"Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!" is a comic book crossover storyline published by DC Comics in 1994, consisting of an eponymous five-issue limited series written and drawn by Dan Jurgens and a number of tie-in books.

In the storyline, Hal Jordan, a member of the intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps, goes mad with grief after the destruction of his home town of Coast City during the "Reign of the Supermen!" storyline and attempts to destroy and remake the DC Universe after having obtained immense power as Parallax. The issues of the limited series were numbered in reverse order, beginning with issue #4 and ending with #0.

30th Anniversary Special

In August 2024, DC Comics published a graphic novel, Zero Hour 30th Anniversary Special #1, to commemorate the three decades since publication of the original miniseries. The book consists of an all-new story co-written by original author Jurgens and Ron Marz, with a group of artists and others contributing multi-page segments, as well as alternate cover artworks. The new story's main character is Kyle Rayner, the last surviving member of the Green Lantern Corps at the end of Zero Hour. Rayner is transported to a "pocket universe" created by Hal Jordan in his guise as Parallax, where he encounters alternate versions of fellow superheroes and villains he knows fighting each other and the "oblivion wave" that had erased realities in the original series.

In other media

Some elements of the Zero Hour storyline were loosely adapted into Green Lantern: Beware My Power as part of the Tomorrowverse.

Collected editions

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|Zero Hour: Crisis in Time

|Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #4-0 and material from Showcase '94 #8-9

|August 1994

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|Batman: Zero Hour

|Batman #0, 511; Batman: Shadow of the Bat #0, 31; Detective Comics #0, 678; Catwoman #0, 14; Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #0; Robin #0, #10

|June 2017

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|Justice League: Zero Hour

|Justice League Task Force #0, 15-16, Justice League International #67-68, Justice League America #0, 92, The Ray #0, Extreme Justice #0, Guy Gardner, Warrior #0, 24

|June 2019

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|Superman: Zero Hour

|Adventures of Superman #0, 516, Superman #0, 93, Superman: The Man of Steel #0, 37, Superman in Action Comics #0, 703, Steel #0, 8, Superboy #8, 0

|June 2018

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|Zero Hour: Crisis in Time 25th Anniversary Omnibus

|Action Comics #703, Adventures of Superman #516, Anima #7, Batman #511, Batman: Shadow of the Bat #31, Catwoman #14, Damage #6, Darkstars #24, Detective Comics #678, The Flash #0 and #94, Green Arrow #90, Green Lantern #0 and #55, Guy Gardner: Warrior #24, Hawkman #13, Justice League America #92, Justice League International #68, Justice League Task Force #16, L.E.G.I.O.N. '94 #70, Legionnaires #18, Legion of Super-Heroes #61, Outsiders #11, Robin #10, Steel #8, Superboy #8, Superman #93, Superman: Man of Steel #37, Team Titans #24, Valor #23, Zero Hour #4-0, Zero Month Sampler and material from Showcase '94 #8-10

|October 2019

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References

  • The Annotated DC Project: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!
  • Superman Homepage: The Zero Hour FAQ (version 3.11, February 2006)
  • Alternity
  • Zero Hour at the DC Comics wiki