DC Finest - Events: Zero Hour Part Two

DC Finest - Events #1994

by Dan Jurgens

On the heels of DC Finest: Events: Zero Hour Part One, the time-bending 1990s story concludes in this can’t-miss volume!

In 1985, DC Comics dramatically altered comics’ original universe with Crisis on Infinite Earths—an unforgettable, defining event in comics history that streamlined the DC Universe continuity. Nine years later, the heroes of the DC Universe found the temporal fabric of their new reality unraveling, and the biggest threat since the Crisis was about to be revealed in Zero Hour: Crisis in Time.

With the first half of the Zero Hour epic collected in DC Finest: Events: Zero Hour Part One, this volume concludes the timeline-shifting saga, from comics legends Dan Jurgens and Jerry Ordway, which resulted in major status quo changes for heroes and villains across the DC Universe, including legendary Green Lantern, Hal Jordan!

Collects The Flash #0; Green Arrow #90; Adventures of Superman #516; Justice League America #92; Action Comics #703; Justice League International #68; Legion of Super-Heroes #61; Green Lantern #0; Superman: The Man of Steel #0; Guy Gardner: Warrior #24; Justice League Task Force #16; Catwoman #14; Robin #10; Showcase ’94 #10; Damage #0, #6; Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #0-2; Anima #7.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Dc Comics

560 pages, Paperback

Published May 6, 2025

About the author

Dan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for his work on the DC comic book storyline "The Death of Superman" and for creating characters such as Doomsday, Hank Henshaw, and Booster Gold. Jurgens had a lengthy run on the Superman comic books including The Adventures of Superman, Superman vol. 2 and Action Comics. At Marvel, Jurgens worked on series such as Captain America, The Sensational Spider-Man and was the writer on Thor for six years. He also had a brief run as writer and artist on Solar for Valiant Comics in 1995.

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book really is a time capsule of 1994 DC Comics, so many issues in here made me want to read more of the series they came from. The crossover itself is really not great and just feels like editorial trying to clear up continuity issues that I find it strange in retrospect anyone cared about, still has a great time reading this especially enjoyed the extras at the back of the book that contained some marketing material from this era. Hope we see more of that in some of these DC Finest books going forward.

[Tim Armstrong · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this volume, finishing up the Zero Hour crossover from DC Comics. Zero Hour is one of my favourite stories so it was fun to go back and revisit it. Some if the tie-in issues weren't the strongest, but Jurgens tells a compelling story in the main Zero Hour books. 4.5/5.

[Shannon Schmelzle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Volume 2 was, over all, much more of a rough read than Volume 1.

As far as the main series, it was fine. Good even. We get the reveal of the actual villain behind this all, we get the end of Zero Hour where some C list heroes get a little bit of spotlight. As with the first half, I think the art is great. Jurgens and Ordway made an excellent duo.

The rough stuff really comes in in all the crossover issues.

In this issue, most of them have absolutely nothing to do with the event. It's an issue that has something going on...usually an alternate running around, or dinosaurs, then the issue ends with the Zero Hour whiteout. Of these, Robin was probably the only issue I genuinely loved.

Then there were a couple that lead in/out of main issues. Guy Gardner has an issue that is a precursor to one of the issues which was cool, but it just wasn't a very good issue. Green Lantern #0 works as an epilogue to the entire series and it is excellent. But Catwoman, Legion of Super-Heroes, Superman issues, all these had nothing to do with nothing.

And the most egregious are the last two issues tossed in. Damage #0 had nothing to do with anything, and Superman:The Man of Steel #0 was much the same. It's even the first part of a multipart Superman Zero issues story. How unfulfilling is this. It really reeked of fluffing out the pages. Flash #0 doesn't add much, but it does tell us what happened to Wally after he appeared to die during the event. But this collection should have ended with GL #0, maybe toss in Flash BEFORE it.

The best value of this is in that time capsule feeling of seeing characters in different status quoe. Guy Gardner was an interesting one. They clearly didn't know what to do with him post-Fall of the Corps. Anima and Damage are two characters I don't know a heck of a lot about. Chuck Dixon's Robin, as states above, was awesome and I see why Tim has so many fans.

[Jedi Master Nate Lightray · Rating 5 out of 5]

The better of the two volumes. Seems like they used most of the forgotten heroes and things a little less important for volume one and pushed what really stuck out in volume two. Also, Damage, since he played a key role. For some reason, Superman: The Man of Steel 0 is in here. Whatever. I only wish all the #0s were collected. All of this happened during my second year of collecting comics, so for me it’s all nostalgia and good feelings and memories. Even if they’re bad, I love them. Definitely a biased review in the way I would also score The Goonies and The Never-Ending Story really high, even if I see the flaws.

[Matthew Hudson · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent end to the Zero Hour event. Though I already knew the identity of the main villain it was still an entertaining read and whilst not as good as the other major Crisis events it’s still an important story lore-wise.

[Jamie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great big heaps of superhero fun with events that have consequences for the characters and some fantastic emotional moments. Good stuff.

[Federico Kereki · Rating 2 out of 5]

The ending of the story (is it?) but lacking several #0 books that are listed at the end...

[Derrick Ranostaj · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF. What a mess. Story was all over the place. I kept losing track who was the bad guy in vol. 1 and vol. 2

[Andrew Buttery · Rating 5 out of 5]

another good reprinted .miniseries.

[Matt Fuller · Rating 4 out of 5]

This continues from the last Zero Hour and it ends wildly. Hal Jordan finally gets somewhat of a redemption and this cleans up some continuity. Not the best event but not the worst. 1994.