Poison Ivy proved to be just one of the many horrors within the bowels of the ARK M facility, and as Joker sets his sights on Absolute Batman, he decides to enlist the help of one of the center's most terrifying doctors, Dr. Jonathan Crane. While Bruce Wayne tries to align himself with Barbara Gordon, there's more than one alliance formed in this issue. New debuts, new villains, new arc starts here.

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Absolute Batman #19 is a comics entry for issue #19 in Absolute Batman from 2026. GrailHub tracks publisher, series, issue number, cover date, creators, characters, and first appearances where that data is available.

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Characters associated with this issue include Batman (Earth Alpha), Harley Quinn (Earth Alpha), Harvey Bullock, James Gordon, Joker (Earth Alpha), and Killer Croc (Earth Alpha).

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Publisher: DC Comics
Series: Absolute Batman
Issue number: #19
Cover date: Jun 1, 2026
Store date: Apr 15, 2026
Characters: Batman (Earth Alpha), Harley Quinn (Earth Alpha), Harvey Bullock, James Gordon, Joker (Earth Alpha), Killer Croc (Earth Alpha) +2 more
Creators: Ariel Olivetti, Ben Oliver, Chris Conroy, Frank Martin, Jim Lee, Katie Kubert +6 more