Recaps

Roland finished the auction and sent Batman and Iron Man to Gotham, where they faced Joker and encountered Astra and the unusual residents of Roland Cathedral. The chapter left Iron Man exploring Gotham with Batman as Damian arrived at the cathedral.

• Roland sold Superboy-Prime for one thousand dollars and himself to Batman for ten thousand dollars and one cent, then recalled Batman’s disappearance during the Crime Syndicate conflict.
• Roland opened a portal that sent Batman and Iron Man to Gotham, where they discussed Batman’s armor, magic, and Alfred before Roland told them Joker had escaped.
• Batman and Iron Man confronted Joker; Batman stopped and overturned a speeding truck, while Iron Man defeated Joker and his henchmen before Batman warned him about the laughing gas.
• Batman and Iron Man met Astra riding Dream Demon, and Batman discovered that she had skipped school before taking her back to Roland Cathedral.
• Jeanne d’Arc dragged Astra into a dark room, and Damian arrived at the cathedral with a crimson bat he called Astra’s pet.

Iron Man met Batman and Deadshot, then learned about the technology competition between Wakanda and Gorilla City. As Wakanda and the chimpanzees presented their inventions, Roland waited to see whether Gorilla City would reveal its strongest technology.

• Iron Man discussed his combat skills and armor with Batman, and Batman suggested Deadshot teach him marksmanship.
• Iron Man revealed he planned to patent small-scale controlled cold fusion, shocking Batman with the technology of his world.
• Roland brought Wakanda and Gorilla City together for a technology competition, with ten tons of vibranium or eighth metal at stake.
• The competition began with exhibits including Gorilla City's levitating drone and magma-proof vehicle, followed by Wakanda's Kinetic Energy Storage Device.
• Batman said Gorilla City had not yet revealed its trump card, leaving Roland uncertain about the competition's outcome.

Roland and his companions watched Gorilla City defeat Wakanda in a technology competition before Darkseid and Thanos fought in a heavyweight match. Meanwhile, Roland interfered with Superman and Spider-Man’s identity-guessing game, which ended with Peter wrongly suspecting Lois of being the anomaly.

• Batman and Iron Man watched Gorilla City and Wakanda present their technology, and Mister Terrific declared Gorilla City the winner after a brawl broke out.
• T’Challa asked to return to his universe, but Roland told him the competitions had to finish first and announced a match between Darkseid and Thanos.
• Darkseid and Thanos began fighting, while Roland left Deadpool to watch and went with Superboy-Prime to check on Superman.
• Roland told Superboy-Prime to add outside interference to Superman and Spider-Man’s game, and robots attacked Lois the next day.
• Spider-Man rescued Lois, realized she knew his identity, and incorrectly concluded she was the anomaly, while Roland and Superboy-Prime suggested Clark Kent was the likely answer.

Roland and Superboy-Prime watched Wonder Woman defeat Thor at Mount Olympus while they discussed the next matches in the inter-universe competition. Superboy-Prime then revealed that Namor and Aquaman had been scheduled to fight since the competition began, leaving Roland worried about what had happened to them.

• Superman, Lois, and Peter Parker learned about Superboy-Prime's past, and Peter cried after hearing how Superboy-Prime had sacrificed himself in his former life.
• Roland told the group that Darkseid had defeated Thanos, then took Superboy-Prime to Mount Olympus to watch Thor fight Wonder Woman.
• Dead Servant arrived to film the fight, and Wonder Woman overwhelmed Thor with her strength as the God of War.
• Roland, Superboy-Prime, and Dead Servant argued over possible matchups, including Wolverine, Doctor Fate, and a dance-off between Star-Lord and an opponent.
• Superboy-Prime remembered that Namor and Aquaman had been scheduled to fight from the start, and Roland worried that they might already have killed each other.

