Batman was first introduced in Detective Comics #27. At the time, Detective Comics was an anthology, but eventually the Dark Knight took over and the series become solely dedicated to stories of the Batman. While many Batman spin-offs come and go, the self-titled series and Detective Comics are the two mainstays that will never fade away. While the Batman series is designed as the more action-oriented comic, Detective Comics focuses on mysteries and the Dark Knight's detective work.

STARRING HEROES FROM THE PRE-FLASHPOINT DCU! After a year living under the confinement of the dome, Stephanie Brown isn't sure she wants to be Batgirl again. But when she's attacked by Catman and Gorilla Grodd from the world of Flashpoint, she's forced to put on the cape and cowl to fight alongside Red Robin and Cassandra Cain!

A new beginning for the Silver Surfer! The sentinel of the spaceways walks the Earth once more, a stranger feared by many. Only the High Evolutionary understands his true potential, but the Evolutionary's mysterious grand design may cost the Surfer everything and change the cosmic balance forever! He's traded blows with Thor and matched wits with Mephisto, but can the herald of Galactus survive the judgment of Norrin Rand, the man within the Silver Surfer? It's a character-defining epic showing the Silver Surfer as you've never seen him before, brought to you by "Planet Hulk" writer Greg Pak and "Dark Wolverine" artist Stephen Segovia.

This is the one Cal McDonald fans have been waiting forthe biggest, scariest, weirdest _Criminal Macabre_ story of all time and the start of the new ongoing line of _Criminal Macabre_ comics. Cal McDonald, boozer, druggie, private dick who hangs with dead dudeswelcome to Rock Bottom. Your only friend in the human world is dead, your girlfriend just dumped you and moved to another city, and the district attorney has a chip on his shoulder the size of a Chevy Nova with your name on it. When that chip turns into a nasty case of police brutality, Cal ends up fighting for his life in the intensive-care unit and wakes up days later¦sober. And what's Cal been missing since he went under? Only the most horrifying convergence of sheer monster power ever to emigrate from the old world. Cal McDonald, meet Nosferatu.

Read the beginning of the story right here! In this four-part prequel to the first Transformers film, travel from CYBERTRON to Earth as we see for the first time what momentous events led to the TRANSFORMERS bringing their war to our world.