Chapter Summaries

Dane used the Power of Zeus and an antidote to clear Gotham’s Fear Gas, while Batman pieced together the Arkham Knight’s involvement and learned Barbara was safe with Damian at Wayne Manor. Batman went to Arkham Asylum to find the Arkham Knight and discovered that several inmates had been killed.

• Dane flew away as Gotham’s citizens fell under Fear Illusions, and the Fear Gas spread through the city.
• Dane drew the gas into the sky with a storm, destroyed it with lightning, and spread an antidote through the rain.
• Batman realized Poison Ivy’s traits had helped create the antidote and suspected the Arkham Knight was working with Dane.
• Clark told Batman that Barbara was safe at Wayne Manor, where Alfred revealed that Damian was Batman’s biological son.
• Batman sent Nightwing and Superman to protect Barbara, then went to Arkham Asylum and found its guards unconscious.
• Batman found Mad Hatter and Hugo Strange dead from gunshots to the head.

Batman confronted the Arkham Knight at Arkham and discovered he was Jason, while Dane killed Joker. Jason became Red Hood, and Batman asked to join Dane’s Justice League, facing an immediate strength evaluation.

• Batman found the Arkham Knight with Joker, and the Knight shot Joker in the leg before revealing himself as Jason.
• Batman’s Electronic Smoke disabled Jason’s sensors and gun, and Dane arrived and killed Joker with a lightning spear.
• Dane argued that Batman’s no-killing rule and lack of checks on his power were dangerous, while Jason condemned Batman for letting Joker terrorize Gotham.
• Jason left his role as Robin and took the name Red Hood.
• Batman asked to join the Justice League, and Dane said he had to pass a strength evaluation beginning immediately.

Dane returned to Wayne Manor after arranging for Batman and Jason to fight, then gathered the Justice League members and Poison Ivy there. He offered to cure Barbara and recruit Poison Ivy, and the chapter ended with Jason returning alongside Batman and revealing himself to Barbara, Dick, and Alfred.

• Dane left Batman to fight Jason, then flew back to Wayne Manor and helped people along the way.
• Dane told Diana, Clark, and Nightwing that Batman had agreed to join them, and he urged Poison Ivy to come with him.
• Dane offered to cure Barbara's paralysis, and she accepted so she could return to superhero work.
• Dane teased Damian about joining the Justice League and showed him footage of his childhood computer hack as leverage.
• Batman and Jason returned exhausted from their fight, and Jason revealed his identity to Barbara, Dick, and Alfred.

Dane welcomed Batman into the Justice League, treated the injured members, and explained the origins and abilities of himself, Diana, and Clark. He then warned that General Zod and other Kryptonians would come to conquer Earth, though Krypton had already been destroyed.

• Dane declared Batman a Justice League member and teleported everyone except Damian and Alfred to Justice Hall, where Damian discovered he had been removed from the group chat.
• Dane brought the injured members to the treatment room, where Bruce and Jason recovered quickly and Barbara underwent surgery to replace damaged bones and nerves.
• Batman secretly planted a patch on a console, and Cortana alerted Dane; after Batman asked for classified intelligence, Dane began explaining the team’s origins.
• Dane told Batman that he had gained Shazam’s power only a year earlier, introduced Diana as an Amazon demigod, and revealed that Clark was a Kryptonian named Kal-El.
• Dane used prophetic magic to show Batman General Zod’s face and warned that a group of Kryptonians would arrive to conquer Earth, then revealed that Krypton had been destroyed more than twenty years earlier.

Dane explained Kryptonian weaknesses and warned Batman about future threats to Earth, including alien invasions, Atlantis, and Trigon. He assigned Batman to recruit Constantine and upgrade his suit, then watched Barbara recover from surgery and discussed Poison Ivy’s place at his side.

• Dane told Batman that magic, neurotoxic gases, and Kryptonite could weaken Kryptonians, while Clark grew frustrated at being ignored.
• Dane warned Batman about General Zod, an alien attack on Seaside City, Darkseid, Atlantis, and Trigon, and said the Justice League needed more members, especially magic users.
• Dane asked Batman to leave Constantine to him and accept a mission beyond Gotham, then offered him access to Umbrella technology to upgrade his Bat Suit.
• Barbara emerged after surgery, having revived as Batgirl.
• Dane studied the stars at Justice Hall and told Poison Ivy to stay with him and avoid causing Jason trouble, while she tried to persuade him to become a villain.

