Deathstroke to Appear in Batman Universe #1 this July

While Deathstroke was featured rather prominently on the Walmart-exclusive Teen Titans books, I didn't pay much attention to them when they were announced and released.

The reason is simple; Deathstroke's appearance in these books was in a reprint of issues from the Titans book from 2003, written by Geoff Johns. The 100-page books all included four stories, three of which were reprints. Deathstroke did not seem to appear in the single story of new material.

That he appeared in the Batman story eluded me. Here is a portion of a press release (first seen on Newsarama, for the record) about these Walmart exclusives being reprinted for comic shops this summer.

Following the theft of a priceless Fabergé egg, the Riddler leads The Dark Knight on a wild hunt after its true owner: Jinny Hex, a descendant of the haunted Western hero Jonah Hex. Deathstroke, Green Arrow and some of the brightest stars in the DC Universe will join The Dark Knight on the chase to find this treasure! 

The covers to the early issues of these Batman books all seemed to give one of the reprints the spotlight. Check out Deathstroke at the bottom right of the fourth issue.

I believe that will be his only appearance.

While attempting to sort all that, I collected the covers from the Titans books which featured Deathstroke and those are now displayed below.