Batman vs. Predator is not one series but three, a crossover line jointly published by DC and Dark Horse Comics that pits Gotham's detective against the Yautja hunters across more than a decade of releases.
Because the line spans three separate miniseries published years apart, it is easy for a new reader to pick up the wrong one first or miss an entry entirely.
Each miniseries also stands on its own creative team and tone, which matters when deciding how deep into the crossover you actually want to go.
Here is the complete reading order, issue by issue, along with how the collected trade editions package the full run.
The first miniseries, Batman versus Predator, ran for three issues from December 1991 through February 1992, with art from Andy and Adam Kubert and a script from Doug Moench.
This original run set the template the rest of the line would follow: a Predator loose in Gotham, forcing Batman to hunt an opponent operating by a completely different set of rules than his usual rogues' gallery.
The sequel, Batman versus Predator II: Bloodmatch, expanded the story to four issues, published from December 1993 through March 1994.
Bloodmatch raised the stakes from the first series by escalating the Predator threat and giving the crossover more room to build tension across its longer four-issue structure.
The third and most recent entry, Batman versus Predator III: Blood Ties, also ran four issues, published between November 1997 and February 1998.
Blood Ties closed out the original crossover trilogy and, combined with the first two series, brings the complete Batman vs. Predator line to eleven issues across three distinct miniseries.
The correct reading order is straightforward since the three miniseries were published sequentially with no overlapping or interwoven issues: Batman versus Predator, then Bloodmatch, then Blood Ties.
Each series can technically be read as a standalone story, but reading them in publication order gives the fullest sense of how the crossover concept evolved across the three outings.
All three miniseries were gathered into a single collected volume, DC Comics/Dark Horse Comics: Batman vs. Predator, released in 2017 and covering all eleven issues across the original three series.
That one-volume collection is the simplest way for a new reader to get the complete run without separately tracking down back issues from three different publication windows.
Original single issues from 1991 through 1998 carry the usual back-issue considerations for their printing era, including cover price variance and condition spread depending on how they were stored.
The 2017 collected trade, by contrast, is a modern printing with consistent paper stock throughout, making it the more practical choice for anyone prioritizing a clean reading copy over chasing original single issues.
Chasing all eleven original single issues means handling comics printed across three distinct publication windows spanning nearly seven years, each with slightly different paper stock behavior.
Backing every issue with a current-age comic backer board evens out that handling difference, giving every issue in the eleven-issue run the same baseline rigidity regardless of its original printing year.
Dark Horse published its own separate Alien vs. Predator comics line alongside the Batman crossover, meaning Predator-focused readers have more than one DC-adjacent and Dark Horse-adjacent universe to track across different decades of releases.
Batman vs. Predator stands apart from that wider AVP comics universe as its own self-contained crossover line, so completing the full eleven-issue Batman trilogy sequence does not require reading the separate Alien vs. Predator titles at all.
When a crossover line spans multiple miniseries released years apart, it helps to track completion by series rather than treating the whole eleven-issue run as one undifferentiated pile of back issues.
Organizing a long box with clear dividers between Batman versus Predator, Bloodmatch, and Blood Ties makes it far easier to spot which specific issues within each individual miniseries are still missing from a growing back-issue collection.
Three: Batman versus Predator, Bloodmatch, and Blood Ties.
Eleven issues across all three miniseries combined.
Yes, a 2017 collected volume gathers all three miniseries together.
Yes, though reading them in publication order gives the fullest picture.
Whether you are chasing original issues from all three miniseries spanning the early 1990s through the late 1990s, or just protecting a fresh set bought today, current-age comic bags keep every printing era consistent; start with current-age comic bags for your single-issue collection.
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