ISSUE #15 • AUGUST 2021 DCCOMICS.COM SOLICITING COMICS ON SALE OCTOBER 2021 An impersonator is haunting Gotham and murdering criminals. Can the Dark Knight stop him to clear his name? Three Prestige Format Issues OCTOBER AGES 17+ Written by director and screenwriter MATTSON TOMLIN Illustrated by Eisner-Award winner ANDREA SORRENTINO ™ & © DC #15 AUGUST 2021 / SOLICITING COMICS ON SALE IN OCTOBER WHAT’S INSIDE BATMAN 1 Director and screenwriter Mattson Tomlin teams up with Eisner-winning artist Andrea Sorrentino for Batman: The Imposter, a new version of Gotham City informed by grim reality, where every punch leaves a broken bone and every action has consequences. You thought you knew the whole story of Batman: The Long Halloween, but you don’t. Legendary creators Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale return to Gotham City to reveal that no secret remains buried forever! CATWOMAN: LONELY CITY 14 Visionary creator Cliff Chiang writes, draws, colors, and letters the story of a world without Batman, where one woman’s wounds threaten to tear apart an entire city! It’s an unmissable artistic statement that will change the way you see Gotham’s heroes and villains forever! WONDER WOMAN 80TH 20 Celebrate the Amazon Warrior’s 80th Anniversary with a series of amazing projects. Legendary talents Kelly Sue DeConnick and Phil Jimenez unleash Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, a reading experience the likes of which you’ve never seen. The Wonder Woman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular features some of the best talent in the comics industry, along with bright young stars creating new stories that capture timeless messages of hope and empowerment. ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVELS 38 Teen Titans Go! DC Super Hero Girls! Exchange Students! The Original graphic novel features the multiversal super-heroic crossover of the decade. New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray and Eric Zawadzki continue their epic exploration of life on Krypton in House of El Book Two: The Enemy Delusion. 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SPOTLIGHT a new and unique vision of Gotham! variant cover 17 + NOT FINAL COVER BATMAN: THE IMPOSTER #1 Story by MATTSON TOMLIN Bruce Wayne’s mission as the Batman has only been underway for a year or so, but he can tell he’s making a difference. Art and cover by ANDREA SORRENTINO Unfortunately, he’s made some powerful enemies. All the traditional power brokers of Gotham resent the disruption the $5.99 US | 48 PAGES | 1 of 3 | PRESTIGE Batman has brought to town…and it seems one of them has a plan to neutralize him. There’s a second Batman haunting Variant cover by LEE BERMEJO Gotham’s rooftops and alleys—and this one has no qualms about murdering criminals, live and on tape. With the entire 1:25 variant cover by KAARE ANDREWS might of the Gotham City Police Department and Gotham’s rich and powerful coming down on his head, Batman must ON SALE 10/12/21 find this imposter and somehow clear his name…but how can you prove your innocence from behind a mask? Director and screenwriter Mattson Tomlin (Project Power, Little Fish) has teamed up with Eisner-winning suspense and horror artist Andrea Sorrentino (Joker: Killer Smile, Gideon Falls) to create a wholly new version of Gotham City, informed by grim reality, where every punch leaves a broken bone and every action has consequences far, far beyond Batman’s imagination! 