Fans at right this moment’s Gotham City Confidential panel at New York Comic Con have been handled to a particular tease for a novel venture coming later this yr. DC Comics will launch a “fauxsimile” version for Batman #428, half 3 of the notorious “A Death in the Family” storyline, that includes alternate pages during which second Robin Jason Todd doesn’t die.
Jason Todd’s tenure as Robin was a mere 5 years earlier than the character met his grisly demise by the hands of The Joker within the pages of “A Death in the Family.” While the character would ultimately be resurrected as Red Hood, the demise of Robin loomed giant over the Batman mythos for many years. And it was all determined by the followers.
Batman #427, half two of “A Death in the Family,” ended with Robin captured, crushed, and trapped with a bomb set by The Joker. Batman arrived on the warehouse simply because the bomb exploded, and the within again cowl of the difficulty gave followers the possibility to resolve what would occur subsequent. Calling one 900-number meant a vote for Robin to dwell; calling one other meant a vote for his demise. Over 10,000 votes have been solid, and by a margin of simply 72 votes readers determined that Robin ought to die.
The new ‘fauxsimile’ difficulty, releasing in December to coincide with the thirty fifth anniversary of the unique Batman #428’s launch, will embrace a mixture of alternate pages and patch panels from the story’s unique artistic crew – Jim Starlin, Jim Aparo, Mike DeCarlo, Adrienne Roy, and John Costanza. The alternate script and paintings have been created again in 1988, within the occasion that followers voted the opposite approach. One web page of the alternate artwork was used within the pages of 2005’s Batman Annual #25, whereas the remaining pages remained within the DC vault till a couple of years in the past, when a deluxe version hardcover of “Batman: A Death in the Family” lastly revealed them to followers in full.
The ‘Fauxsimile’ version of Batman #428 is being drop-solicited for launch on December twelfth, 2023.
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