Following Daniel's tenure on the series, John Layman became the new writer and Jason Fabok the new artist with James Tynion IV writing the backup features and Syzmon Kudranski remaining as artist for Tynion's first feature. With issue #19 of "Detective Comics" vol. 2, released on April 3, 2013, the series reached 900 issues as combined with the first volume of the series, and was a special oversized celebratory issue. Under Layman, the series featured its first crossover, "Gothtopia" after which Layman and Fabok moved to the "Batman Eternal" series and "Detective Comics" was taken over by Brain Buccalleto and Francis Manapul.