Batman Archives

Batman! As revealed in the two most important places for comic book news, New York Comic Con and Chip Zdarsky's Newsletter, Joe Quesada will be doing covers for upcoming issues of Batman – new covers as well, not whatever they found in the bottom drawers from the Azrael days And Mike Hawthorne will be drawing[...]

What would New York Comic Con (NYCC) weekend be without some Batman content? Because that's exactly what we got on Friday with the release of the second season of DC's Batman: The Audio Adventures Created by Dennis McNicholas (Saturday Night Live) and presented in the style of an old-fashioned radio play, the new season sees[...]

So the last time we checked in on how things were going with HBO Max's upcoming Colin Farrell-starring spinoff from Matt Reeves' The Batman, Farrell was discussing how involved Reeves is with Penguin (more on that below) Now, Discussing Film is reporting exclusively that Emmy Award-winning director Craig Zobel (Mare of Easttown) is in talks[...]

The set will include Batman, Batgirl, Robin, Red Hood, and Nightwing Both the Dark Knight and Batgirl will feature classic gray, blue, and yellow catsuits and will come with grapple guns The three Robins, on the other hand, all feature some bright colors on this rerelease, and all get new head sculpts Red Hood seems[...]

Batman: The Animated Series remains one of the most popular and respected adaptations of the Caped Crusader's story to this day The animated series brought a dark, brooding, and stylized vibe to DC Comics' hero, charging forward with a noir-inspired take on the character Dark and dramatic, the series' depiction of Batman has had a[...]

Spoilers for Batman and Joker-related books going forward. 1 Chair Apparent In Justice League, Batman learned something from the Mobius Chair about the real identity of The Joker. 2 The One-In-Three … and continued over, a little bit, into DC Rebirth Confirming that there had been three Jokers, not just one. And then the news that after these revelations… …we would[...]

Especially when you're a kid who's obsessed with Batman and Robin For Tim Drake, learning everything about his favorite superheroes eventually led him down the path of becoming one himself, after he deduced the identities of Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson A self-made hero in every sense of the word, Tim took on the role[...]

Readers for whole such language is triggering or hurtful should be advised."  Gotham City: Year One is set many years before Batman and Bruce Wayne, and stars the original Detective Comics police detective Slam Bradley Those stories from the thirties and forties starring the character famously depicted racist caricatures of East Asian people, which previously saw[...]

As we just pointed out, tomorrow's Batman #128 goes out of its way to make sure we know everything in it happened before Justice League #75 and the Dark Crisis event It's just a wonder, in that case, that none of them mentioned it as the League go up against the Failsafe robot that an[...]

The Penguin turns over a new leaf in this preview of Batman: Knightwatch #2 But can he be trusted? Of course not! Check out the preview below. BATMAN: KNIGHTWATCH #2 DC Comics 0822DC113 (W) J Torres (A/CA) Marcelo Di Chiara When Penguin saves people from a mugging, Batman is certain he's up to no good. In Shops: 10/4/2022 SRP: $2.99 #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1[...]

"A kind of protoplasm" in the pool clung to his body and transformed it completely into a clay-like substance that could be molded with his mind.  Hagen immediately used his newfound abilities for crime, but soon found that he had to recharge his power in the underground pool every 48 hours, and this weakness allowed[...]

In Batman – One Bad Day #1: The Riddler, a world-class creative team takes the Riddler from being a punchline to looking like the monster terrifying you in the dark Unfortunately, this powerful, done-in-one is bound by its own central conceit and inadvertently pulls its punch just as the final bell rings. Cover to Batman –[...]

Two generations before Batman, private investigator Slam Bradley gets tangled in the "kidnapping of the century" as the infant Wayne heir disappears in the night…and so begins a brutal, hard-boiled, epic tale of a man living on the edge and a city about to burn. In Shops: 10/4/2022 SRP: $4.99 #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width:[...]

In this preview of Batman #128, Superman… WILL DIE?! Well, at least he'll take a good stabbing with a kryptonite spike Check out the preview below. BATMAN #128 DC Comics 0822DC001 0822DC002 – Batman #128 Gabriele Dell'Otto Cover – $5.99 0822DC003 – Batman #128 Francesco Mattina Cover – $5.99 0822DC812 – Batman #128 Guillem March Cover – $5.99 (W) Chip Zdarsky (A)[...]

At next week's New York Comic Con, DC Comics will be handing out free copies of a promotional Batman & The Joker: The Deadly Duo #1 Ashcan Edition, featuring an unlettered version of the full issue, with Marc Silvestri's pencilled art in black-and-white No lettering, so you can make up your own story, or see[...]

