The PENGUIN purchases GOTHAM'S largest media company. Meanwhile, a crime wave hits the city. BATMAN soon learns that these events are related. After the DARK KNIGHT stops a crime, the PENGUIN'S TV news channel edits the security tapes and police reports to make BATMAN look like a criminal. People begin to fear the DARK KNIGHT. If he can't prove his innocence, the hero will end up in prison, and the PENGUIN will fly free.

On a bright spring morning, a dark cloud of smoke engulfs GOTHAM CITY. The fearsome SCARECROW has turned day into night. Surprisingly, the crook doesn't resist BATMAN'S attempt to arrest him. From behind the bars of his cell, the SCARECROW reveals that his evil experiment has already been set in motion. When the black smoke mixes with water, it produces a gas that fills people with fear. A thunderstorm is approaching the city. Can BATMAN save the citizens of GOTHAM from their worst nightma...

"Battle of the BFFs," Part Four. Continued from Betty #188. It's the final challenge in the battle over the title of 'World's Greatest BFFs'! Conditions on BFF Island are rough, but as the competition thins, Ginger and Cheryl tough it out to face the ultimate obstacles. Big surprises are in store for these faux friends as they continue in their quest to win the BFF trophy!

Intergalactic peace keepers are chasing the evil TERRA-MAN through space! When this super-villain seeks refuge on Earth, SUPERMAN offers to join the bounty hunters' posse. Soon, the MAN OF STEEL locates the gun-slinging criminal in an Old West ghost town, and the two face off in an old-fashioned showdown.

"A Super Duper Story" and "Sweet Treats" Betty and Chuck team up to create a new super heroine that will appeal to female readers, but creative differences soon threaten "A Super Duper Story." Then, in "Sweet Treats," the always thoughtful Betty tries helping Archie, but it ends up being Veronica that gets treats from Betty's sweet nature!

It's fall in GOTHAM CITY. The air is getting colder, the leaves are changing color, and the people are . . . turning into monsters! These evil creatures are taking over the city, and the problem appears to be spreading. Luckily, BATMAN and his teenage crime-fighting partner, ROBIN, are investigating. Soon, they trace this monster mess back to the GOTHAM CITY CLINIC. Apparently, the evil HUGO STRANGE has been posing as a physician and turning his patients into troublesome terrors. The DYNAM...

Barbara Gordon, the secret super hero BATGIRL, has been invited to the biggest Halloween party of year. Unfortunately, she already agreed to spend the night with ROBIN, her younger crime-fighting partner. Instead of arguing with her mentor, BATMAN, Barbara decides to bring ROBIN along. That night, the teens arrive at the costume party, hosted by an eccentric collector of Halloween artifacts. Suddenly, all of the lights go out! When they turn on, his prized artifact, a black cat made of rar...

In the dead of winter, fear is spreading through GOTHAM like a flu virus. Hundreds of residents have gone mad with fright, and dozens more are affected each day. Fortunately, BATMAN and his teenage partner, BATGIRL, are on this medical case. And soon, the root of the problem is revealed. SCARECROW, the DARK KNIGHT'S most frightful foe, has taken over a dentist's chair, and is gassing patients with his evil fear toxin. If he isn't stopped soon, the entire city could be scared to death!

As a former pro wrestler, KILLER CROC bullied his opponents inside the ring. As a cutthroat criminal, this ferocious freak forces his competition out of town. Next on his hoodlum hit list is KITE MAN, but the second-rate super-villain isn't leaving GOTHAM without a fight. He's partnering with BATMAN, the WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE, to wrangle up the reptilian rogue and take him down for the count.

Taking a rare day off from the DAILY PLANET newspaper, CLARK KENT relaxes with his new sci-fi novel, Little Green Men. Then suddenly, the mild-mannered reporter hears a scream! Unable to ignore his other job as SUPERMAN, the world's greatest hero, he soars toward the cry for help, rescuing a construction worker from a near fatal fall. The interruptions, however, don't stop there, and the MAN OF STEEL'S lazy day quickly becomes stranger than fiction.

After chasing the evil MALA through space, SUPERMAN returns to Earth, and he finds people running from him. While MALA had decoyed SUPERMAN, her partner, JAX-UR, disguised himself as SUPERMAN and terrorized the world. Now JAX-UR and MALA plan to save the people of Earth from SUPERMAN, become their new hero, and lead them in JAX-UR'S quest to take over the planet. SUPERMAN has to stop JAX-UR and MALA, but it's not easy when they have a whole world on their side.

DAILY PLANET reporter LOIS LANE discovers that the evil LEX LUTHER has created his own super hero — BIZARRO SUPERMAN! The confused creature captures LOIS and sets out on a path of destruction. The real MAN OF STEEL must stop the monster, before it destroys METROPOLIS in a warped pursuit of truth, justice, and the American way.