A Batman #1 doesn’t come along very often. Well, unless you’ve been reading comics for the past 15 years, in which case, it’s come along a couple times already. Modern comic books! But even then, in what is about to be eight-and-a-half-decades of Batman that’s still not a lot of relaunches–and DC is going all-in to make this fourth one stand out.

DC's flagship Batman comic. Current writer Chip Zdarsky just ended his run with Batman #157, paving the way for Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee's Hush 2 storyline in March. And once Hush 2 is over, DC will be relaunching Batman with a new #1 issue,

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DC Comics stunned attendees at the ComicsPRO convention with a surprise announcement. The state of the Batman monthly series following Hush 2 has been a total mystery. However, DC has now revealed that the series will relaunch with a new #1 issue.

Batman will relaunch with a brand-new #1 with the new creative team of Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez, along with a new Batman costume

Jorge and I have a very superhero-forward kind of take on Batman,” Fraction said in DC’s news release. “We’ve got a new Batmobile, we’ve got a new costume, we’ve got new characters, and we’ve got a lot of old ones too —good and bad;