DC Is Relaunching Batman for Only the Fourth Time in Almost 85 Years

A Batman #1 doesn’t come along very often. Well, unless you’ve been reading comics for the past 15 years, in which case, it’s come along a couple times already. Modern comic books! But even then, in what is about to be eight-and-a-half-decades of Batman that’s still not a lot of relaunches–and DC is going all-in to make this fourth one stand out. Last night at ComicsPro DC confirmed that the fourth-ever relaunch of the primary, solo Batman book (there are of course, dozens upon dozens upon dozens of other Bat-titles, the publisher has printed in the last 80-odd years, but they don’t count here) will begin this fall, but which point Bruce Wayne will be well and truly into his 85th anniversary year. Batman kicked off in 1940, and would only be relaunched with a new #1 for the first time 71 years later with the dawn of the New 52 in 2011–and subsequently relaunched again for DC Rebirth in 2016, which will now give way to the newest relaunch in September 2025. The new series will be penn ... Read full article.