The Mystery of the Identical Batman Covers

Batman The Dark Knight opens this weekend. So, I dug up some old Batman comic books and have some Bat-themed blog posts over the next couple of days.

So, let’s start off with a little mystery. Back in February 1995 (in comic book publishing time anyway, this was more likely December 1994 in people time), three different comics had near identical covers: Detective Comics #682(where the first Batman story appeared way back in 1939 in issue #27), Robin #14, and Shadow of the Bat #35. I’ll skim through these issues over the next day or two to try to figure out why they did that. If you know the answer, let me know.