It was created by writer Tom Taylor and the artistic team including penciler Trevor Hairsine and inker Stefano Guadiano.
Superman flies to his apartment and rescues his wife Lois Lane, his son Jon Kent, and Damian Wayne from being infected.
Back in Metropolis, Superman takes Lois, Superboy, and Robin to the roof of the Daily Planet and realizes that everyone inside is infected.
Seeking another solution Terrific, Miracle and Big Barda track down Blue Beetle and Booster Gold for transportation to England and rescue John Constantine from a horde of infected in Liverpool.
With technological and magical options expired, Mister Terrific theorises that the only hope for humanity is for Booster to use his time machine.
Amidst this, Barda kills Terrific and infects Blue Beetle, and Booster fades from existence due to the timeline being altered.
He retrieves his daughter Rose Wilson and meets with Mirror Master and Vandal Savage, who has assembled a team consisting of Deadshot, Bane, Lady Shiva, Cheetah, Captain Cold, Solomon Grundy, and Creeper at the island of Ball's pyramid.
[5] At the island, Savage attempts to vivisect Deathstroke and Creeper to discover how they manage to overcome the infection and to create a vaccine but is attacked and killed by Wonder Woman.
Deathstroke and Jason realize that the Anti-Living have been accumulating outside the orphanage walls and prepare to face them, training the children to assist them.
Amidst this, Bane is infected by Mirror Master and breaks down the orphanage's walls, and Deadshot sacrifices himself to save one of the children, Zaid.
Mary Marvel reveals herself as one of the orphans and saves the remaining survivors before taking them into the sanctuary, where they are greeted by Ivy, Harley Quinn, Doctor Fate, John Constantine, and Zatanna.
In Keystone City, Wally West, Max Mercury, Impulse and Jesse Quick evacuate the uninfected residents to an alternate Earth.
Bob, the detective chimp, Ace and Krypto join up to rescue a girl from Bludhaven's orphanage reached Poison Ivy's refuge.
In Gotham, Lex Luthor arranges for the army to be trapped in the shadow realm, while the other heroes manage to subdue Black Adam.
Set five years after the original mini-series, Dead Planet follows the New Justice League as they return to an Earth, now overrun with the anti-living, in search of Cyborg, who survived Wonder Woman's decapitating him and activated a distress signal.
Learning from Cyborg that there is a cure for the infection, Jon rushes to stop an enraged Green Canary from killing Wonder Woman but is too late and is injured by a kryptonite sword.
While guarding Chicago, Roy Harper is killed by Beatriz da Costa while the group of civilians he was protecting are saved by Shadowpact.
Wonder Girl takes Jon to Poison Ivy's jungle sanctuary for medical attention and reunites with the survivors there, including Mary Marvel, Doctor Fate and Cassandra Cain.
Meanwhile, Swamp Thing appears and convinces Shadowpact to travel with him to Australia after he reveals a disturbance in the Green and tells them there is a bunker of human survivors holed up there.
The group make a deal with Metron, giving him access to Madame Xanadu's crystal ball in exchange for allowing Cyborg to use the Mobius Chair.
Etrigan warns that Trigon will arrive in three days, so Constantine, Red Hood, Damian, Ravager, Cassandra Cain and Swamp Thing travel to Nanda Parbat to retrieve the Spear of Destiny from Deadman.
Constantine attacks Doctor Fate and takes his helmet, combining it with the Spear of Destiny, Ragman's cloak, Xanadu's crystal ball, and the staff of Shazam to become the most powerful magical entity on Earth.
He uses the cloak to absorb the souls of Penguin, Maxwell Lord and others from the bunker so that Jon and Damian can enter and shut down the Amazo army.
Jon arrives and distracts Trigon long enough for Constantine to control his mind and force him to kill himself with the Spear of Destiny.
On Earth, Jon, Cyborg, Wonder Girl, Green Canary, Mary Marvel and Shazam (Cassandra Cain) travel to the Sun and battle an infected Superman.
On Earth-2, Lois Lane sends John Stewart and Guy Gardner to investigate why their neighboring planets have not been responding to their communication requests as Jon and Damien arrive through a Boom Tube with a cured Superman and Jonathan Kent.
The Yellow Lanterns attempt to fire on Korugar but are intercepted by Soranik Natu and her husband Kyle Rayner.
Manipulated by Ares, the Green Lantern Corps fight the other heroes after the Guardians announce that the best course of action is to destroy the Anti-Living rather than try to cure them.
On the other side, Clark, Jon, Mary, Dinah and Darkseid unleash their rays on Erebos, creating a breach that Lobo is able to further extend.
The first collection of DCeased was a limited edition hardcover of 1,400 copies released for Local Comics Book Day 2019 featuring a cover with an infected Joker.