Dark Nights: Metal #4 [Jim Lee & Scott Williams Variant Cover]
(February 2018)

DC, 2017 Series
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Price
3.99 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
2017-12-20
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Rated T+ Teen Plus
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [circle and serifs]
Barcode
761941348926 00431
Editing
Rebecca Taylor (credited) (editor); Dave Wielgosz (credited) (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

This issue is a variant of Dark Nights: Metal (DC, 2017 series) #4 [Greg Capullo & Jonathan Glapion Cover]. There exist further variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Justice League / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jim Lee (signed)
Inks
Scott Williams (signed)
Colors
Alex Sinclair
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Dark Multiverse versions of Superman
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Metal [Part Four] (Table of Contents: 1)

Justice League / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Scott Snyder (credited)
Pencils
Greg Capullo (credited)
Inks
Jonathan Glapion (credited)
Colors
FCO Plascencia (credited)
Letters
Steve Wands (credited)
Genre
superhero
Characters
Justice League [Wonder Woman [Diana of Themyscira]; Aquaman [Artur Curry]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Cyborg [Victor Stone]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Superman [Clark Kent]]; Doctor Fate; Kendra Saunders [Lady Blackhawk]; Deathstroke [Slade Wilson]; Mr. Terrific [Michael Holt]; Plastic Man (as an egg); dark multiverse versions of Superman; Barbatos (flashback); The Seven Deadly Enemies of Man (2 unidentified sins); unidentified Thanagarian Wingmen; Onimar Synn; Starro the Conqueror; Dream [Daniel; Morpheus]; Monitor (flashback); Anti-Matter Monitor (flashback); Dark Multiverse Monitor (flashback); Dark Knights [The Murder Machine; The Red Death; The Dawnbreaker; The Devastator; The Batman Who Laughs; The Drowned; The Merciless] (dark multiverse versions of Batman, flashback); Black Adam; Hawkman [Carter Hall] (transformed into a dragon of Barbatos)
Synopsis
Batman must rescue Superman from the Dark Multiverse, and he must battle Dark Multiverse versions of Superman to free him. Aquaman and Deathstroke travel to Atlantis to search for Nth Metal in the tomb of Arion. Green Lantern, Mr. Terrific, and Plastic "egg" travel to the hidden Thanagar Prime where they encounter Onimar Synn and Starro the Conqueror. Wonder Woman, Doctor Fate, and Kendra Saunders travel to the Rock of Eternity in their quest for Nth Metal, but Kendra betrays them. Superman and Batman are rescued by Daniel, and he sends them to the Forge of Worlds to stop Barbatos.
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Keywords
Arion's tomb; Atlantis; Dark Multiverse; Lucien's Library; Rock of Eternity; Thanagar Prime; The Dreaming; the Forge of Worlds; The Seven Deadly Enemies of Man

Indexer Notes

Story takes place after the Bats Out of Hell crossover that ran in:
The Flash (DC, 2016 series) #33 (Part 1)
Justice League (DC, 2016 series) #32 (Part 2),
Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps (DC, 2016 series) #33 (Part 3), and
Justice League (DC, 2016 series) #33 (Part 4).

The story behind Hawkman's transformation is told in Hawkman: Found (DC, 2018 series) #1.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils
Greg Capullo
Inks
Jonathan Glapion
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
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Indexer Notes

2 page title and credits appearing between pages 2 and 3 of the story.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Justice League
  2. 1. Metal [Part Four]
    Justice League
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
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  • John Monagle
  • Jim Van Dore
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