Batman Comic Books & Graphic Novels

Add to cart Fine $24.00

1st printing. Written by Matthew K. Manning and Matt Forbeck. Art by Jason Forbek. Celebrate 75 years of Gotham City's Batman with Batman Year by Year: A Visual Chronicle featuring some of the greatest storylines, heroes, villains, writers, and artists to come out of the DC Comics vault. Batman Year by Year outlines the evolution of the famous super hero from his beginnings in 1939 as a vigilante created by Bob Kane to his present status as a worldwide cultural icon. With foreword written by Frank Miller, this illustrated compendium features all of Batman's greatest stories, displayed clearly on a month-by-month timeline. Hardcover, 10-in. x 12-in., 352 pages, full color. Cover price $50.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $22.00

Add to cart Near Mint $22.00

2nd or Later Printings. Written by Matthew K. Manning and Matt Forbeck. Art by Jason Forbek. Celebrate 75 years of Gotham City's Batman with Batman Year by Year: A Visual Chronicle featuring some of the greatest storylines, heroes, villains, writers, and artists to come out of the DC Comics vault. Batman Year by Year outlines the evolution of the famous super hero from his beginnings in 1939 as a vigilante created by Bob Kane to his present status as a worldwide cultural icon. With foreword written by Frank Miller, this illustrated compendium features all of Batman's greatest stories, displayed clearly on a month-by-month timeline. Hardcover, 10-in. x 12-in., 352 pages, full color. Cover price $50.00.

Add to cart Very Fine $16.00

Eclipse Edition - 1st printing. An autobiography by Bob Kane (creator of Batman) with Tom Andrae. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 156 pages, PC/B&W.

Add to cart Fine $4.30

Add to cart Fine $4.30

1st printing. By Daniel Wallace. With over 75 years of characters, Batman Character Encyclopedia is the compact but comprehensive guide to over 200 heroes and villains from Gotham City. From Robin to the Joker, Batman Character Encyclopedia is your guide into over 75 years of the Dark Knight's friends and foes. This compact, informative guide takes you through over 200 heroes and villains of Gotham City as well as tons of facts and information on the Caped Crusader himself. Organized alphabetically, each character profile is crammed with statistics, informative annotations, and exciting comic book art illustrated by DC Comics's leading artists. Hardcover, 208 pages, full color. Cover price $16.99.

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1st printing.

Written by Andrew Farago and Gina McIntyre. Foreword by Michael Keaton. Preface by Denny O'Neil. Introduction by Kevin Conroy.

Explore over eighty years of Batman history in this updated official edition featuring a wealth of new content, including a new chapter on acclaimed feature film The Batman.

Since his 1939 debut in the pages of Detective Comics, Batman has become an icon, instantly recognizable the world over. This deluxe edition explores the Batman across comics, TV, animation, film, video games, and beyond, to present a compelling portrait of one of the most recognizable and versatile characters in the history of fiction.

Covering the complete history of Batman in vivid detail, this deluxe edition features exclusive commentary from the key creatives who have been instrumental in building the Dark Knight's ongoing legacy.

Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 440 pages, full color.

Cover price $75.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.00

2nd and later printings.

By Matthew K. Manning.

DC's Dark Knight first emerged from the shadows in the pages of Detective Comics in 1939, when young Bruce Wayne vowed to avenge his parents' murder and fight for justice in crime-ridden, corrupt Gotham City.

Packed with information on the Dark Knight, including how he was created and evolved over the decades, this in-world celebration of DC's most popular super-hero explores his world and brings Batman's thrilling story right up to date with full details of his exploits in recent DC storylines such as Rebirth, Dark Nights: Metal and Dark Nights: Death Metal.

Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 216 pages, full color.

Cover price $30.00.

Add to cart Fine $4.00

Add to cart Fine $4.00

1st printing. Call him the Gotham Guardian, the Caped Crusader, or the Dark Knight -- Batman is one of the greatest comic book super-heroes of all time. Created in full collaboration with DC Comics, this comprehensive guide reveals details of all major characters, original comic book artwork, and the secret workings of key installments and equipment. Hardcover, 10 1/2-in. x 12-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $19.95.

Add to cart Very Good $7.99

2nd Printing. Call him the Gotham Guardian, the Caped Crusader, or the Dark Knight -- Batman is one of the greatest comic book super-heroes of all time. Created in full collaboration with DC Comics, this comprehensive guide reveals details of all major characters, original comic book artwork, and the secret workings of key installments and equipment. Hardcover, 10 1/2-in. x 12-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $19.95.

