Batman: Last Knight on Earth #1 [Third Printing]
(July 2019)

DC, 2019 Series
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Price
5.99 USD
Pages
60
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
2019-10-09
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Mature Readers
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC Black Label [inside circle]
Barcode
761941353906 00113
Editing
Mark Doyle (credited) (editor); Arianna Turturro (credited as Amedeo Turturro) (associate editor); Bob Harras (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue is a variant of Batman: Last Knight on Earth (DC, 2019 series) #1. There exist further variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Greg Capullo (credited) (signed as Capullo)
Inks
Greg Capullo (credited) (signed as Capullo)
Colors
FCO Plascencia (credited) (signed as +fco)
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Joker (head in a jar)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Same art as first printing cover, but with a green background.

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Part One: The Cave (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script
Scott Snyder (credited)
Pencils
Greg Capullo (credited)
Inks
Jonathan Glapion (credited)
Colors
FCO Plascencia (credited)
Letters
Tom Napolitano (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
We've had many adventures together, Batman and I.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Dr. Redmund Hudd
Synopsis
While working on a case involving the death of a young boy, Batman is shot. When Bruce regains consciousness, he finds himself as a patient at Arkham Asylum, and he is told that for the last 20 years he has been living in a fantasy world where he is Batman, but that world only exists in his mind.
Reprints

Part Two: The Right Hand (Table of Contents: 2)

Batman / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
Scott Snyder (credited)
Pencils
Greg Capullo (credited)
Inks
Jonathan Glapion (credited)
Colors
FCO Plascencia (credited)
Letters
Tom Napolitano (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
In less than five minutes he's made it to the third floor.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Dr. Redmund Hudd; The Joker (head in a jar)
Synopsis
Bruce regains his cowl and escapes from Arkham and confronts Alfred to reveal the truth of the situation. Batman then emeges in a desert where he finds the living head of the Joker encased in a jar.
Reprints

Part Three: The Asylum (Table of Contents: 3)

Batman / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Scott Snyder (credited)
Pencils
Greg Capullo (credited)
Inks
Jonathan Glapion (credited)
Colors
FCO Plascencia (credited)
Letters
Tom Napolitano (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
It was two days' journey to Coast City...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Joker (head in a jar); Green Lantern [Mogo] (deceased); Vixen [Mari McCabe]; Poison Ivy [Pamela Isley]
Synopsis
Batman and the Joker travel to Coast City which has been decimated by a past battle, where they are attacked by Green Lantern ring energy constructs, but they are rescued by Vixen and Poison Ivy.
Reprints

Part Four: Echolocation (Table of Contents: 4)

Batman / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Scott Snyder (credited)
Pencils
Greg Capullo (credited)
Inks
Jonathan Glapion (credited)
Colors
FCO Plascencia (credited)
Letters
Tom Napolitano (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
There's no going back people...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Joker (head in a jar); Vixen [Mari McCabe]; Poison Ivy [Pamela Isley]; Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]; Donna Troy; Wonder Woman [Diana]; Lex Luthor (flashback); Darkseid (flashback); Omega (flashback); Alfred Pennyworth (flashback)
Synopsis
Bruce is brought to the ruins of the Hall of Justice, where Wonder Woman is gathering a group of heroes as new Amazons to protect the survivors of Earth. Wonder Woman tells Bruce how Luthor manipulated the people of the world to turn against the heroes, but how they eventually turned on the villains as well. Batman was killed in the attacks, and ultimately a new evil named Omega rose to take over the world. Bruce reveals that he learned from Alfred that he is a clone of the original Batman. Bruce urges Diana to join the fight against Omega, but she declines.
Reprints
Keywords
Hall of Justice

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Batman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Greg Capullo (credited) (signed as Capullo)
Inks
Jonathan Glapion (credited, signed)
Colors
FCO Plascencia (credited) (signed as +fco)
Letters
typeset
Genre
superhero
Characters
Bane; Scarecrow

Indexer Notes

Preview of next issue's cover art.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Batman
  2. 1. Part One: The Cave
    Batman
  3. 2. Part Two: The Right Hand
    Batman
  4. 3. Part Three: The Asylum
    Batman
  5. 4. Part Four: Echolocation
    Batman
  6. 5. Next Issue:
    Batman
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