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BATMAN BAD SEEDS READING ORDER
1. POISON IVY #45
MONSTERS AT THE MAYOR’S MANOR!
Poison Ivy is losing supporters quicker than she can kill them! After a hard day at the office, Mayor Pamela Ivy retreats to her luxurious Gotham City home for some R & R, but not even her home is safe! What terrible menace lurks in wait for her? Read this issue and find out!
On sale 6/3/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 5/11/2026.
2. POISON IVY #46
PANIC IN THE STREETS!
Gotham City is a powder keg, and Poison Ivy is the match! The air is full of anger, pain, and despair as things go from bad to even worse. The chopping block is calling out for Mayor Pamela Isley. Can Ivy’s faithful underlings save her from herself, or will the city swallow them whole first?
On sale 7/1/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 6/3/2026.
3. POISON IVY #47
A BATMAN: BAD SEEDS PRELUDE! SOMETHING VERY BAD IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
Gotham City is done with Mayor Pamela Isley—there’s just one problem for everyone there: She’s not done with them. The stage is set for the explosive new Batman line crossover event—Bad Seeds!
On sale 8/26/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 8/3/2026.
4. BATMAN: BAD SEEDS—SUNSET #1
THE BATMAN: BAD SEEDS EVENT STARTS HERE! MATT FRACTION, G. WILLOW WILSON, GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI, AND CLIFF RATHBURN KICK OFF AN ALL-NEW BATMAN EVENT!
Gotham City’s new mayor, Pamela Isley, deserted by her allies both political and arcane, is about to make a last-ditch power play that will leave Gotham decimated by daylight. Having already declared war on the Bat-Family and flooded the streets with his private, paramilitarized police army, Police Commissioner Vandal Savage sees an opportunity to solve two problems at once. Storylines converge in Batman: Bad Seeds, a Gotham City event spanning one long, dark night in Gotham that threatens to turn the entire city into a hostile world of prehistoric plant life unlike anything on Earth for millennia, at a time when its greatest heroes are hunted and in hiding. As the sun goes down and Gotham loses power, Matt Fraction (Batman), G. Willow Wilson (Poison Ivy), Giuseppe Camuncoli (Absolute Evil), and Cliff Rathburn (The Walking Dead) deliver an unforgettable opening chapter that shows the only thing scarier than the night just might be the morning sun…
On sale 8/26/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 8/3/2026.
5. BATMAN #13
VANDAL SAVAGE PUTS IVY IN THE CROSSHAIRS!
Somewhere in the headquarters of the Gotham City Police Department, Vandal Savage hides a chemical weapon designed to kill Poison Ivy… but if Ivy dies, there will be no ending the bad night of Bad Seeds, for Gotham City or anywhere else. No power. No comms. A heavily-armed private militia tasked with bringing him down on orders of the worst person in Gotham. All holed up together within an impenetrable fortress. This sounds like a job for Batman. Eisner winner Matt Fraction and superstar artist Matteo Scalera deliver a crucial chapter of the Batman: Bad Seeds event!
On sale 9/2/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 8/10/2026.
6. BATGIRL #23
CAUGHT BETWEEN DESPERATE GOTHAMITES AND DEADLY FLORA, CASSANDRA CAIN WILL HAVE TO FIGHT TO SURVIVE!
Batgirl was supposed to finally have one night off at Ba Bao’s noodle shop, but when Gotham erupts into a nightmare of prehistoric plant life, suddenly she is the sole protector of an entire restaurant of Gotham citizens. With a bounty on her head and a lethal jungle crawling with monsters outside, will Batgirl survive the night…or will this night off actually kill her?
On sale 9/2/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 8/10/2026.
7. BATMAN: BAD SEEDS—GOTHAM GENERAL #1
WHEN DISASTER STRIKES, NOT ALL OF GOTHAM’S HEROES WEAR CAPES!
