DC Comics News brings you the definitive reading order, to date, for King Shark. Including all the Pre-Flashpoint issues, guest appearances and beyond ‘New 52’ and ‘Rebirth’.
King Shark is a super-villain and humanoid shark. His father is Chondrakha the God of all Sharks, and his mother is a human woman. For years he acted as a serial killer in Hawaii before his presence was discovered by Superboy. Briefly during Sword of Atlantis he became Aquaman’s sidekick. He has been a member of the Secret Six, the Secret Society of Super-Villains and the Suicide Squad. King Shark was created by Karl Kesel, first appearing in Superboy (Volume 4) #0. (1994)
Pre-Flashpoint
The Flash Annual #4 (1991) – ‘Family Business’
Superboy #0 (1994) – ‘Sidearm One! Superboy Zero!’
Superboy #9 (1994) – ‘King Shark!’
Superboy #13 (1995) – ‘Watery Grave: Part 1 of 3 – Suicidal Tendencies’
Superboy #14 (1995) – ‘Watery Grave: Part 2 of 3 – Kill Them All!’
Superboy #15 (1995) – ‘Watery Grave: Part 3 of 3 – Honor Among Thieves’
Superboy #20 (1995) – ‘The Hunt!’
Superboy #32 (1996) – ‘So, Tell Me About Superboy.’
Superboy #42 (1997) – ‘Ashes to Ashes’Team Superman Secret Files #1 (1998)
Superboy #66 (1999) – ‘Wild Hunt!’
Superboy #67 (1999) – ‘Tooth & Claw’JLA #59 (2001) – ‘Bipolar Disorder’
Joker: Last Laugh #2 (2001) – ‘Joker: Last Laugh, Part Two: Siege Mentality’
Joker: Last Laugh #4 (2001) – ‘Joker: Last Laugh, Part Four: Everyone Knows This is Nowhere’
Joker: Last Laugh #5 (2001) – ‘Joker: Last Laugh, Part Five: Mad, Mad World’
Joker: Last Laugh #6 (2002) – ‘Joker: Last Laugh, Part Six: You Only Laugh Twice’Adventures of Superman #608 (2002) – ‘Ending Battle, Part Two: Dawn’s Early Light’
Superman/Batman #3 (2003) – ‘The World’s Finest, Part Three: Running Wild’
Outsiders #6 (2004) – ‘Brothers in Blood, Part Three: Pandora’s Box’
Hawkman #22 (2004) – ‘The Headhunter, Part III: Blood and Lies’
The DC Comics Encyclopedia (2004) HC – ‘The DC Comics Encyclopedia’
Villains United #5 (2005) – ‘Villains United, Part Five: Victims of Aggression’
Villains United #6 (2005) – ‘Villains United, Part Six: At the End of All Things’Aquaman #37 (2006) – ‘All Fall Down’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #40 (2006) – ‘Once and Future’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #41 (2006) – ‘Over His Head’Villains United (2006) Infinite Crisis Special – ‘A Hero Dies But One’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #42 (2006) – ‘Deep Down’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #43 (2006) – ‘Conversations with Vulko’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #44 (2006) – ‘Masters’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #45 (2006) – ‘Watery Grave’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #46 (2006) – ‘Crown of Thorns’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #47 (2007) – ‘Coral Song’Superman (2007) #658 – ‘The Last Tomorrow’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis (2007) #48 – ‘Gate of Shadow, Part One: Here Be Monsters’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis (2007) #49 – ‘Gate of Shadows Part Two: Dreams of the Fisherman’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis (2007) #50 – ‘Cold Water’52/WW III (2007) #2 – ‘The Valiant’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis (2007) #51 – ‘The Once and Future Sea King’
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis (2007) #53 – ‘Blood in the Water’Superman Confidential (2007) #6 – ‘Welcome to Mer-Tropolis’
Superman/Batman (2008) #45 – ‘K, Chapter 2: Known Deposits’
The DC Comics Encyclopedia (2008) HC – ‘The DC Comics Encyclopedia: Updated And Expanded’
Secret Six (2008) #2 – ‘The Way of the Traitor’
Secret Six (2009) #4 – ‘Money for Murder’
Secret Six (2009) #5 – ‘Twilight of Sorrow’
Secret Six (2009) #7 – ‘Revelations’Wonder Woman (2009) #35 – ‘Birds Of Paradise, Part 2: Cradle To Grave’
Adventure Comics (2009) #3
Secret Six (2010) #21 – ‘The Precipice’
Secret Six (2010) #25 – ‘Part 1 of 4: Blood Calls to Blood’
Secret Six (2010) #26 – ‘Part 2 of 4: Forced Merger’General Mills Presents: Justice League (2011) #4 – ‘Breakout!’
Secret Six (2011) #27 – ‘Part 3 of 4: Masked and Masked Again’
Secret Six (2011) #28 – ‘Part 4 of 4: The Skull Just Beneath the Flesh’Doom Patrol (2011) #19 – ‘Suicide Roulette, Part Two: Ring-A-Ding Doom!’
