Today is Batman Day and to celebrate the character’s 75 anniversary, Warner Bros. has released a new poster for The LEGO Batman Movie. The poster features Will Arnett’s Batman springing into action with some simple words of advice, “Always be yourself, unless you can be Batman.”
The LEGO Batman Movie is set for release on Feb. 10, 2017 and remember, always be Batman.
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75th anniversary of Batman? You’d think there’d be a bit more fanfare.
There was…two and a half years ago, in May 2014. They even did a fancy “75 Years of Batman” logo that was used throughout the entire year. At this point, Batman/Bruce Wayne, Commissioner Gordon, Professor Strange, Robin/Dick Grayson, Joker, and Catwoman are over 75 years old. Scarecrow just turned 75 sometime in Q3 2016, and Penguin turns 75 this December. Two-Face is 75 in just under a year, and Alfred in just over a year and a half, and then a few months later other characters start turning 70. Superman’s 75th was 2013, and from what I can tell, Wonder Woman will be the fifth female superhero (after Bulletgirl, Hawkgirl, Miss America, and Phantom Lady, although Sheena was the first female to headline any sort of comic book in 1937) to turn 75 this December.
Batman Day was declared to be July 23 in 2014 because that allowed DC to tie it to SDCC. I ran across a few sites claiming that Batman Day 2017 will be April 1st. There was a 1976 DC calendar that filled every non-holiday date with DC comics events, and Bruce Wayne’s birthday got plugged into February 19, which some people still hold to be canon and therefore significant (and I think 2017 will be the first year since that calendar came out that you can actually watch a screening of a Batman movie on that day of the year). So, pretty much they call Batman Day whenever they feel like it, and sadly it seems to be tied to dates when they want to inflict more Adam West on us.