Everyone is out to get Doctor Wear in this preview of Detective Comics #1053, in stores Tuesday from DC Is it a drug deal gone wrong? Or vaccine mandates at Arkham Tower? You never know these days Even the criminal underworld has its fair share of anti-vaxxers, and it's been worse than ever since The[...]
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Things are back to normal as the denizens of Arkham Tower get their fix of Psycho Pirate again in this preview of Detective Comics #1052… but for how long? Probably a while… this book is weekly and they've got to stretch this story out for another seven issues before Batman comes back to the main[...]
However a flash-forward shows that it ends in an armed siege featuring some of the patients who had seemed to have been most successfully treated.
Detective Comics #1051
Detective Comics #1050 revealed that Psycho Pirate was a patient in the new Arkham Tower And now Detective Comics #1051 reveals the two may not be entirely unconnected The[...]
Following the shocking reveal last issue, see what Psycho Pirate's been up to in this preview of Detective Comics #1051 Check out the preview below.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1051
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(W) Mariko Tamaki, Matthew Rosenberg (A) Max Raynor, Fernando Blanco (CA) Irvin Rodriguez
Psycho-Pirate! Qu'est-ce que[...]
Welcome to Saturday Night Previews, where we attach snarky headlines to previews of next week's comics and call it "journalism." Preview the milestone Detective Comics #1050, in stores on Tuesday from DC Comics and featuring the debut of a new World's Finest Check out the preview below.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1050
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That happened today to me in Detective Comics #1049 It's not a big storytelling reveal, it's not a dazzling action scene, it's not anything that's so clever it wears its Acme Novelty Library on its sleeve There are far splashier pages that are also very inventive throughout the story – and issue It's just another[...]
Batmam doesn't take kindly to attempts to heal mentally ill criminals instead of beating the crap out of them in Detective Comics #1049 Check out the preview below.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1049
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(W) Mariko Tamaki, Matthew Rosenberg (A) Ivan Reis, Danny Miki, Fernando Blanco[...]
This is Bernard Dowd, Tim Drake's boyfriend, a young man who is handy enough with his fists to stand alongside Robin, even if he occasionally gets kidnapped.
And occasionally plays dumb, for the cameras, and for Tim Drake.
In today's Detective Comics #1047, we meet another Dowd Roy Dowd Who also goes by another name.
Which saw him[...]
In this Detective Comics #1047 preview, Arkham Tower aims to rehabilitate Gotham's mentally ill criminals instead of dressing like a bat and beating the crap out of them Check out the preview below.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1047
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(W) Mariko Tamaki, Matthew Rosenberg (A) Ivan[...]
So there I am reading Detective Comics #1046, drawn by Dan Mora, and published by DC Comics today And who do we see walking through the snowy streets of Gotham? Well, it is Christmas…
… look there, it's Bridgette McGuire You know, Bridgette McGuire from Once & Future, published by Boom Studios, also drawn by Dan[...]
Instead, he will leave Gotham in Detective Comics #1046 Check out the preview below.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1046
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(W) Mariko Tamaki, Stephanie Phillips (A) Dan Mora, David Lapham (CA) Dan Mora
"Fear State" aftermath! Bloody, broken, and beaten…Batman had a mission after The Joker War[...]
And ComicConnect is auctioning the original artwork from two pages from his Batman runs, one from Batman #14 from 1942, currently at over $19,000, and one from Detective Comics #79 from 1943, currently at $6,000 with both going under the hammer today.
Jerry Robinson Original Batman Artwork From 1942 and 1943 At Auction
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Shadows of the Bat kicks off in Detective Comics 2021 Annual #1, in stores on Tuesday from DC Comics, and we've got a preview below, which somehow finds a way to add even more trauma to Batman's childhood Check it out below.
