Outsiders Chronology

Part 4

Events	Issue (Date)
BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS — Volume Two
Zatanna alerts Batman to trouble in the realm inside Katana's Soul Sword. He sends Marvel to help Katana, who commits suicide to enter the Fukumaden — the realm inside the blade. Her brother-in-law, Takeo, has become emperor there and sends Battleaxe II to dispose of Katana's body in the real world. She assembles a rebellion but Marvel pulls her back into her body before she can confront Takeo. Written by the Outsiders' creator, Mike W. Barr. Though published second, Batman states that Katana is his first "new" member.	Outsiders: Five of a Kind — Katana / Shazam! (10.07)
Batman begins testing potential Outsiders, sending Boomerang on a mission with Nightwing to investigate problems on a S.T.A.R. Labs satellite. Bacteria-like chemoids have broken off from Chemo, who is chained outside. Nightwing moves to destroy Chemo for good, but is stopped by Boomerang who (under Amanda Waller's orders) asserts Chemo can be used to positive ends. Nightwing decides to leave the Outsiders. Batman wants to use Owen as his mole in the Suicide Squad. Boomerang's super-speed returns, presumably along with the Speed Force and Wally West (JLofA #10).	Outsiders: Five of a Kind — Nightwing / Capt. Boomerang (10.07)
Metamorpho and the new Aquaman are sent to defend a disputed aquifer in the Sahara. They meet the region's magical protector, Halcyon, who possesses the Orb of Ra (which originally transformed Metamorpho). She reveals that Simon Stagg has threatened the aquifer with radioactive chemicals. Despite Stagg's pleas, Rex destroys the Orb and lets Halcyon go. Batman rejects Aquaman for membership because he fails to impress.	Outsiders: Five of a Kind — Metamorpho / Aquaman (10.07)
Thunder and Martian Manhunter are sent under the Earth after Grayven, weak from his encounter with Ion. After that, Speed Queen came upon him and was killed. On Earth, he has built a machine to return Zeta Beam the god-killer back to Apokolips. Thunder decides to help him, but he betrays them. J'onn mimics the Black Racer and scares Grayven into teleporting away himself. Batman rejects Thunder for membership for aiding such a horrible killer.	Outsiders: Five of a Kind — Thunder / Martian Manhunter (10.07)
From after the Amazon's attack, Batman sends Wonder Woman and Grace on a mission to Cleveland — Grace's home town. She was in foster care for years afterwards. They have free time and seek out the Lindsays, one of the families she lived with, but find they died in a car accident. Batman alerts them to a woman found by police: a Bana woman, Imani, with no memory. Diana deduces this is Antiope's sister. They go to stop a radioactive device and Grace's DNA stops it from detonating long enough to disarm it. Grace returns to the Outsiders' new base underwater to discover Thunder is not a member.	Outsiders: Five of a Kind — Wonder Woman / Grace (10.07)
Grace is angered to find that Batman has denied Thunder membership. Batman explains that metahumans are under more scrutiny than every while villains roam free; a team is needed to challenge evil from under cover. They begin by infiltrating a villain hangout in Gotham City. They "befriend" young new villains Carface, Daisycutter, [alien] and Boom Baby. Bolt works the door. The Suicide Squad (the Outsiders' target) arrives and begin rounding up villains. Boomerang faces his former teammates. Grace secretly calls Thunder in. Catwoman spies on them and after the caper, she stows away on the Outsiders' submarine. Squad members include: Deadshot, Plastique, the General, Bronze Tiger, Multiplex, Bane, Boomerang and Rick Flag.	OUT3 #50 (11.07)
Chuck Dixon and Julian Lopez begin as writer and artist
