#happy 85 years of Batman

[mikyapixie]

🦇HAPPY BATMAN DAY🦇

Happy 85 years of Batman

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I made this while listening to The Future by Mystery Skulls, unexpectedly it was good motivator!!!

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Happy 85 years, Batman!

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[stazjohnson]

For Batman Day, 85 years & still going strong. Happy birthday big guy.

[yutaan]

Holiday sale!

Hey there, my lovelies! Once again, the end of the year is fast approaching, which means we’re all hunting around for gifts for our loved ones (or to keep for ourselves - after all, you deserve gifts too, my lovelies). And what’s a wonderful present for a fandom-savvy giftee? That’s right, it’s ART!

My INPRNT shop is back open, and all items there are 10% off for the entire month of December with the code "FZE4NF"! And below, we have a wide array of beautiful papercraft originals, pre-made, packaged, and ready to be shipped to YOU! Happy holidays, my lovelies!

(Please note that due to tumblr’s image resizing, the artworks are not necessarily displayed at an accurate size in comparison to each other.)

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BUSTS (approx. 4″ tall)

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) - $70 each [BOTH SOLD]

Lady Amalthea (The Last Unicorn) - $65 [SOLD]

Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) - $65 [SOLD]

Jasmine (Aladdin) - $50

Mirabel (Encanto) - $60 [SOLD]

Meg (Hercules) - $50

Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho) - $55 [SOLD]

Liu Qingge (SVSSS) - $70 [SOLD]

Katara (Avatar: the Last Airbender) - $70 [SOLD]

Ed (Fullmetal Alchemist) - $75 [SOLD]

Yugi & Yami Yugi (Yugioh) - 8" wide - $210

Jiang Cheng & Jin Ling (MDZS/The Untamed) - 6" tall - $200 [SOLD]

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FULLBODIES (approx. 6″ tall)

Aerith (FFVII) - $85

Kagome (Inuyasha) - $75

Sakura (Cardcaptor Sakura) - $85 [SOLD]

Yor (Spy x Family) - $85 [SOLD]

Reigen (Mob Psycho 100) - $80 [SOLD]

L (Death Note) - $75

Vash (Trigun Stampede) - $95 [SOLD]

Howl + Calcifer (Howl's Moving Castle) - $95 each [BOTH SOLD]

Haku (Spirited Away) - $90 [SOLD]

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MINIS (approx. 3-3.5″ tall) - $30 each, three for $80, five for $125

Jin Ling, Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, Lan Xichen, Jiang Cheng (The Untamed/MDZS) [ALL SOLD]

Batman (DC), Anya (Spy x Family) [ALL SOLD]

2B (Nier: Automata), Chat Blanc (Miraculous Ladybug), Hunk (Voltron)

Sailor Moon, Dark Lady (Sailor Moon), Pikachu (Pokemon) [ALL SOLD]

Bakugo (BNHA)

Nezuko (Demon Slayer) [ALL SOLD]

MINI SETS - $60 each

WangXian (MDZS/The Untamed) [ALL SOLD]

Yunmeng Shuangjie (MDZS/The Untamed) [ALL SOLD]

Jin Ling & Jiujiu (MDZS/The Untamed) [ALL SOLD]

HuaLian (TGCF) [ALL SOLD]

BingQiu (SVSSS) [ALL SOLD]

Crowley & Aziraphale (Good Omens) [ALL SOLD]

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SIMPLE PAPERCRAFT (approx. 5" tall) - $20 each

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ZINES (5x7")

TALL ♥ small - 20 pages, handmade, personal illustrations, all-ages - $10 [SOLD OUT]

Battle Damage - 28 pages, pro-printed, multiple artists, teen and up - $15

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If you are interested in purchasing any of these artworks, please email me at yutaanchan23@yahoo.com with the subject line “Holiday Sale.” In the body of the email, please include:

Which piece(s) you wish to purchase

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If you have a tumblr username and would like to include it so I can recognize you, you can also do that! :D But it’s not a requirement.

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Pieces are first-come, first-served, so be quick! (Likewise, please note that I cannot reserve a piece for you indefinitely unless you are able to pay for it or place a down payment on it at the time you contact me. Thank you for your understanding!) This post will be updated throughout the month to show which pieces have been sold.

Happy gifting, lovelies!

[detectivereads]

Happy Batman Day!!!!!

85 years of the Cape Crusader, the Dark Knight, the Batman.

Looking back where Batman started from and seeing the new comics that are coming out today, Batman and the Batfam as defiantly came a long way.

I am hoping to see 100 years of Batman and what else can be brought to the table.

