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"One Year Later" thematic stories
Logo used by DC Comics in marketing the event
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Title(s) Listed by story title: "Brothers in Blood"    Nightwing vol. 2, #118-124 "Candor"    Supergirl vol. 5, #6-8    This story arc started a month early "Crawling Through the Wreckage"    Green Arrow vol. 3, #60-62 "Face the Face"    Batman #651-654    Detective Comics #817-820 "The Fall and Rise of Vandal Savage"    JSA: Classified #10-13 "Ghost Stories"    JSA #83-87 "The Good Fight"    Outsiders vol. 3, #34-38 "The New Teen Titans"    Teen Titans vol. 3, #34-37 "Progeny"    Birds of Prey #92-95 "Psychobabble"    Manhunter vol. 3, #20-24 "The Replacements"    Catwoman #53-57 "Revenge of the Green Lanterns"    Green Lantern vol. 4, #10-13 "Robin, Boy Wanted"    Robin vol. 2, #148-151 "Up, Up and Away!"    Action Comics #837-840    Superman #650-653 Titles launced with a May 2006 cover date: Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #40    retitled from Aquaman vol. 5 Blue Beetle vol. 7, #1 Firestorm: The Nuclear Man vol. 2, #23    retitled from Firestorm vol. 2 Hawkgirl #50    retitled from Hawkman vol. 3 Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #16    retitled from Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 5 Titles launced with a June 2006 cover date: Checkmate vol. 2, #1 Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Blüdhaven #1 Titles launced with a July 2006 cover date: Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre #1 Secret Six vol. 2, #1 Shadowpact #1 Titles launched with cover dates after July 2006: The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #1 Green Lantern Corps vol. 2, #1 Justice League of America vol. 2, #1 Wonder Woman vol. 3, #1
Formats	Multiple, thematically linked individual issues from multiple ongoing series.
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	May 2006
Reprints
Collected editions
Batman: Face the Face	ISBN
Superman: Up, Up and Away!	ISBN
Wonder Woman: Who is Wonder Woman?	ISBN

"One Year Later" was a 2006 comic book storyline running through the books published by DC Comics. As the title suggests, it involves a narrative jump exactly one year into the future of the DC Universe following the events of the "Infinite Crisis" storyline, to explore major changes within the continuities of the many different comic books within the DC Comics range.

Following the events of the "Infinite Crisis" storyline, every DC comic series jumped ahead in-story by one year. The events of the missing year were depicted in real time in the weekly comic book series 52. The "One Year Later" storyline started in March 2006, starting the same week that Infinite Crisis #5 went to press, and before the first issue of 52. Most first issues bearing the "One Year Later" logo were the first parts of multi-issue storylines, and featured major changes to the status quo of each character, often intentionally left unexplained as these details would be filled in by the remaining issues of Infinite Crisis and the 52 series.

Numerous prominent heroes were missing or inactive for most of the year as the "One Year Later" issues commenced. Heroes known to have been gone for the missing year were Aquaman, Batman, Blue Beetle, Green Arrow, Hawkman, Martian Manhunter, Nightwing, Robin, Superman, and Wonder Woman. The Flash has been missing, but Jay Garrick had been protecting Keystone City in his absence.

The year-long absence of the three most prominent superheroes of the DC Comics universe — Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman — and their return to active duty was a significant part of both the "One Year Later" series and 52 series.