A MORRISON MONDAYS FRIDAY SPECIAL!
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Hey, check out Peter Bosch’s 70th anniversary salute to Batwoman over here!
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If you remember allllllllllll the way back to Monday, you saw Bill Morrison’s groovy Yvonne Craig birthday salute in his regular MORRISON MONDAYS column (aided and abetted by colorist extraordinaire Walt Grogan).
Bill took 1956’s Detective Comics #233 — featuring the first appearance of Batwoman — but recast the cover with Craig, Adam West and Burt Ward. Walt turned it into a 1960s cover and, with good reason, you all loved it.
But since today is coincidentally the 70th anniversary of Detective #233 — it came out May 22, 1956 — Bill and Walt teamed up to come right back with a similar take, with the original 1956 trade dress.
Check out what they did Monday — and then dig this. Here’s the original, by Sheldon Moldoff…
… and here’s what Bill and Walt cooked up — both a basic image and an “aged one”
Swell!
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MORE
— The BATWOMAN-Inspired 1960s YVONNE CRAIG BATGIRL Comic We All Wanted. Click here.
— BATWOMAN AT 70: An Anniversary Celebration of 1956’s DETECTIVE COMICS #233 — and Beyond. Click here.
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Eisner winner BILL MORRISON has been working in comics and publishing since 1993 when he co-founded Bongo Entertainment with Matt Groening, Cindy Vance and Steve Vance. At Bongo, and later as Executive Editor of Mad Magazine, he parodied the comics images he loved as a kid every chance he got. Not much has changed.
Bill is on Instagram (@atomicbattery) and Facebook (Bill Morrison/Atomic Battery Studios), and regularly takes commissions and sells published art through 4C Comics.
May 22, 2026
Oh, that’s fun!