Add to cart Very Good $9.99

Updated Edition - 3rd and later printings. By Scott Beatty. Revised and updated with 16 new pages packed with new photographs and illustrations! Call him the Gotham Guardian, the Caped Crusader, or the Dark Knight -- Batman is one of the greatest comic book super-heroes of all time. Created in full collaboration with DC Comics, this comprehensive guide reveals details of all major characters, original comic book artwork, and the secret workings of key installments and equipment. Hardcover, 10 1/2-in. x 12-in., 144 pages, full color. Cover price $24.95.

Add to cart Very Good $9.99

OnStar Commemorative Edition - 1st printing. Call him the Gotham Guardian, the Caped Crusader, or the Dark Knight -- Batman is one of the greatest comic book super-heroes of all time. Created in full collaboration with DC Comics, this comprehensive guide reveals details of all major characters, original comic book artwork, and the secret workings of key installments and equipment. Hardcover, 10 1/2-in. x 12-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $19.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $13.00

Add to cart Very Fine $9.00

1st printing.

Follow every punch, kick, twist, and turn of the Dark Knight's story in Batman: The World of the Dark Knight. Tracing Batman's entire career, with full detail of his significant adventures, battles, loves, allies, and enemies, this ultimate guide will leave nothing unexplored.

DK's Batman: The World of the Dark Knight includes everything from how Batman came to be created and how the character was developed through the decades to key events in Batman's life that have continued to develop his story over the years.

With a new, fresh look featuring intricate full-color comic book art, Batman: The World of the Dark Knight is a comic enthusiast's dream come true!

Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 200 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.00

Add to cart Near Mint $9.00

Add to cart Fine $4.00

2nd and later printings.

Follow every punch, kick, twist, and turn of the Dark Knight's story in Batman: The World of the Dark Knight. Tracing Batman's entire career, with full detail of his significant adventures, battles, loves, allies, and enemies, this ultimate guide will leave nothing unexplored.

DK's Batman: The World of the Dark Knight includes everything from how Batman came to be created and how the character was developed through the decades to key events in Batman's life that have continued to develop his story over the years.

With a new, fresh look featuring intricate full-color comic book art, Batman: The World of the Dark Knight is a comic enthusiast's dream come true!

Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 200 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Very Good $3.00

1st printing.

By Will Brooker.

A work of scholarship and a labor of love.

A historical, detailed, deep analysis of Batman as a cultural icon in America. This isn't a simple polemic or surface-shallow analysis. This is deep stuff-analyzing art styles, histories, individual panels, cultural concepts, and historical documents. plenty of startling revelations and analyses This is a stunningly well-done, intelligent book. It's proof that comics are not throwaway ephemera, but real, vital, analyzable parts of our culture.

Over the sixty years of his existence, Batman has encountered an impressive array of cultural icons and has gradually become one himself. This fascinating book examines what Batman means and has meant to the various audiences, groups and communities who have tried to control and interpret him over the decades. Brooker reveals the struggles over Batman's meaning by shining a light on the cultural issues of the day that impacted on the development of the character. They include: patriotic propaganda of the Second World War; the accusation that Batman was corrupting the youth of America by appearing to promote a homosexual lifestyle to the fans of his comics; Batman becoming a camp, pop culture icon through the ABC TV series of the sixties; fans' interpretation of Batman in response to the comics and the Warner Bros. franchise of films.

Hardcover, 358 pages, Text Only.

Cover price $27.95.

Add to cart Very Fine $7.00

1st printing.

By Will Brooker.

A work of scholarship and a labor of love.

A historical, detailed, deep analysis of Batman as a cultural icon in America. This isn't a simple polemic or surface-shallow analysis. This is deep stuff-analyzing art styles, histories, individual panels, cultural concepts, and historical documents. plenty of startling revelations and analyses This is a stunningly well-done, intelligent book. It's proof that comics are not throwaway ephemera, but real, vital, analyzable parts of our culture.

Over the sixty years of his existence, Batman has encountered an impressive array of cultural icons and has gradually become one himself. This fascinating book examines what Batman means and has meant to the various audiences, groups and communities who have tried to control and interpret him over the decades. Brooker reveals the struggles over Batman's meaning by shining a light on the cultural issues of the day that impacted on the development of the character. They include: patriotic propaganda of the Second World War; the accusation that Batman was corrupting the youth of America by appearing to promote a homosexual lifestyle to the fans of his comics; Batman becoming a camp, pop culture icon through the ABC TV series of the sixties; fans' interpretation of Batman in response to the comics and the Warner Bros. franchise of films.

