Batman / Superman #4 [Acetate Cover]
(January 2020)

DC, 2019 Series
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Price
3.99 USD
Pages
40
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
2019-11-20
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Rated T Teen
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [circle and serifs]
Barcode
761941362700 00411
Editing
Jamie S. Rich (group editor); Paul Kaminski (editor); Ben Meares (associate editor)

Issue Notes

Acetate Cover. The outer acetate cover overlays the inner cover.

Year of the Villain - Hostile Takeover tie-in
This issue has variants:

Year of the Villain (Table of Contents)

The Batman Who Laughs / cover / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils
Emanuela Lupacchino (signed)
Inks
Emanuela Lupacchino (signed)
Colors
Rex Lokus (signed)
Letters
typeset
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Batman Who Laughs; Dark Robins; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
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Indexer Notes

Acetate outer cover over inner cover. Outer image shows The Batman Who Laughs and his Dark Robins, under the acetate shows Batman and Superman as his captives.

Issue credits cover to David Marquez and Alejandro Sanchez, but the cover is signed by Lupacchino and Lokus.

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Who Are the Secret Six? Part Four (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman; Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Joshua Williamson (credited)
Pencils
David Marquez (credited)
Inks
David Marquez (credited)
Colors
Alejandro Sánchez (credited)
Letters
John J. Hill (credited)
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; The Batman Who Laughs; Scarab [Blue Beetle; Jaime Reyes]; Commissioner James Gordon; Deathbringer [Donna Troy]; Sky Tyrant (Earth 3 version of Hawkman); Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]; King Shazam [Billy Batson; The Shazam Who Laughs]
Synopsis
Batman and Superman battle Scarab, formerly Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes who has been infected by The Batman Who Laughs. He is soon joined by other infected heroes, Donna Troy, Hawkman, and Commissioner Gordon, who keep the heroes busy so that The Batman Who Laughs can bring a satellite from the Dark Multiverse that he can use as a weapon to infect everyone on Earth.
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Keywords
Bermuda Triangle; Dark Multiverse; Dark Nights Metal; Fortress of Solitude; The Infected
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Year of the Villain
    The Batman Who Laughs
  2. 1. Who Are the Secret Six? Part Four
    Batman; Superman
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