Batman Day is an annual event organized by DC Entertainment to celebrate and promote Batman.

The third Batman Day at Midtown Comics, where a person dressed as Batman meets writers and artists including Frank Miller and Greg Capullo

The first Batman Day was July 23, 2014. This was the year of the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Batman in Detective Comics in 1939. The day was chosen to coincide with San Diego Comic-Con. Subsequent Batman Days have been on either the third or fourth Saturday in September.[1][2]

Batman Day was established by the DC Comics, Warner Bros and DC Entertainment after the very first Superman Day was celebrated on June 12, 2013, the day when Zack Snyder's Man of Steel debuted in theaters.

Events edit

List of Batman Days
Year Date Refs
2014 July 23 [2]
2015 September 26 [2]
2016 September 17
2017 September 23
2018 September 15
2019 September 21
2020 September 19 [3]
2021 September 18
2022 September 17
2023 September 16
2024 September 21

References edit

  1. ^ Leah Asmelash (20 September 2019), Here's where you can see the Bat Signal on Batman Day this Saturday, CNN
  2. ^ a b c Timothy Donohoo (19 September 2019), What Is Batman Day - and Why Does the Date Keep Moving?, CBR
  3. ^ DC Comics. "Batman Day". Twitter. Retrieved 31 August 2020.

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