Overview

As part of the annual commemoration of the 2011 launch of the New 52, DC Comics announced that the fallout of the summer event Trinity War would feature the supervillains of the DCU --- among the most infamous in comics and occasionally all of fiction --- taking over the titles of their heroic foes for a month. This would serve to trump up publicity for Forever Evil, the first post-Flashpoint DC crossover event. These villain issues would be Point Ones in terms of numbering. The selected ongoing series would have one-to-four Point One issues published in one month (September 2013), and the total number of villain issues would be 52. The list of these 52 villain issues is as follows:

• Action Comics #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Cyborg Superman #1, #23.2 as Zod #1, #23.3 as Lex Luthor #1, and #23.4 as Metallo #1.
• Aquaman #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Black Manta #1 and #23.2 as Ocean Master #1.
• Batman #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Joker #1, #23.2 as The Riddler #1, #23.3 as The Penguin #1, and #23.4 as Bane #1.
• Batman and Robin #23 (actually titled Batman and Nightwing #23) would be followed by #23.1 as Two Face #1, #23.2 as Court of Owls #1, #23.3 as Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins #1, and #23.4 as Killer Croc #1.
• Batman: The Dark Knight #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Ventriloquist #1, #23.2 as Mr. Freeze #1, #23.3 as Clayface #1, and #23.4 as The Joker's Daughter #1.
• Batman/Superman #3 would be followed by #3.1 as Doomsday #1.
• Detective Comics #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Poison Ivy #1, #23.2 as Harley Quinn #1, #23.3 as The Scarecrow #1, and #23.4 as Man-Bat #1.
• Earth 2 #15 would be followed by #15.1 as Desaad #1 and #15.2 as Solomon Grundy #1.
• The Flash #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Grodd #1, #23.2 as Reverse-Flash #1, and #23.3 as The Rogues #1.
• Green Arrow #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Count Vertigo #1.
• Green Lantern #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Relic #1, #23.2 as Mongul #1, #23.3 as Black Hand #1, and #23.4 as Sinestro #1.
• Justice League #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Darkseid #1, #23.2 as Lobo #1, #23.3 as Dial E #1, and #23.4 as Secret Society #1.
• Justice League of America #7 would be followed by #7.1 as Deadshot #1, #7.2 as Killer Frost #1, #7.3 as Shadow Thief #1, and #7.4 as Black Adam #1.
• Justice League Dark #23 would be followed by #23.1 as The Creeper #1 and #23.2 as Eclipso #1.
• Superman #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Bizarro #1, #23.2 as Brainiac #1, #23.3 as H'el #1, and #23.4 as Parasite #1.
• Swamp Thing #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Arcane #1.
• Teen Titans #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Trigon #1 and #23.2 as Deathstroke #1.
• Wonder Woman #23 would be followed by #23.1 as Cheetah #1 and #23.2 as First Born #1.

All Point One issues would have special covers with 3D motion images and cost $3.99; standard editions with ordinary covers (in 2D) would be $2.99 as usual.

Click here to see some of the 3D covers as animated GIFs.

The New 52 Villains Omnibus

In September DC announce the release of a complete set and collected edition in December 2013. This omnibus edition would have 1,184 pages and collect all the 52 Villains Month titles and their 3D motion covers as well as the 3D Motion Cover Variant Edition of Forever Evil #1. All titles and covers would be labeled as second printing and the whole set would cost $199. The New 52 Villains Month Omnibus will also have its very own 3-D motion cover (see link to animated GIFs above).

Shortly after their first announcement, DC re-scheduled the release of the set to February 2014 because it would take longer to produce all the motion covers.