I also hope that we get to see a new Batman game series, that is on point with the Arkham series (I love Asylum, City, Knight.) I would like to see a switch release of Origins (I love what they did with the crime scenes that are sprinkled throughout the game).

I love City and Knight a lot because they introduce some of my favorite villains. But Origins was on point with Joker, Harley and Mr. Freeze. Maybe Harvey Dent origin story. Better yet why not have a game for the Long Halloween comic.

But, over all I want a Batman game that includes the whole Batfam, I would like to see a game where we can play as Batman and Bruce Wayne, that Bruce must make appearances in daytime and that opens several mysteries, and we play Batman and solve the mysteries. Also, I would love to play as some of the other members of the Bat family as well.

For this special day I got some new comic books that I am very happy to add to my collection, I am hoping to collect so much more in the future.

[zahri-melitor]

I so really really hate when people reduce each Robin down to a single personality element and act like that’s the only thing true about them.

Because whether it’s like the Joker summary in Robin #85:

Or the weirdly popular fanon ‘Dick was super super angry and Jason was a happy sweet bouncing baby’ version.

It’s more a case of “all of Dick, Jason, Tim and Damian have a bunch of overlapping personality traits, some of which they all have, some of which only some have and a handful that are particularly strong only in one of them” and in an argument to find ‘what makes them different/distinct’ turns into flanderising them all down to non-existence and makes them all extremely dull.

Also in terms of Dick’s time as Robin, I would be so confused how people keep saying he’s the ‘angry Robin’ when we currently have the longest-running Dick as Robin series since the 1970s currently coming out (World’s Finest), we have an origin story currently in print (Robin & Batman) as well as TWO OG Teen Titans series in print (WF Teen Titans and Teen Titans Year One), and it’s never been easier to get your hands on Dick as Robin content, but I’m aware people firstly don’t read comics and secondly think over correcting is a funny joke or something.

[nightlybirdie]

Happy Batman Day 2024! I actually was reminded this year before the actual day so I threw together a blue scale sketch 💙 Happy 85 years to my first favorite character. Btas inspired ofcourse. I'm headed to watch Mask of the Phantasm to celebrate

[heavenboy09]

Its that time again. For you all your Batman Fans out there.

Today is Batman Day. So go out there and celebrate the Dark Knight of Gotham City.

For 85 Years

DC COMICS GAVE THE WORLD 🌎

WITH THE BIRTH OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE 🕵️‍♂️ OF ALL TIMES

In The Dark Nights 🌙 In The Bustling Depths Of The Streets Of Gotham City

One Man Stands Alone In The Crime Wave Of RAVAGED CHAOS

One Man Skilled In The Many Ways & Forms Of Martial Arts Throught The World 🌎 to Hone His Physical Strength & Stamina against The Evil & The Corrupted. As His Body Is Now Honed to be A Ultimate Weapon Of Fighting.

One Man Armed With An Arsenal Of High Tech Array Of Gadgets & An Incredible Combatant Vehicle of Ultimate Non Lethal Weaponry

In The Darkest Hours Of Gotham City, He Will Be The Light That Shines Through.

I AM VENGEANCE... 😠

I AM THE NIGHT... 🌙

I AM

BATMAN 🦇

Happy Batman Day 🦇 85 Years and Going Strong

#BatmanDay #BatmanDay2024 #Batman85 #LongLiveTheBat #Batman #TheDarkKnight #TheCapedCrusader #WorldsGreatestDetective #IAmVengenace #IAmTheNight #IAmBatman #DCComics

[kstarlitchaotics]

Happy 54th birthday, Alex Ross 🦇🎂

Born in 1970, ever since he was three years old Alex Ross began to draw exactly what he saw in the real world. Characters such as Spider-Man and Superman, with their bright colors and heroic deeds, spoke to him as something he would want to portray on paper. He believes "superheroes are a mixture of every form of fiction – myth , science-fiction, mystery and magic – all in one giant pot. The best characters embody virtues we may try to find in ourselves." Due to this philosophy, the art of Alex Ross is rejoiced throughout the comic book world for its realistic style; That hyper realistic quality that inspirations such as Salvador Dali and Norman Rockwell possessed always wanted to permeate through Ross' comic book medium art, starting with his groundbreaking miniseries "Marvels" from 1994. Alex Ross has heavily contributed to the Batman and DC Universe In works such as Mark Waid’s Elseworlds “Kingdom Come”, “Batman: War on Crime”, Paul Dini’s tale “Case Study” (Batman: Black and White #2) and the cover series in Grant Morrison’s “Batman R.I.P”., becoming a memorable part of the visual evolution of the Caped Crusader in the character’s 85 year mythology.

