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Gotham: Bringing Detective Comics to Life

Gotham: Seven Times the Show Brought Detective Comics to Life

Hi, Couch Clubbers! I’m sure you’re noticing all the Batman party favors we have laying around. Forgive the mess, but we’re doing lots of celebrating this week, and hope that you’ll join us!

DC Comics Art Academy Featuring Alex Sinclair (2018)

Welcome to the DC Comics Art Academy, a series of art tutorials and interviews recorded at Comic-Cons featuring many of the gifted and unique artists working for DC today. In today's installment, colorist Alex Sinclair returns to the stage to demonstrate how he colors comics on a tablet. As he finishes an iconic cover from Batman: Hush, he discusses collaborating with Jim Lee and Scott Williams, how sometimes less is more when it comes to coloring and why Batman is his favorite character to color.

The Secret Origins of the Batcave's Best Trophies

The Secret Origins of the Batcave's Best Trophies

You don't need me to tell you that the Batcave is a pretty cool place.

Batman, a History of Heroics: 1960s-1970s

Batman, a History of Heroics: 1960s-1970s

The 1960s were a wild, rocky time in American history, and that was true in the world of the Dark Knight as well, who faced a serious sales slump until an out-of-nowhere television hit reinvigorated the character and expanded his world even

The Perfect Impermanence of Batman

The Perfect Impermanence of Batman

Superhero comics are a funny thing. They've been around forever—in Batman's case, eighty years—and as next Wednesday is about to remind us, they're approaching the point where issue #1000s are actually being released.

Batman, a History of Heroics: 1940s-1950s

Batman, a History of Heroics: 1940s-1950s

While Batman may have been born in 1939, the next two decades would start to shape him into the hero we know and love today, introducing key members of the Bat-Family like Robin, Alfred and the on-again-off-again love of Bruce Wayne’s life,

Batman, a History of Heroics: The Beginning

Batman, a History of Heroics: The Beginning

As Batman marks his 80^th anniversary in comics and entertainment, you’d have to imagine he’s proud of all he’s achieved (if Batman were one to allow himself to feel something so self-congratulatory as pride).

Gotham Gazette: Questions, Answers and In-Betweens

Gotham Gazette: Questions, Answers and In-Betweens

This month, we're going to get a little existential here in Gotham Gazette because it's very nearly time for DETECTIVE COMICS #100

Brilliant Women of Batman: Catwoman Gets Her Claws in Bruce...and Us

Brilliant Women of Batman: Catwoman Gets Her Claws in Bruce...and Us

It was in 1940, only a year after the debut of Batman in 1939's DETECTIVE COMICS #27, when Bill Finger and Bob Kane decided to sp

First Look: Batman Faces His Worst Enemy...Himself

Batman’s violent journey through his own past comes to an end, as he faces the surprisingly familiar face behind it in this thrilling preview of DETECTIVE COMICS #999.