Softcover, 368 pages, Text Only.

Cover price $19.95.

Add to cart Very Good $8.00

1st printing.

Written by Marc Tyler Nobleman. Art and cover by Ty Templeton.

Every Batman story is marked with the words "Batman created by Bob Kane." But that isn't the whole truth.

A struggling writer named Bill Finger was involved from the beginning. Bill helped invent Batman, from concept to costume to character. He dreamed up Batman's haunting origins and his colorful nemeses. Despite his brilliance, Bill worked in obscurity. It was only after his death that fans went to bat for Bill, calling for acknowledgment that he was the co-creator of Batman.

Based on original research, Bill the Boy Wonder is the first-ever book about the unsung man behind the Dark Knight.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, Text (with full color illustrations and photos).

NOTE: "This is an absolute must read for any comic book fan, writer, and artist. Afterwards, seek out the documentary Batman and Bill. Here, the heartbreaking story of Bill Finger finally gets a much deserved happy ending." - Odinson, mycomicshop.com Archivist

Cover price $17.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $16.00

Add to cart Fine $6.00

1st printing.

By Michael E. Uslan.

When he was 8, Michael Uslan fell in love with Batman. He watched unhappily as the dark, serious superhero he knew and loved was turned into a campy goofball in the '60s TV show starring Adam West, and in 1979 he purchased the film rights to Batman. After ten years of desperately pitching a film that no one wanted, he sold and then produced Tim Burton's critically acclaimed and phenomenally popular Batman.

Having produced every Batman film to date, Uslan recounts his story here, in a memoir that will draw in all the boys and girls (of all ages) throughout the world who love Batman.

Hardcover, 320 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $7.00

1st printing. Year of the Bat: The History of DC Comics: Fifty Years of Fantastic Imagination" (an issue of Comics: The Golden Age). Edited by Ron Goulart. This issue examines the early history of DC Comics. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $8.95

Add to cart Near Mint $8.95

Volume 1 - 1st printing.

Hold the comic book history of DC Comics' Detective Comics in the palm of your hand with DC Comics: Detective Comics: The Complete Covers Omnibus Volume 1. Featuring covers from the inception of Detective Comics in 1937 to the introduction of Batman and his heroic adventures, this mini book is bound together at a readable pocket-book size and is the perfect collector's item for comic book fans.

Hardcover, 3-in. x 4-in., 304 pages, full color.

Cover price $11.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Volume 3 - 1st printing.

Celebrate Batman's 80th Anniversary and explore the origin of Batman through DC Comics' Detective Comics covers in this third volume of the miniature art book series. Featuring covers from Detective Comics' 600th issue to the New 52 and present day, this mini book is bound together at a readable pocket-book size and is the perfect collector's item for comic book fans.

Hardcover, 3-in. x 4-in., 304 pages, full color.

Cover price $11.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.00

Add to cart Near Mint $9.00

NOTE: May or may NOT include Cover Sash.

1st printing.

Text by Matthew K. Manning. Art and cover by Studio Muti.

The first in a series of large-scale interactive books that explore the iconic locations from the world of DC Comics, DC Comics: Exploring Gotham City combines striking full-color illustrations of Gotham City with interactive elements that reveal the secrets of the most fascinating locations from the birthplace of the Dark Knight. Explore famous landmarks like the Batcave, Arkham Asylum, and Wayne Manor and uncover the mysteries of the Gotham City.

Hardcover, 10-in. x 14-in., 48 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.99.

Add to cart Fine $6.00

Add to cart Fine $6.00

1st printing. By Robert Greenberger. "The ultimate guide to the man behind the mask...and the mythology behind the man!" Featuring complete details of Batman's origins as well as biographies of almost every character in the Batman universe, this comprehensive, fully illustrated encyclopedia contains everything Batman and comic book fans ever wanted to know about the Dark Knight. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 388 pages, B&W. Cover price $29.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $16.00

Add to cart Near Mint $16.00

1st printing. Collects History of the DC Universe (1986) #1-2. Written by Marv Wolfman. Art by George Pérez and Karl Kesel. Cover by Alex Ross. Introduction by Marv Wolfman. Afterword by Frank Miller. Marv Wolfman and George Perez's epic companion to Crisis on Infinite Earths returns to print in this stunning hardcover edition that outlines the greatest events ever to take place in the past, present, and future of the DC Universe after the consolidation of the Multiverse during the events of Crisis. Amplified by the vibrant colors of Tom Ziuko, Wolfman and Perez's history guidebook is a visual and informational treasure trove that every DC fan should own. Hardcover, 128 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $15.00