Dane took Diana to see Zatanna perform, then introduced himself as Shazam and invited her to join the Justice League. Zatanna accepted his invitation to talk, and Dane brought her to the newly renovated Rock of Eternity.

• Dane brought Diana to Zatanna's circus performance to help her relax and see whether the magician had real powers.
• Zatanna impressed the crowd by conjuring three lions and lifting them into the air, convincing Diana that she was a genuine mage.
• Dane sent Diana back through a Portal and went backstage to meet Zatanna Zatara.
• Dane identified himself as Shazam and proved his power by summoning thunderclouds, then clearing them at Zatanna's request.
• Dane invited Zatanna to join the Justice League, and she agreed to talk with him somewhere quieter.
• Dane transported Zatanna to the renovated Rock of Eternity, now a brightly lit hall with a sci-fi aesthetic.

Dane persuaded Zatanna to join the Justice League by offering access to the Rock of Eternity’s magical knowledge, then took her to investigate the escaped Enchantress. The chapter ended as Enchantress attacked a tribal settlement and the villagers armed themselves against her.

• Dane invited Zatanna to join the Justice League and promised access to the Rock of Eternity’s books to help her search for her father.
• After Zatanna accepted, the Rock of Eternity granted her partial permission to enter and leave, and Dane brought her to a South American jungle.
• Dane and Zatanna found Enchantress possessing an archaeologist, but she escaped after Zatanna’s Evil Expulsion Curse failed to stop her.
• Dane tracked Enchantress toward a tribal settlement, where she killed the High Priestess as the villagers gathered weapons to face her.

Dane and Zatanna pursued the Enchantress and her brother as they attacked tribes, trying to stop them before they could regain their strength. Dane killed the brother with Shazam, while Zatanna remained locked in battle with the Enchantress.

• The Enchantress transformed a tribesman into her brother, who consumed the life force and bodies of the tribe’s people before becoming a fire giant to fight Dane.
• The Enchantress’s green flames turned tribespeople into obsidian monsters, but Dane and Zatanna fought them off and drove the siblings away.
• Dane gave Zatanna enchanted handcuffs to seal the Enchantress’s magic, and they pursued the siblings to another tribe.
• Dane attacked the giant while Zatanna fought the Enchantress, whose scream injured the tribespeople and left Zatanna struggling to move.
• Dane struck the giant with a lightning spear, then invoked Shazam and killed him with a bolt of lightning.

Shazam and Zatanna subdued Enchantress by separating her from June Moone and sealing her within June’s mind, after which Dane returned to the Justice League headquarters and shared ice cream with Diana. The chapter then shifted to Amanda Waller, without showing what happened next.

• Shazam used magic to restore June Moone’s identity, while Dane calmed her and Zatanna entered her mind to confront Enchantress.
• Zatanna overcame Enchantress on the mental plane and bound her with an Eternal Metal Lock that barred her from using June’s body or memories without permission.
• Dane carried the unconscious June and Zatanna to the Rock of Eternity, then let Zatanna rest without revealing that he knew she was awake.
• Dane returned to the South American forest to assess the damage and contacted Umbrella’s logistics department to handle the aftermath.
• Dane bought ice cream and shared it with Diana at Justice League headquarters.

Amanda Waller investigated a supernatural anomaly in the South American rainforest and, frustrated by her superior, sought help from Hawkman. Dane discovered her investigation and forwarded her whistleblower email to her superior, while Amanda presented the anomaly evidence to Hawkman, who agreed to investigate.

• Amanda reported the rainforest's abnormal weather and energy fluctuations to her superior, who dismissed her and made unwanted advances.
• Amanda sent evidence of a suspected supernatural incident to a higher department and decided to seek help from the Justice Society.
• Amanda discovered Umbrella's presence near the anomaly and tried to investigate the company, but Cortana detected her intrusion.
• Dane traced the investigation to Amanda, copied her whistleblower email to her superior, and decided to hinder her advancement.
• Amanda traveled to Hawkman Manor in St. Roch and asked Carter Hall for help, explaining that her A.R.G.U.S. superior had ignored her evidence.
• Carter reviewed Amanda's files, understood her complaint, and agreed to make time to investigate the anomaly.

