Batman #1

History

DC Comics announced Chip Zdarsky as the incoming Batman writer alongside returning artist Jorge Jiménez in early 2022, with Zdarsky following Joshua Williamson's brief six-issue tenure. Batman #125 — the 48-page oversized debut of their collaboration — hit American shelves on July 5, 2022, with colors by Tomeu Morey and a Catwoman backup written and drawn by Belén Ortega. ECC Ediciones, the official Spanish publisher of DC Comics in Castilian, collected and translated the issue (with translation by Felip Tobar Pator) and released it on March 28, 2023 as the opening chapter of their new Batman grapa series, numbered both as #1 (new local numbering) and #131 (legacy count). A special signed collector's edition variant was also produced for the Spanish market.

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• Published by ECC Ediciones in Spain on March 28, 2023 as a 48-page color grapa, simultaneously numbered #1 (new series) and #131 (legacy series count).
• Adapts DC Comics' Batman #125 (USA, July 5, 2022), the first issue of the Chip Zdarsky run on the main Batman title.
• Written by Chip Zdarsky; main art by Jorge Jiménez; colors by Tomeu Morey; backup story art by Belén Ortega.
• Translation into Castilian Spanish credited to Felip Tobar Pator.
• Launches the 'Failsafe' story arc, which introduces Failsafe, a new villain conceived by Zdarsky as Batman's equivalent of Doomsday — an enemy designed specifically to defeat the Dark Knight.
• The issue contains a Catwoman-focused backup story (written by Zdarsky, drawn by Belén Ortega) running alongside the main narrative.
• A secondary backup thread — written by Zdarsky with art by Leonardo Romero — begins exploring Batman's early development of the Zur-En-Arrh psychological contingency, a thread that grows throughout the run.
• A special signed collector's edition variant of this ECC issue was produced and sold through select Spanish bookshops such as Librería Serendipia.

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