DETECTIVE COMICS 2021 ANNUAL #1 (ONE SHOT)
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How has your Gotham Gossip been of late? Officer Nakano first appeared in Detective Comics #1027 in a story by Mariko Tamaki, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain Things did not go well for him under attack from the Joker Batman saved his life – but not that of his partner And Nakano was injured in the process.
Detective Comics #1027[...]
Joker has had many versions of his origin story told over the years, but none is better than the one told in Detective Comics #168 from 1951 I have always loved this look for Red Hood, with apologies to Jason Todd Nothing beats the look of a suited villain with a giant red hood on[...]
Bleeding Cool told you all the gossip we had about the events leading up to the establishment of Arkham Tower, the backdrop to Detective Comics going weekly from January 2022 from DC Comics Now in February 2022, there is even more to learn with the solicitations for the Shadows Of The Bat event and a[...]
I recall being very excited about this story and there was even a new villain in it, and Ryan's pages for the issue were the best.
Bid On Ed Brubaker Unpublished Batman Comic (Because He Was Fired)
The comic was meant to be Detective Comics #797, which ended up as a fill-in issue from the drawer by[...]
Detective Comics #1043 is in stores from DC Comics on Tuesday, continuing the Fear State Bat-crossover event and setting up Task Force Z next issues But first, police reform has come to Gotham City, the only place in the country where outsourcing it to a nebulous private security firm is actually an ethical upgrade Check[...]
Check out the multi-colored Batman down below.
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All this time, Batman has been wearing the mask on the wrong part of his face, and it's finally come back to haunt him! In this preview of Detective Comics #1042, Batman has become infected by a Vile virus, and now he's going on a super-spreading rampage in Gotham City! Check out a preview of[...]
Here are a few solicited plot points of note, cut and shunted around.
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On leaving Gotham:
BATMAN #117: The shocking conclusion to "Fear State" is here…Will Batman ever be the same?
BATMAN: URBAN LEGENDS #10: Tim Drake goes to make peace with Batman before he leaves Gotham.
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But in Detective Comics #1041, the tables have turned, and its mentally ill criminals who will exercise vigilante justice on Batman, according to the solicit, at least Check out the preview below.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1041
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(W) Mariko Tamaki, Matthew Rosenberg (A) Dan Mora,[...]
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How many people know that Bruce Wayne is Batman? Not as many know Clark Kent is Superman these days since he told the world, but it seems that Bruce is getting more and more careless. Today's Detective Comics #1040 by Mariko Tamaki and Dan Mora adds another to the list of villains from Ra's Al[...]
Detective Comics #1040 is in stores from DC Comics on Tuesday, and in this preview, we find Bruce Wayne thrown in the drunk tank at a Gotham City police station No, DC isn't doing their own version of Demon in a Bottle Bruce needs to clear his name so he can get back to the[...]
There are more details about that background in a previous post regarding this incredible collection of comic books. And over the course of a few dozen articles in this new series of posts, we will also be revealing the complete listing of the collection.
Detective Comics #44 from the Promise Collection, DC Comics, 1940.
This collection began[...]
Detective Comics #1039 is in stores from DC Comics on Tuesday, and the solicit promises a SHOCKING CHARACTER DEATH, which just happens to be one of Joe Quesada's famous "22 Cheap Sales-Boosting Gimmicks That Always Work" (every good comics editor keeps a copy of the listicle pinned in their cubicle) But who will it be?[...]
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And in today in Detective Comics #1038, Meghan Fitzmartin, Karl Moster and Jodie Bellaire have their fishcake and eat it, firstly having Penguin being treated as a nuisance, not even worthy of Batman.
While a big crime boss is blowing up downtown Gotham, the Penguin is literally relegated to the back-up strip, and even his own[...]
It's the eternal question rarely asked in the Batman comic books, who would live in Gotham? This week's Detective Comics #1038 published by DC Comics underlines the unlikeliness of people not just moving out Whether that's the Riddler lockdown, No Man's Land, the recent A-Day terrorist attacks, and the encroaching fascist police state, today seems[...]