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Holy licensing deal, Batman! It seems that the campy, kitschy 1966 version of Batman—which was long verboten to be mentioned at DC and WB in general due to it's campy, kitschy nature. But as many noted, a line of toys based on the show was introduced at Toy Fair, and now we see that a whole line of merchandise, including a digital-first comic -- is coming.

As DC keeps clowning around and pushing hard to single-handedly choke the concept of irony to death by summer, the company's average and total sales figures for new comic books performed solidly in the month of February. After hiring Bob Harras, hiring Rob Liefeld, hiring every writer and artist who worked at Marvel in 1999, releasing a Green Lantern title especially for kids, releasing more Watchmen comics several of which written by J. Michael Straczynski, making a habit of hiring, promoting, then firing creative personnel on all kinds of titles every month, releasing Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill, hiring a raging homophobe to write Superman and announcing "WTF month," in February 2013 DC released Justice League of America #1, a new high-profile Geoff Johns vehicle promoted with not one, not three, not 12, but 54 different cover choices, thus making it something like the lynchpin of gimmick-driven market gaming. I mean, the plastic-ring thing from a couple of years back was a fair stab, but this one is bolder.

Bob Fingerman talks about the new definitive version of Minimum Wage, surviving as a cartoonist, why people like the apocalypse and more in a wide ranging interview.

It's been an... eventful couple of days around DC's HQs. There's a little more information slipping out around the Superman and Green Lantern franchises. First...

The relaunch of Captain Marvel, with Carol Danvers in the title role, started off very shakily. The first six-issues told a time-travel story which...

I think we can finally throw some dirt on the coffin of the Neil Gaiman - Todd McFarlane lawsuit.  The New York Times has announced that...

It's a modern comic book cliche.  Need sales?  Kill off a character.  Preferably a big enough character than it can make all the newspapers...

Part of yesterday's "March Surprise" for DC Comics—confirmation that two popular writers were walking off their books due to editorial interference—was another odd fragment...

In May Top Shelf in the US and Knockabout in the UK will be co-publishing The From Hell Companion. The Top Shelf website describes...

Valiant have released a teaser today, which teases (as teasers are wont to do)  something coming up in July.. Well, I'm not a betting man,...

Consider it official, Joshua Fialkov is definitely off his Green Lantern books.  DC's Alex Segura has tweeted the new writers. Excited to confirm @vandotjensen as...

CONSTANTINE #1 Written by JEFF LEMIRE and RAY FAWKES Art by RENATO GUEDES Colored by MARCELO MAIOLO Lettered by SAL CIPRIANO Edited by KATIE KUBERT and BRIAN CUNNINGHAM Covers by...