The Gang's All Here in 11/7's BATMAN Family Previews!

By Chad Burdette

on November 6, 2023

A new story arc begins post-Gotham War in Batman #139
It’s time to meet Chuck in Poison Ivy #16
Birds of Prey has established their beachhead…in Themyscira in Birds of Prey #3
The final installment of the Clown Prince of Crimes series in The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #12

Batman #139

Following the cataclysmic events of “The Gotham War,” Batman finds himself completely isolated from his family in Batman #139

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Batman #139

Batman struggles to keep the rage of Zur in check. But he can’t stop, because he’s out there, haunting the city, taunting the Dark Knight: The Joker.

And the new Batman is ready to stop him once and for all.Mindbomb” begins!

Creative Team

Writer: Chip Zdarsky
Artist: Jorge Corona & Jorge Jiménez
Inker: Adriano Di Benedetto
Colorists: Tomeu Morey & Ivan Plascencia
Letterer: Clayton Cowles
Standard Cover Artist(s): Jorge Jimenez & Tomeu Morey
Variant Cover Artist(s): Gabriele Dell’Otto; Frank Cho; Mike Deodato Jr; Otto Schmidt;
Associate Editor: Dave Wielgosz
Format: Ongoing Series
Page Count/Cover Price: 40 pages/$5.99

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POISON IVY #16

Pamela Isley’s journey continues as the hit DC comic book series by G. Willow Wilson, with art by Marcio Takara and covers by Jessica Fong, joined by continues her quest to undo the wrongs of man and return the Earth to the Green in POISON IVY #16.

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POISON IVY #16

IVY’S LATEST ADVERSARY IS…CHUCK?!

As Ivy recovers from her latest bout, her thoughts are strangely drawn to a person whose life she ruined. It’s time to meet Chuck: an absolutely ordinary, everyday family man who is about to discover he has a higher calling in life.

Creative Team

Writer: G. Willow Wilson
Artist(Penciller): Marcio Takara
Colorist: Arif Prianto
Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Cover Artist: Jessica Fong
Variant Cover Artist(s): David Nakayama; Otto Schmidt; Mike Deodato Jr.; Eliza Ivanova
Editor: Arianna Turturro
Assistant Editor: Jessica Berbey
Group Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-in-Chief: Marie Javins
Format: Ongoing
Page Count/Price: 32 pages /$3.99

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Birds of Prey #3

Kelly Thompson (Captain Marvel, Black Widow) makes her long-awaited DC Universe writing debut, and is joined by her Hawkeye partners-in-crime Leonardo Romero (Batman) and Jordie Bellaire (Wonder Woman) to debut an all-new, all-deadly Birds of Prey series…still breaking hearts and faces after all these years

Comic Watch Review: Birds of Prey #2: Playing the Wild Card Early

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Birds of Prey #3

THE FIRST MISSION FOR THE NEW TEAM! DESTINATION: THEMYSCIRA!

The covert first mission of the re-formed Birds of Prey has established their beachhead…in Themyscira! What could be so important to Black Canary that she’d risk the wrath of the greatest warriors on Earth?!

Creative Team

Writers: Kelly Thompson
Artist: Leonardo Romero
Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
Letterer: Clayton Cowles
Cover Artists: Leonardo Romero & Jordie Bellaire
Variant Cover Artists: W. Scott Forbes; Chris Bachalo; Otto Schmidt; Leonardo Romero
Editors: Ben Abernathy
Format: Ongoing
Cover Price/Page Count: $3.99/32 pages

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The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #12

From the twisted minds of Matthew Rosenberg (Task Force Z, What’s the Furthest Place from Here?) and Carmine Di Giandomenico (Batman: The Knight) comes a violent, mind-bending new series that picks up from the cataclysmic end of The Joker and follows the mayhem across the United States in THE JOKER: THE MAN WHO STOPPED LAUGHING #12, the final installment of the series.