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BATMAN/DEADPOOL #1
The Cosmic Kiss Caper
Written by GRANT MORRISON; Art by DAN MORA; Main cover by DAN MORA
DC Comics, January 2026, Color, 64pgs, $7.99
THE MOMENT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! The Dark Knight and the Merc with a Mouth team up for an adventure so mind-bending you'll think you're in a dream! Brought to you by legendary creators Grant Morrison and Dan Mora!
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Announced by Entertainment Weekly back in May 2025, DC's Batman/Deadpool #1 is the second of two Marvel/DC crossovers featuring (arguably, in Marvel's case at least) the two companies' flagship characters, following Zeb Wells and Greg Capullo's Deadpool/Batman #1, published by Marvel and released back in September.
This issue also features five backup stories featuring team-ups between various DC and Marvel characters that I won't be covering here - Constantine/Doctor Strange by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson and Hayden Sherman; Nightwing/Laura Kinney Wolverine by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo; Harley Quinn/The Hulk by Mariko Tamaki and Amanda Conner; and Static/Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and Denys Cowan.
Unlettered previews of pages 9-11 on DC's website on October 23rd. Pages 3-8 previewed on Bleeding Cool on November 16th. Published November 19th.
How many covers?
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Page 3 - Pages 3 to 8 were previewed by Eternity/Kismet. P
Page 4 - Victor Gover, Sportsmaster II. P
Page 5 - Body of The Writer, from Suicide Squad #58. P
Page 6-7 - The Comic Book Pieta, as famously featured on the covers of Batman #156 ('Robin Dies at Dawn'), Uncanny X-Men #136 (the Death of Phoenix),Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 (the Death of Supergirl), and in Morrison's own Final Crisis #6, amongst many, many others.
I'm most familiar with '*choke*' as shorthand for a character crying from Silver Age Superboy and/or Legion of Super Heroes comics, but I don't know that it originated there.
'effendi', a term of respect roughly equivalent to 'mister' or 'sir' in some Middle Eastern cultures, was a regular bit of Stan Lee patter in his Stan's Soapbox columns for Marvel's Bullpen Bulletin page, which ran from 1965 through the early 2000's.
"Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the waters" is a royalty-dodging mash-up of the first two lines of Gene MacLellan's gospel pop song, 'Put Your Hand in the Hand' -
Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the waters
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea
'Put Your Hand in the Hand' was a hit for Canadian band Ocean in 1971, a sample from which featured in 'Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun' by the Beastie Boys on their 1989 LP, Paul's Boutique. The song was also covered by such luminaries as Elvis, Sammy Davis Jr., Joan Baez and many more.
"I'll show you how it all went down" is a line from Gram Parsons' 1974 song, 'Return of the Grievous Angel', released posthumously after Parsons' death in 1973. I'm not sure Grant is much of a country-rock music head so maybe this is just a coincidence.
"...and hope to die at dawn", as in 'Robin Dies at Dawn' from Batman #156, as mentioned above.
What are these gremlins Deadpool is fighting, look like Bendy and the Ink Machine ninjas.
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Page 8 -.Fourth wall breaking. Graffiti is other characters who've done the same - Zatanna (in Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #4, 200?), U. Comics (Ultra Comics, in The Multiversity: Ultra Comics #1, 2015), B. Baker (Buddy Baker, Animal Man, in Animal Man #19, 1990), Ambush Bug (across various mini-series and specials by Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming), Jen Walters (She-Hulk, in John Byrne's Sensational She Hulk #1-7 (1989) and #31-50 (1991-93)), Gwen (Gwenpool), Dan Mora (kind of right here), and Loki (?, Mr Rokej?). 'Rick was here' in the bottom right I think might be a reference to Rick and Morty. Someone on Reddit thinks its Rick Jones (link) P
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