KNIGHT TERRORS: FIRST BLOOD #1 by Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter. Dr. Destiny and his family is enjoying a lovely day when they all becomes nightmarish images. He finds himself at a destroyed Hall of Justice and claims he needs the Dreamstone to take control. But he is attacked my nightmarish visions of the Justice League and a mysterious individual claims to want the Nightmare Stone. Elsewhere, Deadman follows the trinity to the abandoned Hall of Justice, where the heroes discover a murdered Dr. Destiny. Harley Quinn calls the heroes and tells them that Dr. Destiny is still at Arkham in the throes of a violent nightmare. Deadman enters Batman’s body, trying to tell the heroes that what is happening is more severe than magic doings. Wonder Woman goes to visit Zatanna, while Superman heads to Supercorp and Batman and Deadman go to Arkham, even as Amanda Waller observes. At Arkham, Batman and Deadman arrive as Dr. Destiny dies screaming that people should not go to sleep. The creature Insomnia is released from the dead man’s body and begins to put everyone to sleep and infect them all, heroes, villains and civilians alike. To be continued in all of the KNIGHT TERROR releases..
KNIGHT TERRORS #1 by Joshua Williamson, Guiseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi and Caspar Wijngaard. Deadman, in Batman’s body, confronts ZInsomnia, learning that he was just a regular guy transformed by the Lazarus Rain and that he is searching for the Nightmare Stone, once created and then hid by Dr. Destiny. Realizing he cannot defeat Insomnia, Deadman/batman flees and, getting some of the remaining Lazarus Rain, resurrects Wesley Dodds: the original Sandman.
KNIGHT TERRORS #2 by Joshua Williamson, Guiseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi and Caspar Wijngaard. Batman/Deadman meets with the reborn Dr. Midnite, who explains how a cult and their leader were responsible for creating the Nightmare Stone with their suicidal sacrifices. Elsewhere, the son of the cult leader is visited by Insomnia, who tortures the man to find the stone, killing him in the process. Batman meets with Red Tornado and Batman is tormented by images of Insomnia’s own nightmares. It reveals that Insomnia, a man named Lukas, was in Arkham and learned the Justice league, presumed dead, was still alive, causing him to violently lash out before being sedated and tortured.. The Sleepless Knights arrive and take control of Red Tornado.
KNIGHT TERRORS: ACTION COMICS #1 by Leah Williams and Vasco Georgiev. Power Girl finds herself caught in an endless series of dreams involving her parents and her best friends, with Omen being revealed as a robot who may be responsible for it. In the backup, the Superman Family try to get through the worldwide nightmare with Osul being tormented by Cyborg Superman, convinced that he has kidnapped Connor and Krypto. Henshaw comes out of the television and attacks them. They fight back but are captured. That’s when Krypto appears, poised to attack..
KNIGHT TERRORS: ANGEL BREAKER #1 by Tim Seeley and Acky Bright. In Turkey, Angel Breaker captures Raptor and gives him an offer: join her or go to jail. Midflight, the pair jump out of the plane and land at the hidden lair of the Kobra cult. Once there, they run into the young students who learn there, where they learn that Asclepius the “Dream Snake” is being kept there. Angel Breaker comes to the realization that maybe she actually created Asclepius.
KNIGHT TERRORS: BATMAN #1 by Joshua Williamson, Guillem March, and David Lafuente. In the past, Batman goes into an isolation tank to try to remove the nightmares about his parent’s deaths, to no avail. In the present, a young Bruce is trapped in the Nightmare Realm. He eventually ends up in a graveyard behind his parent’s home, seeing the graves of so many of his friends and family. Insomnia, dressed as Robin, asks for Bruce’ help in finding the Nightmare Stone. Bruce fights back but Insomnia chokes him, unleashing a giant bat with a gun. This forces Bruce to transform into Batman. But his nightmare isn’t over yet, as he finds himself in the body of Joe Chill and he apparently kills his own parents. In the backup, continuing from the FCBD story, Damian Wayne travels in search of the secret to defeat Insomnia. He learns to stay awake and is now ready to battle Insomnia. To be continued in KNIGHT TERRORS #3.
