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There were three or four different “pods” to this story, and while it was easy to figure out how each individual one fit into the main narrative, it was a little tricky to figure out where they tied into each other.  Fortunately, most of the tie-in issues pointed you to the next issue in the reading order, but there are multiple issues that end with a “continued in Metal #3″ or “continued in Metal #4″ tag, so the challenge was feature out what order to put those issues that all continued into the same issue.  Note that every issue of this event except the ongoing series tie-ins had a cardstock cover, so you probably will want to print out cover replacements.

Dark Nights:  Metal
Dark Days:  The Forge #1
Dark Days:  The Casting #1
Dark Nights:  Metal #1-2
Teen Titans #12 (Gotham Resistance part 1)
Nightwing #29 (Gotham Resistance part 2)
Suicide Squad #26 (Gotham Resistance part 3)
Green Arrow #32 (Gotham Resistance part 4)
Batman:  The Red Death #1
Batman:  The Murder Machine #1
Batman:  The Daybreaker #1
Batman:  The Drowned #1
Batman:  The Merciless #1
Dark Nights:  Metal #3
Batman:  The Devastator #1
Flash #33 (Bats Out of Hell part 1)
Justice League #32 (Bats Out of Hell part 2)
Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #32 (Bats Out of Hell part 3)
Justice League #33 (Bats Out of Hell part 4)
Batman Lost #1
Batman Who Laughs #1
Dark Nights:  Metal #4
Hawkman Found #1
Dark Nights:  Metal #5
Dark Nights Rising:  The Wild Hunt #1
Dark Nights:  Metal #6
Dark Days Director’s Cut
Dark Nights:  Metal #1 Director’s Cut

The two Director’s Cut issues were added as bonus features, and are not needed as actual story parts.  This event isn’t strictly part of the overall DC Rebirth narrative, but it does provide a lot of context for Dark Nights:  Death Metal, which ended up being the final part of that reboot initiative.