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Batman/Dylan Dog by Werther Dell'Edera Is Published This Month

The Shadow Of The Bat written by Roberto Recchioni and drawn by Werther Dell'Edera and Gigi Cavenago will be published on the 29th of June,

In 2018, DC Comics and Sergio Bonelli Editori announced a series of upcoming crossover projects between the American and Italian comic book publishers. In 2019, they published a preview of the first one, Dylan Dog & Batman, which would also feature villains Xabaras and Il Joker. Dylan Dog & Batman #0: Dangerous Relationships, was written by Roberto Recchioni and drawn by Gigi Cavenago and Werther Dell'Edera.

The first crossover was originally intended to be between Flash and Zagor, but Batman/Dylan Dog – two of the most published comic book characters in the world, is pretty damn high profile.

Dylan Dog is a paranormal investigator created by Tiziano Sclavi set mainly in London. Dark Horse Comics had published the English language version of Dylan Dog in the United States, followed by a new English edition from Epicenter Comics.  The series is the second most widely sold comic book in Italy after the Tex series, also published by Sergio Bonelli Editore. The film Cemetery Man from 1994 starring Rupert Everett, was loosely based on the comics. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, starring Brandon Routh, was released in 2011.

Sergio Bonelli publis over 21,000 new pages of content, the equivalent of a thousand US-sized comic books a year. But over ten percent of that – 2500 pages of new content, over 200 pages (or ten US comics) a month, was dedicated to the character of Dylan Dog. Sergio Bonelli publish even more Dylan Dog Comics than DC publish Batman.  Since then, the artist Werther Dell'Edera has become better known for Something Is Killing The Children published by Boom Studios in the US.

Now, after six years wait, and after its full publication in Italian earlier this year. March 2024 will see the English publication of the comic, in the DC Comics 2024 solicits and solicitation posted exclusively by Bleeding Cool

The Shadow Of The Bat is set in London, with the Joker and Killer Cros hanging out by Piccadilly Circus, Dylan Dog's accomplice and Groucho Marx lookalike Groucho is also part of the story, which might necessitate changes before the US edition over copyright concerns, but hey, Dave Sim got away with it for all those years.

This will be the first of three issues, published monthly and then collected in time for Lucca.

The Bat-Signal lights up in the night to call the Nightmare Investigator into action. The trails of Batman and Dylan Dog finally connect!
Here we are. The fatal hour has struck: the Bat-signal lights up in the night to call the Nightmare Investigator into action and the tracks of Batman and Dylan Dog finally join!

The Joker is in London to sign an infernal pact with Dylan Dog's nemesis, the Mephistophelean Xabaras! The bell of number seven on Craven Road screams and Bruce Wayne appears on the other side of the door. An incredible adventure side by side with the Dark Knight begins for the Investigator of Nightmares: they will have to forge an uneasy alliance, putting aside their differences in order to be able to face and defeat an evil that comes from the past…

We are to expect conflicts and team-ups between Groucho and Alfred Pennyworth, Jim Gordon and Bloch, Xabaras and The Joker alongside Killer Croc, Madame Trelkovski, Catwoman , Etrigan and, since we are in London, to look out for John Constantine.

Might we see the  Nathan Never/Justice League: Double Universe volume or Zigor/The Flash: The Ax And The Thunderbolt crossovers to come?

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