Arcs
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"Batman" Hush
Batman faces a new enemy who knows his secret identity and is out to destroy both Bruce Wayne and Batman.
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"The Sandman" The Wake
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"The Sandman" The Kindly Ones
How do you kill one of the Endless?
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"The Sandman" Brief Lives
Brief Lives is the second-longest arc in Neil Gaiman's Sandman epic (at the time it was the longest). Spanning nine issues, it makes up the entirety of what would become the seventh collection in the series. It was in the middle of serializing this arc that Sandman moved to Vertigo.
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"The Sandman" A Game of You
A Sandman Story Arc
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"The Sandman" Season of Mists
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"The Sandman" The Doll's House
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Countdown to Infinite Crisis
The Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, has discovered something that has endangered his life, and the lives of others. Maxwell Lord has betrayed his former superhero colleagues, and plans to destroy them all.
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The OMAC Project
Maxwell Lord, now Black King of Checkmate, hijacked control over Batman's satellite, the Brother Eye. He then proceeded to use the OMAC nanobot sleeper agents across the globe under the control of the satellite in an attempt to erradicate all Metahumans on Earth.
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52
The Infinite Crisis has ended; the world mourns the passing of Superboy. But where are Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman?
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Zero Hour
The villain Monarch gains the power to manipulate time and becomes Extant. He and his mysterious boss try to recreate the universe by eating away at time itself. The heroes of the DC Universe, including alternate and past versions of themselves, must stop Extant and restart time.
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Worlds Collide
Worlds collide as the DC Universe combines with the Milestone Universe. Heroes battle one another while their two universes hang in the balance.
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War of the Gods
DC crossover from Late 1991. George Pérez originally conceived the War of the Gods crossover as a tribute for Wonder Woman's 50th anniversary.
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Our Worlds At War
DC Crossover from Summer 2001.
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One Year Later
One year after the events of Infinite Crisis, the DC Universe's biggest three heroes (Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman) finally return after disappearing for a year.
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Millennium
1988 DC crossover. The Manhunters returned to dominate the universe and crush the heroes of Earth along with the Green Lantern Corps.
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Legends
Darkseid and the Phantom Stranger debate the nature of humanity. Darkseid vows to make humanity forsake its heroes. The Phantom Stranger vows to stop him.
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Invasion!
The Dominators along with many other alien races, form an alliance to take out the Earth and it's meta-human heroes.
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"Legion of Super-Heroes" Great Darkness Saga
The Great Darkness Saga chronicles the fight between the Legion of Super-Heroes against the newly-risen Darkseid, the New God of Apokolips.
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Eclipso: The Darkness Within
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Armageddon 2001
Matthew Ryder is sent back to 1991 to try to prevent the evil dictator Monarch from ever achieving power.
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Infinite Crisis
In the chaos ensuing after the unleashing of the OMACs on Earth, the Spectre's vendetta against magic, and the Rann-Thanagar War, four beings decide to try and save the universe: Superman and Lois Lane of Earth-Two, Superboy of Earth-Prime, and Alexander Luthor of Earth-Three. What resulted was the *Infinite Crisis.*
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Crisis on Infinite Earths
Crisis on Infinite Earths was one of the biggest events in the DCU. It erased the DC Multiverse and rebooted many DC Heroes' origins. It mark's the end of the Silver and Bronze Ages of Comic Books.
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The Janus Directive
"The Janus Directive" was a 1989 crossover spanning 11 issues that ran through the series Checkmate, Suicide Squad, Manhunter, Firestorm and Captain Atom.
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"Batman/The New Titans" A Lonely Place of Dying
After Jason Todd's death, Batman begins to go on a rampage. Taking unnecessary risks and actions. Only Dick Grayson or a very young boy named Tim Drake can calm him.
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Knightfall
Seeking Gotham as his ultimate prize, the Santa Priscan crime lord Bane wages a slow-burning war to wear Batman down - bringing the Dark Knight to his knees before Bane breaks him.
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"Tales of the Teen Titans" Judas Contract
Young psychopath, Tara Markov, is seduced and trained by Deathstroke to infiltrate the Teen Titans and to tear them apart from within.
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Age of Apocalypse
This story takes place on Earth-295, an alternate Marvel universe. After the death of Charles Xavier at the hands of his own son Legion, his friend Magneto gathers a group of mutants to fight against the oppressive reign of Apocalypse.
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"WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams" Gang War
The fractured WildCATs return earth to found themselves involved between an international conspiracy and street fight between heroes an villians, only to discover than friends can became the worst enemies.
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"WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams" Homecoming
The WildCATs finally return to their home planet, Khera. But it is the utopia they dreamed about? Meanwhile, on earth a new Covert Action Team arises.
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Bloodlines
When a race of extradimensional parasites invaded the earth, feeding of human spinal fluids, new heros and villians rise to oppose them.
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"The Sandman" Preludes & Nocturnes
Dream of the Endless is captured and held prisoner for 80 years by a sorcerer who was actually trying to capture his sister, Death. When he escapes, he goes on a mission to takes back his tools of trade.
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Civil War
Following a catastrophic tragedy caused by superhumans, the US Government passes a Super-Human Registration Act that requires all super-powered individuals in the country to reveal their identities, disclose their powers and personal details, and register as government employees or risk indefinite incarceration. This causes a deep rift in the hero community, with some backing the Act while others oppose it.
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Marvel Zombies
When a zombie plague came from above, the Avengers arrived on the scene to end the crisis. With their infection the people of Earth-2149 stood no chance, as the entire world became engulfed by the plague.
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"The New Warriors" Starlost Saga
The Starlost Saga featured the battle between Nova (Rich Rider) and Supernova. It also resulted in the resurrection of the domed world of Xandar.
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"Batman: The Killing Joke" The Killing Joke
The Joker tries to turn Commissioner Gordon crazy through a series of devised methods, proving that anyone can have a bad day. By Alan Moore and Brian Bolland.
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"Captain America" Captain America No More
When Steve Rogers refuses to become a government operative, he is stripped of his uniform, title and shield, and a new Captain America is born! John Walker, the former Super-Patriot and future U.S.Agent, along with sidekick Battlestar, does his best to fill the big shoes Rogers left behind.
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Operation: Galactic Storm
Operation: Galactic Storm was a 19 part Avengers event. It ran within Avengers, West Coast Avengers, Captain America, Thor, Quasar, Iron Man and Wonder Man comics of the time.
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