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Londyn relives 85+ yrs of the Dark Knight | @DCOfficial #DCAmbassador | IG/YT/TikTok/FB: historyofthebatman

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Become a Gothamite and please follow History of the Batman to celebrate the Caped Crusader’s iconic mythology!✌🏽💙🦇

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Ace the Bat-Hound, the Batman Family’s first pet, first appeared in Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff’s “Ace the Bat-Hound!” published in 1955’s Batman #92.🐕🦇📚

#NationalDogDay #Batman

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40 years ago on August 26, 1986, Batman and Superman have one of the most iconic battles in DC Comics history in the conclusion to Frank Miller’s “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns”. #Batman #Superman #DKR

🖼️: Art by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley, & John Costanza

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The Batman by Gabriele Dell'Otto, The Dark Knight Returns 40th Anniversary Variant cover to Absolute Batman #23 released by DC Comics on August 12. 2026. This cover pays homage to Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Falls” from 1986’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #4.🦇📚 #Batman

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Remembering Tim Curry (April 19,1946 - August 25, 2026) : A look at #TimCurry’s original recordings as the Joker for ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ in 1992. Curry was the first actor to be cast as #Joker before being replaced by Mark Hamill and recorded at least four episodes.

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Left panel: Bane and Batman in Doug Moench’s “The Broken Bat”, illustrated by Jim Aparo, Dick Giordano, and Adrienne Roy and published in 1993’s Batman 497 | Right panel: Batman and Bane in “Batman: Knightfall – Part 1: Knight-fall” (2026). #BatmanKnightfall #Batman #Bane

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Batman: Arkham Asylum turns 17 today. A genre-defining game and the beginning of an unforgettable series.

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17 years ago today, Rocksteady Studios’ first video game within the ‘@BatmanArkham’ franchise, “Batman: Arkham Asylum”, was released for PS3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows in North America on August 25, 2009.🦇🎮

#Batman #ArkhamAsylum #BatmanArkham

[Jenny Li @dewpearl_art]

My concept art of Gotham for Batman: Knightfall!

[Kelley Jones @kelleyjonesart]

Knightfall rising.

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Tim Drake’s Red Robin by Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, and Adriano Lucas, cover to Detective Comics (Vol 1) 939. Published by DC August 24, 2016, this issue features James Tynion IV and Barrows’ “Rise of the Batmen, Part Six: The Thin Red Line”. #OTD 🦇📚 #TimDrake #Batman

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Call it what you want but it brings me joy 🥹🦇

#AbsoluteBatman #Batman @Ssnyder1835 @frankmartinbox

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1975’s Limited Collectors' Edition #C-37 treasury issue featured reprints such as Frank Springer’s Batcave (1968’s Batman #203), the Scarecrow’s first appearance (1941’s World’s Finest Comics #3), and a Batman villains puzzle by Bob Rosakis.

🖼️: Jim Aparo & Sol Harrison

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Batman becoming overwhelmed by the release of all the inmates of Arkham Asylum thanks to the villain Bane in the arc “Knightfall”

📖: Batman (Vol 1) #491
🎨: Jim Aparo, Adrienne Roy, and Richard Starkings
📅: April 1993 (cover date) • Published by DC

#Batman #Knightfall

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Happy birthday to legendary artist Jim Aparo (August 24, 1932 – July 19, 2005). Aparo’s dynamic history on the Batman universe began with 1971’s The Brave and the Bold #98. His distinct and timeless art style crossed over several iconic Batman books over his 3 decade span.

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Tim Drake’s unofficial first appearance as the third Robin in Marv Wolfman & George Pérez’ “A Lonely Place of Dying”

📖: Batman (Vol 1) #442
🎨: Jim Aparo, Mike DeCarlo, Adrienne Roy, and John Costanza
📅: December 1989 (cover date) • Published by DC

#Batman #Robin #TimDrake

[Jorge Fornés @jfornes74]

Main cover for Barbara Gordon: Breakout issue #7.

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Gotham City may be a hellhole, but it’s MY hellhole 🦇🌃 

#Lanterns #Gotham #Batman

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Hal Jordan and John Stewart by @Muaadib, ‘Lanterns’ variant cover to Green Lanterns #39 out on September 23, 2026 by DC Comics.

#Lanterns #GreenLantern

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Kevin Conroy (November 30, 1955 - November 10, 2022) & Arleen Sorkin (October 14, 1955 - August 24, 2023), the voices of Bruce Wayne’s Batman and Harleen Quinzel’s Harley Quinn, respectively, at an early 1992 recording session for television’s ‘Batman: The Animated Series’.🦇♦️🕊️