Posted By Dan Greenfield on Jan 20, 2026 | 4 comments

DESPOP TUESDAYS…

Detective Comics #27 has been homaged 1,000,006 times but that doesn’t mean I don’t get revved up whenever I see another really clever version, like this commission by our pal Des:

Here’s the 1939 original by Bob Kane, in case you got hit in the head recently and forgot what it looks like:

A whole run of classic covers done in Bruce Timm style would be pretty rad, right?

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DES TAYLOR is the man behind creator-owned comic properties Scarlett Couture, The Vesha Valentine Story, The Trouble With Katie Rogers and a new property in the works The Blue Lotus Strikes. His client list includes DC Comics, La Perla, FHM, Cosmopolitan, Universal Music, ITV Studios America and many more. When he’s not working on his own properties or churning out commissions, Des spends his spare time… working some more, hating Arsenal and raising his two baby daughters, Scarlett and Leia-May.