DC Black Label

DC Black Label

A DC Comics Imprint

Status

Active

Founded in 2018

History

DC Black Label is a DC Comics imprint established in 2018 that specialises in providing unique, edgy, and provocative standalone stories based on DC Universe characters, in the tradition of defining works such as Batman: The Killing Joke, Watchmen, and DC: The New Frontier.^[1] It was intended to allow writers and artists the opportunity to tell their definitive DC stories without being constrained by continuity or age ratings. The imprint publishes prestige original limited series, both canon or otherwise,^[2] as well as reprints of critically acclaimed and standalone graphic novels.^[3]

Original titles

• Batman: Damned
• Batman: Last Knight on Earth
• Superman: Year One
• Batman: Curse of the White Knight
• Harleen
• Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity
• The Last God
• Joker: Killer Smile
• The Question: The Death of Vic Sage
• The Other History of the DC Universe
• Batman: Three Jokers

Reprints

• Batman: White Knight
• All-Star Superman
• DC: The New Frontier
• Kingdom Come
• Watchmen
• Ronin
• Batman: Year One
• All Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
• Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
• Dark Knight III: The Master Race
• Luthor 10th Anniversary Edition
• The Joker 10th Anniversary Edition, and The Joker by Brian Azzarello: The Deluxe Edition
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Batman: The Killing Joke
• Batman: Year 100
• Superman: Red Son
• Batman: The Long Halloween
• Batman: Dark Victory
• Black Orchid
• Batman: Haunted Knight
• Catwoman: When in Rome

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Related

• Comic titles published under the DC Black Label imprint
• Individual issues published by DC Black Label