How do you keep an 80-year relationship fresh? Do you take it to new and interesting places, or do you embrace the classic things that made the relationship work in the first place?

Detective Comics #457 might seem like a random issue of Batman’s long-running comic series to bestow much significance

Greeting citizens of Gotham! Meg Downey is off on a secret mission, so I’ve been entrusted with the printing press here at the Gotham Gazette, and not a moment too soon.

Since his inauspicious debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman’s popularity has steadily increased over the span of his eighty years.