Roland oversaw the remaining inter-universe matches as Aquaman defeated Namor and Hulk fought Green Lantern to a planet-shattering stalemate before winning with a Red Lantern Ring. With the score heavily favoring DC, Dead Servant volunteered to fight the next match himself against Ravager, Grant Wilson.

• Roland found Aquaman and Namor fighting underwater, and Aquaman lured Namor to shore before binding him with Diana’s Lasso of Truth and pinning him under a summoned blue whale.
• Back at Roland Cathedral, Roland and Dead Servant argued over the lopsided scoreboard and arranged a match between Hulk and Green Lantern on a barren planet.
• Hulk and Green Lantern battled as Hulk’s strength and Green Lantern’s will increased, until a Red Lantern Ring chose Hulk and intensified his rage.
• Hulk destroyed the planet’s surface and overwhelmed Green Lantern, after which Roland brought Black Widow to cleanse Hulk and remove the danger.
• Dead Servant announced that he would enter the next match against Ravager, Grant Wilson.

Roland arranged a contest between Dead Servant and Grant Wilson, which Grant won by using a tranquilizer dart. As Roland invited the contestants to a gathering, Scarlet Witch sensed a broader, stronger power in the DC world, Batman finalized his Hellbat design, and Spider-Man teamed up with Superman.

• Dead Servant challenged his nephew Grant Wilson, and Roland created an arena with rules for their fight.
• Grant defeated Dead Servant by shooting him with a tranquilizer dart, and Roland declared Grant the winner.
• Roland invited the contestants to a gathering, while Scarlet Witch said she wanted to change the circumstances of mutants.
• Batman completed the seventh and final Hellbat design and agreed to attend the gathering after Alfred checked his schedule.
• Spider-Man defeated Lex Luthor's robot alongside Superman.

Roland dealt with a Wakandan woman and a Gorilla City citizen who wanted to marry, then learned that Vixen and Bronze Tiger had gone to Zambia to investigate her mother's murder. In Zambezi, Vixen reunited with her childhood friend Abisha, and Aguchisi's men arrived, prompting Vixen and Bronze Tiger to confront them.

• Superboy-Prime asked Superman to become his partner, and Superman agreed to join him at the gathering.
• Roland urged T'Challa and Solovar to accept the planned marriage between a Wakandan woman and a gorilla, then learned Ben had traveled to Zambia with Vixen.
• The Justice League uncovered evidence linking a warlord to the murder of Vixen's mother, Jenny Mary Kivie, and sent Ben to tell Vixen.
• Vixen and Bronze Tiger reached Zambezi, where Vixen reunited with Abisha and explained that she had returned to confront the man who killed her mother.
• Aguchisi's men rode into the village and knocked down a pedestrian, and Vixen and Bronze Tiger challenged them.

Vixen and Bronze Tiger confronted Aguchisi, whose apparent supernatural powers came from advanced technology and poison, before Roland defeated him and Vixen killed him. At Aguchisi’s base, the group found Zombie Poison, prompting Roland to ask Tim about a Haitian zombie incident that Tim recounted.

• Vixen and Bronze Tiger defeated Aguchisi’s men, and Vixen revealed her Voodoo animal totem to Abisha and explained that she had come to punish the man who killed her mother.
• Aguchisi attacked Vixen and Bronze Tiger with poisoned fists and technological weapons, but Roland arrived and overpowered him.
• Vixen finished Aguchisi, Roland incapacitated his henchmen, and Kara joined the group before they investigated his base.
• Vixen identified pufferfish and Zombie Poison at the base, while Kara and Roland suspected the lead-lined stronghold had been designed to counter someone.
• Roland asked Tim to investigate Zombie Poison, and Tim described how Narcisse was buried alive, revived by a Voodoo priest, kept in a drugged stupor, and eventually regained his freedom.

Roland uncovered the Burial Gang’s modified toxin, then gathered heroes and villains for a Gotham party where Darkseid challenged Superman. Superman defeated Darkseid in a controlled battle, and the gathering continued.