1 SPOTLIGHT BATMAN: THE IMPOSTER - ART IN PROGRESS 2 TIE-IN! TIESPOTLIGHT-INS! CONTINUES! BATMAN #114 Written by JAMES TYNION IV Pencils and inks by JORGE JIMÉNEZ Back-up written by BRANDON THOMAS Back-up pencils and inks by JASON HOWARD Cover by JORGE JIMÉNEZ $4.99 US | 40 PAGES Variant by JORGE MOLINATIE -INS! 1:25 Ratio Variant by DYLAN TEAGUE US $5.99 (Both Covers Card Stock) ON SALE 10/5/21 variant cover Batman is racing against time to stop Gotham City from tearing itself apart as the Scarecrow’s long game is revealed. The Dark Knight has bigger problems though, as an insane Peacekeeper-01 is on a murderous rampage through the streets of Gotham! Can Peackeeper-X stop him?! Back-Up: Clownhunter has been doused with Fear Toxin at the hands of the Scarecrow, and he is living out every anxiety, moment of pain, and heartbreak he’s ever had. Will he find his way out and resume his goal of being Gotham’s protector from clowns? Or will he succumb to Scarecrow’s greatest mind game yet?! See the end of this epic story that will change Clownhunter’s trajectory in Gotham City forever! BATMAN #115 Written by JAMES TYNION IV Pencils and inks by JORGE JIMÉNEZ Back-up written by BECKY CLOONAN and MICHAEL W. CONRAD Back-up pencils and inks by JORGE CORONA Cover by JORGE JIMÉNEZ $4.99 US | 40 PAGES Variant by JORGE MOLINA 1:25 Ratio Variant by ARIST DEYN US $5.99 (Both Covers Card Stock) ON SALE 10/19/21 variant cover Batman and Miracle Molly are all that stands between Gotham City and absolute insanity! But an unhinged Simon Saint brings all the resources of the Magistrate to bear on the Dark Knight…is victory at hand for the Scarecrow? Back-Up: Batgirls Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown have each other’s backs no matter what—even if it means punching some Magistrate soldier butt, and putting an even bigger target on their backs. Meanwhile, a mysterious Anti- Oracle character finally makes contact directly with Babs and has a few things to say about the unethical nature of Oracle’s powers, and what they think should be done about it. 3 SPOTLIGHT SPINNING OUT OF FEAR STATE & INFINITE FRONTIER! 1:25 variant cover variant cover ARKHAM CITY: THE ORDER OF THE WORLD #1 Story by DAN WATTERS The Joker’s attack on Arkham Asylum left the long-standing Gotham establishment in ruin, most of the patients Pencils by DANI killed or missing, and only a handful of surviving staff—a few nurses, a gravely injured security guard, and one Inks by DAVE STEWART doctor. In the chaos of the assault, it is believed that several of the asylum’s patients escaped and scurried off into Cover by SAM WOLFE CONNELLY the dark nooks and crannies of Gotham City. Now, these Arkhamites walk among us, and it’s up to the Asylum’s $3.99 US | 32 PAGES | 1 of 6 one remaining doctor, Jocasta Joy, to round up her former patients. Variant by FRANCESCO MATTINA Meet these Arkhamites: a woman with no face, a pyggy in search of perfection, a man who feels nothing and 1:25 B&W Ratio Variant by STEVE BEACH burns everything, a woman who must devour life to save herself, a man unfit for the waking world who looks US $4.99 (Both Covers Card Stock) instead for Wonderland, a body with more than one soul, a being unbound from time who lives in the present ON SALE 10/5/21 and the past, a boy who seeks the comfort of vermin, and the twisted man who sees them all for who they are. And witness the avenging angel who stalks them. This fall, join writer Dan Watters and artist Dani on an odyssey through the deepest depths and darkest shadows of Gotham City and find all-new reasons to fear the night. 4 SPOTLIGHT TIE-IN! TIE-INS! CONTINUES! 1:25 variant cover TIE-INS! variant cover BATMAN SECRET FILES: PEACEKEEPER-01 Story by JAMES TYNION IV and ED BRISSON Picking up after the events of Fear State: Alpha, follow Sean Mahoney, a.k.a. Peacekeeper-01, in the wake of Pencils and inks by JOSHUA HIXSON his exposure to highly potent Fear Toxin at the hands of the Scarecrow! Now, dosed with terror and facing Cover by RAFAEL SARMENTO a lifetime of fear and insecurity, Mahoney has found himself frantically reflecting on his past as a GCPD $4.99 US | 40 PAGES officer, and then as a prison guard at Arkham Asylum—all while desperately attempting to keep his mind Variant cover by TYLER KIRKHAM from fracturing.