No Batman, no problem: Detective Comics' February 2022 issues highlight Gotham's other heroes - bellgivall

Atomic number 102 Batman, atomic number 102 problem: Detective Comics' February 2022 issues highlight Gotham's other heroes

Detective Comics #1054 cover version (Image credit: Irvin Rodriguez (DC))

Batman may be departure Gotham City, but his (erstwhile) main title Detective Comics isn't slowing down from the looks of its February 2022 issues. Detective Comics, which wish get shipping weekly in late December, is diving into a ternion-month all-night 'Shadows of the Bat' event that follows the remaining Bat-Family with their first real challenge post-Batman - the hole the annihilated Arkham Asylum leaves in Gotham, and the seek to replace it ( the Arkham Tower) that ends up going horribly wrong.

Detective Comics #1052 cover — Police detective Comics #1052 compensate (Fancy credit: Irvin Rodriguez (DC))

Detective Comics series author Mariko Tamaki continues happening the title in February 2022, writing the chief story in Police detective Comics #1051 through #1054, connected by artist Max Raynor happening all four hebdomadally issues. They will delve deeper into the mystery surrounding Arkham Tower, and the cruel and conniving experimenter Dr. Wear who is victimization information technology atomic number 3 means for his own ends.

And while Batman isn't in Detective Comics' main story, his shadow looms onto the backup ordination story 'Menage of Gotham' aside writer Matthew Rosenberg and Fernando Blanco, which continues in all four of the serial publication' February 2022 issues.

The serial, which is set to begin in January 4, 2022's Police detective Comics #1047, follows the impact Batman and Arkham Asylum get had on the city - in particular on one young boy who was saved from the Joker by Batman early in his life - but carries trauma with him that leads him to be institutionalized at Arkham Asylum.

As far arsenic covers go, February 2022's Detective Comics leave all feature a main concealment by Irvin Rodriguez, a variant covering aside Robert Edward Lee Bermejo, and a hard-to-find variant pass over by Jorge Fornes simply available in a 1:25 ratio (for all 25 copies of the issue a retailer buys, they can buy incomparable copy of Fornes' variant brood).

Here's a look at all of Irvin Rodriguez's covers for Police detective Comics #1051 - #1054:

Project 1 of 4

Detective Comics #1051 cover — (Mental image credit: Irvin Rodriguez (D.C.))

Detective Comics #1051 - #1054 covers

Look-alike 2 of 4

Effigy 3 of 4

Detective Comics #1053 cover — (Image credit: Irvin Rodriguez (DC))

Image 4 of 4

Here's the February 2022 schedule for each 40-page government issue of Investigator Comics featuring the 2 serialized stories:

February 1, 2022: Detective Comics #1051
February 8, 2022: Detective Comics #1052
Feb 15, 2022: Detective Comics #1053
February 22, 2022: Detective Comics #1054

DC has been quietly display how even without Batman, the remaining Thrash-Family are ready to be Gotham's protectors .

Newsarama Senior Editor Chris Double-dyed has covered drama Good Book word for Newsarama since 2003, and has also written for USA Today, Life, Amusement Time period, Newspaper publisher's Weekly, Wonder Amusement, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Cartoon Brewage, Bleeding Cool, Comic Shop News program, and CBR. He is the author of the book Modern: Masters Cliff Chiang, cobalt-authored Artistic creation of Wanderer-Man Classic, and contributed to Dark Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Laughable) Cons. He has acted as a underestimate for the Testament Eisner Humorous Industriousness Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. Chris is a member of the Ground Library Association's Graphic Novel & Comics Round Table. (He/him)