• Roland extracted hidden files and, with Tim’s help, discovered the Burial Gang had modified its zombie poison to threaten people who were previously immune, though it could not control Carl.
• Roland destroyed the computer and the base, then left Zambia with Kara while Bronze Tiger and Vixen stayed behind.
• Roland teleported Aquaman and Namor into a tank of filthy Gotham water, then agreed to join Aquaman on an expedition to a Greek-era ruin in Atlantis.
• Heroes and villains arrived at Roland’s Gotham mansion, where Thor reunited with another Loki and Darkseid declared Superman his true opponent.
• Loki created a stable pocket of space for Superman and Darkseid to fight, and Superman gained the upper hand until Darkseid conceded.

At a gathering in Gotham, the heroes caught up before Bronze Tiger and Vixen reported that the Burial Gang had built a devastating earthquake-powered weapon in Zambia. Batman decided to investigate Terra, while Deadpool suggested using Deathstroke as bait.

• Darkseid promised to return to Earth and meet Superman, while Banner explained that the Red Lantern Ring helped him control his anger and then beat Iron Man in a fight.
• Wonder Woman gave Thor a scroll of Zeus’s thoughts on lightning, and Loki hinted that Thor would have to discover for himself the secret behind their father and Hela’s power.
• Bronze Tiger and Vixen recruited Solovar’s gorillas to raid the Burial Gang’s construction site in Zambia, where they discovered a weapon capable of generating a massive earthquake shock wave.
• Bronze Tiger reported the weapon to Roland, Batman, and the others, and Batman connected it to Terra and decided to investigate her.
• Deadpool suggested that Batman use Deathstroke as bait because Terra was interested in older men.

Roland and the others watched Jason investigate reports of a ghost haunting a swimming pool in Burnside Y. The chapter ended with host Kayla jumping into the pool while Jason stayed out, as Roland’s companions teased him about the broadcast.

• Dead Servant hosted a gathering where the heroes joked about Grandmaster, Krona, and their plans after returning home.
• Superboy-Prime told Roland that he had settled things with Superman and would stay in Metropolis to work as a superhero.
• The group saw Jason appear on television as a priest investigating strange sightings at a swimming pool, prompting Roland to react to Jason using his name.
• Daniel recounted how a translucent purple figure appeared in the seniors’ pool and later frightened parents and children in the baby pool.
• Jason and Kayla visited the pool, and Kayla jumped into the water while Jason and Daniel stayed out.

Batman and the others traced the pool’s ghost sightings to stolen teleportation research and rescued Leanna Soto from another dimension. Their return opened a rift through which Belial emerged, but Raven sealed him away.

• Nightwing tested the pool and found no unusual chemicals, while Jason sensed that something supernatural or dimensional was still wrong.
• Batman connected the pool phenomenon to C. H. Laden’s hydrodynamic teleportation research and discovered that Leanna Soto had disappeared after working with him.
• Batman and Iron Man examined Leanna’s notebook and concluded that the pool could be used to bring her back; Roland gathered the group and took them there.
• The group formed a circle in the pool, and Superboy-Prime pulled Leanna’s frightened shadow through the dimensional barrier, restoring her to human form.
• Leanna said Laden had trapped her to steal her research, and Jason sensed that something else was about to emerge from the rift.
• Belial came through the rift and attacked Roland, but Superman restrained him and Raven sealed him away.

After the multiverse tournament ended, the heroes returned to their worlds and Lucifer sent Krona back to the creation of the universe. A week later, Aquaman visited Roland with Wonder Woman and Mera to invite him on an underwater trip, and they set off for Amnesty Bay.

• Batman told the others that Laden had been imprisoned, and the Marvel group prepared to return to its universe.
• Scarlet Witch decided to lead the mutants in her world, while the heroes exchanged farewells and Thanos took back the Infinity Stones.
• Lucifer sent Krona to the beginning of the universe, and Batman recruited Superman and Superboy-Prime to help build the Hellbat armor.
• A week later, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Mera visited Roland, who served them a meal and joked with Aquaman about his ability to communicate with sea creatures.
• Aquaman invited Roland to explore underwater ruins, and the group headed for Amnesty Bay before continuing to their destination.