Hawkman abandoned his investigation into the South American incident after Dane used local authorities to turn him back, while Dane considered taking control of Kandahar for political protection. In London, Batman joined Constantine to investigate the strange condition of Chas’s daughter Tracy, and they found her unconscious in a hospital bed.

• Amanda tried to persuade Hawkman to involve Doctor Fate, but Hawkman refused and left to investigate alone.
• Dane used Cortana to monitor Hawkman and arranged for local fighter pilots to turn back his aircraft; Hawkman identified several energy-spike locations before heading home.
• Dane considered taking control of Kandahar so he could counter political pressure from America with official power of his own.
• Batman confronted Constantine in London and learned that demons from Constantine’s subconscious had recently manifested.
• Constantine brought Batman to the hospital to help Chas’s daughter Tracy, despite Renee’s distrust of them.
• Batman and Constantine entered Tracy’s ward and saw the eight-year-old girl lying in her hospital bed.

Batman and Constantine discovered that a demon had trapped Tracy’s soul and learned its location in Los Angeles. On the Batwing, Batman questioned Constantine about the Newcastle Incident and made clear that the Justice League would need to know his past before helping.

• Constantine summoned the Nightmare Nurse, who found that Tracy had no soul inside her body and drew out the bright red matter attached to her.
• Tracy briefly spoke through the Nightmare Nurse, saying she was trapped in a cold cage, before a demon took control and revealed the address 1247 Enstrom Street in Los Angeles.
• The demon left the Nightmare Nurse, who recovered and stayed behind to guard Tracy while Batman and Constantine flew to Los Angeles in the Batwing.
• Batman questioned Constantine about Ravenscar Psychiatric Hospital and the Newcastle Incident, saying the Justice League needed to know whether it could trust him.
• Constantine admitted he had intended to enlist the Justice League’s help and began explaining the Newcastle Incident, while also revealing his interest in Shazam’s Rock of Eternity.

After Constantine revealed how his reckless magic caused the Newcastle Incident, Batman enlisted Dane to help with a demon threat in Los Angeles. Batman and Constantine reached a demon’s manor, where a pig-man welcomed them after sensing Batman’s fragrant soul.

• Constantine told Batman that his attempt to save a girl by summoning a demon had caused the deaths of everyone at the Playboy nightclub except Constantine and Chas, while the girl was dragged to Hell.
• Dane reviewed Batman’s request, recognized the threat from the events of “Constantine: City of Demons,” and agreed to investigate the Spirit of Los Angeles and eliminate the demons’ forces.
• Diana offered to join Dane, and they planned to approach the demons as ordinary people so they would not be alerted.
• Batman took Constantine by aircraft to a secluded manor, forced him to parachute down, and revealed he had controlled the parachute’s release.
• Batman and Constantine reached 1247 Enstrom Street, where a pig-man opened the door, welcomed them, and remarked on Batman’s fragrant soul aura.

Constantine and Batman entered Belial’s manor to rescue Tracy and stop the demon’s plan to open Hell franchises in the human world. Batman destroyed the manor’s gathering with the Batwing’s cannon, then escaped with Constantine, who learned Batman had knowingly risked Tracy’s soul and punched him.

• Belial revealed that it had lured Constantine to the manor using Tracy and offered to return her soul if Constantine eliminated its five rivals.
• Batman explored the manor and saw demons torturing and feasting on humans at a grotesque party.
• Batman attacked Belial’s gathering with the Batwing’s Vulcan Cannon, and he and Constantine escaped as Belial reassembled itself.
• Constantine realized Batman had known Tracy’s soul was inside Belial and had accepted the risk to protect the city.
• Constantine called Batman a son of a bitch and punched him aboard the Batwing.

Dane met Batman and Constantine in Los Angeles and proposed using Constantine’s reputation to gather the demons so they could eliminate them together. Batman and Constantine left with a prototype Eternal Gold Missile, while Dane and Diana discussed Batman’s suspicion of superhumans.

• Batman and Constantine learned that Belial had survived and that Tracy was still alive but deteriorating without her soul.
• Dane healed Constantine and proposed gathering the demons to destroy them all at once rather than letting any escape to Hell.
• Dane urged Constantine to use his reputation to convince the demons he could help them deal with Belial, with Batman accompanying him for protection.
• Dane revealed that the prototype Eternal Gold Missile could threaten him but could kill only one demon, and Batman took it for safekeeping.
• Batman and Constantine departed, and Dane told Diana that he trusted Batman because he was both a superhero and an ordinary human.

