Nic Klein

In the shadow of the "Return of Bruce Wayne," The Man of Steel remembers the fall of The Dark Knight as Dick Grayson takes the mantle of the Bat. But the new Batman is surprised to learn that his first obstacle is Superman! And a threat both alien and mystical erupts in Gotham City that will forge – or break – this new World's Finest team.

FIRST WAVE architect Brian Azzarello joins rising star Ivan Brandon for an epic journey to the Middle East, a land decimated by war – but still full of terrible secrets! One of Doc's closest friends is lost among the shifting sands of the Forbidden Zone, and Doc'll have to fight his way through the Zone's battle-hardened inhabitants before he can come face-to-face (to face?) with the monster holding his ally captive: The Two Who Are One!

Doc's adventure in the war-torn Middle East takes a nasty turn when he realizes that the people who sent him into the Zone don't necessarily want him coming back out. Meanwhile, the threat he came to neutralize is not what it seems!And in the JUSTICE, INC. co-feature, there's nothing standing between Smitty and his quarry, the murdering scum he plans to pay back in kind – but what will become of him if he breaks Benson's cardinal rule? "Murder and Vengeance" concludes here!

The nukes are in the air, the clock is ticking, and Doc Savage is… dead?! This isn't going to end well for the millions of innocents trapped in the Zone, and it looks like it's already ended badly for Doc! Has the Man of Bronze cheated death again? Or will his bones rot forever under a sheet of radioactive desert glass?