Batman Comics

Batman has been featured in many ongoing series, miniseries, maxiseries, one-shot issues, graphic novels, trade paperbacks and intercompany crossovers published by DC Comics. These titles have been handled or coordinated through a single editorial section at DC Comics. This section also generally handles titles that have spun off of the core Batman titles to feature related characters. This list presents these titles separated by general type of publication.

Ongoing series

''Annual''s

Miniseries

One-shot issues and graphic novels

Intercompany crossover stories

Collected editions

Numerous Batman stories have been reprinted as collected editions. This section lists only reprints from ongoing series, miniseries, etc. All of these stories have been issued in trade paperback format unless noted otherwise.

''DC Archive Edition''s

All ''DC Archive Editions'' are hardcover only and printed on high quality archival paper.

''The Batman Chronicles''

''The Batman Chronicles'' book series plans to reprint every Batman adventure in color, in chronological order, and in affordable trade paperbacks. It is not to be confused with the now-finished comic book series of the same name.

''Showcase Presents''

All '' Showcase Presents'' collections are large (over 500 pages), softcover-only and black-and-white-only reprints.

''Batman'' newspaper comic strip collections

The following collections reprint the Batman newspaper comic strips of 1943–1946 and 1966-1973.

Modern Batman

The following trade paperbacks are stories that run through the "contemporary" books of the Batman family. The earliest trade paperback, chronologically speaking, is Frank Miller's " Batman: Year One" story arc, which rebirthed the character in the Modern Age, retelling the first year of his existence and how he came to be. These stories are from comic books still being published and are, in a sense, still ongoing. They are listed here in the chronology of the storylines, rather than the publication dates of either the original comics or collections.

The two trade paperback series ''Batman: The Caped Crusader'' and ''Batman: The Dark Knight Detective'' reprint most of the Post-'' Crisis'' issues of ''Batman'' and ''Detective Comics'', respectively. However, both "Caped Crusader" and "Dark Detective" feature several major omissions; in particular the Legends Crossover issue in Detective Comics #667 and "Batman Year Two". Meanwhile, "Caped Crusader skips the Max Alan Collins run and the fill in issues in between the Collins and Jim Starlin runs (the bulk of which were reprinted in "Batman: Second Chances, along with the Collins Penguin story in "Batman Annual #11"). "Caped Crusader omits several major stories in its run, most notably Alan Moore's Clayface story from Batman Annual #11, "Batman: The Killing Joke", Batman #426-429 ("A Death In the Family"), and Batman #440-442/New Titans #60-61 ("A Lonely Place of Dying").

''The New 52'' Batman

In 2011, DC Comics rebooted their entire continuity. This relaunched continuity that ran from 2011 to 2016 is known as ''The New 52''. The Batman family of books have also been rebooted. While the history and elements of this new continuity are very similar to the previous one, there are still fundamental differences between them. As such, the following collected works should be treated as a separate canonical entity. The collected works are listed in order of publication date, not in chronological order. This list includes all ''New 52'' titles centered around Batman.

''The New 52'' Batman new editions

This list is for updated versions of the various ''New 52'' titles. The titles presented here may be updated to a more concise trade or expand on previous trades.

''DC Rebirth'' Batman

In 2016, DC Comics once again relaunched its continuity and entire line of ongoing monthly superhero comic books. Using the end of ''The New 52'' initiative in May 2016 as its launching point, ''DC Rebirth'' intended to restore the DC Universe to a form much like that prior to the ''Flashpoint'' storyline, while still incorporating numerous elements of ''The New 52'', including its continuity. The collected works are listed in order of publication date, not in chronological order. This list includes all ''DC Rebirth'' titles centered around Batman. The DC Comics crossover event ''Dark Nights: Metal'' is included here due to its Batman-centric focus.

''DC Rebirth'' Batman new editions

This list is for updated versions of the various ''DC Rebirth'' titles. The titles presented here may be updated to a more concise trade or expand on previous trades.

''Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight''

The following are collected works of the comic book series '' Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight'', which primarily concentrates on early tales in Batman's career that are not necessarily considered canon, but have also been used during major crossover storylines (such as '' Batman: Knightfall'' and '' Batman: No Man's Land''). The series has not yet been completely collected as of this date.

''Batman Confidential''

This series has been collected in the following trade paperbacks.

''Superman/Batman''

This series has been collected in the following trade paperbacks.

''Batman: Shadow of the Bat''

This series has been collected in the following trade paperbacks.

''Batman: Gotham Knights''

This series has been collected in the following trade paperbacks.

''Batman: The Arkham Saga'' and ''Gotham City Impostors'' tie-in story collections

''Batman '66''

Intercompany crossover collections

This list includes crossover comic book stories between Batman and other characters from different companies.

Miscellaneous collections

These volumes are collections of stories from varying Batman continuities, with loose connections of hero, villain, location or subject.

Writer/artist collections

''DC Omnibus''es / ''Absolute'' editions / ''Noir'' editions / ''Unwrapped'' editions / ''Deluxe Edition''s

Anthology editions

The decade editions (see below) reprint the "best" stories of each decade of the 20th century in trade paperbacks.

''Batman Beyond'' collections

Batman animated TV series collections

See also

* List of Spider-Man titles
* List of Superman comics
* Publication history of Anarky
* Publication history of Dick Grayson
* Publication history of Superman
* Publication history of Wonder Woman

References

External links

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Comics Research Bibliography: Batman
An international bibliography of comic books, comic strips, animation, caricatures, cartoons, bandes dessinees and related topics

Batman-On-Film.com's Batman comics subsite

Comics at BatmanYTB





DC Comics: List of Batman Graphic Novels




Batman Trades
Chronological list of Batman trade paperbacks and hardcover graphic novels in reading order

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