Dane and Diana tracked the weakened Aztec death god Mictlantecuhtli to a slaughterhouse, where Dane hoped to claim its divine spark for an artifact. Diana defeated and killed the god, leaving Dane to inspect its corpse.

• Dane told Diana that Mictlantecuhtli still survived beneath a Los Angeles pork slaughterhouse and that its divine spark could help him forge an artifact.
• Dane and Diana entered the slaughterhouse and were drawn into Mictlantecuhtli’s hidden realm after the god mistook them for followers.
• Diana confronted Mictlantecuhtli, declared herself the daughter of Zeus, and fought it with her shield and Sword of Vulcan.
• Diana adapted to the god’s attacks, cut off one of its legs, and pierced its head with the Sword of Vulcan.
• Diana pulled her sword free as Mictlantecuhtli collapsed dead, and Dane approached the corpse to inspect it.

Dane absorbed Mictlantecuhtli’s Power of Death into the Wizard Staff and left with Diana. Meanwhile, Batman and Constantine fought a demon, and Batman wounded it with an Eternal Metal Batarang.

• Dane used the Wizard Staff to find Mictlantecuhtli’s soul hiding in the Obsidian Spear and absorbed its power.
• Dane told Diana he planned to make a despicable weapon, then took her away as the sanctuary collapsed.
• Batman and Constantine escaped hellhounds using the Batwing and Batmobile, then confronted a stronger demon.
• Constantine summoned a Flame Angel to distract the demon while Batman prepared a Batarang containing Eternal Metal.
• Batman stuck the Batarang to the demon and detonated it, drawing blood from the creature.

Constantine and Batman recruited a demon to help kill Belial, while Dane met Angelus, the Spirit of Los Angeles, and asked how he could obtain the City Spirit of Kandahar. Angelus agreed to discuss the city’s people and culture, leaving Dane’s plan dependent on what she would reveal.

• Constantine and Batman subdued a demon, and Constantine offered it weapons and a partnership against Belial in exchange for help gathering the other demons.
• The demon agreed to the alliance but secretly planned to betray Constantine, Batman, and its fellow demons to claim Los Angeles for itself.
• Angelus contacted Dane at Pioneer Technology and appeared before him in the form of a beautiful woman.
• Dane asked Angelus how he could meet or obtain the Spirit of a city he had his eye on.
• Angelus asked whether the city had a distinct culture and a long history, and whether its people loved it like a mother; Dane answered yes to both.

Dane confirmed that the City Spirits’ dimension was the Void World where the Rock of Eternity lay, then arranged with Angelus to help trap the demons at Enstrom Manor. Angelus agreed to deliver a necklace to Tracy, while Dane resumed researching a concealed weapon and Diana returned from shopping.

• Dane entered the Void World with Angelus and confirmed that it was the same dimension as the Rock of Eternity.
• Angelus explained that City Spirits stayed near their cities and influenced residents through the spiritual realm, giving Dane a way to seek the Spirit of Kandahar.
• Dane arranged for Angelus to surround Enstrom Manor with holy water after Constantine brought five demons there to besiege Belial, whose true identity was Nirgal.
• Dane asked Angelus to have London deliver a magical necklace to Tracy, and Angelus agreed.
• Dane continued researching a concealed wrist spike made with the Power of Death and Eternal Metal, and Diana returned from shopping.

Constantine lured Belial’s five demonic competitors to Enstrom Manor, where Nirgal revealed itself as the true culprit behind the Newcastle incident. Dane arrived as Shazam and unleashed Zeus’s lightning, while Constantine abandoned the demons he had promised to help.

• Dane told Diana that the final battle would begin that night, and Constantine called to report that he was ready.
• Constantine returned to Enstrom Manor and confronted Belial, which revealed that Tracy was keeping it company.
• Constantine summoned Belial’s five competitors, and Belial disgorged Nirgal, the demon behind the Newcastle incident.
• Nirgal attacked the five demons in its manor but discovered that it could not teleport them away.
• Constantine called for help, and Dane arrived as Shazam, blasting Nirgal and the other demons with Zeus’s Divine Lightning.
• Constantine hid behind Dane and admitted that he had broken his promise to the demons.