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October 9, 2026 12:40 am

Batman of Two Worlds issue 1 (review)

DG Stewart October 9, 2026 No Comments

Short Cuts: Writer: Matt Fraction Artist: Javi Fernandez Cut Short: Writer: Scott Snyder Artist: Nick Derrington DC Comics, November 2026 The title of this new series is a homage to Gardner Fox’s and Carmen Infantino’s classic story in The Flash 123, published by DC Comics in September 1961. This issue was the beginning of DC Comics’ sometimes elaborate Multiverse, pruned in 1985’s Crisis on Infinite Earths but which has flourished again. A recent extension of this is the Ultimate universe, featuring a hulking version of Batman, whose adventures we have previously reviewed. This first issue consists of two twinned stories, both eight pages each, the first dealing with standard continuity’s Batman chasing the thieves of a short-range teleportation device, and the second dealing with Ultimate Batman’s foiling of a robbery. Here is DC Comics’ promotional copy: Two worlds. One legendary hero. Batman of Two Worlds features an all-new Batman story

Legion of Super-Heroes issue 1 (2026) (review)

DG Stewart October 7, 2026 No Comments

Writer: Joshua Williamson Artist: Hayden Sherman DC Comics, November 2026 Marvel Comics’ editor-in-chief, the late Jim Shooter, once described it as the only comic he ever paid money to read. The title was only one of two (the other being the best selling New Teen Titans by Marv Wolfman and George Perez) to be upgraded with great fanfare to DC Comics’ innovative Baxter paper format in 1984 (to put that into perspective, even Batman missed out). And Paul Levitz’ and Keith Giffin’s The Great Darkness Saga, published in 1982, featuring every Legion of Super-Heroes character (a monumental effort of scripting) is widely regarded as one of DC Comics’ best superhero epics. The Legion of Super-Heroes has been through some ups and downs since it was established in 1958 (see for example our commentary on the group’s sixtieth anniversary: https://worldcomicbookreview.com/2018/04/11/happy-sixtieth-birthday-legion-of-superheroes/ and our unhappy review of Brian Michael Bendis’ reboot from 2019: