Batman Eternal

Batman Eternal
Cover of Batman Eternal #1 (April 2014 DC Comics). Art by Jason Fabok.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Weekly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	April 2014 – April 2015
Number of issues	52
Main character(s)	Batman Batman Family James Gordon Jason Bard Carmine Falcone Hush
Creative team
Writer(s)	Issues 1–21: Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, John Layman, Ray Fawkes, Tim Seeley Issues 22–52: Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Ray Fawkes, Kyle Higgins, Tim Seeley
Artist(s)	Multiple Issues 1–3, 14, 21, 32–34: Jason Fabok Issues 4, 15–17, 23: Dustin Nguyen, Derek Fridolfs Issues 5, 18, 24: Andy Clarke Issue 6: Trevor McCarthy Issues 7, 19–20: Emanuel Simeoni Issues 8–9: Guillem March Issue 10: Riccardo Burchielli Issue 11: Ian Bertram Issue 12: Mikel Janin Issue 13: Mikel Janin, Guillermo Ortego Issue 22: Jorge Lucas Issues 25–26: R. M. Guéra Issue 27: Javier Garron Issue 28: Meghan Hetrick Issue 29: Simon Coleby Issues 30–31: Fernando Pasarin, Matt Ryan Issues 35–36, 48–49: Fernando Blanco Issues 37–38: Andrea Mutti Issue 39: Ramon Perez Issue 40: Juan José Ryp Issues 41–42: Joe Quinones Issue 43: David Lafuente Issue 44: Aco Issue 45: Javi Fernandez Issue 46: Alessandro Vitti Issue 47: Juan Ferreyra Issues 50–51: Alvaro Martinez, Raul Fernandez Issue 52: Paulo Siqueira, others

Batman Eternal is a year-long weekly limited series published by DC Comics, that began in April 2014. The series featured Batman, his allies, and Gotham City, and was written by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Ray Fawkes, Kyle Higgins and Tim Seeley. John Layman was originally scheduled to write for the series as well, before leaving the project in January 2014 and being replaced by Higgins; his final issue was issue 10. Batman Eternal ran through April 2015, after which it took a hiatus, before returning in October 2015 for a 26-issue weekly sequel series titled Batman and Robin Eternal.

In October 2013, DC Comics announced the series would launch in early 2014, with Scott Snyder heading the story. Additional writers include James Tynion IV, John Layman, Ray Fawkes, and Tim Seeley, with art at the beginning handled by Jason Fabok. Snyder and Tynion co-wrote the first story arc, which lays the groundwork for the series. The story lines then move to a bigger story that includes Snyder's Batman title, once it finishes the "Zero Year" story line. The series is part of the 75th anniversary celebration of Batman.

In November 2013, Snyder released a teaser image by Fabok, titled "Happy Batsgiving", inspired by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris' The First Thanksgiving 1621. The image was intended to be "full of Easter eggs and teases" for the series. In December 2013, Seeley stated that Snyder and Tynion created the overarching plot threads of the series to keep each writer progressing, but then further broke the whole story down to different genres for each writer to work in. Fawkes also added that each writer takes turns being the "lead" on the issue, while the others continue to contribute their parts to the issue.