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Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader
"Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" is a 2009 story featuring the DC Comics superhero Batman. The story is published in two parts in the "final" issues of the series ''Batman'' (#686) and ''Detective Comics'' (#853), released in February and April, respectively. Written by Neil Gaiman, pencilled by Andy Kubert and inked by Scott Williams, the story is purported to be the "last" Batman story in the wake of severe psychological trauma that Batman endures within the story ''Batman R.I.P.'' and his ultimate fate in ''Final Crisis''. The story's title is a reference to the backup stories published in ''DC Comics Presents'' from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s (which revisited various long-unused Golden Age and Silver Age characters and were all titled "Whatever Happened to (x)?") and is akin to writer Alan Moore's "last" Superman story " Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?". Publication history In the introduction to the 1999 book ''Kurt Busiek's Astro City: C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batman (comic Book)
''Batman'' is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero Batman as its protagonist. The character, created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, first appeared in ''Detective Comics'' #27 (cover dated May 1939). Batman proved to be so popular that a self-titled ongoing comic book series began publication with a cover date of spring 1940. It was first advertised in early April 1940, one month after the first appearance of his new sidekick, Robin (character), Robin the Boy Wonder. Batman comics have proven to be popular since the 1940s. Though the ''Batman'' comic book was launched as a quarterly publication, it later became a bimonthly series through the late 1950s, after which it became a monthly publication. In September 2011, ''The New 52'' rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, the original ''Batman'' series ended at issue #713 and was relaunched with a new first issue (cover dated November 2011). ''Batman'' (vol. 2) ran until issue #52. In 2016, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |