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And this week? It is all about Batman for Batman Day… If any other retailers would like to report their top sellers, please contact richjohnston@bleedingcool.com. Batman Tops Bleeding Cool Bestseller List 20th September 2020 – Twice Top ten bestselling comics of the week Detective Comics #1,027 Batman #99 X-Men #12 Thor #7 Giant-Size X-Men Storm #1 Iron Man #1 Justice League #53 Amazing Spider-Man: The[...]

A Bruce Wayne who died of cancer, something even he couldn't beat. Lee Weeks art from Batman Annual #2. In today's Detective Comics #1027 dubbed the 1,000th issue of Detective Comics with Batman in it (even though it's the 1001st issue), we get another point in this timeline (if timelines are still allowed) courtesy of Tom King[...]

You can check out the book below. Detective Comics #140 CGC 2.0 Credit ComicConnect The Batman Should Send Prices Soaring origin & 1st app the Riddler (10/48) "You shouldn't be surprised to see the Joker, Catwoman, and Hugo Strange popping up in the first year of the Caped Crusader's exploits — they seem to have always been there, part[...]

DC Comics has been promoting the upcoming Detective Comics #1027 as an extra-sized thousandth issue Detective Comics featuring Batman, since Detective Comics #27 in 1939 However, as all pedantic Millenium celebrants from 2001 know well, this is not the case If Detective Comics #27 was the first appearance of Batman in the series, then #1027[...]

We looked at the first five covers to Detective Comics #1027 on Bleeding Cool the other day, as we pointed out that the next Batman event to follow Joker War and Death Metal will begin in the extra-long issue, and that it also confirms the cancellation of the Generations series with this prebiew as at[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Detective Comics and What Happens Next, Daily LITG,12th August 2020 Detective Comics, what happens with DC next and the ten most-read stories yesterday. The big changes at DC Comics and what is happening with Jim Lee may have dominated traffic yesterday – but they still left room[...]

Not one copy seems to have escaped. DC Confirms Generations Is Cancelled, With Detective Comics #1027 Preview Instead it was rewritten and included in the Flash Forward collection While Generation One, the only other volume that had been solicited before Dan DiDio left, was cancelled and not resolicited However, it appears that one of the stories from[...]

But how far does that go? And would anyone care? Bleeding Cool got few notes this morning about today's Detective Comics #1023, part of the current Joker War crossover that saw The Joker heading to the underground of Gotham to revive one of The Court of Owls' zombie assassins, the Talons And having to choose[...]

Here's the tiniest look ahead at the ten dollar Detective Comics #1027, out in September from DC Comics, showing the past, present and future of Batman With some teensy-tiny pics… with art from Riley Rossmo… And from Ivan Reis, Dan Mora and Chip Zdarsky Nice and tiny… Here's the full solicitation: DETECTIVE COMICS #1027 written by BRIAN[...]

Lunar Comic Distributors has told comic book retailers that Detective Comics #1022 from DC Comics will now have a "Joker War" logo.  Previously it had not been solicited as being part of the Joker War event at DC Comics, and advance reorders for the comic has passed Also it doesn't look like DC, Diamond or UCS[...]

This Batman Bronze Age 1970s Figurine was inspired by the artwork from Detective Comics #327 and later The Dark Knight is ready for any challenge on his way, clenching his fists and looking fiercely in the face of danger! He is shrouded in the classic colours of Batman, grey and blue, with an extra-long cape[...]

But is there a more effective way? While Batman continues his usual dark and brooding quest in Detective Comics #1021, Two-Face has gathered his cult for a special coin-flip. And as luck would have it, it appears that Two-Face and his gang are about to start doing Batman's job for him. As a result of the flip, the[...]

Check out the solicit below for Detective Comics #1024, in stores on June 24th. DETECTIVE COMICS #1024 – On sale June 24, 2020 As the story of Two-Face reaches it end, find out how The Joker has been the puppet master behind the torment of Harvey Dent! After years of schism, Harvey will find peace, but will[...]

Everything will be from before 1940, and most of it will be from before 1920. I like the Leslie's run a lot for the reasons outlined at the top of this post.  Browsing through a short stack of acquired copies some time ago, this February 29, 1912 issue of the series made me pause and look[...]

Next week, Detective Comics #1020 hits stores from DC Comics, by Peter Tomasi and Brad Walker It's a Two-Face-centric issue, it seems, and we've gota preview below. One in which we find Harvey Dent delivering a monologue… while Two-Face delivers an inner monologue. But neither personality is here just to wax poetic. Two-Face has an offer for some[...]

