Media Release -- DETECTIVE COMICS #871, the first issue from the new creative team of writer Scott Snyder (AMERICAN VAMPIRE) and artist Jock (THE LOSERS) is now sold out at DC Comics and is set to return in a new, second printing!
"I'd love to just send up a huge, Bat-signal of thanks to all the readers out there," says Snyder. "The sales news is amazing, but nothing has been more thrilling or gratifying the past week than reading the reader responses. I know that for everyone working on Detective right now, the character of Batman holds a very special status. And for all of us - Jock, Francesco, Dave Baron and me - doing the series is wholly about telling a story we're all in love with, a story that we can be proud of as something that's new and our own, but also steeped in the history of Batman and Gotham. We've just started, but this is a big story with lots of parts, and I can say honestly that all of us are even more excited for what's coming in the next few issues than what's been published already. Really though, we can't thank you enough, DC Nation. Promise to work as hard as possible to earn our keep in Gotham."
DETECTIVE COMICS #871 Second Printing (OCT108156) features a recolored version of the original cover by Jock. This issue is scheduled to arrive in stores on December 22 and has a Final Order Cutoff date of December 2.
Upcoming issues of DETECTIVE COMICS are available as follows:
DETECTIVE COMICS #872 (OCT100177) is on FOC on December 2 and is scheduled to arrive in stores on December 29.
DETECTIVE COMICS #873 (NOV100167) is solicited in the November Previews and is scheduled to arrive in stores on January 26.
DETECTIVE COMICS #874 (DEC100197) is solicited in the December Previews and is scheduled to arrive in stores on February 23.
Here are some of the reviews for this issue:
* "Lovely." - TIME's TECHLAND
* "It's hard to read DETECTIVE COMICS #871 and not feel like a new era is upon us." - CRAVE ONLINE
* "If you want a Batman comic with the emphasis on the detective and a classic Bat-comic feel, Snyder and company deliver the issue for you." - COMIC BOOK RESOURCES
* "I could look at these pages all night." - iFANBOY
* "As Snyder and Jock put their foot on the gas, they've got some real potential to bring the house down." - NEWSARAMA
