List of Batman comics

Batman has been featured in many ongoing series, annuals, miniseries, maxiseries, one-shots, graphic novels, trade paperbacks and intercompany crossovers published by DC Comics. These titles have been handled or coordinated through a single editorial section at DC Comics. This list also generally includes titles that have spun off of the core Batman titles to feature related characters and presents these and all other titles separated by general publication type.

Ongoing series

Annuals

Miniseries

One-shots and graphic novels

Intercompany crossover stories

Collected editions

Numerous Batman stories have been reprinted as collected editions. This section lists only reprints from ongoing series, miniseries, etc. All of these stories have been issued in trade paperback format unless noted otherwise.

DC Archive Editions

All DC Archive Editions were hardcover only and printed on high quality archival paper.

The Batman Chronicles

The Batman Chronicles book series planned to reprint every Batman adventure in color, in chronological order, and in affordable trade paperbacks, but was cancelled before it could do so. It is not to be confused with the also now-cancelled comic book series of the same name.

Showcase Presents

All Showcase Presents collections were large (over 500 pages) softcover-only and black-and-white-only reprints.

Batman newspaper comic strip collections

The following collections reprinted the two Batman newspaper comic strips of 1943–1946 and 1966–1973.

Modern Batman

The following trade paperbacks are stories that run through the "contemporary" books of the Batman family. The earliest trade paperback, chronologically speaking, is Frank Miller's "Batman: Year One" story arc, which rebirthed the character in the Modern Age, retelling the first year of his existence, including who he was and how he came to be. These stories are from comic books that are still being published and are, in a sense, still ongoing. They are listed here in the chronology of the story lines, rather than the publication dates of either the original comics or collections.

The two trade paperback series Batman: The Caped Crusader and Batman: The Dark Knight Detective reprint most of the Post-Crisis issues of Batman and Detective Comics, respectively. However, both Caped Crusader and Dark Knight Detective feature six major omissions: Dark Knight Detective omits Detective Comics #575–578 ("Batman: Year Two") and Caped Crusader omits the entire Max Alan Collins Batman run and the fill-in Batman issues that were published in between the Collins and Jim Starlin runs (the majority of which were previously reprinted in Batman: Second Chances, along with the Collins Penguin story in Batman Annual #11). Caped Crusader also omits several major Batman stories in its run, most notably Alan Moore's Clayface III story from Batman Annual #11, Batman #426–429 ("A Death in the Family"), and Batman #440–442/The New Titans #60–61 ("A Lonely Place of Dying"). Five of these six omissions are also referred to in the two series' respective sections below.

The New 52 Batman

In 2011, DC Comics rebooted their entire continuity. This relaunched continuity, which ran from 2011 to 2016, is known as The New 52. The Batman family of books were also rebooted. While the history and elements of this new continuity are very similar to the previous one, there are still fundamental differences between them. As such, the following collected works should be treated as a separate canonical entity. The collected works are listed in order of publication date, not in chronological order. This list includes all New 52 titles centered around Batman.

The New 52 Batman new editions

This list is for updated versions of the various New 52 titles. The titles presented here may be updated to a more concise trade or expand on previous trades.

DC Rebirth Batman

In 2016, DC Comics once again relaunched its continuity and entire line of ongoing monthly superhero comic books. Using the end of The New 52 initiative in May 2016 as its launching point, DC Rebirth intended to restore the DC Universe to a form much like that prior to the Flashpoint story arc, while still incorporating numerous elements of The New 52, including its continuity. The collected works are listed in order of publication date, not in chronological order. This list includes all DC Rebirth titles centered around Batman. The DC Comics crossover story lines Dark Nights: Metal and Dark Nights: Death Metal are both included here strictly due to their Batman-centric focus.

DC Rebirth Batman new editions

This list is for updated versions of the various DC Rebirth titles. The titles presented here may be updated to a more concise trade or expand on previous trades.

Infinite Frontier Batman

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight

The following are collected works of the comic book series Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, which primarily concentrates on early tales in Batman's career that are not necessarily considered canon, but have also been used during major crossover story lines (such as Batman: Knightfall and Batman: No Man's Land). The series has not yet been completely collected in book form as of this date.

Batman Confidential

This series has been collected in the following trade paperbacks.

Superman/Batman

This series has been collected in the following trade paperbacks.

Batman: Shadow of the Bat

This series has been collected in the following trade paperbacks.

Batman: Gotham Knights

This series has been collected in the following trade paperbacks.

Batman: Arkham and Gotham City Impostors tie-in story collections

Batman '66 collections

Intercompany crossover story collections

This list includes crossover comic book stories between Batman and other characters from different companies.

Miscellaneous collections

These volumes are collections of stories from various Batman continuities, with loose connections of superhero, supervillain, location or subject.

Writer/artist collections

DC Omnibuses / Absolute editions / Batman Noir editions / Batman Unwrapped editions / DC Deluxe Editions

Anthology editions

The decade editions (see below) reprint the "best" stories of each decade of the 20th century almost from the beginning of the characters' history onward (except for the 1930s and the 1990s, which were not included for unknown reasons) in trade paperbacks.

Batman Beyond collections

Batman animated TV series collections

See also

• List of Spider-Man titles
• List of Superman comics
• Publication history of Anarky
• Publication history of Dick Grayson
• Publication history of Superman
• Publication history of Wonder Woman

References

External links

• Batman (Bruce Wayne) at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Comics Research Bibliography: Batman Archived 2007-10-16 at the Wayback Machine An international bibliography of comic books, comic strips, animation, caricatures, cartoons, bandes dessinees and related topics
• Batman-On-Film.com's Batman comics subsite
• Comics at BatmanYTB
• The Trade Paperback List: Batman
• TheBatSquad.net
• DC Comics: List of Batman Graphic Novels Archived 2006-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Bat-Encyclopedia (in Spanish)
• Batman Trades Chronological list of Batman trade paperbacks and hardcover graphic novels in reading order
• Cracked.com's 20 Most Ridiculous Batman Comics