Part of Alex Ross’ cover art to 2008-2009’s Batman #676-686 published by DC.

[misstergrayson]

Happy Batman Day!

A lot has changed in 85 years, huh?

And isn’t it weird to think how someday no one will be older than Batman, and only very, very few people who remember when it started are alive?

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

Batman is officially 85 years old on March 30, 2024. Say happy birthday to this overworked single dad.

James Gordon not only deputed in that same issue, he was also in the very first panel. He was literally there from the start.

Original comic parodied here is from Hark a Vagrant web comic by the talented Kate Beaton, which I am not realizing is a huge influence on my sense of humour.

[mikyapixie]

GUYS LOOK!!!

Guys one of my aunts birthday is today!!!! On Batman day!!! So I told her & she was so happy!!! She then asked me what I do on Batman day!!! I told her I watch Batman The Animated Series, watch a Batman movie, read some Batman comics, & make a collage!!! She said cool I’ll do the same I thought she was going to just watch a Batman movie!!! This year I made 2 & sent them to her before I posted them!!! Just now she sent me 2!!! MY AUNT ROCKS!!!!!

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[professorambrius]

Happy Birthday, Batman

Detective Comics

Batman

90s Batman films

Happy Birthday to Batman who appeared for the first time in Detective Comics #27, 85 years ago today.

Here are just a few of my favorite Batman comic covers.

[arunneronthird]

on comics the secret is, I've been into comics for... coming one 20 years now? and none of us have read everything, thats 85 years worth of books no one has time for that, so we all have little corners of the comics universe we really love, areas we oddly know a lot about, like me for example, my childhood comic shop had a ton of back issues but like... random as fuck so I think I read every issue of the Detroit Justice League, an era everyone else would rather totally forget. it's why the only Marvel comics I've ever read were Speedball, Wonder Man and West Coast Avengers.

any ways, point is read in any order its what we all did, ignore what you hate, love what you love even if other people don't know about it or care, and have fun its only worth it if you're having fun.

oh also canon is a fucking joke, this is comics, we invented reboots, recons, alternate time lines, evil twins, mirror universe, "no I didn't die" and the goddamn multiverse and again comics are 85 years old now, all the original writers are dead as fuck and the characters are being written by people who's parents weren't even alive when Superman and Batman were first published so the only difference between fanfic and published comics is those writers get paid by Warner Bros

hahah this made me v happy! thank u! i gotta say its been a challenge coming from manga which is written by one (1) person who generally knows what they are doing

as much as i complain about things though, im having lots of fun, i reeeeally like 90s batman and most of the new batman too, i really like all the cartoons and sometimes i like reading things i know i wont like and then being mad for a bit

[marirah]

20 questions for fic writers

thank you @vellaphoria for tagging me!

20 Questions for Fic Writers

How many works do you have on AO3?

oof okay it's a lot. i have two accounts, and one of them is over 10 years old so....

metukah (est 2013): 185

marirah (est 2022): 85

for a total of 270 works... oof

What’s your total A03 word count?

metukah: 407,889

marirah: 133,069

total: 540,958

What fandoms do you write for?

DC these days. I started in the one direction fandom, played around with Percy Jackson, the MCU, and Star Trek

What are your top five fics by kudos?

marirah:

Protected - T Sladick. After another blowout fight with Bruce, Dick offers to let his little brothers move in with him. And the mystery boyfriend they've never heard of before. (3.5k)

Daily Planet: Live From Gotham - G Superbat. Clark has an old crush on Batman and a new crush on Bruce Wayne. Lois is merciless. (3.5k)

Red - E JayTim. Jason doesn't know who this Red is or why he's in Dick's apartment, but it doesn't matter in the end. (6k)

Unread - G Jason & Dick. Jason finally caves to the kid's demands that he clear out his inbox. As it turns out, Dick has been writing to him for years. (1.5k)

Loud - G DickTim. Tim finds a little bird in his Nest and takes him home. (1k)

metukah:

Introducing Us - G batfam gen, side StephCass. The Justice League doesn’t know how many bats there are, or where Batman is keeping them all. (1.9k)

Field Trip - G Peter Parker & the Avengers. Peter Parker and his classmates take a trip to Stark Industries. He only spends about half of it wanting to melt into the floor. (3.2k)

I'm (Not) a Mess - G JayRoy. Roy Harper is Neal Caffrey. He's not letting that get in the way of his relationship with his daughter. (4.7k)

