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Batman/Catwoman Particular #1 preview

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Some of comics' great artists are stepping in to finish Batman/Catwoman Special #1, the live on known jut of the tardy John Paul Leon before his untimely passing.

Mitch Gerads, the longtime artistic partner of Batman/Catwoman Special #1 author Tom King, has signed on to draw the last half of the issue Leon was working connected before he passed away after a long fight with genus Cancer this old May. The special has been expanded to keep the legacy of the creative person, with Gerards joined by Bernard Chang, Shawn Crystal, and Dave Stewart will completed the original storey, knowledgeable by Clayton Cowles.

The special will also admit a line-aweigh of artists providing pin-ups, including:

Lee Bermejo
Refuse Cowan
Becky Cloonan
Klaus Janson & Dave Stewart
Rick Leonardi & Dave James Maitland Stewart
Chris Batista
Dani & Tamra Bonvillain
Ibrahim Moustafa
Clay Mann & Seth Mann
Vanesa del Rey
Dave Johnson
Joëlle John Luther Jone
Shawn Martinborough & Chris Sotomayor
Khary Rhandolph & Emilio Lopez
Tula Lotay
Dave Gibbons
Bruno Walter Simonson & Laura Dean Martin
Jon Bogdanove & Sian Mandrake

Along with essays past Michael Stuart Davis and Kurt Busiek

"With the blessing of Tommy Lee Edwards, Bernard Chang, and DC, it is my immense honor to announce my adjacent project is the back one-half of the Batman/Catwoman Unscheduled #1 that the late great John Paul Leon was working on right field up to his passing," Gerads tweeted. "Honored doesn't begin to cut it…

"I've only gotten to give ear prohibited with [John Apostle of the Gentiles Leon] in real world a couple multiplication, but we chatted online a great deal as well," the artist continued. "As an creative person he meant the absolute world to me, and as a coworker/admirer: he was unmatched. A correct drama Bang-up. "

With these revised plans now in situ to finish the come forth, D.C. has regular Batman/Catwoman Special #1 to go happening cut-rate sale on January 25, 2022.

Batman/Catwoman Special #1 was originally deep-laid to be released in the late summer 2021, as a special standalone addition to the main 12-issue Batman/Catwoman series by B. B. King, Clay Horace Mann, and Liam Distinct

Here are three of Leon's pages from Batman/Catwoman Special #1, including recently colored images.

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Batman/Catwoman Unscheduled #1 pages

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Batman/Catwoman (and away extension, Batman/Catwoman Special #1) takes pose in an alternate universe slightly disconnected from D.C.'s main existence but future tangentially off Tom King's recent Batman run. In this Elseworlds-like story, Bruce and Selina reunited after she left him at the altar - going on to finally get married (and take up a kid straight).

According to limited information common by DC, the Batman/Catwoman Special was to be a flashback that explores previously unknown deeper connections between Bruce and Selina as children and teenagers, earlier they even became vigilantes.

Leon illustrated the primary cover to Batman/Catwoman Special #1, with variant covers by Lee Weeks and Bill Sienkiewicz. Check them out here:

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Batman/Catwoman Primary #1 covers

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