#batmania

[chernobog13]

In the 1960s Batmania seemed to have no bounds.

[vertigoartgore]

1988's Detective Comics Vol.1 cover by artist Norm Breyfogle (RIP).

[machetelanding]

[harleycao]

So, how long y'all think it's going to be until we get some news about DCU Batman/The Brave and the Bold and/or The Batman pt 2?

After all, Superman is going to be out in 5 days.

More than that, I'm just tired of waiting! I want A CAST FOR THE DCU BATFAM!!!!! I WANNA KNOW WHAT CHARACTERS WE'RE GETTING! AND I WANNA KNOW IF WE MIGHT SEE ANY OF THE BATFAM IN CLAYFACE NEXT YEAR!!!

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Batman '66

[starstruckchilli]

I just found out Melbourne (a city in Australia) was originally going to be called “Batmania.”

After a “John Batman”

All they got is Batman the suburb and Batman Park in the city tho..

STILL.

THE ENTIRETY OF MELBOURNE COULD’VE BEEN CALLED BATMANIA??

NAHH THIS IS WILD.

Petition to change the name right now

And add like a few streets named after the Batkids. Like a Nightwing Lane

And rename Lunar Park to Joker’s Funland or something

Ohh and rename a dangerous suburb like Dandenong to Crime Alley..

And for all prime ministers to have to change their first name to Bruce, middle name Wayne.

ngl there’s a certain government figure that has a ‘Brucie’ vibe. Maccas Engadine iykyk

[northoftheroad]

3 000 000. Those were the days… (1943)

Some later figures for the Batman comic book: 

(A lot of them are estimates, and counted in different ways, and of course excludes digital which weren’t an issue back in the days; so it is honesty difficult and probably kind of unfair to compare. But still kind of fun to look at.)

1960: 502,000 (source comichron.com)

1966: 898,470 (source comichron.com)

1972: 185,283 (source comichron.com)

1982: 108,234 (source comichron.com)

1985: 75,303 (source comichron.com)

1987: 193,000 (source comichron.com)

January 1995: 40,000 (source: comichron.com)

January 2000: 50,979 (source: comichron.com)

January 2005: 58,513 (source: comichron.com)

January 2010: 63,467 (source: comichron.com)

January 2015: 110,232 (source: comichron.com)

January 2020: 80,053 (source: comichron.com)

August 2021: 118,000 units (source: comicbookrevolution.com)

September 2021: 116,000 (source: comicbookrevolution.com)

Lately, DC has changed their distribution metod and it’s difficult to find estimates of number of sold copies. icv2.com and comicbookrevolution.com publish sales charts that are based on point-of-sale by the ComicHub system at stores selling American comics around the world. According to them, Batman havs been among the three-four best selling title the last couple of months. If comics sells about as much in 2022 as they did in August-September 2021, that would probably be somewhere between 110,000 and 150,000 units. 

[doraemonmon]

The Wild World of Bat Woman