And a number of comics, such as Detective Comics, had managed to keep themselves set before City Of Bane, somehow But now the effect is starting to ripple out Detective Comics #1018 is the latest to realise… as Bruce Wayne plays with his Bat hounds in the snow How very Christmassy… …complete with ghosts of Christmas[...]

But as we see in this preview of Detective Comics #1015, in stores this week from DC Comics by Peter Tomasi, Doug Mahnke, Jaime Mendoza, and more, you have to be careful what you wish for… As Batman and his allies do their best to revive the victims Freeze kidnapped for experimentation before waking Nora up,[...]

Detective Comics #1013 is in stores this week from DC Comics, by Peter Tomasi, Doug Mahnke, Jaime Mendoza, and more We've got a preview below, liberated from a compliant DC media partner. This issue is also available as a DCeased variant. The preview starts with Batman doing what he does best… beating the crap out of mentally[...]

Australia's favorite son Tom Taylor will be the new writer of Detective Comics in December… for one issue Taylor is the guest writer for Detective Comics #1017 alongside artist Fernando Blanco for a one-off winter tale set to explore the relationship between Batman and Damian Wayne The issue hits stores on December 11th. DETECTIVE COMICS #1017 written[...]

Detective Comics #1010 is in stores from DC Comics next week, by the creative team of writer Peter J Tomasi and artist Christian Duce Later today, or maybe this weekend, or maybe early next week, DC Comics will hand an EX-X-XCLUSIVE preview of this comic to one of their compliant media partners, part of the[...]

Detective Comics #1009 hits stores next week, by Peter Tomasi and Christian Duce And over the next few days, DC Comics will provide EX-X-XCLUSIVE previews of Detective Comics and all their other comics to compliant media partner websites Bleeding Cool, unfortunately, is neither compliant nor a partner Some might argue we're hardly even media. But we[...]

Some of the designs will focus on The Dark Knight, a camo version, a modern age artwork version, a Detective Comics version exclusive to Walmart, and more Gamestop will have a Jim Lee version, and SDCC will have a Golden Age version and a Joker version You can order some of them for yourself each[...]

But in Detective Comics #1012, DC Comics will literally reverse the concept when they bring back Mr Freeze's wife, Nora. Normally, Nora serves a permanently, literally fridged woman, motivating her husband, Mr Freeze, who became a supervillain in an accident attempting to cure her of terminal illness and continues to keep her cryogenically frozen in hopes[...]

Comic book collectors largely agree on where the Golden Age starts (Action Comics #1), and where the Silver Age starts (Showcase #4).  There's room to quibble about these things, for example, bring Detective Comics #225 into it and alternative theories of that nature, and discussions like that are part of the fun But mostly, there's[...]

Included in the set are: a classic Batman, Negative Suit Batman from Detective Comics #284, a Zebra suit Batman from Detective Comics #275, and a rainbow suit Batman from Detective Comics #241. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ All four look[...]

It looks like Batman is getting a new BFF in the pages of Detective Comics this August Beginning in Detective Comics #1009, the "Take Your Shot" storyline will see Deadshot and Batman team-up! It begins when Batman is concerned that the former villain will revert to his pre-Suicide Squad ways without the influence of Amanda[...]

That of Detective Comics #1000, the best-selling title of March reappearing in the top ten for most revenue-raising titles of the month. Only The War Of The Realms #1, Symbiote Spider-Man #1 and The Batman Who Laughs #1 brought in more revenue from comic stores for comic book publishers in April In comparison, Action Comics #1000[...]

With Detective Comics #1000 in the can, it's time to start the long trudge towards #2000, one issue at a time, starting with today's Detective Comics #1001 by Peter J Tomasi, Brad Walker, and Andrew Hennessy And after Detective Comics #1000 brought us the DC Comics debut of Batman's latest and greatest nemesis, the Arkham[...]

Bleeding Cool has written nearly as many clickbait articles about retailer-exclusive variant covers for Detective Comics #1000 than DC Comics has produced At current count, we're at an incredible seventeen clickbait articles about Detective Comics #1000 (more than we had enough words to link in that sentence), while DC has produced 33 variants. Or so they[...]

If you haven't been following the recent storyline in Detective Comics, it would probably be difficult to explain Thankfully, DC Comics has made as good an attempt as any on their website: Since taking over the title, Peter J Tomasi and Doug Mahnke have been taking us on a brutal, somewhat surreal trip through Bruce Wayne's[...]