a drug kingpin, and he can finally afford more than the one-dollar meatloaf. Unfortunately, the job offer arrives just as the symptoms of his fatal, late-stage brain tumor intensify. Frank must find the target and keep her safe while time collapses, family turns into foe, and the specter of his murdered wife resurfaces in the eyes of a mobster's daughter.

Based on the cult film, Trancers is the story of decorated Police Trooper Jack Deth who has travelled from the year 2247 to 1985 on a one-way mission to capture a fugitive with the power to transform ordinary people into psychotic killing machines.

The story of a gangster whose life is traced from the innocence of childhood to amoral adulthood, and nearly every stop explored along the way. Abuli's distinctive narrative builds the story over time and Jordi Bernet's masterful renditions of the title character are stunningly cinematic-Torpedo is the Godfather of comics, in both subject matter and execution.

With him is his former enemy combatant LENI MULLER, the SKY WITCH, fleeing the defeat of Germany, ready to prove herself worthy of the chance that has been given to her in Neopolis. They are hardly prepared for the challenges facing the experimental city. Science crime and unearthly gang violences has swiftly followed the heroes into this new, wide-open environment.

Written by Alan Moore; Art by Gene Ha and Zander Cannon This is the tale of Neopolis, a modern metropolis with a citizentry made up exclusively of super beings. In a city where everyone is blessed with powers, it takes a unique and powerful police force to protect and serve. In this Eisner Award-winning book, we are introduced to the extremely diverse officers of Precinct Ten; an armored and talking dog, a genetically engineered "perfect woman," a high tech cowboy, an indestructible man, and a rookie with a toy box full of "helpers." Individually they are unique personalities, together they are Neopolis' finest.

On the moon, a robot speaks with an Utrom as the Utroms build a base on the moon. On Earth, the turtles are fighting of the Madhattan Maulitia. The turtles decided to move up to the rooftops to avoid the Maulitia, but we're surprised to find them there with snowmobiles. After giving the Maulitia a beating, our heroes steal a few snowmoblies and head home. Michelangelo gets left behind and accidental gets hit by the bus he tries to flag down, but is helped by a mysterious figure. Donatello's snowmobile blows up due to poor maintenance and reveals a mysterious truck.Elsewhere, Casey and April Jones, now married, head to the doctor to get information on their baby. In Northhampton, Shadow trains with Master Splinter and Metalhead while waiting to hear the results.