Batman Archives

World's Finest writer Mark Waid will naturally be overfamiliar with the long history of merged Superman and Batman in one form or another Composite Superman, a shapeshifter with a grudge, being the most prominent, who first appeared in  World's Finest Comics #142 in 1964 and recurred through the years in various forms World's Finest, a[...]

Nightwing time! Sean Kelly, writer and someone who describes himself as "Haver of Opinions About Batman" posted a social media thread about  Batman two years ago, which keeps getting reposted And that's been happening again in the last week – but I get the feeling tomorrow's Nightwing might give it a further boost[...]

Batman and Superman must face Hal Jordan gone bad in this preview of Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4, in stores Tuesday from DC Comics Check out the preview below. BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD'S FINEST #4 DC Comics 0422DC097 0422DC098 – Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4 Derrick Chew Cover – $4.99 0422DC840 – Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4 Cover – $4.99 (W) Mark Waid (A/CA) Dan Mora As[...]

But we couldn't resist a look at details on an unpublished and planned Batman Black And White mini-series/graphic novel intended to be created with several friends in the LA artist community It was announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2015 alongside Multiversity Too, a series of graphic novels beginning with Multiversity Too: The Flash planned[...]

Batman faces down the goose menace with nothing more than a bow and arrow in this preview of Batman: The Knight #6 Check out the preview below. BATMAN: THE KNIGHT #6 DC Comics 0422DC089 0422DC090 – Batman: The Knight #6 Riccardo Federici Cover – $5.99 (W) Chip Zdarsky (A/CA) Carmine Di Giandomenico Bruce Wayne's difficult journey to become Batman continues as[...]

Four figures are featured with Superman, Black Adam, Constantine, and Batman Well, it looks like another Batman figure is on the way as Target is getting an exclusive Black and White Line Art Variant Coming in at 7" tall, Batman will feature 22 points of articulation, come with a batarang, and have a heavy b&w[...]

Batman in the late golden/silver age, and really DC Comics in general, feature some of the funniest and wackiest covers you will ever see Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, Action Comics, and more have some of the most ridiculous stories and covers you will ever see, almost unfathomable to modern readers really This cover, for Detective[...]

As well as Jace Fox, son of Lucius Fox, and the Batman of New York, who hit headlines for being… um black And then there's Yara Flor, the current Wonder Girl and Future Wonder Woman of Brazil who hit headline for… coming from Brazi, I guess? And all now with their own Hershey chocolate bars,[...]

But what that cover also did, from the pen of the movie's director, is give us a look at how Ben Affleck's Batman is intended to appear in the Flash movie Not just the cover, but Bleeding Cool has a few previously  unseen preview pages from inside the comic book, from which we can extract[...]

Mostly Batman, it's true but there's a fair amount of Robin as well this month! BATMAN #127 Written by CHIP ZDARSKY Art and cover by JORGE JIMENEZ Backup art by BELÉN ORTEGA Wraparound variant cover by GABRIELE DELL'OTTO Variant cover by ALEX GARNER Harley 30th variant cover by STEPHEN SEGOVIA 1:25 variant cover by INHYUK LEE 1:50 variant cover by[...]

One month ago, Bleeding Cool asked if the cover of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Book One by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley and used for the main cover of the best-selling collection would crack a million dollars when it went to auction for the first time Today it went far, far beyond that, selling as part of a massive[...]

Current bids are up to $750. Dave Gibbons The Brave and the Bold #200 Story Page 25 Original Art (DC, 1983). An incredible transformation page of Bruce Wayne (leaving his date) into Batman as the Bat-Signal beckons him, in "Hell on Earth" for Part 5 of "Smell of Brimstone, Stench of Death" This was the last issue of this[...]

Here are the listings; Brian Bolland Batman: The Killing Joke Story Page #7 Original Art (DC, 1989) The Joker's genesis has been filled with ambiguity since his conception back in 1940 with the character having various origins In Alan Moore's groundbreaking story, and particularly these very panels, readers would get insight into just how badly a day would[...]

As part of a massive auction of premium comic books and original artwork at Heritage Auctions, the original artwork for the triple-page spread of Batman: Hush from Batman #619, by Jim Lee and Scott Williams, will be going to auction today and has already received pre-auction bids at $312,000 But it's not the only piece[...]

Bleeding Cool just pointed out that the original cover artwork of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Book One by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley and used for the main cover of the best-selling collection, is about to crack two million dollars today, as part of a massive auction of premium comic books and original artwork at Heritage[...]