Ninjas as a Catalyst - G Birdflash. Peter doesn't like to remind people of how good an investigator he is, but he can definitely connect the dots. (4k)

Double Take - G Birdflash. Several years after Neal Caffrey disappears, Peter and Elizabeth are visiting El’s cousin Wally, who is engaged to Dick Grayson. Who used to be Neal Caffrey. (1.2k)

What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

i'm not really that angsty a writer i think? i thought letter (dicktim, SPYRAL) had an angsty ending but i checked, and... it doesn't really lmao

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

i mostly write happy endings, but my favorite one technically isn't up yet. i'm just really happy with how my joint year of the otp/year of jason and slade series is going.

Do you get hate on your fic?

luckily, i don't really!

Do you write smut?

absolutely (see above lmao)

Do you write crossovers?

i've written a lot of white collar x dc, and i've been playing with dc x marvel x percy jackson recently

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i know of

Have you ever had a fic translated?

i had someone ask once but i don't think anything ever came of it

Have you ever co-written a fic?

i had a co-written series once

What‘s your all-time favourite ship?

right now it's 1000% dicktim! (send me a message to join an 18+ dicktim server!)

What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

i have trouble finishing anything longer than a oneshot, they just rot in my scrivener files forever

What’s your writing strengths?

does fluff count? i like my fluff

What’s your writing weaknesses?

keeping up with things longer than 1k. also i tend to burn myself out

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

i'd feel more comfortable with it if i spoke the language. but i have been known to use pet names from other languages sometimes, namely Hebrew

First fandom you wrote for?

the first thing i ever wrote (in middle school) was technically percy jackson self insert. i just wanted to be friends with percy and annabeth. i still want to be friends with percy and annabeth

Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

oh man. pretty much everything i write, i write for myself, so all of my works have been my favorites at one point. right now, i'm really happy with Negative and Aperature, which are a series with reverse Robins dicktim.

I tag @klarion-the-witch-boy , @the-alice-of-hearts , @ginbenci, and @bittercape

[goldenagenonsense]

Action Comics #5 [October 1938]

After last issue, I feel like there’s not much that can unpleasantly surprise me. Superman’s questionable morality aside, we have a ways to go before we even get to Batman, much less Marvel comics and whatever else I find. It’s also a shorter story today - nine pages instead of thirteen. Hopefully that’ll make it a bit easier to go through!

Not much to say about the cover. Could be vaguely racist. That is not my problem.

On the other hand, the pre-story ad page had me double-take for a second when I thought it was Oliver Queen. But no, it was just a random dude with the same facial hair and haircut. Though now that makes me wonder what situation poor Ollie could have been caught up in to end up in a flooding dungeon.

We open up this story to telegraph lines broadcasting news of a terrible disaster. The Valleyho Dam is cracking under the strain of a huge downpour; should it give way, a mountain of water will sweep down the valley, killing thousands and destroying fertile land.

…you know, I think I saw a clip of this story before, when I was watching a youtube video on Superman. It pulled on some clips from an animated series that was clearly based on these original tales. Dunno when said series was animated and broadcast, but I kind of want to track them down and watch them, since they’re tied into this whole ‘golden age’ thing. Probably will be a while, though, if ever. Don’t want to spoil myself on content that’s 85 years old.

[Friend insert:

Solem: That'd be the Fleischer series. Classic short films from back when animation was too expensive to be shown in anything but cinemas, made in 1941 and 1942.]

Sounds like I have something to look forward to then in the nearish future!

At the Daily Star, the editor-in-chief demands Clark be brought to him. Lois tells him that Clark’s not in the office; the editor tells her to look for him and have him report in before he loses his mind. Lois asks why she can’t handle the assignment. The editor says it’s too important for a girl. Lois is not impressed with that logic, thinking mildly violent thoughts as she heads out.

Coincidentally, Clark is just outside the building. She puts on an eager air as she approaches him. Clark is shocked she’s actually happy to see him. She asks him to do her a favor and cover an assignment for him; he leaps on the task, eager to please. She tells him to head to the local hospital’s maternity ward, since a Mrs. Mahoney is expecting… septuplets? (My god, that poor woman. Someone help her. Can a person even have that many kids at once?) Clark thanks Lois for the chance to handle it. 

While Lois is getting herself a ticket to Valleyho, Clark is at the hospital, learning that Lois lied to him. Gasp! Honestly, that makes way more sense than having to worry about the poor theoretical woman he could have had to deal with. Clark starts to make his way back to the office, wondering if Lois double-crossed him.

