DC Comics has announced the latest of Batman team-ups with pulp heroes of yesteryear. DC and Dynamite will each take co-publisher credits on Batman/The Shadow due this April. But that’s not the only team-up in this announcement. Writing chores for the series will be a combined effort between storied Bat-scribe Scott Snyder and Steve Orlando (Midnighter, Batman Annual.) Art comes from veteran Riley Rossmo.
The crossover between two of the world’s greatest detectives, is planned to be a six issue miniseries. The full solicitation for the project follows.
Two of history’s greatest vigilantes are reunited at last! Murder has come to Gotham City, and Lamont Cranston appears to be the culprit…but he’s been dead for over fifty years! Batman will go to the ends of the Earth to unravel the mystery of Cranston’s life, but the mysterious Shadow will do everything in his power to stop him from learning too much…
The superstar team of writers Scott Snyder and Steve Orlando and artist Riley Rossmo brings you a dark and twisty modern noir like nothing you’ve seen before, with a brand-new villain unlike any either hero has faced! This is the unmissable crime series of 2017, so get on board now! Co-published with Dynamite.
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