The new Outsiders — Martian Manhunter and Catwoman joining Katana, Grace and Metamorpho — invade the Jardine Tower in Central City. Batman keeps Thunder out of play, to show her why she doesn't belong on the team. (He deduces her special friendship with Grace, but doesn't know they're lovers until Thunder reveals it.) The team discovers a cocoon from which an OMAC bursts forth. In Brussels, Mr. Jardine is alerted. Listen to Chuck Dixon's outlook on this new series in the podcast at Newsarama.	BATO2 #1 (12.07)
After securing the OMAC, Martian Manhunter and Catwoman leave the team. Batgirl arrives to join them.	BATO2 #2 (1.08)
The Justice League intervenes to take the OMAC from the Outsiders. Francine Langstrom and Dr. Salah Miandad help the Outsiders contain it. After a ruse faking the OMAC's destruction, Geo-Force is transferred to the Outsiders from the JLA. They name the unit Remac. Ralph and Sue Dibny arrive at Wayne Manor, seeking Batman. They inhabit the bodies of others.	BATO2 #3 (2.08)
In French Guiana, Green Arrow joins the team but objects to Batgirl's presence on the team. Batman discovers that Jardine scientists are engineering new life forms meant extra-terrestrially. Batman meets Ralph and Sue, in temporary host bodies. Jardine employs costumed protectors: Gunhawk and Gunbunny II, [a girl in red] and Militia. Gunhawk first appeared in Detective #674; Militia in Guy Gardner #16 (1994).	BATO2 #4 (4.08)
Ralph and Sue take over Jardine's hitmen. The team fails to stop Jardine's rocket launch but arrest Jardine. Rex rides the rocket into space.	BATO2 #5 (5.08)
Metamorpho contacts the team from the moon, describing a massive space station on the dark side of the moon. The team moves to stop another rocket launch in Mongolia. They are met by Chinese protectors: Angry Wizard, Barefoot Tiger and Dragonfire. All but Geo-Force and Batgirl are captured.	BATO2 #6 (6.08)
The Outsiders are tortured by the Chinese authorities. Batman calls Nightwing and Thunder to help rescue them. Metamorpho barely manages to survive the vacuum of space and returns to Earth.	BATO2 #7 (7.08)
Batgirl saves the others from certain death as Thunder, Remac (controlled by Salah) and Nightwing arrive to rescue them. Metamorpho warns that Jardine's weapon is firing at the moon.	BATO2 #8 (8.08)
The team kidnaps a scientist, Daan Saap, who worked on Jardine's "space gun." Looker returns to read his mind but finds that alien's are trading places with Earth peoples' minds. In an underground Gotham club, people are being sacrificed to aliens.	BATO2 #9 (9.08)
Underground club owners Phaedra and Wes discover that one of their victims (Brian, calling himself Kid Magma) is transformed by contact with their alien. Batman tags onto the alien as it escapes, then the Outsiders ask Looker for a new lead. Batgirl assumes leadership. Dr. Kirk Langstrom is reunited with his wife. In her lab, Salah is finds a clue in Remac to the space mystery; his psyche transfers into Remac.	BATO2 #10 (10.08)
Geo-Force prepares for revenge on Deathstroke (for corrupting his sister), trying to recruit Black Lightning's help. He learns that he now has Terra's powers because of Slade. Some of the scientists who originally worked on Deathstroke were outlawed and migrated to Markovia, where they engineered the Markov's powers. Brion brings their fight to the alley where Slade's son's throat was cut. Slade pins Geo-Force with a sword. Brion turns the tables by slitting his own throat; then when Slade moves in, he stabs him, too. Black Lightning arrives in time to save them.	DC Universe: Last Will and Testament (10.08)
Frank Tieri begins as writer
Batman R.I.P.: Superman visits the Outsiders after Batman goes missing. Batgirl grills the Penguin and Johnny Stitches. They receive a communiqué from him, asking for their help.	BATO2 #11 (11.08)
Batman R.I.P.: Batman's asks the Outsiders not to enter a code into Remac which will lead them to him. Green Arrow and Batgirl block the code and suspect that it was not Batman. Batgirl wants to receive the code an analyze it, but it turns Remac against them and he explodes; Salah dies, Metamorpho disappears, and Thunder is critically injured. Batgirl is consoled by Dr. Kirk Langstrom. Later she and Robin receive a message from the Black Glove claiming victory over the team.	BATO2 #12 (12.08)