One month ago, Bleeding Cool asked if the cover of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Book One by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley and used for the main cover of the best-selling collection, would crack a million dollars when it went to auction for the first time[...]

From the rising star creative team of Dan Watters (Arkham City: The Order of the World, Lucifer) and Nikola Cižmešija (Batman: Urban Legends, Future State: Gotham) this miniseries will redefine one of the Batman world's most iconic and fierce characters. Retail: $4.99 FOC Date: 7/10/2022 In-Store Date: 8/2/2022 DC Comics' solicitations for August 2022 included the[...]

Batman Azteca is a new animated DC film coming to HBO Max Latin America that will focus on the Batman from Mexico during the time of the Aztec Empire The full title is Batman Azteca: Choque de Imperios (Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires). Juan Meza-León (Harley Quinn) serves as director, José C[...]

Originally known as the Anti-Oracle,  The Seer previously threw a spanner in the works for both the Batpeople and the Magistrate after posing as the Oracle network during the Fear State event, which would have led up to Future State if they hadn't been hobbled. Batman #115 Her identity was hidden during that event series… Nightwing #85 Including the[...]

Credit: DC Comics Batman has taken Lois Lane, Ma, and Pa Kent, and the young Jon Kent to a Justice League safe house because the very Luthor-esque president of the super villain nation Gamorra, Henry Bendix, has marked them all for death Batman has also said that Jon's new boyfriend is (in essence) a terrorist who[...]

Since then, he has told Batman and the other Robins – just not the Batgirls. This week, DC Comics publishes a DC Pride: Tim Drake Special, collecting the previous stories from Batman: Urban Legends, as well as a new one, in which Tim Drake pulls the plaster ad introduces Bernard Dowd to his ex, Stephanie Brown[...]

Detective Comics v Bruns Publications is one of the defining historical moments of modern American comic books.  In a judgment handed down April 2, 1939, Judge Learned Hand of United States District Court, Southern District of New York, ruled that Victor Fox's Wonderman character in Wonder Comics infringed on DC's Superman copyrights.  In a lesser-known[...]

Batman, Fornite X Marvel and Flashpoint beat Dark Crisis… Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List of the week Batman #124 Fortnite X Marvel: Zero War #1 Flashpoint Beyond #2 Dark Crisis #1 Amazing Spider-Man #3 Thor #28 Batman Killing Time #4 Jane Foster Mighty Thor #1 Poison Ivy #1 Marauders #3 Thanks to the following Bleeding Cool Bestseller List retailers… Fat Jack's Comicrypt, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rodman Comics, Ankeny, Iowa. Ssalefish[...]

Dan and Danny; it was a good match. But in the upcoming Batman series by Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jimenez, beginning with Batman #125, Bleeding Cool gets the word that the significant threat is going to come from Oswald Cobblepot, The Penguin He has reinvented himself as a socially aware activist, a murderous Robin Hood figure,[...]

I have a cross-continuity note; therefore I am. What Future For Catwoman And Valmont At DC Comics? (Spoilers) So when Tini Howard and Nico Leon introduced Valmont in Catwoman #39 as a mystery man and a possible new foil or partner for Selina Kyle, Catwoman, away from Batman, there is some debate as to how deep in[...]

We don't get to see a ton from it, but we get enough to show Dick Grayson is basically the next Batman without being Batman Being the de facto leader of the family, Nightwing uses everything he learned from Bruce along with his own acrobatic skills and selective weaponry to take down the criminals of[...]

Batman: The Animated Series star Kevin Conroy, J Bone and Aditya Bidikar's story for DC Pride 2022, finding Batman, begins with a warning "DC Pride 2022 is a celebration—but for the LGBTQIA+ community, few celebrations happen without acknowledging the struggles that preceded them The following story, "Finding Batman," is a personal history by the actor[...]

It is no secret that we know that Michael Keaton is returning as the one and only Batman for the future of DC films We know he is set to appear in The Flash, Batgirl, and rumors for Aquaman 2, so it is interesting why things got pushed Keaton is one of the most iconic[...]

The most popular DC characters at the time had stories inside- Batman and Robin, Superman, Sandman, Slam Bradley, and Zatara all appeared between the covers, which featured no advertisements A full 96 pages of story in there Another interesting tidbit is that the cover for the 1940 issue with its yellow background is the first[...]

Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jiménez launch a new run for Batman #125, featuring a new Batman villain named Failsafe And while details on the new character are sketchy, they have announced a new cover featuring Failsafe Even if they aren't actually showing it yet, just using this "placeholder" image and dubbing it the Failsafe Protocols[...]