EXCLUSIVE! Coming in December… 1980’s Detective Comics #500, one of the most popular comics of the Bronze Age, will be released as a Facsimile Edition by DC in December. It’s among five Facsimiles coming that month. Dig the official solicitation info, which will be released formally later Friday: DETECTIVE COMICS #500 FACSIMILE EDITION Written by ALAN BRENNERT, LEN WEIN, MIKE W. BARR, WALTER GIBSON, PAUL LEVITZ, and CARY BATES Art by DICK GIORDANO, JIM APARO, WALTER SIMONSON, JOSÉ LUIS GARCÍA-LÓPEZ, TOM YEATES, JOE KUBERT, and CARMINE INFANTINO Cover by DICK GIORDANO, JOE KUBERT, CARMINE INFANTINO, WALTER SIMONSON, TOM YEATES, and JOSÉ LUIS GARCÍA-LÓPEZ Foil variant cover by DICK GIORDANO, JOE KUBERT, CARMINE INFANTINO, WALTER SIMONSON, TOM YEATES, and JOSÉ LUIS GARCÍA-LÓPEZ ($10.99 US) Blank sketch cover ($8.99 US) Batman is given the opportunity to save a parallel Earth’s Bruce Wayne from suffering the same fate he did as a child—by preventing the murders of that world’s Thomas and Martha Wayne! But in a world where eerily familiar events begin to play out in significantly different ways, will the Dark Knight succeed in preventing the tragic origin of another Batman? Then, join streetwise sleuth Slam Bradley, ductile detective Elongated Man, avian agents Hawkman and Hawkgirl, ghostly gumshoe Deadman, and many more as they investigate cases worthy of only the very best in the biz for this milestone anniversary issue! $7.99 US | 80 pages ON SALE 12/2/26 — Buncha thoughts: — If we’re not getting another Limited Collectors’ Edition or a treasury Facsimile in December, this is the next best thing — an 80-page extravaganza that not only celebrates the Darknight Detective, but DC’s roots. — The highlight, of course, is the classic lead story — To Kill a Legend — by Alan Brennert and Dick Giordano. Batman and Robin travel to a parallel universe where they’re given the chance to save Thomas and Martha Wayne — which would prevent the creation of Batman and all the good he would accomplish in his life. — Paul Levitz edited this issue and he’ll be visiting 13th Dimension on Sunday with 13 THINGS I LOVED ABOUT PUTTING TOGETHER DETECTIVE COMICS #500. Stop on by! — As noted above, there’s plenty more Facsimile Edition news for December. Links below! — Obligatory Price Comparison: An unslabbed, high-grade original Detective Comics #500 recently sold on...
An ANNIVERSARY TRIP: Simple beauty… — UPDATED 9/14/26: Filmation’s The Adventures of Batman premiered 58 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1968! Perfect time to reprint this piece from Nov.17, 2022. Far out! — Dan — In case you missed the news earlier this week, Warner Bros. Discovery will be releasing a remastered Blu-ray set of Filmation’s 1968 The Adventures of Batman in 2023. (Click here for all the funky details.) Anyway, that put me on the hunt for 13 original animation cels to pretty up the place. Most of these came from Heritage Auctions’ website and some of the backgrounds feature generic art. But the cels themselves are gloriously groovy. As best I can tell, they’re all 1968 vintage, as opposed to being from 1977’s New Adventures of Batman. (The provenance isn’t always accurate or clear.) Either way, these are fab — so dig ’em. Oh, and the last one just happens to be from the show’s most scintillating sequence. Right on. — MORE — The FILMATION BATMAN Index. Click here. — 1968’s FILMATION BATMAN to Get Remastered Blu-ray Release in 2023. Click...
