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New For Patrons: Index to Batman Ongoing Titles

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New for my Patrons today is a handy page that’s half collecting guide and half index at the back of the Batman guidebook – the Index to Batman Ongoing Titles.

This reflects a direction I’m heading in with the X-Men guides as well in the near future – giving a single, alphabetical index to all possible titles for folks who aren’t sure exactly what they’re looking for. In addition to listing all of Batman’s ongoings, this page acts as the guide for the following four orphaned titles that don’t fit in anywhere else:

  • Batman Chronicles (1995)
  • Batman Confidential (2007 – 2011)
  • The Batman Family (1975- 1978)
  • Batman: Shadow of the Bat (1992 – 2000)

Want access to this guide? As a smaller guide, this one isn’t schedule for official release anytime soon. Patrons at the Crushing Comics Club level have access right now; Pledgeonauts will gain access in a few months. Full public release will come later – perhaps in November for the release of Justice League?

Batman by Grant Morrison – The Complete Guide & Trade Reading Order

Updated April 12, 2026! This page tells you everything you need to know and buy to read Grant Morrison’s Batman epic saga from 2006 to 2013. It includes every issue in comprehensive order, listing all of the formats in which each issue has been published. Last updated April 2026 with titles scheduled for release through December 2026.

Batman has had several epic single-author runs in his modern history, from the likes of Denny O’Neil, Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker, Scott Snyder, and more!

What makes Grant Morrison’s run any different or more notable?

It’s a question of history and of scope. Grant Morrison’s run is predicated on a knowledge and reference to past Batman stories, including some Pre-Crisis stories that had been in continuity limbo for several years. Also, no single author had previously had a Batman run of this scope – running across three titles and seven years and intersecting with one of DC’s biggest events along the way.

Plus, there’s the x-factor of Morrison himself. They is a psychedelic comic author as likely to mine continuity for details that deserve fresh exploitation as they are to take characters on inexplicable journeys with some of the steps missing or out of order.

Like him or not, Grant Morrison’s arrival on a superhero title almost always makes for appointment comics. Pairing him with the most-popular comic book hero in the world was a lightning-in-a-bottle moment for DC.

Ready to get started? [Read more…] about Batman by Grant Morrison – The Complete Guide & Trade Reading Order

DC’s Gotham Titles – The Definitive Collecting Guide and Reading Order

The definitive issue-by-issue collecting guide and trade reading order for Gotham City comic books in omnibus, hardcover, and trade paperback collections. Part of Crushing Krisis’s Crushing Comics and The Definitive Guide to Collecting Batman Comics. Last updated February 2017 with titles scheduled for release through July 2017.

Gotham City: More Than Just Batman

To start, this guide focuses on literal “Gotham” comics – books with the word “Gothman” in their titles. As the DC Guide expands, it will act as an index for other Gothman-based titles covered on other pages. [Read more…] about DC’s Gotham Titles – The Definitive Collecting Guide and Reading Order

Batman – Collecting Guide & Reading Order (Post-Crisis, from #401 – Present)

Updated April 23, 2026! The Batman comic books definitive issue-by-issue collecting guide and trade reading order for omnibus, hardcover, and trade paperback collections. Part of Crushing Krisis’s Crushing Comics and The Definitive Guide to Collecting Batman Comics. Last updated April 2026 with titles scheduled for release through December 2026.

Post-Crisis Batman: Batman (1940) #401 (Nov 1986) – Present Day

Many of DC’s heroes saw their comics relaunched in the wake of Crisis on Infinite Earths to delineate where their new continuity began. That was not the case with Batman, whose Detective Comics and Batman continued their runs uninterrupted.

Batman #401 is the first appearance of Post-Crisis Batman. Yet, the true keystone to Post-Crisis Batman is Year One in #404-407. Frank Miller pens a fresh, definitive take on Batman’s first year in the cowl that becomes the in-continuity bedrock of all further Batman stories. [Read more…] about Batman – Collecting Guide & Reading Order (Post-Crisis, from #401 – Present)