Number of the Beast
DC · 2008 · 8 issues
About the series
In 2008, DC Comics launched Number of the Beast, an eight-issue miniseries by writer Scott Beatty and a rotating roster of artists including Chris Sprouse, Leandro Fernández, and Neil Googe. The series explores a world where the Justice Society of America's golden-age heroes have been corrupted into a fascistic force, forcing a new generation of heroes to rise against them. A dark, alternate-history thriller, it matters for its bold deconstruction of classic DC archetypes and its place in the publisher's late-2000s experimentation with mature, continuity-adjacent stories.