Batman Archives

Because this represents the comic book industry returning to comic book stores en masse… Batman #100 and The Walking Dead in Color #1 – Thank FOC It's Friday Traditionally FOC is the date when retailers have a last chance to amend their advance orders for comic books without penalty A final chance for publishers to promote books[...]

Once upon a time, Tom King was fired from his Batman run, twenty issues shy of its planned completion His run ended with City of Bane, and James Tynion IV took the book on As a kind of sop, Tom King was given a twelve-issue spinoff to finish his storyline in a non-continuity fashion with[...]

DC's departure from Diamond was the first big change that has come about, as other changes, such as the upcoming departure of many of DC's editorial staff, have grabbed a lot of attention.  One change that didn't get quite as much attention was the change over of going from the DC Giant Line to DC[...]

Taking bids for only a couple more hours, this key Batman comic from the Silver Age features not only the Caped Crusader taking on a dragon, but it is the first Silver Age appearance of The Penguin, one of his oldest foes Also soon to be played onscreen by Colin Farrell in The Batman #155[...]

Earlier this year, Bleeding Cool reported that DC Comics had moved some creators from certain books onto a new Batman: Black And White series, rather than furlough them or tell them to stop working Today, DC Comics has confirmed that series exists and will be launching in December. Batman Black and White was a series of[...]

One week ago, Bleeding Cool broke the news that Batman: The Three Jokers #1 by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok was going to a second printing on top of its reported 300,000 sales from DC Comics, for October 13th Today, they confirmed the news, and the date, and showed off the covers With the Joker[...]

The Batman Who Laughs has industrialised the process But two of them may punch a little closer to home. Especially the one in heavy armour who goes by the name of The Pearl. And revealed to be Martha Wayne of her reality, whose death along with that of Thomas Wayne, her pearls spllit and scattering across Crime[...]

There do seem to be rather a lot of him. Dick Grayson Is Back, Batgirl in Continuity – Nightwing #74 Spoilers …and so we get the long-awaited return of Dick Grayson's memories, held for so long by the fans for alm ost two full years, and now returned to his body. He may be theirs again… but he[...]

But also Batman And he revealed the origins of the new character Ghost-Maker. I remember, a few years back, right when I had first gotten wind of the creation of the Middle Grade and YA lines that DC Comics was developing… I approached the editor in charge of the program with an idea I wanted to[...]

Batman topping the chart is no surprise, neither is Empyre coming second and Wolverine third, but the launch of We Only Find Them When They're Dead in fourth place is a quite the achievement and gives Al Ewing two books in the top four… We Only Find Them When They're Topping The Bestseller Chart Top ten bestselling[...]

And as this family of old and new Titans – including Conner Kent and Rose Wilson – learn to co-exist, the arrival of Deathstroke, brings to light the sins of the old Titans which threaten to tear this new Titans family apart once more. Titans (Image: DC Universe) After decades of fighting crime as Batman, Iain Glen's[...]

In a recent article looking at some PR-friendly advance artwork to Batman: The Joker War Zone, FOCing today from DC Comics, GamesRadar ran an article subheaded "Check out a first look at art from Batman: The Joker War Zone #1 Is Luke Fox the new Batman?" Well, Bleeding Cool can answer that for them According to[...]

Three Jokers artist Jason Fabok attended a signing at Woodbridge Heroes in Woodbridge, Ontario, for Batman: Three Jokers.  He is touring a number of comic book stores, but this one didn't go well There was a $50 minimum signing fee, and Jason didn't seem to know about that. When he found out, he posted a video[...]

Beast Kingdom has is bringing back its classic Batman Batmobile Pull Back Car in a new Special Edition set Seven sleek cars from Batman history are getting slick silver designs in this wave First up is the 1966 Batman with a red trim that is ready for the Caped Crusader and his sidekick We then[...]

Batman #98 is published today A Joker-lite issue, as Batman struggles with his inner demons, and gets a telling off from a ghostly Alfred Pennyworth While  Harley Quinn continues to knock the puns out of Punchline As she tried to find her way through to Poison Ivy from her old Eden grove… Today, Batman Does His[...]