Aquaman, Roland, Wonder Woman, and Mera investigated glowing sea creatures that had abducted people from Amnesty Bay and traced them to an ancient Atlantean ship on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. They found the creatures’ likely route and debated how to stop them, leaving the fate of the captives and the creatures unresolved.

• Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Roland defeated the creatures attacking Amnesty Bay and discovered unconscious people sealed inside cocoons.
• Aquaman brought the creatures’ corpse to Doctor Shen, who identified its unusual traits and traced it to a trench along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
• Doctor Shen pleaded with Aquaman for the corpse and for Atlantis’s location, but Aquaman refused and left with his companions.
• Aquaman led the group to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where they found an ancient Atlantean ship embedded in the seabed and realized the creatures had eaten its occupants.
• Mera argued that they should seal the trench to prevent the creatures from reaching the surface, while Aquaman worried that doing so might wipe out the species; Roland joked about holding a Thanksgiving for anglerfish.

Aquaman, Roland, Mera, and Wonder Woman defeated the sea monsters and uncovered the key to the Tomb of the Gods, which released three alien sea gods. In the tomb, they found Poseidon, who began explaining how Arion’s call to other worlds had brought the gods to Earth and why he had fought them.

• Aquaman hurled his trident into an underwater volcano, killing the sea monsters’ queen, and Wonder Woman sealed the remaining monsters in a trench.
• Aquaman and his companions rescued the cocooned people in Amnesty Bay, then followed him to a hidden wreck containing the key to the Tomb of the Gods.
• Roland touched the key and broke a seal, freeing three alien sea gods; Wonder Woman fought them while Aquaman and Roland entered the tomb.
• Roland knocked out Triggris, the tomb’s three-headed guardian, and the group found Poseidon waiting inside.
• Poseidon stabbed Aquaman with his trident, then explained that he was transferring life force to him and recounted how Arion’s call had attracted the three gods.

Poseidon revealed that he had manipulated Arion into sealing three sea gods away, and Aquaman found Arion’s Godhorn to share a vision of unity with them. The three gods agreed to negotiate with Aquaman, while Wonder Woman and the Justice League fought their forces above the Pacific.

• Poseidon confessed that he had persuaded Arion to use a death-filled conch against the three sea gods and admitted responsibility for their imprisonment.
• Aquaman absorbed Poseidon’s life force, then traveled with Roland and Mera to Arion’s tomb in the Atacama Desert and retrieved the Godhorn.
• Wonder Woman fought Lone Valor and Raging Tide while Commander Sea-Tamer unleashed Flood Demons against Superman.
• Aquaman used the Godhorn to broadcast his vision of life and cooperation, connecting people across worlds and awakening Atlantis’s ancient dream.
• Aquaman offered the three sea gods the trident and asked them to accept his vision, and they agreed to negotiate rather than continue the war.

Aquaman became the new Sea God and agreed to connect oceans across the universe through life force. After celebrating with the heroes and catching a gang in Amnesty Bay, he remembered his father and discovered that his emotions now affected beings connected to the sea.

• Sea-Tamer, Raging Tide, and Lone Valor agreed to work with Aquaman, gave him their trident, and departed; Aquaman then inherited Poseidon's Sea God power.
• The heroes celebrated in Amnesty Bay, where a fan gave Roland a kangaroo-balls keychain in his honor.
• Aquaman and Batman bet on whether they could find criminals in Amnesty Bay, and Batman led the group to a gang debating which city would be safest for crime.
• The gang insulted Aquaman and praised other heroes, so Aquaman arrested them and Batman claimed victory.
• Aquaman remembered his father, Thomas Curry, asking him to find Atlantis and tell his mother that he loved her.
• Raging Tide warned Aquaman that his emotions could be felt by the tens of billions of subjects under their rule and life on an Ocean World.

