Key Insights

• Sales Milestone: Batman #1 has achieved remarkable sales of 500,000 copies since its release.
• Second Print: Due to its success, Batman #1 is set for a second print on October 15th.
• Creative Team: The comic features writer Matt Fraction and artist Jorge Jimenez, both notable in the comic book industry.
• Reader Reception: Fraction expressed excitement over the positive response from readers at the launch event.

Whether through film, television, or ink, when the Bat-Signal is turned on, people will come. And that’s the case with the latest endeavor, Batman #1, which is being marked as the best-selling comic of the year, with 500,000 copies sold.

Released on just September 3rd, Batman #1 has, according to reports, taken over that top spot from another Batman comic: Batman #158, which hit around 400,000 copies. The run of Batman #1 has been so successful that it’s headed back for a second print, which is set to hit shelves on October 15th, complete with a new variant cover.

Batman #1 comes courtesy of Matt Fraction, who broke through in the early 2000s and has proven a reliable and respected figure in the comic book world via his work with Image and especially Marvel, doing work on X-Men, Iron Man, and Spider-Man. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Fraction – who grew up reading Batman comics – said, “I was lucky enough to attend the Rose City Comic Convention in my beloved Portland the weekend of Batman No. 1’s incredible launch, and have never felt such a thunderous, immediate embrace from readers before. It was an astonishing end to an incredible week, and it’s only the beginning.” Jorge Jimenez did the artwork for Batman #1.

Here is a brief rundown, as per DC: “A new day dawns for the Dark Knight Detective as Eisner Award-winning writer Matt Fraction (Hawkeye, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen) joins forces with superstar artist Jorge Jiménez (Batman, Summer of Superman Special) for an unforgettable new era of Batman! The best superhero in comics gets a brand-new first issue to kick off this new era that will test Batman and Bruce Wayne like never before.”

Regardless of the success of Batman #1, Matt Fraction isn’t going far from Marvel. In fact, he wrote the tie-in for The Fantastic Four: The First Steps, which arrived in July a few weeks ahead of the MCU installment.

Have you picked up Batman #1? What did you think of it in terms of a relaunch of the character? Let us know in the comments section below!