Batman Archives

Meanwhile, Saga holds tight in Germany and Russia, the only countries in which it retains its position from last week. DC was the big man on campus this week in China, three issues of Batman appearing on its chart – two of which take up the top two spots Two issues of Artifacts also made an[...]

It's Batman. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HEKaydu8wM[/youtube] The Lego Movie opens across the US today Here in the UK, there are preview screenings tomorrow and Sunday – run, don't walk – and then the film will be on wide release from Friday February 14th. There's an interesting story behind this video, but now is not the time to tell it[...]

Batman #27 beat Detective Comics #27 in January's sales, taking the top two spots as distributed in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors. Marvel Comics have dropped their dollar share from 35.42% to 34.09% but increased their unit share from 36.56% to 37.39% Basically Marvel selling slightly less but charging slightly more But in both cases,[...]

And they do! Bruce Wayne has difficulty divorcing his sex life from his work life, in Batman Black And White That is, unless his partner has a mean right hook on her. Joker's Daughter seems to have some demands of her own that skeeves out even the cleaning staff at Arkham Asylum, who have seen all[...]

I was, yes, hooked. It didn't take long, though it was a slow process to start, for Mattel to enter into the ring, when they expanded their Batman toy license to a series of gradually improving and expanding figures in terms of character selection, which came to be known as DC Universe Classics, which emerged right[...]

This is from the printed version of Earth 2 Annual #2, published yesterday. And this is from the digital version, though I understand it has now been

We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion. Every week that Batman comes along, it takes the top spot Only in twp stores surveyed by Bleeding Cool did it not, with Justice League taking the top spot, and Walking Dead beating everything else, save for All New X-Men… Batman #27 Justice League #27 All-New X-Men #22.NOW Walking[...]

Cebulski (@CBCebulski) January 24, 2014 FRONT AND BACK Spider-Man and Batman make the front pages of upcoming Previews with their new series, Batman Eternal and Amazing Spider-Man The comics industry's two biggest names on front and back. THE FUNKY GIBBON Buy this sketch and imagine who it might have been drawn for in happier times…  AUTISTIC SUPERMAN IN NEW[...]

Has comics' most sacrosanct suspension of belief been shattered? After all in the new Batman… …the secret identity of Bruce Wayne can be maintained even when the Commissioner is talking about Bruce Wayne by taking his glasses off A kind of anti-Superman paradigm there Whereas over on Mighty Avengers… Okay, even if you hadn't been spoiled on[...]

Over on his website Ty Templeton has chimed in on the get Bill Finger a Google Doodle campaign with a quick little cartoon illustrating what Batman would have been without Finger's involvement I'm sure Bob Kane would have come up with a few more things… but this is pretty funny. You can see the rest here. Rich adds: Of course there[...]

The AFP reports on the Batman Of Brazil. There have been many protests in Rio de Janeiro over communities being destroyed and residents evicted to build stadiums for the upcoming World Cup being held there. One of the protestors looks a little familiar A 32-year-old dental technician Eron Morais de Melo who does so by dressing up[...]

In the eighties, DC Comics published a Batman comic called The Killing Joke By Alan Moore and Brian Bolland You may have heard of it. Controversial, hated and loved, cherished by some, seen as all that is wrong with comics by others, disowned by its writer and elevated by his fans, there have been essays, books,[...]

Lots of people do their version of Superman and Batman Warren Ellis gave us Apollo and Midnighter Kurt Busiek gave us Samaritan and The Confessor Mark Millar has done Superior and Nemesis Rick Veitch gave us Maximortal and Midnight Mink. Boom! has already given us their Superman, with Mark Waid's Irredeemable, and spinoff Incorruptible, deconstructing a[...]

John Layman writes for Bleeding Cool, on yesterday's story about the Chew writer leaving the upcoming Batman weekly title, Batman Eternal. So yes, it is true that I am leaving Batman Eternal I'm writing 4 issues of the first 20, one of which I still have to turn in, and then moving on to solely concentrate[...]

Bill Finger – the uncredited co-creator of Batman – was born February 8th, 1914, Detective Comics #27 was first released in May of 1939, and Bill died January 18th, 1974 at the age of 59 That is in no way to condense his life down to just three events… but rather to show that 2014[...]