Roland, Jason, and Nightwing investigated an exorcism job in Los Angeles while the Court of Owls pursued its own unknown goal. Roland found an evil spirit in the ICU and discovered a diary linking the haunting to a Japanese girl who had helped make balloon bombs.

• Roland agreed to take Jason’s Los Angeles exorcism job and brought Nightwing along to investigate the Court of Owls.
• A Talon confronted Nightwing, revealed she had once been an aerialist in the Flying Graysons’ circus, and recalled how the Court recruited the disfigured girl Mary in 1946.
• Robin confirmed that Mary’s story matched the sole survivor of a 1945 balloon-bomb attack in Oregon.
• Roland sensed an evil spirit in the ICU, teleported inside, healed the elderly client, and found a diary.
• Jason read the diary, which belonged to Ayumi, a Japanese girl who had made balloon bombs, and found its final entry dated November 13, 1944, in Nagasaki.

Roland and his companions resolved the haunting of Mrs. Merlin before returning to Gotham, while Mera uncovered Doctor Shen’s role in Arthur’s father’s death. Black Manta stole the Dead King’s Dark Trident and attacked Aquaman, but Mera caught him as he fled and began killing him by drawing the water from his body.

• Robin identified Mrs. Merlin as the former Miss Atomic Bomb, and Roland healed her after Talon took the haunted diary to settle unfinished business.
• Roland returned to Gotham with Jason and resumed his work, while Batman described the other heroes’ current responsibilities.
• Mera confronted Doctor Shen, who admitted that he had hired Black Manta to attack Arthur so he could obtain a blood sample, leading to Tom Curry’s death.
• Black Manta abducted Doctor Shen, killed him, and used his head in a device to locate the Dead King’s Dark Trident.
• Black Manta attacked Aquaman with the relic, but Aquaman defeated him with a surge of life force.
• Mera stopped Black Manta’s submarine as he fled Atlantis and began draining the water from his body.

Aquaman learned from Kassina that Black Manta had been killed by someone else, then questioned Ocean Master about the theft of the Dead King's relics. He won Orm's support for connecting the world's oceans, but still wondered who had killed Black Manta.

• Kassina arrived in Atlantis and told Aquaman that she could no longer see Black Manta, suggesting he was dead.
• Aquaman showed Kassina the towers of Atlantis, but she told him he would have to resolve the coming matter himself.
• Aquaman asked Ocean Master whether he had hired Black Manta or planned to invade the surface world, and Orm denied both accusations.
• Aquaman invited Orm to join him in connecting the world's oceans, and Ocean Master agreed to support him.
• Aquaman wondered whether he had manipulated Orm and questioned who had killed Black Manta.

Roland and Batman traveled to Hong Kong to investigate a murder matching a Gotham City killing, while a victim’s former partner, Benny, pursued the case himself. Batman planned to question triad boss One-Eyed Tiger, and Roland compared him to the Penguin.

• Roland learned from Gla that dark web livestreams showed murders carried out using the same method as the Gotham victim’s death.
• Batman asked Roland to accompany him to Hong Kong, where a matching murder had occurred, and Roland agreed.
• Benny found his friend Johnny’s body and argued with Officer Zhou Yi, then vowed to investigate the killing himself.
• Zhou Yi warned Batman and Roland that they were outsiders in Hong Kong, but gave Batman One-Eyed Tiger’s address.
• Batman and Roland set out to question One-Eyed Tiger, and Roland joked that the triad boss was Hong Kong’s Penguin.

Batman and Roland investigated One-Eyed Tiger over the online murder videos, then followed him to a meeting with Zhou Yi, where Benny appeared as the masked Night Dragon. Night Dragon told them about his father’s suspicious death and asked for help finding Johnny’s killer.

