Batman (comic book) Batman (comic book) Batman is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero Batman as its main protagonist. The character 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. It was first advertised in early April 1940, one month after the first appearance of his new sidekick, Robin, the Boy Wonder. Though the "Batman" comic book was initially launched as a quarterly publication, it later became a bimonthly series through the late 1950s, after
The Ultimates (comic book) The Ultimates (comic book) The Ultimates is a thirteen-issue comic book limited series written by Mark Millar with art by Bryan Hitch. The series introduces the superhero team the Ultimates and was published by the Ultimate Marvel imprint of Marvel Comics. "The Ultimates" debuted in February 2002 (cover date March 2002), and ran for thirteen issues. Bryan Hitch describes his Ultimates work as "widescreen, cinematic compositions" and has expressed his interest of translating his work for movies. This miniseries was affected by delays and the artist admits to having to work hard to recover from reputation as a slow artist