The DC Comics figure Eline is back with an interesting re-release feating Batman and his badass Batmobeast Both of these figures have been released before, with Batman coming in the Dark Nights Death Metal BAF wave featuring the Darkmaster (Batman/Darkseid) The Batmobeast also had a solo release, but this one does not come with the[...]

Enjoy the trailer as the game is still set for release on October 21st, 2022. Credit: WB Games Play as a New Guard of DC Super Heroes: Step into the roles of Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin and shape Gotham's newest protector to create your own version of the Dark Knight. Action-Packed, Original Story Set in DC's Batman[...]

Bleeding Cool first scooped the news back in 2014 that Marc Silvestri was working on a Batman comic But we understood even then that he had already been working on it for a couple of years Then it was to be part of DC Rebirth in 2015 But it wasn't In 2017 we learned it was a Batman/Joker Team-Up[...]

The Eisner-nominated digital comic Batman: Wayne Family Adventures recently concluded its 51st episode on the 11th of August And already it will be returning for a second season on Wednesday, the 28th of September, with new episodes rolling out every Wednesday exclusively on Korean digital publisher Webtoon, as before The series will also crossover with[...]

Harley Quinn gets an Audio Adventures origin in this preview of Batman: The Audio Adventures #1, a comic based on the podcast based on the comics Or to put it another way, our old friend, the comics industry mascot, the ouroboros strikes again! An illustration of the comic book industry from a 1478 alchemy manuscript Check out[...]

Not every superhero can make out while kicking ass at the same time… but Aqualad can in this preview of Batman: Fortress #5 Check out the preview below. BATMAN: FORTRESS #5 DC Comics 0722DC127 0722DC128 – Batman: Fortress #5 Kamome Shirahama Cover – $4.99 (W) Gary Whitta (A/CA) Darick Robertson With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Batman[...]

Previously on Bleeding Cool, I talked with Todd McFarlane about his current Batman/Spawn crossover he is working on with Greg Capullo, being published by DC Comics But I also wanted to talk to him about another potential project that his attendance at D23 Expo in the light of the Batman/Spawn crossover had drawn attention to[...]

Check out the preview below. DETECTIVE COMICS #1064 DC Comics 0722DC109 0722DC110 – Detective Comics #1064 JH Williams III Cover – $5.99 0722DC111 – Detective Comics #1064 Jay Anacleto Cover – $5.99 (W) Ram V., Simon Spurrier (A) Rafael Albuquerque, Dani (CA) Evan Cagle It's a tango to the death as Batman dances with an old flame while trying not to catch[...]

A few weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran the news that Gotham City Year One, a new DC comic book series by Tom King, Phil Hester and Eric Gapstur, set many years before Batman and Bruce Wayne, and starring the original Detective Comics police detective Slam Bradley, would come with a new warning for DC Comics[...]

"Yeah, I am too." But we were here to talk about the upcoming Spawn/Batman crossover with Greg Capullo Just not actually talking with Greg Capullo who strangely found reason to absent himself Now, Todd McFarlane is a very independent man who quit the main publishers even before there was an Image Comics to quit for, who[...]

DC Comics has announced Batman Incorporated preview incentives to help encourage comic book stores to advertise their wares for them, beginning with a Batman Incorporated #1 image with a QR code which will reveal a preview of the comic book in question DC tells comic book shops via Lunar Distribution that "we're hoping for retailers[...]

Jamie McKelvie has tweeted a little about working on his upcoming Batman: One Bad Day: Catwoman graphic novella from DC Comics "Really enjoying working on this Catwoman script from G Willow Wilson btw It's going to be a good book…If you thought me drawing Catwoman meant I would be drawing my own cat into the[...]

Bleeding Cool previously noted that DC Comics was to publish their series of one-shot takes on Batman: The Killing Joke, called Batman: One Bad Day, in hardcover as well as the original comic book format Priced at $17.99 rather than the normal $7.99 with no sign of anything extra at this point. We noted that Batman: Mister Freeze: One[...]

Ben Affleck is easily my favorite actor who has taken up the mantle of Batman on the big screen This is a bold statement, but the action sequences were insane; he was perfect as both Bruce Wayne and Batman, and he was pretty dark Elements of DC Comics The Dark Knight Returns were sprinkled throughout,[...]

Spoilers ahead! Bleeding Cool has a little Batgossip for what is to come from DC Comics and the Batman in weeks and months to come Always take our Batgossip with a pinch of salt, but ask around to see how reliable for this sort of thing Bleeding Cool has come for late. Batman #127 In the last[...]