Even if you live in a cave it’s going to be hard to avoid Batman in the weeks ahead. Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment just announced a year-long initiative celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Caped Crusader which will kick off this month at SXSW in Austin, Texas, with festivities that include a moonlight fly-over by 1.5 million live bats.
On March 19 the special hardcover release called Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman-The Deluxe Edition will hit store shelves with a history of the Dark Knight, who was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger and introduced in Detective Comics issue No. 27, which hit newsstands in March 1939. Then, on March 27, issue No. 1000 of Detective Comics will be published by DC Comics, which takes its acronym from the venerable monthly series.
The actual anniversary is March 30 (although the 1939 issue’s cover indicated it was a May release) and on that day DC...
On March 19 the special hardcover release called Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman-The Deluxe Edition will hit store shelves with a history of the Dark Knight, who was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger and introduced in Detective Comics issue No. 27, which hit newsstands in March 1939. Then, on March 27, issue No. 1000 of Detective Comics will be published by DC Comics, which takes its acronym from the venerable monthly series.
The actual anniversary is March 30 (although the 1939 issue’s cover indicated it was a May release) and on that day DC...
- 3/7/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
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