Batman R.I.P.: Batgirl begins to assemble a new team of operatives called upon when their talents are needed. Nightwing arrives to talk. Man-Bat, Vigilante and Spoiler appear; many others appear on a video screen.	BATO2 #13 (1.09)
Terra III (Atlee of a secret underground society called Strata) meets Geo-Force in Markovia. She explains that the Stratans cloned the second Terra from the first (who was insane). (#2) Terra brings Brion to her people for medical attention and explains that the Stratans chose Atlee to pose as Terra as a familiar face in their mission to help the surface world. (#3) They wipe Geo-Force's memory of Strata. (#4) Atlee first appeared in Supergirl #12 (1.07).	Terra #1-4 (1-2.09)
As Batman fires a radion bullet to wound Darkseid, just as the villain's Omega Sanction strikes Batman. Superman arrives home from the 31st century to find Batman's corpse. In the next issue, Batman is revealed alive in the distant past, where he meets an elderly Anthro, and finds a capsule rocket launched by Lois and the others.	Final Crisis #6 (1.09)
Alfred stops Batgirl and Nightwing from fighting over the Outsiders' future. The Riddler claims he will find the Batman; he's recruited by Batgirl. A new man wears the Suit of Sorrows and comes to Gotham. The Suit first appeared in Detective #842 (5.08) and was worn by Batman himself.	BATO2 #14 (2.09)
Following instructions left by Batman, Alfred Pennyworth reassembles the team with Geo-Force, Halo, Katana, Metamorpho, Black Lightning, and joining them for the first time: the Creeper and Roy Raymond, Jr. He retrieves the Creeper from Kahndaq. Halo operates in New Orleans. Katana is drawn to the site of Metamorpho's disappearance; he disgorges himself from her body. Somewhere, an evil man commits suicide and his fellows consume him. Roy Raymond, Jr. first appeared in Robin v.2 #38 (1997).	BATO2 Special #1 (3.09)
Peter J. Tomasi and Lee Garbett begin as writer and artist
'THE DEEP" (THE INSIDERS)
Part 1: All of Alfred's recruits agree to go underground for a time. Black Lightning visits Thunder, still comatose. Geo-Force and Katana share a kiss. Roy Raymond, Jr. fakes a resignation from his TV show and commits to the Outsiders as Owlman II. They board a bat-spaceship for orbit. Trouble brews in Germany.	OUT4 #15 (4.09)
Part 2: In space, the team establishes The Haven in orbit. Across the globe, an immortal cabal called the Insiders activates their Acolytes—who are recipients of their extended longevity—to complete a final mission. The Outsiders confront them in the earth beneath Germany.	OUT4 #16 (5.09)
Part 3: In Holmavik, Iceland, two Insiders named Michael and Sofia argue about their fate. The Outsiders fail to stop the Insiders' "Thrasher" from sending a meteorite back to them. Metamorpho identifies the meteorite's residue and links it to the origins of Vandal Savage. Sofia hires Deathstroke to kill Michael.	OUT4 #17 (6.09)
Part 4: The team uses Metamorpho's body to track the meteorite. The trail leads to Opal City, where both Deathstroke and Alfred have zeroed in on the same person: "Richard Benioff" (who is actually Nigel, an old MI5 colleague of Alfred's, and who is now an Acolyte). Afterwards, Michael approaches Benioff and they're both killed by Deathstroke. The Outsiders arrive. Metamorpho's Orb of Ra is said to be made of the same meteorite.	OUT4 #18 (7.09)
Part 5: The Insiders acquire enough meteor to power an "Attractor" to find even more of the meteor. Deathstroke is aided by his new protégé, Pop, who can generage explosives. Slade kills Michael, but Geo-Force retains the piece of meteor rock. Lightning argues with Geo-Force about his leadership. The Acolytes encounter the Creeper in the Haven. Vandal Savage, on the Insiders' trail, encounters Rā's al Ghul doing the same. Pop first appeared in Faces of Evil: Deathstroke (2009).	OUT4 #19 (8.09)
