DC Event Collection Reading Order
Introduction
Levels
I've assigned each event a level that indicates its importance. These will let you be selective if you don't want to read every event. You can limit your reading to levels 1 and 2, for example, if you only care about events that affect DC's whole universe.
- Level 1: These are publisher-wide events that are so important that they organize the whole list.
- Level 2: These are less important publisher-wide events.
- Level 3: These events involve smaller sets of characters, but they're important enough to merit their own Wikipedia articles.
- Level 4: These are smaller events that don't have their own articles.
Pre-Crisis
Flash of Two Worlds
Level 3
Crisis on Earth-One!, Crisis on Earth-Two!
Level 3
JLA: Zatanna's Search
Level 3
Green Lantern #40, Secret Origin of the Guardians!
Level 3
Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Snowbirds Don't Fly
Level 3
Showcase #100
Level 3
Crisis on Earth Prime
Level 3
Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
Level 3
Watchmen
Level 3
Crisis on Infinite Earths and post-Crisis
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Publication date: 1985-1986
Level 1
Crisis on Infinite Earths - Wikipedia
- Crisis on Infinite Earths - main series [Wikipedia Book Sources (softcover)]
- Crisis on Infinite Earths Companion Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 - tie-ins [Wikipedia Book Sources]
Legends
Level 2
Millennium
Level 2
Cosmic Odyssey
Level 2
Invasion!
Level 2
Suicide Squad: The Janus Directive
Level 3
Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying
Level 4
Armageddon 2001
Level 2
War of the Gods
Level 2
Eclipso: The Darkness Within
Level 2
Superman: Panic in the Sky
Level 4
The Death of Superman
Level 3
Trinity
Level 3
Batman: Knightfall
Level 3
Bloodlines
Level 2
Justice League: Breakdowns
Level 3
End of an Era
Level 3
Superman: Fall of Metropolis
Level 4
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time
Level 2
The Way of the Warrior
Level 4
Underworld Unleashed
Level 2
The Flash: Dead Heat
Level 4
The Final Night
Level 2
Batman: Contagion
Level 3
Genesis
Level 2
Batman: Cataclysm
Level 3
DC One Million
Level 2
Superman: Behold! The Millennium Giants!
Level 4
Day of Judgment
Level 2
JLApe: Gorilla Warfare!
Level 3
The Flash: Chain Lightning
Level 4
Superboy: The Evil Factory
Level 4
Our Worlds at War
Level 3
Joker: Last Laugh
Level 3
Bruce Wayne: Fugitive
Level 3
A World Without Young Justice
Level 4
JSA: Black Reign
Level 3
Identity Crisis
Level 2
Infinite Crisis
Level 2
Amazons Attack
Level 3
Sinestro Corps War
Level 3
Final Crisis
Level 2
Blackest Night
Level 2
Superman: New Krypton
Level 3
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
Level 3
Reign of Doomsday
Level 3
Flashpoint
Publication date: 2011
Level 1
- Time Masters: Vanishing Point - prelude [Wikipedia Book Sources]
- The Flash Volume 2: The Road to Flashpoint - prelude [Wikipedia Book Sources]
- Flashpoint - main series [Wikipedia Book Sources (softcover)]
- Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring The Flash - tie-ins [Wikipedia Book Sources]
- Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Wonder Woman - tie-ins [Wikipedia Book Sources]
- Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Superman - tie-ins [Wikipedia Book Sources]
- Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Batman - tie-ins [Wikipedia Book Sources]
- Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Green Lantern - tie-ins [Wikipedia Book Sources]
Post-Flashpoint
The New 52
Level 2
I, Vampire: Rise of the Vampires
Level 4
The Culling: Rise of the Ravagers
Level 3
Green Lantern: Rise of the Third Army
Level 3
Rotworld
Level 4
Hawkman: Wanted
Level 4
The Black Diamond Probabilty
Level 4
Batman: Death of the Family
Level 3
Superman: H'El on Earth
Level 3
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
Level 3
Batman: Requiem
Level 4
Superman: Psi War
Level 4
Batman: Zero Year
Level 3
Justice League: Trinity War
Level 3
Forever Evil
Level 2
Green Lantern: Lights Out
Level 4
Supergirl: Red Daughter of Krypton
Level 4
Batman: Gothtopia
Level 4
Superman: Doomed
Level 3
Green Lantern: Uprising
Level 4
Batman: Endgame
Level 3
Green Lanterns/New Gods: Godhead
Level 4
The New 52: Futures End
Level 2
Earth 2: World's End
Level 3
Convergence
Level 2
Truth
Level 4
Darkseid War
Level 4
Robin War
Level 4
The Savage Dawn
Level 4
The Final Days of Superman
Level 4
DC Rebirth
Publication date: 2016
Level 1
- DC Universe: Rebirth Deluxe Edition [Wikipedia Book Sources]
Post-DC Rebirth
Batman: Night of the Monster Men
Level 4
Justice League vs. Suicide Squad
Level 4
Superman Reborn
Level 4
Batman/The Flash: The Button
Level 3
Titans: The Lazarus Contract
Level 4
Dark Nights: Metal
Level 2
Doomsday Clock
Level 2
Super Sons of Tomorrow
Level 4
Milk Wars
Level 3
The Wedding
Level 4
Sink Atlantis
Level 4
Heroes in Crisis
Level 2
The Witching Hour
Level 4
Drowned Earth
Level 4
Event Leviathan
Level 3