Batman Day
Batman Day is an annual event organised by DC Entertainment to celebrate and promote Batman.
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 the third Saturday in September.[1][2]
The 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. Both dates are corporate artificial dates created to avoid the celebration of the actual anniversary of the first publication of Action Comics #1 (April 18, 1938) and Detective Comics #27 (March 30, 1939). DC Comics does not want to celebrate the Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster or the Batman creators Bill Finger and Bob Kane.
Events[]
Year | Date | Refs |
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2014 | July 23 | |
2015 | September 16 | |
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[]
- ^ Leah Asmelash (20 September 2019), Here's where you can see the Bat Signal on Batman Day this Saturday, CNN
- ^ Timothy Donohoo (19 September 2019), What Is Batman Day - and Why Does the Date Keep Moving?, CBR
- ^ DC Comics. "Batman Day". Twitter. Twitter. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
External links[]
- Batman Day Global Celebration – DC Comics page
- Recurring events established in 2014
- Batman
- September observances
- Comics stubs