32 interior pp. (unpaginated), with fold-out front cover; color. A single Beowulf episode, continued from the four episodes in the monthly serial Sword of Sorcery (2012-13, see separate listing), which fills this issue (number 19, June 2013) of the monthly serial DC Universe Presents.

A shape-shifting monster appears in a museum in near-present-day New York and surprises a scholar, Professor Gwendolyn Pierce, who has been handling an object that (it turns out) opens a time portal. The super-soldier Beowulf quickly follows from his post-apocalyptic future time, and Pierce accompanies him in search of the other time traveler. Along the way, Beowulf recounts for her events linking this episode to the Sword of Sorcery ones: Grendel's (and Beowulf's) "mother" has sent a shape-shifting Púca to beguile him, first approaching him in the form of Wiglaf and then leading him through the time portal. As Beowulf and Pierce move through the city, Beowulf confronts Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Batman, who have been led there from a less distant future time and are harassing passersby; the scene is broken up by the NYPD. Beowulf and Pierce evade the police, return to the museum, reopen the portal, and travel together to Beowulf's future, she driven by a desire to learn about the future as well as the past and possibly avert the apocalypse that Beowulf has informed her will befall New York.

The relationship of this 2012-13 and 2013 storyline to DC Comics' earlier (1975-76, 2008) Beowulf storyline is unclear, as the mythology of Beowulf's and Grendel's creation appears irreconcilable with the prior material. However, given that all are from DC Comics, some way of connecting the stories within the DC universe may have been intended.

The text elements of the first page of the story, accompanying images of Pierce examining an artifact, are as follows:

[Pierce thinking:] According to legend, the Druids of Rathcroghan used the Torc here to catch glimpses of "other worlds."

I'd be happy just to know its age.

Others before me have tried to carbon-date this artifact, but the results always seem to come out in reverse.

I mean, an object found in a Bronze Age tomb can't be negative three hundred years old, right?

So I've received permission to try a different sort of scan.

[Pierce speaking:] Voiceprint: Pierce, Gwendolyn. Professor of Archaeometry, Columbia University, authorization code 4382. Firing spectrometer in three … two …

… Wh--?

[sound effect:] FFFSHHHH-- ([1]; underscoring and ellipses as in original)

The text of the final page of the Beowulf story, accompanying images of Beowulf and then Pierce materializing in Beowulf's own place and time, is as follows:

[Beowulf speaking:] Well, that was passing--

[sound effect:] FWASH

[Beowulf speaking:] --strange …

Gwendolyn Pierce, what have you done?

[Pierce speaking:] Hopefully not the biggest mistake of my life.

Oh, my God …

[Beowulf speaking:] >Hrhh< Welcome to the Danelaw.

THE END? ([29]; boldface, italics, and ellipses as in original)

BAM.