KNIGHT TERRORS: BLACK ADAM #1 by Jeremy Haun. Black Adam fights his way through a haunted Khandaq and other places, discovering many of his powers are gone. He sees the Rock of Eternity and knows he must get to it. He loses his powers and transforms into his youngest self, leading to a conversation with a cat who is a version of Bast. He transforms back and the pair race through a tower, where he sees a lizard incarnation of Isis kill his family. They continue their journey, which leads to them encountering Batman.
KNIGHT TERRORS: CATWOMAN #1 by Tini Howard and Leila Leiz. In the Nightmare Realm, Catwoman teams up with her sister Maggie, who is not only a nun by day but Sister Zero. Maggie, a nun, runs a soup kitchen. It is revealed that Selina has previously been injured, as she bears scars across her left eye and face. That night, they go to the Amusement Mile, where Selina is convinced the kids there are well armed and working for The Joker. Sister Zero gets shot and falls but is saved by Batman, who is at the beginning of his career and is stunned to have Selina call him by that name. He is bit by a snake and falls to sleep, leading Selina and Maggie to take him back to her apartment, where the pair kiss. Maggie observes it and berates her sister. When she comes back later, she finds the pair gone, with Selina promising to teach Bruce everything he needs to know.
KNIGHT TERRORS: DETECTIVE COMICS #1 by Dan Watters and Riccardo Federici. Jim Gordon faces the Good people of Gotham: a cult that has summoned the Pentapriests of the Fifth Dimension. In the process, Sorrow is killed and Jim is forced to face off against a twisted vision of Batman, even as Jim’s body is literally crumbling like a broken porcelain doll. He goes to meet with Angelica Vanderbar and finds she is chocking to death on a collection of rare gems that she is vomiting. He cannot save her as his body continues to crack and crumble, all to the delight of one of the Pentapriests.
KNIGHT TERRORS: THE FLASH #1 by Alex Paknadel and Daniel Bayliss. Barry gets a call to the hospital, where he finds that Wally, in his Kid Flash persona, has been injured fighting Grodd. A wounded Jay Garrick arrives, telling Barry that Grodd was carrying the Spear of Destiny and Wally slowed down right before Grodd stabbed him. Barry visits with Wally, who tells him that something was wrong with the Speed Force and he saw a monster in the lightning. At Iron Heights, Barry learns that .some of the inmates have been cutting their eyelids off to stay awake. He meets with Grodd, who tells him Wally slowed. Barry loses it and assaults Grodd, even as he knows things are wrong. Outside, he find it’s snowing in June and he heads to the Watchtower, where he meets a scarred Hal Jordan, who ended up this way after absorbing the Sun-Eaterduring THE FINAL NIGHT #4. He helps Barry start the Cosmic Treadmill, which sends him back to Wally’s battle with Grodd, but cannot save him, even as he now gives chase to the monster in the lightning..
KNIGHT TERRORS: GREEN LANTERN #1 by Jeremy Adams, Alex Segurs, Eduardo Pansica, and Mario “Fox” Foccillo. In the Nightmare Realm, Green Lantern arrives to see young Hal at his father’s funeral. When young Hal looks in the coffin, his father’s zombified body attacks, along with all of the other’s at the funeral. Next, hal finds himself working for Carol Ferris as a pilot. He flies off in a ship that starts by itself and crash landed, meeting Abin Sur, who gives him the Lantern ring. But the ring begins to drain Hal’s life force, which will kill Jordan but save Abin Sur. To save himself, hal cuts off his ring finger and crawls to a door and opens it, taking his Green Lantern persona to a meeting with the Guardians. They tell him he has betrayed the oath of the Lanterns and they transform into creatures. He slays them but now he needs to fight the creature known as Parallax. In the backup, Sinestro finds himself in a nightmare that takes him back to his home planet, where he is forced to meet himself as a multi-headed Green Lantern.
