Batman Archives

The birth of Jerry Siegel and  Joe Shuster's Superman in Action Comics #1 laid the foundation for a formula that was emulated often in the Golden Age, and during the many decades that followed. In 1939, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics for National, Captain Marvel debuted in Whiz Comics for Fawcett Publications and Timely unleashed[...]

Three weeks ago DC Collectibles released the Hush Batman/Catwoman The Kiss Statue. The online DC Shop had it listed as being available to ship as of the 31st March Until last week when it was suddenly switched to the 30th of May, a two month delay. A Bleeding Cool reader called DC's store to enquire what was[...]

There is no Hell Yeah Batman Catwoman tumblr But if there was, this should be their very first tumbl. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyDDTD6xFi8[/youtube] The writer/director is Scott Zakarin, Bruce Wayne is played by Don Jeanes (who also played Neil Armstrong in Transformers: Dark of the Moon), and Catwoman is played by Corrin Evans. Hell, yeah! [...]

 It's the year of the beginning of Marvel Comics — about which I'm sure we'll hear much more from both inside and outside of the company, this year, 75 years later. It's the year of the debut of Flash and the Sandman from DC, and of characters ranging from Blue Beetle to Amazing Man from other[...]

Some people have too much free time... and when they have a video camera, we get gems like this - Banecat by Robs Rants http://youtu.be/5ywjpbThDpE I

When Joel Shumacher's second entry in his Batman franchise of films, Batman and Robin, tanked at the box office, many in Hollywood declared the super-hero movie dead Warners certainly declared the franchise dead, as well However, less than a decade later they were sitting on a billion-dollar movie, complete with Oscar(r) nominations in tow[...]

"There's no point at being at DC if you don't do Batman… okay that's not true…" At the end of the Klaus Janson spotlight panel at ECCC, with Jonah Weiland, after talking through his careers, the ups and the downs, he stated that yes, he is returning to Batman – and that's his focus right now. And[...]

Might be worth a spoiler warning, though it's probably the kind of thing they'll be talking about at ECCC. One is that Batman Eternal, the new weekly series from DC Comics, will begin with a family betrayal That of the psychopathic James Gordon Jr against his father, Commissioner Gordon. Might that explain the handcuffs? Don't dare miss the[...]

We know that, as with the Batman: Court Of Owls and V For Vendetta mask/box set, DC Comics will be publishing a Batman: Death Of The Family collection with a Joker skin mask in September The skin masks will also be available separately to attendees at San Diego Comic Con, according to folks who attended MegaCon[...]

Recently, DC Comics published a new trade paperback collection of the Batman comic Bruce Wayne: Murderer? by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Chuck Dixon, Devin Grayson, Kelly Puckett, Rick Burchett, Rick Leonardi, Steve Lieber, Trevor McCarthy, Scott McDaniel, Roger Robinson, Damion Scott and Pete Woods. Quite the crossover. But it seems they managed to miss out a couple of chapters[...]

All credit to SeqArt for putting this together, with a little help from Alan Moore... ‘the origin of capes and masks as ubiquitous superhero accessories

Avengers #29, an Original Sin tie-in, goes back to some earlier Jonathan Hickman plots for the Illuminati. The Illuminati, a secret cabal of the Marvel

The two comics they are offering are: BATMAN #29  Illustrated by fan favorite artist Greg Capullo, the convention exclusive for BATMAN #29, written by Scott Snyder, takes the latest "Riddler" themed cover and gives it a location-specific touch: green for Emerald City! The "DARK CITY" chapter of "ZERO YEAR" reaches its conclusion in this amazing, extra-sized issue! THE[...]

Batman Eternal is the new Batman weekly from DC Comics, 52 issues, over a year But can you afford four or five more $2.99 comics each month to follow the story? What if you only had to spend $1.99 and could wait a bit and still get the comic in print? That's the deal with the collections[...]

Which means we can see that DC are finally resoliciting their Frank Quitely collection of short stories over the years… if it's successful maybe they'll finally release the Alan Grant/Frank Quitely Lobo comic they've had sitting in a drawer for a decade. So we have Batman/Superman #12, Earth 2 #24, The Flash #32, Superman/Wonder Woman #9,[...]