Part 6: The Outsiders, Vandal and Rā's converge in Iceland. The Insiders are revealed as members of Vandal Savage's original tribe, also immortal from the same meteor. The Insiders weigh the dangers of running their Attractor with the prospect of losing their immortality. The Creeper brings the Haven down on their lair. The villains escape; at least three Insiders survive.	OUT4 #20 (9.09)
The new Black Mask (II) destroys Arkham Asylum, setting all the inmates free.	Battle for the Cowl #1 (5.09)
Dick Grayson once again assumes the cowl to become Batman. Dick first took the role in Robin #0 (10.94).	Battle for the Cowl #3 (7.09)
Dick Grayson decides to relocate Bat-headquarters to the city, in the Wayne Foundation Building, using the penthouse and bunker.	Batman #687 (8.09)
The Outsiders return to find the Batcave abandoned and locked. Alfred refuses to reveal the location of their new HQ. Arkham Asylum has also been destroyed and the team recaptures Mr. Freeze and pursues Killer Croc and Clayface.	OUT4 #21 (10.09)
Geo-Force and Metamorpho expend considerable effort to save the Brosky family from Clayface. They ignite him with methane. Man-Bat catches up with a second team.	OUT4 #22 (11.09)
Halo, Katana and Creeper clash with the Man-Bat, who has fled his civilian life. They manage to capture Croc. Terra rises from the dead	OUT4 #23 (12.09)
Blackest Night: Terra rises, seeking Brion, ostensibly seeking help. Transporting Croc via armored truck, Katana is stopped by her risen family members. Her origin as the illegitimate daughter of King Markov are revealed. Her mother was American.	OUT4 #24 (1.10)
Blackest Night: Terra gets the Outsiders emotionally ripe, then strikes. Halo's powers are able to sever the black rings' connections. After she destroys Terra, she is called away by some light, and goes to it.	OUT4 #25 (2.10)
Brion returns to lead Markovia. He declaring that Markovia and New Krypton now have a non-agression treaty and allies with their emissary, the new Eradicator (II). Katana and Black Lightning clash during a mission where they encounter Captain Fear. Creeper attracts the attentions of a strange woman.	OUT4 #26 (3.10)
Black Lightning learns that Geo-Force attempted suicide during his battle with Deathstroke, and seriously questions Brion's leadership. Eradicator explains that he is a new incarnation, created by the Kryptonians as an ambassador of sorts. He retains the original's memories. The new Masters of Disaster strike, adding Dust Devil and Mudslide to New Wave, Heatstroke and Coldsnap. Creeper heads back to the U.S., followed by his stalker.	OUT4 #27 (4.10)
After an all-out battle, Geo-Force orders Black Lightning, Metamorpho and Owlman to leave Markovia. Alfred tries to secure their return to the U.S. from Senator Millstone.	OUT4 #28 (5.10)
Looker returns, killing Stake, a vampire/hunter who stalked her. Harold Winer, a designer spurned by Lia, is given a powerful horn by Veritas; he becomes his Herald (II).	OUT4 #29 (6.10)
The U.S. just as it declares war on Krypton and the team turns to Simon Stagg for shelter. They meet his guard, Freight Train, who has some of Metamorpho's powers. Eradicator senses the death of Kryptonians when Earth's sun goes red. At night, Java attacks Metamorpho with the Orb of Ra, throwing him into Chemo.	OUT4 #30 (7.10)
The Possible Future
Thousands of hears hence: The totally synthetic Brainiac 8 fears for the destiny of Colu. She travels back to visit her grandfather, Brainiac 6 for help. In a time after the 31st Century... 6 is the last of the organic-bodied Brainiacs on Colu. 8 is concerned that Colu's dominance over the galaxy will be threatened by Donna Troy if the heroine does not die in the 21st century. They send Brainiac 8 back further to assassinate Troy. Time is uncertain. Brainiac 5 lived in the 31st century.	Teen Titans #25 (8.05); OUT3 #25 (8.05)