List of Elseworlds publications
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A list of Elseworlds publications from DC Comics, in alphabetical order by title.
- Batgirl and Robin: Thrillkiller - Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson as part of 1960s counterculture.
- Batman & Captain America - Co-published with Marvel Comics, the two heroes meet and face The Joker and the Red Skull. A possible tie-in to Superman & Batman: Generations by John Byrne
- Batman: The Blue, the Grey, and the Bat - Batman and Robin in the American Civil War.
- Batman: The Book of the Dead - The Waynes are a rich achaeologist family and this story revolves around a lesser known but important Egyptian Bat-God
- Batman: Brotherhood of the Bat- 50 years into the future, Batman is dead, and the planet is within the grip of Ra's Al Ghul. He uses Bruce Wayne's rejected costume designs to create a leauge of costumed assassins, who are eventually defeated by Tallant, the son of Batman and Talia Al Ghul. Sequel: Batman: League of Batmen
- Batman & Tarzan: Claws of the Catwoman - Batman, Tarzan, Catwoman, and Two-Face in 1930's Africa.
- Batman: Crime and Punishment - Inspired by the novel.
- Batman: Dark Allegiances - Batman, Catwoman, and Alfred Pennyworth as Robin are OSS agents.
- Batman: The Doom that came to Gotham - Bruce Wayne is a 1920s pulp fiction adventurer fighting Lovecraft-inspired monsters.
- Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty- A centuries-old feud between the Wayne family and the immortal Vandal Savage begins with Bruce Wayne's ancestor Sir Joshua of Wainwright and ends with his descendant, Vice President Brenda Wayne.
- Batman: Detective #27 - In 1938, Bruce Wayne becomes a secret crimefighter without donning a costume
- Batman: The Devil's Workshop - Batman teams up with Harry Houdini to fight a vampire in 1907.
- Batman: Golden Streets of Gotham- Turn-of-the-century Gotham is full of greedy industrialists who gain profit by degrading and tormenting their workers. Bruno Vaneko is a railroad worker whose parents were factory workers killed in a fire akin to the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Desperate for justice, he dons a bat costume and joins a citywide worker strike.
- Batman: Gotham by Gaslight - The first Elseworlds title. A Victorian era Batman fights Jack the Ripper. Sequel: Batman: Master of the Future
- Batman: Gotham Noir - A film noir homage set in the late 1940s. Features James Gordon as a main character.
- Batman: Holy Terror - Reverend Bruce Wayne becomes Batman to fight corruption in a theocractic world.
- Batman: Masque - Set in 1890s France. Inspired by the Phantom of the Opera.
- Batman: Nosferatu - Sequel to Superman's Metropolis which combines the Batman mythos with both The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu.
- Batman of Arkham - Set in 1900. Bruce Wayne is an early psychiatrist and head of Arkham Asylum.
- Batman and Dracula: Red Rain - The first of three books in which Batman has become a vampire. The sequels are Batman: Bloodstorm and Batman: Crimson Mist.
- Batman: Reign of Terror - Set during the French Revolution with Bruce Wayne as a French nobleman.
- Batman: Two Faces - A recasting of Jekyll and Hyde, as a Victorian Bruce Wayne tries to purge both his own evil side and that of Two-Face.
- Batman: Detective Comics Annual #7 (1994) - Batman translated into a traditional tale of piracy on the high seas.
- Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham - A heroic Catwoman (based in Kyle Manor) battles a psychotic Batman.
- Elseworld's Finest - Batman and Superman in a 1920s pulp adventure.
- Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl - A world where Bruce Wayne was never Batman, and the infant Kal-El didn't survive.
- Flashpoint - A world where the Flash was the only superhero, until he lost the use of his legs.
- The Golden Age - A story set at the end of the Golden Age of Comics, as superheroes become less relevent.
- Green Lantern: Evil's Might - Set in New York City around 1900.
- Green Lantern: 1001 Emerald Knights - Green Lantern story in classical Arabic setting.
- I, Joker
- In Darkest Knight - Bruce Wayne becomes Green Lantern
- JLA: Act of God - All superheroes lose their powers.
- JLA: The Age Of Wonder - The JLA's origins during the Industrial Age
- JLA: The Island of Dr. Moreau - Set in the 1880's.
- JLA: The Nail - The world without Superman, after a punctured tyre prevents the discovery of baby Kal-El by the Kents. Sequel: JLA: Another Nail
- JLA: Secret Society of Super-Heroes - Superpowered beings keep their existence quiet; the JLA becomes an unaccountable conspiracy.
- Justice Riders - the JLA in the Old West
- JSA: The Liberty File - The Justice Society as a special operations team in World War II
- JSA: The Unholy Three - sequel to The Liberty File
- Kingdom Come
- The Kingdom
- League of Justice - fantasy fiction version of the Justice League
- Robin 3000 - A teenaged descendent of Bruce Wayne battles an alien invasion
- Son of Superman (1999)
- Superman: Distant Fires (1998) - A nuclear holocaust destroys civilization and deprives Superman of his powers
- Superman Inc. (1999) - Superman is raised to suppress his powers, and becomes a ruthless businessman.
- Superman: Kal (1995) - Superman in medieval England
- Superman: Last Son of Earth [2 parts] (Sept-Oct 2000) - Baby Clark Kent arrives on the planet Krypton in a rocket from the doomed planet Earth
- Superman's Metropolis (1997) - A fusion of the Superman mythos with Fritz Lang's Metropolis
- The Superman Monster (1999) - A Frankenstein pastiche in which Vicktor Luthor finds a crashed rocket with a dead infant inside, and sets about bringing it back to life using his experimental machinery. This is a sequel to Batman: Two Faces
- Superman: A Nation Divided - Set during the American Civil War
- Superman: Speeding Bullets (1993) - Superman raised by the Waynes and becoming a superpowered Batman
- Superman: The Dark Side - Superman raised by Darkseid
- Superman/JLA: Shogun of Steel - Set in classical Japan.
- Superman/Tarzan: Sons of the Jungle - Superman is raised by apes as "Argozan", while John Clayton III grows up normally, and becomes an African explorer. They meet, and battle La of Opar.
- Superman: True Brit - Kal-El lands in the English countryside and is raised to be "ordinary" and not draw attention. Nonetheless, he becomes a British superhero, before the tabloids try to knock him down. This story was co-written by John Cleese
- Superman at the Earth's End
- Superman/Batman: Doom Link - A cyberpunk story.
- Superman & Batman: Generations and sequels
- Superman and Batman: World's Funnest - Superman's extra-dimensional pest Mr. Mxyzptlk meets Batman's extra-dimensional pest Bat-Mite, and chaos ensues.
- Superman: Red Son - Superman raised in the Soviet Union
- Superman: War of the Worlds - A golden age Superman encounters the Martian invaders from H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds in 1938.
- Wonder Woman: Amazonia - A Victorian era Wonder Woman battles Jack the Ripper and the society that created him
- Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon - Sequel to Superman: Metropolis and Batman: Nosferatu, based loosely on The Blue Angel and Doctor Mabuse.