It was DC Publisher and CCO Jim Lee who stated that Batman: The Three Jokers #1 by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok had orders of 300,000 copies from DC Comics Lots of folks tried to square that number away, wondering if there were – like The Magic Order – 100,000 in a warehouse somewhere If[...]

Two comic books published today, both starring Batman (unsurprisingly) but both featuring conversations with the dead Justice League #52 has Bruce Wayne being visited by his dead mother Martha Wane, as part of being subdued by the Black Mercy Rose While Batman #98 has Batman, intoxicated by poisons, being visited by his dead butler, Alfred[...]

DC Comics just issued the news about this year's Batman Day, for the 16th of September 2020 But they seem to have forgotten someone. DC today unveiled plans for a global Batman Day celebration on September 19, 2020, inviting fans of all ages around the world to participate in a wide range of Batman-themed activities to[...]

One of my favorite figures from the current wave is from the DC Comics mini-series Batman: The Curse of the White Knight as the religious zealot Azrael The story follows a new version of John-Paul Valley but he is still on his righteous crusade Batman's reign is at an end and it is time to[...]

As for what viewers were treated to and what released that day, film, television, and video game trailers for projects such as Wonder Woman 1984, The Batman, Justice League: The Snyder Cut, and more had generated more than 150 million views in the past week. Image: WarnerMedia So it doesn't come as any surprise that WarnerMedia would be[...]

This figure has the pressure been released for the Batman: Arkham Asylum line but will feature a new color This bronze version of the Joker with be a new highlight of any fans collection McFarlane Toys has unveiled that there will only be 3,000 produced worldwide and will be randomly inserted in case globally They[...]

We will also be getting two characters from one of the Arkham video games Batman: Arkham Origins with Batman and Deathstroke Each figure will stand 7" tall, will be highly detailed, and fully articulated Cyborg will get a special Boom-Cannon swappable arm piece, Deathstroke gets his katana, and Batman gets his usual batarang and grapples[...]

That's right, a "hot take" coming up that will surely elicit a response, but all of The CW's Arrowverse shows have been hovering around the idea of Bruce Wayne/Batman appearing in the main universe proper (not including Kevin Conroy's turn during "Crisis" or Iain Glen's Bruce Wayne in now side-earth series Titans) So why the[...]

XM Studios is taking fans back to 1972 with their next DC Comics statue featuring Batman Celebrating 80 years of the caped crusader, this 1:6 scale statue features a homage to the cover of Batman #241 The Caped Crusader is shown in one of his classic costumes black and light gray colors with the yellow[...]

Well no, Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok didn't just invent him for the series, he goes back to the sixties – however if you wanted to collect all his appearances to date, it wouldn't be hard. In Batman #186 in 1966 by Gardener Fox and Sheldon Moldoff, at a time when the comic book reflected the[...]

At the DC Fandome event, it was confirmed what Bleeding Cool had been reporting since the middle of last year, that John Ridley, screenwriter of 12 Years A Slave, would be writing Batman, with a new black lead The show suggested what we had also been claiming, that it would be Luke Fox, the second[...]

Bleeding Cool reported from DC Fandome that director of The Batman movie Matt Reeves talked about the upcoming The Batman movie starring Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne, and specifically named the late Darwyn Cooke's Batman: Ego comic book as a major reference point for the psychology of the new movie It's been mentioned before, but never[...]

The Batman trailer debuted to much excitement and acclaim over the weekend, and part of that is the teasing of The Riddler being the main antagonist in the film Look for Riddler stuff to shoot through the roof on the aftermarket, as people begin snatching up copies of anything the villain has been in, especially[...]

XM Studios continues with their original Batman Samurai designs and this time the Joker has been unleashed The Joker Orochi statues fuse the madness of the Clown Prince with the mythical eight-headed and eight tailed dragon The Orochi is placed at the base of the statue while Joker is wearing a uniquely designed samurai armor[...]

For Batman, he became who he was because of the death of his parents The comic resisted this approach by the Joker trying to give Commissioner Jim Gordon a very bad day indeed, crippling his daughter and former Batgirl Barbara Gordon Jim didn't snap, indeed, he insisted that Batman do things by the book Whether[...]