KNIGHT TERRORS: HARLEY QUINN #1 by Tini Howard and Hayden Sherman. In Harley’s darkest dreams, she is still a doctor working in Arkham. She gets attacked by a gang of Jokers and uses her oversized hammer to fight them off. Fighting her way through various heroes and villains, she ends up, as Harley Quinn, in a room with a computer that directs her to the Multiversity Guidebook. After looking through the book, she ends up on Earth-31: the home of Admiral El and the Justice Fleet, where she is the captain of a pirate ship, leading to a battle with the Justice Fleet. As she drowns in that world, she finds herself back with the computer, getting transported to Earth-43: the home of the Blood League. Back with the computer, she realizes that being in the Justice League is her nightmare. In the backup, Harley meets with a future alternate version of herself, spends a night in a video arcade before being asked to join in a mission with her alternate self.
KNIGHT TERRORS: THE JOKER #1 by Matthew Rosenberg and Stefano Raffaele. The Joker battles Batman and kills him in the process, leaving himself wondering what to do next. He slides into depression, spending his days watching REAL HOUSEWIVES OF METROPOLIS. He finally gets a job, as Johann Kaiser, working for Mr. Dee at Wayne Industries. When he can’t figure out what his job is, he eventually leaves and goes to another job at Wayne Industries, where he kills his boss with a microwave. The next day, he tries to organize a worker’s revolt but ends up in Mr. Dee’s office. He continues to try to adjust, eventually ending up in a fight in an alley and reunites, briefly, with Gaggy. He learns that batman is supposedly alive, even though he tells his co-workers that he has Batman’s corpse in his closet. That night, as he watches television, it is revealed that Batman’s corpse is indeed in his closet.
KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHTWING #1 by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, and Daniele Di Nicuolo. Dick finds himself captured in a nightmarish version of Arkham, where all of the doctors and guards are anthropomorphic animals. He is in a cell next to Two Face and has a cellmate that lives under his bed. He tries to break free but is captured and treated with electroshock therapy. He breaks free again and two of the doctors transform into zombie versions of his parents. Back in his cell, he learns the person under his bed is Jonathan Crane, who reveals Dick is in Arkham because he killed batman. Crane has an exscape plan but all that changes when Dick realizes that Barbara is in here too.
KNIGHT TERRORS: POISON IVY #1 by G. Willow Wilson and Atagun Ilhan. Living in a shack at Slaughter Swamp, Ivy goes to sleep and wakes to find she is in the perfect neighborhood with Harley as her perfect wife. Harley serves her a pie made of something that causes Ivy to grimace. She also sees their next door neighbors are Batman and a very pregnant Selina. Janet from HR finds herself in this neighborhood, where she also finds that Penguin, Dick Grayson, Batgirl, and the Riddler are also living here. She races to Ivy and Harley’s house and finds that Ivy has become comfortable here. Janet is chased by the neighbors as Ivy and Harley continue their ideal and creepy romance.
KNIGHT TERRORS: PUNCHLINE #1 by Danny Lore and Lucas Meyers. Punchline and her crew start a heist, with Punchline seemingly immune to Insomnia’s sleep attack. During the heist, Batgirl arrives and they pair battle with Batgirl seemingly killed. Stealing Batgirl’s motorcycle, Punchline breaks into Oracle’s homebase at the clock tower, where she is menaced by a zombie Batgirl, made of flesh and metal. So, maybe this is all a dream after all…or a nightmare.
KNIGHT TERRORS: RAVAGER #1 by Ed Brisson and Dexter Soy. In the Nightmare Realm, Rose Wilson discovers her foster father’s dead body and then two creatures kill her foster mother. While she tries to stay alive against the creatures, Ravager shows up to rescue her. Rose explains that she is being chased by The Murder Man and his two followers that she calls the Slaughter Squadron. Rose goes on to explain that she is Rose Madison and that The Murder Man does not want to work for Insomnia and is looking for a way out.. Ravager removes her mask, revealing she is Rose. Nightmare Rose explains that a conduit of blood is needed to allow The Murder Man out of this world. She then stabs Ravager, revealing that Ravager is the conduit. In the real world, Peacekeeper-01 discovers the sleeping citizens and Ravager’s body, but no sign of the remainder of Stormwatch.
