Posted By Dan Greenfield on Sep 28, 2025 | 3 comments

A New York Comic Con exclusive that’ll be available online…

Batman #2, by Matt Fraction, Jorge Jimenez and co., comes out Wednesday (Oct. 1), and if you didn’t pick up the first issue, I recommend it. Sharp, stylish, interesting: a good start.

The second issue (SNEAK PEEK here) has several variant covers but nowhere near as many as the first — and those for the latter keep coming. The latest is a retailer foil variant from The Comic Mint that will be a nominal New York Comic Con exclusive (with a limited amount made available online).

Dig this homage to 1940’s Batman #1 — by Philip Tan and Rain Beredo:

And the original, by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson:

Here it is, looking all foiled up:

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A few thoughts:

— The gold-foil variant will run $40.

— They’ll also have an NYCC exclusive black logo-cover variant. That one’ll be $20. If you’re not going to be at the show, Oct. 9-12, both will go on sale online Oct. 6, from 7-9 p.m. ET only, at thecomicmint.com. (The retailer has other exclusive variants, as well.)

— I do hope they’ll make a non-foil edition available at some point. I like foil in circumstances like this, but I do think that yellow’d really pop, just like it does on the 1940 Batman #1 Facsimile Edition. (Side note: The newest version of that one, out now, is Golden Age-size — and the interior art is too.)

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MORE

— BATMAN #1: DC Rolls Out Big Wave of Fab Covers for Fall’s New Series. Click here.

— 1940’s BATMAN #1 Facsimile to Be Re-Released — in GOLDEN AGE Size. Click here.