Secret Six (2011) #30 – ‘Suicide Roulette, Part One of Two: Like a Star on the Horizon’
Secret Six (2011) #31 – ‘Part 1 of 3: In Every Dream a Nightmare’
Secret Six (2011) #32 – ‘Part 2 of 3: The Secret 666’
Secret Six (2011) #33 – ‘Part 2 of 3: The Infernal Finale’
Secret Six (2011) #34 – ‘The Jagged End of the Chainsaw’
Secret Six (2011) #35 – ‘Caution to the Wind, Part One of Two’
Secret Six (2011) #36 – ‘Caution to the Wind, Part Two of Two: Blood Honor’Superboy (2011) #5 – ‘The Superboy/Kid Flash Race!’
Flashpoint
Flashpoint: Deadman and the Flying Graysons (2011) #1 – ‘The Show Must Go On’
Flashpoint: Deadman and the Flying Graysons (2011) #2 – ‘All Eyes On The Prize’
New 52
DC Comics: The New 52 (2011) #1
Suicide Squad (2011) #1 – ‘Kicked In The Teeth’
Suicide Squad (2011) #2 – ‘When the Levee Breaks’
Suicide Squad (2012) #3 – ‘Last Chance’Suicide Squad (2012) #4 – ‘Bad Company’
Suicide Squad (2012) #5 – ‘Abandon All Hope’
Suicide Squad (2012) #6 – ‘The Hunt for Harley Quinn, Part 1’
Suicide Squad (2012) #7 – ‘The Hunt for Harley Quinn Conclusion’
Suicide Squad (2011) #8 – ‘Aftermath’Resurrection Man (2011) #8 – ‘Manhunt’
Resurrection Man (2012) #9 – ‘Dead Heat’
Suicide Squad (2012) #9 – ‘Dead Man Walking’
Suicide Squad (2012) #10 – ‘Judas Rising’
Suicide Squad (2012) #11 – ‘Communication Breakdown’
Suicide Squad (2012) #12 – ‘Killin’ Time’
Suicide Squad (2012) #13 – ‘Dead End’
Suicide Squad (2013) #14 – ‘Running With The Devil, Part One’Grifter (2013) #15 – ‘Suicide Isn’t Painless’
Suicide Squad (2013) #16 – ‘Killing in the Name of…’
Animal Man (2013) #17 – ‘RotWorld: War Of The Rot Part One’
Suicide Squad (2013) #17 – ‘Bad Moon Rising’
Suicide Squad (2013) #18 – ‘Death Blooms’Teen Titans (2013) #18 – ‘To Belle and Back’
Suicide Squad (2013) #19 – ‘Red Rain’
Justice League of America’s Vibe (2013) #4 – ‘Illusions and Disillusions’
Suicide Squad (2013) #20 – ‘Discipline and Punish, Part One of Two’
Suicide Squad (2013) #21 – ‘Discipline and Punish, Part Two of Two’Justice League of America’s Vibe (2013) #5 – ‘Suicide Solution’
Suicide Squad (2013) #22 – ‘Light at the End of the Tunnel’
Suicide Squad (2013) #23 – ‘Slash ‘N’ Burn’Aquaman (2013) #23.1 – ‘Sea Change’
Forever Evil (2013) #1 – ‘Nightfall’
Suicide Squad (2013) #24 – ‘Excuse the Mess…’
Suicide Squad (2014) #25 – ‘Cleaning Out the Closet’
Suicide Squad (2014) #26 – ‘Aloha!’
Suicide Squad (2014) #27 – ‘Under & Over’
Suicide Squad (2014) #28 – ‘Magic Bullet’
Suicide Squad (2014) #29 – ‘Flushed’
Birds Of Prey (2014) #32 – ‘Expectations’
Birds Of Prey (2014) #33 – ‘Pretty Lies and Ugly Truths’
Birds Of Prey (2014) #34 – ‘Things Fall Apart’Aquaman (2015) #42 – ‘The Other Atlantis’
Aquaman (2015) #43 – ‘Gospel of Destruction’
Rebirth
All-Star Batman (2016) #2
The Flash: Season Zero
The civilian identity of the King Shark from the Arrowverse-based non-canon comics is Shay Lamden.
The Flash: Season Zero – Chapter #11 (2015) – ”Bite Marks”
The Flash: Season Zero – Chapter #12 (2015) – “Shark Bait”The Flash: Season Zero – Chapter #13 (2015) – “Fish Fry”
The Flash: Season Zero – Chapter #14 (2015) – “Blood Loss”
The Flash: Season Zero – Chapter #15 (2015) – “A Little Help from Some Friends”
The Flash: Season Zero – Chapter #16 (2015) – “The Impossible Mission”
Credits: ComicBookDB, DC WIKI
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