A friend sent us a link the other day that was to a very fun news story in Australia. It seems that the city of Melbourne recently broke the World's Record for "Most Superhero Costumes". The event took place in Federation Square & 1245 costumed heroes made an appearance. Shown here are just a few of the wonderful photos taken by Alex Coppel. Ahhhhh, Little Bat-Baby is so cute, goo goo! To see the whole news story ( with many other fun photos ) just click HERE!
POW!! Here's the Debut Trailer Video for the new BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD VIDEO GAME ( For Wii & Nintendo DS )!! Overall the game looks pretty cool & it will have a release date of September 7th, 2010.
The Wizard World Comic Convention is coming to Philly from June 11th to the 13th, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The reason I mention it is because Adam West ( Bruce Wayne / Batman ) & Julie Newmar ( Catwoman ), the actors who played those characters in the 1966 BATMAN TV Show, will be there! Plus, hundreds of comic book artists, writers, pencillers, inkers, creators and directors are also set to attend. Some of them have even worked in Batman comics: Ethan Van Sciver, Mark McKenna, Jim Calafiore, & Arthur Suydam ( all pictured down below ), just to name a few. All VIP Ticket Holders will receive a special limited edition BATMAN ZOMBIE Art Print ( only 600 made & a picture of this print is shown up above ) signed by Arthur Suydam! For a complete listing of special guests and activities, as well as where to get tickets, please click HERE!
Alright! Here's our official announcement for the lucky Bat-Blog Fan who won the latest Bat-Blog Contest that ended late last night, at midnight! But before we announce that we have got to thank our good friend, The BATFAN, for this wonderful donation. Without his generosity this contest could not have happened. So, many many thanks to him, he ROCKS! Now, for the winner of the BATMAN MINI-BUST STATUE, Mint in The Original Box. The lucky winner, picked totally at random, is Clyde K. of Memphis, TN. Hey Clyde, we're going to be contacting you by email to confirm your address & as soon as we hear back from you we will be mailing this right out, congratulations!! To everybody else I want to thank you for entering & wish you better luck next time. In fact, we'll be having another Bat-Blog Contest very very soon so keep an eye out for that.
OK, Ya gotta totally love these photos because this kid is so cool! His name is Thomas & his Dad sent us these wonderful pics. In the 1st two pictures we see Thomas as the Nightwing character & his costume is really really great! Plus, he has an awesome batarang. How cool is that?! Then, in the next group of photos, he is a different superhero because this is how he appeared at a special comic book convention dressed as the Dark Knight himself, Batman! I want to thank his parents for sharing these special family photos. Please tell Thomas he's an AWESOME SUPERHERO & he looks very very cool!
OK, if you're a Hembeck Fan ( and who isn't? ) then you're gonna totally love this comic book cover parody artwork! Fred Hembeck, famous cartoonist & artist, has been making fun of Marvel & DC Comics characters for years. A few years ago he started to create "Cover Re-Creations", which are basically a perfect copy of a classic comic book cover, but done in the Hembeck-style. Here's one right here. But this one is pretty interesting because it's a mock-up of a non-existent DETECTIVE COMICS cover that looks just like the iconic cover to Daredevil #7. This book was originally drawn by Wally Wood & was the 1st appearance of the, now famous, "red costume". Hembeck's drawing is a total copy of that but instead of drawing Daredevil & the Sub-Mariner he made it a Batman comic book with Aquaman as the villain...very cool! It's sort of ironic that Sub-Mariner & Aquaman are both "underwater guys", ha!
