DC Events

Welcome to our list of DC Event Reading Orders.  These reading orders include all core issues and tie-ins for each event.  Sometimes these reading orders will also contain prologue or epilogue issues that,  while not part of the official event,  will give you a better reading experience.

If you want to view the events in chronological order go to the DC Event Timeline.

Many events relating specifically with certain characters are under the letter that Character name begins with. For example Batman specific events are under the letter B, Superman events under S, etc.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Aquaman: Death of a Prince (1974)

Aquaman – Black Manta

Armageddon 2001 (1991)

Waverider – Hawk & Dove – Captain Atom

B

Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying (1989)

Batman – Nightwing – Tim Drake – Joker

Batman: Cataclysm (1998)

Batman – Bat Family

Batman: Contagion (1996)

Batman – Bat Family

Batman: Endgame (2014)

Batman – Joker

Batman: Face the Face (2006)

Batman – Two-Face – Robin

Batman: Judgment on Gotham (2011)

Azrael – Batman – Catwoman – Red Robin

Batman: Legacy (1996)

Batman – Bat Family – Ra’s al Ghul

Batman: No Man’s Land (1999)

Batman – Bat Family

Batman: Officer Down (2001)

Batman – Bat Family

Batman: Requiem (2013)

Batman – Bat Family

Batman: War Games (2004)

Batman – Stephanie Brown – Black Mask

Batman: Zero Year (2013)

Batman – Bat Family

Battle for the Cowl (2009)

Dick Grayson – Jason Todd – Tim Drake – Damian Wayne – Black Mask

The Black Diamond Probability (2012)

Catwoman – Jonah Hex

Blackest Night (2009)

Lantern Corps – Nekron – Justice League

Bloodlines (1993)

New Bloods

Brightest Day (2010)

Aquaman – Hawkman – Hawkgirl – Martian Manhunter

Brotherhood of the Fist (1998)

Batman – Green Arrow – Nightwing – Tim Drake

Bruce Wayne: Fugitive (2002)

Batman – Bat Family

Bruce Wayne: Murderer? (2002)

Batman – Bat Family

C

City of Bane (2019)

Bane – Bat Family

Convergence (2015)

Batman – Superman – Wonder Woman – Brainiac

The Culling (2012)

Teen Titans – Legion of Super-Heroes

D

Dark Nights: Death Metal (2020)

Batman – Batman Who Laughs – Perpetua

Dark Nights: Metal (2017)

Batman – Justice League

Darkseid War (2015)

Justice League – Darkseid

Day of Judgment (1999)

The Spectre – Hal Jordan – Sentinels of Magic

DC One Million (1998)

Justice League – Solaris – Vandal Savage

DC Universe: Trinity (1993)

Green Lantern Corps – Darkstars – L.E.G.I.O.N.

DC You (2015)

Everyone

DCeased (2019)

Everyone

Death of Superman (1992)

Superman – Doomsday

Death of the Family (2012)

Batman – Bat Family – Joker

Drowned Earth (2018)

Justice League – Aquaman

E

Endless Winter (2019)

Justice League

Event Leviathan (2019)

Batman – Green Arrow – Lois Lane – The Question

F

Fear State (2021)

Batman – Scarecrow

Final Night (1996)

Justice League

Flashpoint (2011)

The Flash – Batman – Booster Gold – Wonder Woman – Aquaman

Forever Evil: Blight (2013)

Justice League Dark

G

Genesis (1997)

Superman – New Gods – Darkseid

Gothtopia (2014)

Bat Family

Grant Morrison’s Batman (2006-2013)

Batman – Dick Grayson – Damian Wayne

Green Lantern: Godhead (2014)

Lantern Corps – New Gods

Green Lantern: Uprising (2014)

Green Lantern Corps

H

Heroes in Crisis (2018)

Batman – The Flash – Booster Gold – Harley Quinn – Wally West

I

Identity Crisis (2004)

Justice League

The Infected (2019)

Superman – Batman – Hawkman – Supergirl

Invasion! (1989)

Justice League – L.E.G.I.O.N.

J

Janus Directive (1989)

Suicide Squad – Checkmate – Firestorm

Joker’s Last Laugh (2001)

Joker – Batman – Bat Family

Joker War (2020)

Batman – Joker – Bat Family

JSA: Black Reign (2004)

Justice Society – Hawkman

Justice League vs. Suicide Squad (2016)

Justice League – Suicide Squad

K

Knightfall Saga (1993)

Batman – Bane – Azrael

Krypton Returns (2013)

Superman – Superboy – Supergirl

L

The Lazarus Contract (2017)

Titans – Teen Titans – Deathstroke

Lazarus Planet (2023)

Batman – Damian Wayne – Monkey Prince

Legends (1986)

Justice League – Darkseid

Lightning Saga (2007)

Justice League – Justice Society

M

Millennium (1987)

Green Lantern Corps – Justice League

N

New 52 (2011)

Everyone

Night of the Monster Men (2016)

Batman – Nightwing – Batwoman

Night of the Owls (2012)

Batman – Nightwing – Court of Owls

O

Our Worlds at War (2001)

Justice League – Darkseid

P

Panic in the Sky (1992)

Superman – Brainiac

Q

R

Red Daughter of Krypton (2014)

Supergirl – Red Lantern Corps

Reign of Doomsday (2011)

Doomsday – Superman – Steel – Cyborg Superman – Superboy

Reign of the Supermen (1993)

Steel – Eradicator – Cyborg Superman – Superboy

The Resurrection of Ra’s al Ghul (2007)

Batman – Nightwing – Robin – Ra’s al Ghul

Rise of the Third Army (2012)

Green Lantern Corps

Robin Rises (2014)

Batman – Damian Wayne

Robin War (2016)

Robin – Court of Owls

Rotworld (2012)

Swamp Thing – Animal Man

S

Shadow War (2022)

Batman – Bat Family – Deathstroke

Sinestro Corps War (2007)

Green Lantern Corps – Sinestro

Superman: Doomed (2014)

Superman – Wonder Woman – Doomsday

Superman: Emperor Joker (2000)

Superman – Joker

Superman: H’el on Earth (2012)

Superman – Supergirl – Superboy

Superman: New Krypton (2008)

Superman – Supergirl – Lex Luthor

Superman: Savage Dawn (2016)

Superman – Vandal Savage

T

Throne of Atlantis (2013)

Aquaman – Justice League

Trinity War (2013)

Justice League – Justice League Dark

U

Underworld Unleashed (1995)

Justice League – Neron

V

W

War of the Gods (1991)

Wonder Woman – Superman – Shazam – Circe

War of the Green Lanterns (2011)

Green Lantern Corps – Krona

Worlds Collide (1994)

Superman – Superboy – Steel

Wrath of the First Lantern (2013)

Green Lantern Corps – Red Lantern Corps

X

Y

Z