CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Hardy Stone; Carlton Glass

PLOT:
Batman has Hardy down cold for the murder and kidnapping of Franklin Glass and the attempted murder of Lorna Glass (or at least that's what he wants Hardy to think while he toys with him). But now all he needs is for Stone to confess to who hired him. After Batman threatens to snuff out Hardy's lit cigarette on his one good eyeball, Stone spills. It was Carlton Glass! Too bad Batman won't be able to interrogate the junior Glass anytime soon. After being tossed out on his butt from yet another gambling den, Carlton Glass walks over to a car where he spots someone familiar. That familiar somebody pulls out a pistol and shoots Carlton dead.

CHARACTERS: Kamandi; Dr. Canus; Orora

PLOT:
Racing as fast as they can towards Shintun, Kamandi and Canus befriend the young girl who now travels alongside them. Though she speaks no language they had ever heard, she is able to communicate a few important things. Her name is Orora and she hails from somewhere to the South. Though he had been speeding along the terrain and fast as possible, Kamandi suddenly grinds the vehicle to a halt. Before him he sees the entirety of the Tiger Legion, laid out and defeated by the Ape armies. If the Legion has been defeated then Kamandi and his crew really are the only remaining hope for Tuftan and Caesar!

CHARACTERS: Superman (Clark Kent)

PLOT:
The house is partially destroyed, Superman is laid out amongst the wreckage by the powerful fists of the alien bounty hunters. It's obvious that they hail from the same location as the alien threat in Metropolis earlier, and they mean business! Thank goodness Ma and Pa Kent were at church in Hillsboro at the time of the explosion or they might have been hurt too! With blurred vision and his other senses and powers failing him, Clark looks to the sky to see as one of the alien hunters takes off towards Hillsboro! Could they be going after his Earth parents next?

CHARACTERS: Deadman (Boston Brand)

PLOT:
Through the spirits of the women surrounding him, Boston learns of this nightmare realm's origins. It is the torture filled purgatory realm which the demon Kalak uses to keep the souls of his victims before taking them back with him to Hell. Each is given a corporeal existence for the sole purpose of torturing them for his own amusement. Every time he kills them or tortures them to death they simply wake up anew within the hell realm, ready to be tortured again. It may be too late to save the lives of the girls, but Deadman is determined to save their souls and stop this vicious cycle. He plans on helping them escape this nether realm the same way he came in, even if it means going through Kalak himself!

CHARACTERS: Green Lantern (Hal Jordan); Joe Dillon

PLOT:
Hal races into the television station in Coast City to find that Joe has already full transformed into a giant red alien beast and is attacking the station personnel. His only hope is to get Dill out of there and away from the civillians where he can perhaps talk some sense into him, try to get in touch with whatever last shred of humanity is left. But once he reaches a few thousand feet in the air he realizes that the alien's acid like saliva is actually eating through his ring's energy barrier that both holds Dill in place and keeps them elevated. If the acid destroys the green energy construct both men will fall to their doom!

CHARACTERS: Metamorpho (Rex Mason); Sapphire Stagg; Simon Stagg; Java; Element Girl (Urania Blackwell); Algon

PLOT:
They've progressed through the snake pit, the dinosaur den and the laser attack room. Now all that's left standing between Simon Stagg and his treasure is one final puzzle. And this one last puzzle is the reason why he chose to enlist the Elemental Hero ahead of any other super-powered being. The final challenge is a giant elemental table. One must place the correct element on the correct square or suffer an unsightly demise through a blast of anti-matter energy! This is the exact reason why Simon Stagg had arranged for both Rex and Rainy to be present on this expedition. But as they stand prepared to enter the final room they meet Algon the Ancient Roman Element Man! Long thought to be dead the ancient elemental being hisses something in Latin before disappearing into the final room!

CHARACTERS: Robin (Tim Drake); Trident; Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes); Beast Boy (Gar Logan); Starfire (Koriand'r); Nightwing (Dick Grayson)

PLOT:
Back at Titans Tower, the heroes have received a video message from the villain known as Trident. He has Jaime captive and now he demands a show-down between himself and the Titans. Claiming to be from the future, this Trident alleges that in his version of tomorrow the Titans become a menace to society and he's here to wipe them out!

The Teen Titans have faced off against a villain known as Trident twice before. But this isn't either of them. This new Trident also claims to be the son of Arthur Light (otherwise known as the villain Dr. Light). The only problem is that up until the time Spectre turned him into a living candle, Light was never known to have produced any offspring. So who is this villain?

They know it's a trap. But they also know that it's their best shot and saving Jaime and stopping this new menace, so the Titans do what they do best, join together and fight evil!

