Mark Waid, Chris Samnee and the gang are back with another 12 issues, starting this summer!
Boy, it’s nice to get something you wish for: Mark Waid and Chris Samnee will be back in August with a sequel to their fan-fave maxiseries Batman & Robin: Year One.
The 12-issue Batman & Robin: Year One — Dynamic Duos will launch August 12, with colors by Mat Lopes and letters by Clayton Cowles, DC announced Wednesday.
Main cover by Samnee and Lopes, sans trade dress
DC describes the series thusly: “Batman and Robin are back in action! The Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder have been hard at work cleaning up the streets of Gotham City, and their partnership has only gotten tighter. But when a gang of street kids starts causing chaos, Batman and Robin will need to get to the bottom of where these kids came from and who is in charge! Who is the hidden hand guiding these young mischief-makers?”
“One of the great things about talking story with Chris is that we generally end up with way more than we can actually fit in the books — that’s how excited both of us get when we explore Batman and Robin’s early days,” Waid said.
“Mark is 100 percent right,” Samnee added. “Our first 12 issues of Year One felt like the exact book I’d been wanting to make since I was a kid.”
Now, you notice it’s not called Batman & Robin: Year One — Dynamic Duo (like we’ve requested!) but Dynamic Duos.
That’s because the series will feature a classic Bat-villain taking on a junior partner of their own. Who? Well, sink your claws into this.
Issue #1 will feature variant covers by Marc Silvestri, Dustin Nguyen, and Hayden Sherman, with a Dark Knight Returns 40th anniversary variant cover by Greg Capullo.
You can check out the covers — and a SNEAK PREVIEW — right over here.
Each issue will retail for $4.99, with the card-stock variants at $5.99 apiece. The issue will be formally solicited later this week. (Batman & Robin: Year One, which ran in 2024-25, has already been collected in hardcover and softcover.)
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May 20, 2026
Happy to hear this. Really loved the art. But I really hope the plot gets better ironed out than the first one.
I don’t want to give any spoilers for anyone who didn’t read the first one. But something at the climax of issue 12 really didn’t sit well with me. Especially given the theme of Bruce being questioned about being responsible for a minor.
May 20, 2026
I really loved the “look” too but please lose the bloated utility belt. I hate the pouches. Always have whether it was on BATMAN or some random X-Man character of the ’90s. This BATMAN and the recent work by Dan Jurgens of The Bat-Man could both be on a regular basis…I’d buy both.