A tried-and-tested method for presenting newspaper comic strips, the 2003 DC Elseworlds story Batman: Nine Lives also used this method-although unlike those titles, Vertical is designed to be read vertically, and not horizontally.

* The DC Comics Elseworlds ' story, " Superman: The Feral Man of Steel ", is based loosely on the Jungle Book stories, as well as the Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan stories.

A fictionalized version of the Pazzi conspiracy was the basis for the DC Comics Elseworlds story " Black Masterpiece " in Batman Annual # 18, which features a Renaissance-era Batman and Leonardo da Vinci.

Starchild grew out of three projects Owen had been working on: a fantasy-based series entitled Pryderi Terra of which a single issue was published, an abandoned Elseworlds story for DC Comics ( also titled Starchild, which is the meaning of Superman's birth name Kal-El in his native Kryptonese ) and a 1990 Classics Illustrated adaptation of Silas Marner which also never saw print.

* In the Elseworlds story JLA: The Nail Krypto is an early product of an experiment in splicing Kryptonian DNA to Earth creatures.

* Krypto can be seen briefly in the DC Elseworlds story Superman: Red Son in the Fortress of Solitude.

Three versions of Red Tornado exist in the Elseworlds story Kingdom Come.

In the second Spider-Man / Batman crossover book ( considered an Elseworlds story ), Ra's begins plans for worldwide devastation.

The first — and to date, only — new Elseworlds to be told under this initiative is titled " Superman: The Last Family of Krypton " which tells the story of baby Kal-El reaching Earth with his mother and father, and how the world handles the emergence of a super-powered family.

( 1986 ), The Batman Chronicles # 21 ( May 2000, solicited as Elseworlds, but has no logo ), Bizarro Comics ( June 2001, which featured the story " Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter " from the cancelled Elseworlds 80-Page Giant ), Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again ( 2001 ), Batman: Digital Justice ( 1990 ), and Superman: Secret Identity ( 2004 ) were referred to as Elseworlds in the DC Universe without the name brand logo.

Batman: Year 100 published in 2006, is considered an Elseworlds story, despite not having the logo.

The latest Elseworlds story to be published is Superman: The Last Family of Krypton, a 3 issue series published beginning in August 2010.

Batman: Thrillkiller is an Elseworlds story set in the early 1960s.

The two also wrote a second Batman Elseworlds tale, Batman: Hollywood Knight a three-issue mini-series which told the story of a Serials-actor who became convinced he was The Batman.

On Mark Waid's and Alex Ross ' Elseworlds comic Kingdom Come, the Black Racer takes no significant part on the story save a minuscule panel during the Battle of the Gulag on issue 4 just behind Blue Beetle ; the panel comes seconds before Captain Marvel prematurely detonates a nuclear device sent by the United Nations to end the metahuman conflict.

The June who arrives in the DCU at the end of that story is also an Elseworlds version, coming from a universe where she was a full Challenger from the beginning.

* In the Elseworlds story 1001 Emerald Knights, Ibn Rayner is a young sultan being led astray by his evil vizier, taught life lessons by hearing the tales of Al-Jor-Dhan.

* Catwoman Annual # 1 ( DC Comics, 1994 )-( Elseworlds story )

* Superman: The Man of Steel Annual # 3 ( DC Comics, 1994 )-( Elseworlds story )

During his six-year run on the character of the Batman, he also did a few one-shots, two of them being Batman: Holy Terror ( an Elseworlds story ) and Batman: Birth of the Demon, which he hand painted.

As with all Elseworlds it tells a non-canon story of a DC hero, this time Wonder Woman, outside of regular continuity and is set in the 19th Century.

) With 1989's Gotham by Gaslight prestige format one shot, in which the story of Batman was re-cast and set in the Victorian era, DC produced occasional titles which they labelled Elseworlds, to set them apart from the main DC Universe.

Bat-Mite also appeared in the 2000 one-shot Elseworlds comic special World's Funnest, in which he battles Mr. Mxyzptlk, destroying the pre-Crisis multiverse and the post-Crisis DC Universe, as well as the Elseworlds of Kingdom Come, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and the DC animated universe.