CHARACTERS: Adam Strange; Alanna Strange

PLOT:
That night, Adam has a metaphorical and deeply powerful dream. In it, he's a young boy, lost and afraid. He wanders throughout and endless dessert as a boy dressed for a pool party, lost without an ocean to swim in. As a grown man he stands next to his younger self, shackled like a slave, his eyes closed. But from far away, Dr. Fate has sensed Adam's deep seeded distress from across the Astral Plane. The sorcerror arrives in Adam's dream and tells him that Adam must conquer his own personal demons and stare down his Black Dog of Fear if he wants to find what he is so desperately looking for. Before leaving, Fate grants him something he's been missing - a gift box, inside of which is the address and location where Adam has left his zeta-beam trajectory map. He awakens from his dream and rushes over to his security locker in the University basement. There he finds the map and his flight suit!

CHARACTERS: Supergirl (Linda Lang); Krypto; Streaky; Aquaman

PLOT:
She had come to him because she believed that he could commune with wildlife. But Aquaman's speciality lies in the ocean depths, not with creatures with four legs and fur. But the busy and stressed out Ocean King is able to point Supergirl in the direction of Dr. Mid-Nite. He may not be able to speak with animals, but he has a whole host of tests that he can run on them and find out exactly why they've been so wonky.

CHARACTERS: Dr Will Magnus; Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Platinum; Tin; Dr. Bella Pretorius; Chemo

PLOT:
Chemo - Dr. Pretorius's own evil answer to Doc Magnus and his Metal Men, rips off the roof of the bank and towers threateningly over the on-lookers. A well meaning security guard fires off a few rounds at the beast but all that does is anger the walking septic tank, causing it to spray nasty chemicals all over the place. Tin valliantlty dives in to protect a civillian but the chemicals inside of Chemo are corrosive! He begins melting on contact! How can Magnus possibly compete with this giant monster and save the day now?

CHARACTERS: Wonder Woman (Diana Prince); Etta Candy; Pricilla Rich; Professor Jack Kirkridge; Professor Poison

PLOT:
Not only is Pricilla Rich after the sword, but so is Professor Poison! She along side her Black Dragons had supplied the Pendragons with the hallucinatory gasses and now seems to have worked out an agreement with a leader in hopes of securing the Mors Crocca for herself. The Pendragon leader agrees to hold up his end of the bargain and takes Professor Poison to the Well of the Blessed. There he summons the weary soul of King Bran, first Christian King whose skull houses the fabled sword.

As the talking mystical skull rises up from the depths, Pricilla sees her opportunity and jumps after the sword! Naturally, Diana can't allow her to have it so she goes after the sword herself. Ultimately Diana secures the Mors Crocca but looks back to see that Professor Poison has taken Etta and the Professor! She calls after them but it's too late! She has the item in her possession and like all the times before she must now leave this place and wake up once again!

CHARACTERS: Sgt. Frank Rock; Bulldozer; Gustav

PLOT:
The photographer, a man by the name of Gustav, realizes that once he finishes taking these photographs the Nazis would most likely kill him as well. So he frees Rock and hands his Luger over to him. Meanwhile, Easy Co and their Russian compatriots emerge from the mine and decide to spread out. From the corners of their war weary eyes they see a small round shaped item roll on the ground in front of them. Instinctively they all take cover. But oddly enough it isn't a grenade. It's a potato. Fallen from the sack of a well-meaning citizen who has happened across them.

CHARACTERS: Flash (Barry Allen); Iris West Allen; Gorilla Grodd

PLOT:
A giant electrical storm appears hovering over a building downtown. It appears as though the sky is opening up and swallowing the tower whole but police and other emergency personnel can't get anywhere near it due to the fact that there is a strange energy field protecting it. A gas main explodes due to the pressure of the field and when Barry Allen looks up he's surrounded by an army of.. himself! Grodd is amplifying some sort of extra-dimensional energy pulse and using it to keep everyone out of the tower. If Flash is to stop him they're going to need to work together!

Back at their dinner date, other-Barry surprises Iris by actually arriving before her! The two sit down for a quaint dinner when from out of the corner of his eye, Barry thinks he sees something quite distressing. Did that waiter just turn into a monkey? But more pressing is the fact that his nose has started to drip blood! What's going on here?

CHARACTERS: Demon Etrigan (Jason Blood); Catwoman (Selina Kyle); Morgaine Le Fay

PLOT:
The Demon lunges at Morgaine but her giant armored black knight holds him at bay. With him held captive she recites the magic words that revert the Demon Etrigan back to his mortal form, Jason Blood. She toys aloud with the notion of making him her lover once she becomes whole again. If Morgaine has her way, Jason will live out the rest of his days in her servitude. But first she decides to free her pet Selina from her transmogrification. She doesn't know that the Catwoman is much more for a vital threat as a Woman than she ever could have been as a Cat!

CHARACTERS: Hawkman (Carter Hall)

PLOT:
With the plane in fiery pieces, Hawkman encourages the survivors to stay close as he tries to re-configure what's left of his fried Flight Belt. And for a moment it looks like his luck might just be looking up. But that moment soon passes and the sound of falling trees and a trembling ground beneath his feet lets him know exactly where he is. Of all the islands they could have possibly landed on Hawkman and the others are now stranded on Dinosaur Island!