Originally posted by operator616
this doesn't exactly say that he was erased from existence.here's the scan from the return of bruce wayne #6:
http://i.imgur.com/2Kkv9I4.jpg
and it actually makes sense given hurt's portrayal in the batman series, morrison kind of depicted him as batman's devil, iirc morrison even compared hurt to mandrakk and darkseid in an interview. also, at the end of batman RIP, hurt kind of hinted batman's capture by the new gods (in which darkseid planned to clone batman) so it's very reasonable to assume that darkseid chose hurt as being his host to incarnate in.
"Fell from existence" means what exactly now? Also batman only last saw darkseid from final crisis dying. How would he know that Darkseid was trying to reincarnate through Hurt if he wasn't even in the present where Superman erased from existence?