The editor is not pleased when he finally shows his face - the biggest news story in months on the fire, and Clark wasted time at a hospital?? Clark tries to explain that he didn’t know, but the editor isn’t hearing it - the last train’s already left! Clark’s fired, he can report to the cashier.

Clark, however, has bigger fish to fry. He finds himself an empty room and strips out of his work suit, revealing he had his costume on underneath, cape included. Which, you know what, sure, why the fuck not. Maybe he just keeps the cape in his briefcase and puts it on afterward. 

Superman leaves the Daily Star from the roof, leaping out into the night. Leap after leap, covering huge distances, until he’s caught up to the train that Lois is on. He hits the ground running, quickly outpacing the train, all while smugly thinking about how if Lois thinks she can scoop him, she’s got another thing coming! 

He quickly reaches a bridge the train is set to go over - only to stop when he notices something wrong. A torrent has loosened the bridge’s supports, causing the track to tilt at an angle that makes a wreck inevitable. The train whistles in the distance - there’s no time to lose. Without a moment’s hesitation, Superman dives forward, seizing the supports and starting to push until the tracks level out again. He holds it in place as the train passes by, then allows it to crash. 

The passengers are startled at the sound, quickly gathering at the windows to see what happened. They gape at the collapsed bridge behind them, one of them commenting on how they’d be dead if it’d happened an instant earlier. The drivers note that they need to send a warning at the next junction for the other trains.

When the train arrives at Valleyho, Lois has to fight through everyone getting on board. She quickly flags down a taxi, but the driver wants nothing to do with going to the dam - she can have the car, he’s getting out of there! Lois, not to be deterred, does take the taxi for a spin, speeding her way to the dam. 

God, Lois truly is her best self, in full gremlin mode. She will get her story, dammit, even if it means throwing herself bodily into danger. It’s good to know that that’s been a core trait of hers right from the start. I already think this is my favorite story so far, and it’s half because of her.

Meanwhile, Superman’s struggling to hold the dam together, desperate to buy the people below enough time to evacuate. 

(Which, can I just say, this is the other half of the reason this story is delighting me - we’re seeing the core of the hero that we’re most familiar with 85 years later, the man who has incredible power and uses it to save lives. Like, yeah, the bits with him tackling rich people corruption, including flexing his investigator skills, is well and good, and gives a showcase of what he as Clark capable of. But him holding the dam together to buy the people below time to escape is just. Mmm. That’s the core of Superman we all are familiar with.)

Eventually, even Superman isn’t enough to keep the dam up; with a huge roar, it falls to pieces, sending floodwater roaring down the valley. Superman leaps above the turbulent rapids - but Lois can’t do the same, stuck in her taxi as the waters rush towards her. Superman spies the car, and rushes to save her, but the waters are faster, dragging the vehicle under and along for the ride. Lois braces herself, expecting a watery death -

Only to be pulled from the car by Superman, who quickly rushes towards the surface with her in his arms. Once they’re on the shore and Superman can readjust her, so she’s in a more comfortable bridal carry, he takes off like a shot, racing ahead of the floodwaters. 

Lois stirs, holding on tightly as he leaps up to a high pinnacle. He sets her down so he can put all of his strength into pushing on the rock; soon enough, the peak starts to crack, cascading downwards into the path of the water. The rocks seal up the mountain gap entirely, forcing the water to take another route away from the town.

Superman exhales in relief - that had been too close. Lois is ecstatic, gushing about how he saved all those people, before declaring that she could - and would - kiss him. Superman starts to refuse, only to be cut off by the kiss, temporarily dazed afterward from how good it was, much to her amusement. 

Superman sweeps her off her feet soon after, taking her to someplace she’ll be safe - where he’ll be safe from her as well. During the trip, she talks about how the first time he’d carried her like that, she’d been frightened - of the trip and of him. But now she loves it, and him! When he finally sets her down at Valleyho town, she begs him to stay, but Superman merely wishes her well and takes off.

Soon after, Clark calls in, stating that he’d gotten himself a plane to Valleyho and had some sensational news. He asks if he’s rehired; based on his reply afterward, the answer seems to be yes! When he finally leaves the phone booth, Lois happens to be there. Clark states that while the stunt she pulled wasn’t nice, he still likes her. Lois snubs him, thinking about how Clark is a spineless worm she can hardly bear to look at, especially after having been in the arms of a real man.

And with that, this story is a wrap! Wow! Short, but I loved it. This feels like the first establishing moment for both of them, in multiple ways. Here’s to hoping we get more stories like this going forward!