• Roland and Batman confronted One-Eyed Tiger at his nightclub, where he denied knowing about the livestreamed murders and said he had kept a low profile.
• One-Eyed Tiger learned another of his men, Jack, had been murdered, while Batman tracked him toward a meeting with Zhou Yi.
• Benny argued with his mother about investigating Johnny’s death, then put on a golden mask and cape to become Night Dragon.
• Night Dragon joined Roland and Batman as they watched One-Eyed Tiger and Zhou Yi argue over their half-brother Luo Bao’s death.
• Night Dragon explained that his father died in a factory fire and that Zhou Yi suspected One-Eyed Tiger had arranged it, though Night Dragon did not believe Tiger was responsible.
• Batman offered to help Night Dragon investigate, while Roland said he would watch rather than get involved.

Roland helped capture Ghost Girl and discovered that two drums of material for a synthetic virus had been sold to Luo Bao’s associates. After Luo Bao threatened revenge in a broadcast, Roland warned the others that the missing material could be used in a terrorist attack.

• Roland joined Wang Bo Xi and Xiao Qing in Kowloon, captured Ghost Girl, and learned that her group had sold two drums of virus-making material to a buyer.
• Roland recruited One-Eyed Tiger and Hong Kong’s gangs to search for the buyer while Batman investigated the lead.
• Batman told Roland that Night Dragon had found the buyer but had been captured and livestreamed; Roland rescued Night Dragon from an abandoned boat.
• The captured cameraman identified Luo Bao as the person behind the broadcasts, and Night Dragon learned that Luo Bao was his presumed-dead father.
• Luo Bao announced his revenge against One-Eyed Tiger, Zhou Yi, and Night Dragon, and Roland warned them that the missing virus material could be part of his plan.

Benny's mother confessed that she had arranged the fire that made Luo Bao believe his brothers betrayed him, and Night Dragon confronted Luo Bao before Roland stopped his biological attack. After Luo Bao died, the group traveled to the Bat Training Camp, where they discovered a high-tech facility and discussed Wang Bo Xi's former friend Feng Rongpei.

• Benny's mother admitted hiring One-Eyed Tiger's men to start the fire, and Zhou Yi arrested her as Night Dragon urged them to focus on stopping Luo Bao.
• One-Eyed Tiger and Zhou Yi formed a temporary alliance, and their forces found Luo Bao at Junlu Building preparing to unleash a virus.
• Night Dragon confronted his father and tried to take the explosives, but Roland froze time and sent the bombs into outer space after Luo Bao triggered the detonator.
• A sniper killed Luo Bao, and One-Eyed Tiger and Zhou Yi reconciled as Night Dragon chose to remain a vigilante rather than join the police.
• Roland took Night Dragon and the others to the Bat Training Camp in Shanghai, where they saw its hidden high-tech facility and learned about Wang Bo Xi's former friend Feng Rongpei.

Wang Bo Xi challenged Feng Rongpei for the right to wear the Batman cape, but their duel was interrupted when Fahai caused a tsunami. After Roland and Batman stopped the wave and Fahai died, Roland returned to Hong Kong, where Night Dragon agreed to enter an unrestricted martial arts tournament in Singapore.

• Wang Jiali reunited with Wang Bo Xi at the Bat Training Camp, and Feng Rongpei challenged him over the Batman cape.
• Wang Bo Xi fought Feng Rongpei in the arena and gained the upper hand with a wrist-mounted taser and a barrage of punches.
• Xiao Qing sensed danger as Fahai emerged from the sea and unleashed a tsunami, so Roland and Batman flew out to confront him.
• Roland and Batman combined their power to shatter the tsunami and fatally wound Fahai, who spoke with Xiao Qing before dying.
• Roland sent Batman back to Gotham and returned to Hong Kong with Night Dragon, where they ran into Cassandra and Lady Shiva at a milk tea shop.
• Lady Shiva invited Night Dragon to compete in an unrestricted martial arts grand prix in Singapore, and he agreed to enter.