Add to cart Near Mint $15.00

1st printing. By Jerry Robinson. In this art-infused memoir by the late Jerry Robinson, learn how a seventeen-year-old became the artist on Detective Comics and Batman-and created one of the most famous villains of all time: the Joker. This volume includes never-before-published full-page artwork from Detective Comics and Batman, covers featuring Batman, Robin, and the Joker, and much more. Never-before-published artwork featuring Batman, Robin, the Joker, and more! Hardcover, 216 pages, full color. Cover price $34.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $15.00

2nd and later printings.

By Daniel Wallace. Cover by Brian Bolland. Introduction by Mark Hamill.

The Joker examines the evolution of the most famous comic book villain in history, and is certain to appeal to fanboys and fangirls, collectors, and newcomers to the comic book genre alike. From the comic and eccentric bad guy battling Batman in the 1940s to the truly psychotic murderer and madman of today, The Joker is the first and only comprehensive look at the ultimate super villain of DC Comics Universe's comics, television shows, and feature films.

Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 208 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $35.00.

Add to cart Very Fine $4.00

The Original Encyclopedia of Comicbook Heroes - Volume 1 - 1st printing. "BATMAN!" Written by Michael Fleischer. Everything you ever wanted to know about DC's Dark Knight - and so much more - can be found in this amazing volume, brought back into print for the first time in 30 years! Originally published in 1976, this extensive volume - the first in a series - includes everything you could want to know about Batman, his allies and enemies, weapons in his war on crime and his adventures from the 1930s to the 1970s! Softcover, 392 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $8.00

Add to cart Very Fine $6.80

Add to cart Very Good $6.30

The Original Encyclopedia of Comicbook Heroes - Volume 2 - 1st printing. "WONDER WOMAN!" Written by Michael Fleischer. Originally published in 1976, this comprehensive volume includes every piece of information about Wonder Woman, her allies and enemies, weapons in her quest for peace and her adventures across the decades. Softcover, 272 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $5.80

The Original Encyclopedia of Comicbook Heroes - Volume 3 - 1st printing. "SUPERMAN!" Written by Michael L. Fleisher. Everything you ever wanted to know about DC's Man of Steel can be found in this in-depth volume, brought back into print for the first time in 30 years! Originally published in 1978, this comprehensive volume includes every fact you could want to know about Superman! Softcover, 272 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $14.00

1st printing. Edited by Kevin Durand and Mary Leigh. From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the big screen, the archetypal superhero known as The Batman has never been far from the American consciousness. Beyond shaping the way we read comics and graphic novels, Batman has also captured the scholarly imagination, telling us much about our society and ourselves. These essays examine Batman through a wide range of disciplines - philosophy, literature, psychology, pop culture, and more. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 224 pages, B&W. Cover price $40.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $17.00

Add to cart Near Mint $17.00

1st printing. By Alex M. Wainer. This is a book about the comics genre and language, how these were used to create Batman, and how that character's longevity is largely due to the medium's unique formal qualities. It argues that Batman's core appeal is his mythic nature which allows him to transcend changes in reader tastes, the vicissitudes of the comics industry, and the changing media landscape. It is a study of how the formal aspects of comics are able to evoke uniquely mythic qualities that have made Batman such a long-lived cultural phenomenon. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 208 pages, Text. Cover price $40.00.

Add to cart Fine $4.30

Add to cart Fine $4.30

Add to cart Very Good $5.10

Add to cart Very Good $5.10

1st printing. Written by Mark Cotta Vaz. Chronicles "Batman's First Fifty Years: 1939-1989." Illustrated with comic panels and covers, this book traces the development of the Joker, Penguin, and other characters, discusses the Batman TV show, depicts the Dark Knight's return to his darker roots, and more. Features 48 classic comic book covers in full color. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 210 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $17.95.

Add to cart Fine $5.30

Add to cart Fine $5.30

Add to cart Very Good $3.49

2nd and later printings. Written by Mark Cotta Vaz. Chronicles "Batman's First Fifty Years: 1939-1989." Illustrated with comic panels and covers, this book traces the development of the Joker, Penguin, and other characters, discusses the Batman TV show, depicts the Dark Knight's return to his darker roots, and more. Features 48 classic comic book covers in full color. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 210 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $17.95.