Welcome to General, Gotham City’s tier one trauma center. Power is out, fires are burning, transpo is shot, and the calls just keep coming. There are more patients than beds, half presenting with respiratory complications, the other half suffering hallucinogenic psychotic episodes. In every other emergency department in the DCU, this would be a catastrophe. For Dr. Ava Dastur and the men and women working at General, it’s a Tuesday. DC Comics is pleased to introduce you to the staff of Gotham General. No capes, no costumes, and don’t call them heroes—this is their job.
On sale 9/9/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 8/17/2026.
8. BATMAN: BAD SEEDS—GOTHAM CENTRAL #1
IS THIS THE LAST STAND FOR THE ONLY GOOD COPS LEFT IN GOTHAM CITY?
A killer is on the loose, someone is stalking Arkham Towers’ Dr. Zeller, the subways are out of control, and Anarky’s just pulled a big-time heist! With Vandal Savage diverting the GCPD’s resources to his single-minded war against the Bats and the Bat-Family trying to stop Poison Ivy while evading the GCPD, there’s almost no one left to do actual police work! Looks like officers Gordon and Espinoza have their work cut out for them.
On sale 9/9/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 8/17/2026.
9. DETECTIVE COMICS #1113
TOM TAYLOR AND SUPERSTAR GUEST ARTIST JEFF SPOKES CONTINUE BATMAN’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE EPIC BAD SEEDS EVENT!
Spores, vines, and lumbering floronic monsters have invaded the Dark Knight’s city. Now, as chaos runs rampant in the streets Batman has sworn to protect, Batman finds that Vandal Savage and his TUCO squads may prove even more deadly than the prehistoric flora that has taken the city for its own. Can Batman save Gotham from this lethal convergence of human evil and verdant violence before it’s too late? Find out in this can’t-miss issue that continues directly where Batman #13 leaves off! Also featuring a back-up story showcasing the winning villain design from the BUILDING BAD sweepstakes!
On sale 9/16/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 8/24/2026.
10. NIGHTWING #142
DOWNWIND FROM DISASTER!
When Gotham is struck by a terraforming disaster, the downwind city of Bludhaven falls victim to unanticipated side effects. After a truck full of TNT is stolen from a Bludhaven construction yard, Nightwing learns it’s headed toward Gotham as a form of righteous vengeance for everything the city has done to Bludhaven… and only he might be fast enough to stop it before things get explosive.
On sale 9/16/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 8/24/2026.
11. CATWOMAN #91
CAPER AT 2,000 FEET!
With the city in disarray, Catwoman sets out to make the best of the situation and do the one thing absolutely no one else would dare: break into Vandal Savage’s home.
On sale 9/16/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 8/24/2026.
12. BATWOMAN #7
BATWOMAN RETURNS TO GOTHAM CITY… JUST AS BAD SEEDS TAKE ROOT!
It was supposed to be a quick return trip before heading back to Greece, but with Batwoman now seen as a cold-blooded killer in the public eye, Commissioner Savage declaring open season on anyone who wears the Bat, and Poison Ivy’s urban renewal initiative sprouting chaos in the streets, it’s going to be a long night…especially when Batman reaches out with a mission to get comms back up between the heroes. Maybe she should’ve watered her plants before she left…
On sale 9/16/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 8/24/2026.
13. HARLEY QUINN #66
CHAOS IN THROATCUTTER HILL!
Ahh, finally time for a nice relaxing—what the heck?! I just got my life back to normal, and now the whole city is gettin’ torn apart by prehistoric plants, poisonous pollen, and ahhh…dangit, I ran outta P words for alliteration, so uhhh…terrible treeoids? I got a bad feeling my one true love, Poison Ivy, is behind alla this. I guess I gotta get my butt down to City Hall stat!
On sale 9/23/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 8/31/2026.
14. POISON IVY #48
MEET YOUR MASTER.
With Gotham City firmly in Poison Ivy’s grasp, the verdant villainess’s powers are at an all-time high. Now that Batman’s forces and Ivy’s traitorous former allies are all ground down to a pulp beneath her, is there anyone left to stand in Ivy’s way? Absolutely not. It’s time to get in line or die.
On sale 9/30/2026. Don’t Miss Out Date 9/7/2026.
