Year-Long Celebration Planned For Batman’s 80th Anniversary

DC Comics will be celebrating the 80th anniversary of Batman in early 2019 with a year-long celebration to include the release of Detective Comics #1000.

Batman was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane on March 30th, 1939 in Detective Comics #27.  Tom King is currently writing Batman, and his run will end in 2019 after 103 issues of writing the comic.

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Peter J Tomasi and Doug Mahnke are set to take over Detective Comics in December and add to a huge build towards March’s Detective Comics issue and Batman’s 80th Anniversary.

Jeff Testanero

Jeff Testanero

Hartford, Connecticut based blogger and podcaster. Graduate of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting and serious comic book collector for the past 20+ years Diehard Superman fanboy