Meanwhile, DC has published occasional stories called Elseworlds, which often presented alternate versions of its characters.

He has also encountered Batman a couple of times, although one of these encounters was in Elseworlds continuity.

With Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier, he has produced an Elseworlds trilogy: Superman's Metropolis, Batman: Nosferatu

* As with several other Elseworlds titles, JLA: The Nail has been incorporated into the new Multiverse, although as yet, its world's formal alternate Earth numeric designation is unknown.

If something happened outside current continuity ( such as the so-called " Imaginary Stories " that were a staple of DC's Silver Age publications ), it was explained away as happening on a parallel world, a premise not dissimilar to the company's current Elseworlds imprint.

The annual, which was part of the 1994 " Elseworlds Annuals " event, featured a version of the Legion based on King Arthur's court.

However, rather than follow What if tradition of using a divergence from a specific plot point, Volume 4 more closely resembled the DC Comics equivalent, Elseworlds which presents stories that are continuities based on alternative versions ( in time or place ) of DC Comic's canon.

Unlike its Marvel Comics counterpart What If ...?, which bases its stories on a single point of divergence from the regular continuity, most Elseworlds stories instead take place in entirely self-contained continuities, with the only connection to the canon DC continuity being the presence of familiar DC characters.

Around the time of the release of Batman Detective No. 27, editor Mike Carlin noted that DC had scaled back the production of Elseworlds books in order to " put the luster back on them.

" Several titles that were announced as Elseworlds books prior to this have yet to see publication, such as Generations 4 ( announced by John Byrne, but possibly placed on the back-burner due to lack of good press for & low fan response to Generations 3 ), Superboy's Legion 2 ( rumored sequel by Alan Davis ; presumably planned after he finished JLA: Another Nail ) and The Teen Titans Swingin ' Elseworlds Special ( cancelled, possibly due to controversial material concerning John F. Kennedy ).

Rejoining Frank Miller in mid-1994 on Martha Washington Goes to War, the following year Gibbons wrote the Elseworlds title Superman: Kal for José Luis García-López, melding Arthurian legends to the Superman mythos in an " out-of-continuity " tale set in an alternate DC Universe.

It also corresponded with the Legends of Batman collection, which was largely based on Batman Elseworlds and the Knightfall saga.

* In the Elseworlds tale Batman: Crimson Mist-the third part of the trilogy that began with Batman & Dracula: Red Rain, which saw Batman become a vampire -, Mad Hatter makes a cameo during the vampire Batman's assault on Arkham Asylum, where he is killed and then beheaded by the vampire Batman.

Between Elseworlds, Layton worked with Marvel Comics on an Iron Man reunion, which saw him produce the four-part limited series Iron Man: Bad Blood with his long-term Iron Man collaborator David Michelinie.

These tend to shy away from DC's Elseworlds stated method whereby " heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places-some that have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist ," ( i. e. in typically in self-contained continuities ) and are largely based on specific events or happenings.

Williams collaborated with inker Mick Gray on two DC Elseworlds graphic novels, Justice Riders, written by Chuck Dixon, and Son of Superman, written by Howard Chaykin and David Tischman.

Even though they do not take place within the continuity, the majority of intercompany crossovers are not considered Elseworlds, but take place in their own, for the most part self-contained, continuity.

Although Elseworlds was created to be separate from the " regular continuity ", there have been specific examples where Elseworld stories have been placed into continuity.

The series of specials The Kingdom, brought the previously Elseworlds Kingdom Come into DC continuity ( as an alternate timeline ).

" scenarios, revisit popular Elseworlds stories and allow these characters to interact with the mainstream continuity.

" scenarios, revisit popular Elseworlds stories, and allow these characters to interact with the mainstream continuity.

The Golden Age takes place outside normal DC universe continuity and is labeled as an " Elseworlds ".

" scenarios, re-visit popular Elseworlds stories and allow these characters to interact with the mainstream continuity.

In the Elseworlds miniseries The Golden Age, set outside regular DC Comics continuity, Sportsmaster's real name was revealed to be Lawrence Crock.