KNIGHT TERRORS: ROBIN #1 by Kenny Porter and Miguel Mendonca. Robin is fighting crime and Red Hood is staking out a heroin shipment. Both end up together and a mysterious mist takes them into the Nightmare Realm. Both get captured, with Tim being taken to his father’s apartment and Red Hood battling an army of monster red Hoods. Tim is forced to relive his father’s death over and over again and cannot stop it no matter how many times he tries. Eventually, the Bat Family arrive to save him, but he can’t save them as they are all killed by Captain Boomerang. As his mind fractures, Jason reaches out, saying they need a plan and fast.
KNIGHT TERRORS: SHAZAM #1 by Mark Waid and Roger Cruz. Mary Marvel is fighting bad guys and finally goes back home and falls asleep. When she awakes, her and her siblings find they are in a desolate landscape and there is no water anywhere. She transforms and is greeted by Black Adam. Adam transforms into Billy and says the magic word, taking Mary’s powers away. She races into their burning home looking for her family and says the magic word, transforming her back to Mary Marvel and seeing her family is fine. Her father tells her to go back to sleep and she does, changing as she does for the next five days. Next she goes to a sleep specialist but ends up captured by Black Adam, who uses the magic word to kill her siblings. In the end, Adam whispers the magic word to her…
KNIGHT TERRORS: SUPERMAN #1 by Joshua Williamson and Tom Reilly. Clark Kent is working at the Daily Planet when he learns that the whole world has been saved forever, even as Lois and Jimmy morph into alternate versions of themselves. When a tidal wave threatens Metropolis, Clark opens his shirt and discovers a S symbol scar but he is not Superman, meaning everyone dies. Perry transforms into Nightmare and demands the Nightmare Stone. Clark refuses and the world is destroyed by a combination of aliens and Earth made crises. He is menaced by a metallic harbinger of death who shows him that Krypton’s destruction only followed him to Earth. He saves his cousin and then they fight a group of zombified Supergirls, causing him to fall back to Earth, where his sleeping form is discovered by Aquaman and his undersea family.
KNIGHT TERRORS: TITANS #1 by Andrew Constant and Scott Godlewski. A young woman, inspired by a mysterious voice, makes her way through a nightmare scenario in an effort to free the Titans, who are also trapped in there own nightmares. After freeing them all, she means the person behind the voice, who turns out to be Raven, who shows them a twisted version of Titans Tower,
KNIGHT TERRORS: WONDER WOMAN #1 by Josie Campbell, Stephanie Williams, Meghan Hetrick, and Juan Ferreyra. Detective Chimp finds Wonder Woman and she seemingly melts away in his arms, only to save him from drowning moments later , telling him they have to find the Justice League. That is when Constantine arrives and they all travel to the maze in Invenire, where they battle creatures along the way. John meets with Zatanna and other magic creatures, where he is imprisoned by her. In the end, Diana is eaten by a giant snake. In the backup, Nubia ends up in a nightmare world where she eventually meets with a transformed Gaia, who is content with trying to kill the Amazon queen.
KNIGHT TERRORS: ZATANNA #1 by Dennis Culver and David Baldeon. In the terrific Tower, Red Tornado tries to figure what has caused the world to go to sleep when he is attacked. Zatanna is under the Hall of Justice trying to keep Sir Morbid and Iron Maiden from harming Detective Chimp and Wonder Woman, despite the urging of the Sleepless Queen to have Zatanna turn over the Nightmare Stone. She uses her magic to hold them off and that is when Robotman arrives, leading them to head to the magic panic room under the Hall of Justice. With Detective Chimp and Wonder Woman with them, they head to the panic room, which is actually an enchanted maze. Along the way, they encounter visions of dead family and friends. The Sleepless Queen stabs Robotman, informing him that he has been “knighted’”, turning him into The Rustbringer and making him the newest member of the Sleepless Knights.
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