Batman (comic book)

Batman
Cover of Batman #1 (spring 1940) art by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	List Quarterly: #1–5 Bimonthly: #6–80; #254–259 Eight times a year: #81–168 Nine times a year: #169–177; #238–246 10 times a year: #178–237 Seven times a year: #247–253 11 times a year: #260–270 Monthly: #271–715 except for biweekly status for #436–439, 448–453, 464–469, 477–482, 492–497, 627–628, 643–644, 660–661, 682–683, and 691–692
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	List (vol. 1) Spring 1940 – August 2011 (vol. 2) November 2011 – July 2016 (vol. 3) August 2016 – March 2021 (vol. 4) April 2021 –
No. of issues	List (vol. 1): 715[1] (#1–713 plus issues #0 and #1,000,000), one Special and 28 Annuals (vol. 2): 57 (#1–52 plus issues #0 and #23.1–23.4), one Special and four Annuals (vol. 3): 146 plus a DC Rebirth one-shot and seven Annuals (as of June 2024 cover date)
Main character(s)	Batman Batman Family
Creative team
Written by	List (vol. 1) Bill Finger Don Cameron Denny O'Neil David V. Molnár Len Wein Gerry Conway Grant Morrison (vol. 2) Scott Snyder (vol. 3) Tom King James Tynion IV Joshua Williamson Chip Zdarsky
Penciller(s)	List (vol. 1) Bob Kane Jerry Robinson Dick Sprang Sheldon Moldoff Carmine Infantino Bob Brown Irv Novick Neal Adams Ernie Chan Mike Grell Don Newton Gene Colan Jim Aparo Tony Daniel (vol. 2) Greg Capullo (vol. 3) David Finch Mikel Janin Clay Mann Joëlle Jones Mitch Gerads Jorge Jimenez
Inker(s)	List Jerry Robinson Charles Paris Joe Giella Dick Giordano Frank McLaughlin Alfredo Alcala Sandu Florea (vol. 2) Jonathan Glapion Danny Miki (vol. 3) Danny Miki
Colorist(s)	List (vol. 1) Adrienne Roy (vol. 2) FCO Plascencia (vol. 3) Jordie Bellaire June Chung
Collected editions
Dark Knight Archive Volume 1	ISBN 1-56389-050-X

Batman is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero Batman as its main protagonist. The character, created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane,^[2] first appeared in Detective Comics #27 (cover dated May 1939). Batman proved to be so popular that a self-titled ongoing comic book series began publication with a cover date of spring 1940.^[3][4] It was first advertised in early April 1940, one month after the first appearance of his new sidekick, Robin the Boy Wonder. Batman comics have proven to be popular since the 1940s.

Though the Batman comic book was initially launched as a quarterly publication, it later became a bimonthly series through the late 1950s, after which it became a monthly publication.

In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, the original Batman series ended at issue #713 and was relaunched with a new first issue (cover dated November 2011). Batman (vol. 2) ran until issue #52.

In 2016, DC Comics began a new relaunch of its entire line of titles called DC Rebirth, which continued continuity from the New 52. The Batman comic book was relaunched again with a new #1 issue (August 2016) and placed on a twice-monthly release schedule. The series continued through the next major relaunch by DC Comics, called Infinite Frontier, reverting to a monthly schedule with issue #106 (May 2021).^[5]