The Facsimile Edition is out this week… — UPDATED 5/18/26: One of the best features we’ve ever run at 13th Dimension was February 2016’s NEAL ADAMS MONTH, in which we featured daily commentary by Adams on a variant-cover project he did for DC Comics. Each of his 27 variants was a twist on one of his famous covers from the past. He provided the pencils, and the inks and colors were handled by some of the biggest names in the business like Dave Gibbons and Frank Miller. These stories have pretty much sat in our cavernous, subterranean vaults for more than a decade now, but it’s really time to put a new shine on them, because it’s a terrific guided tour of Adams’ DC career by the artist himself. At some point, we’ll resurface all of them — the index is right here — but I’m jumping the gun with this particular cover because the Batman #244 Facsimile Edition is out this week. So dig that… and dig this. — Dan — FROM MARCH 27, 2016: February was NEAL ADAMS MONTH here at 13th Dimension, and we featured daily commentary by Adams on his variant-cover project for DC Comics. Each of his 27 variants is a twist on one of his famous covers from the past. He provided the pencils, and the inks and colors were handled by some of the biggest names in the business like Dave Gibbons and Frank Miller. But sometimes the comics gods play havoc with publishing schedules and two of the issues for which Adams did variants were delayed. On 3/30, JLA #8 comes out, so now we bring you Adams’ commentary on that cover, which is based on the classic Batman #244, cover-dated Sept. 1972. The guest inker is Bill Sienkiewicz (read his commentary about this cover here) and the colorist is Alex Sinclair. — For the full NEAL ADAMS MONTH INDEX of stories — click here. — Batman #244 is right up there among the very top of Neal Adams’ covers. It’s definitely in same arena as Batman #251, Batman #232 and Limited Collector’s Edition C-51 (the Ra’s al Ghul treasury edition). In the new version, Batman (as he should) gets the upper hand over Superman with a Kryptonite sword and Talia’s on the camel to the right, looking on. And though...