The time has come… This is going to be a battle royal of Batman themed covers, and while I typically have an idea of how the votes will go, I honestly have no clue how you guys are going to vote for this. Anyway, below you’ll find a ton of covers – seriously, I’m not joking, there are over sixty – to vote on for the top cover of the year. There shouldn’t have been this many covers, but we ran into a few growing pains concerning processes since this was our first year doing this.
Since there are so many covers featured here, we had to create two separate polls – as we did with the previous Dark Knight III: The Master Race Variant Cover Poll. You can vote for as many different covers as you would like until January 7th. At that time, we’ll pull together the Best Cover of 2015 post, ranking the top covers as voted on by you. For an overview of how the covers are laid out below, click on the spoiler tag, otherwise, review each entry one last time and get to voting!
You’ll find eight different groupings below. The first four groups contain the winners from each quarter’s cover poll. Following that, you’ll find the six covers that won the Dark Knight III variant cover poll, followed by the winners from our Cover Poll Catch Up post (these covers weren’t included in their respective quarterly poll since we didn’t hold these polls until after the associated quarter’s cover polls). The final two groupings consist of Wild Cards – six covers with the most votes out of all of the quarterly polls that were just shy of making the year-end poll the first time – and Late Entries consisting of covers that weren’t included in the Q-4 Cover Poll due to timing. And that’s pretty much the run down…
Q-1 Covers
Catwoman #40 by June Chung and Jae Lee
Batman #39 by Greg Capullo, Danny Miki, and Francisco Perez
Batgirl #41 by Rafael Albuquerque
Batgirl #40 by Cameron Stewart
Batman #38 by Danny Miki & Greg Capullo
Batman/ Superman #21 by Jock
Q-2 Covers
Batman Eternal #52 by June Chung and Jae Lee
Batman & Robin Annual #3 by Guillermo Ortego, Kyle Ritter, and Ardian Syaf
Batman #40 by Greg Capullo, Danny Miki, and Francisco Perez
Convergence #0 by Adam Hughes
Justice League #41 by Brad Anderson and Jason Fabok
Grayson #9 by Mikel Janin
Batman/ Superman Annual #2 by Jonathan Glapion and Ardian Syaf
Batman #41 by Greg Capullo and Danny Miki
Q-3 Covers
Justice League #42 by Brad Anderson, Jason Fabok, and Jaime Mendoza
Justice League #44 by Brad Anderson and Jason Fabok
Batman #44 by Jock
Justice League of America #2 by Francis Manupal
Grayson #12 by Mikel Janin
Justice League #43 by Brad Anderson and Jason Fabok
Q-4 Covers
Batman & Robin Eternal #1 by Tony Salvador Daniel, Sandu Florea, and Tomeu Morey
Dark Knight III: The Master Race #1 by Klaus Janson, Andy Kubert, Frank Miller, and Alex Sinclair
Batman Europa #1 by Jim Lee
Grayson #14 by Mikel Janin
Robin War #1 by Mikel Janin
Grayson #15 by Mikel Janin, Emilio Lopez, and Khary Randolph (Tied for 6th place)
Titans Hunt #1 by Tony S. Daniel (Tied for 6th place)
Dark Knight III Variant Covers
Dark Knight III #1 by Dave Jonhson 2
Dark Knight III #1 by Lee Bermejo
Dark Knight III #1 by Tim Sale
Dark Knight III #1 by Jim Lee
Dark Knight III #1 by Greg Capullo
Dark Knight III #1 by Gabriele Dell’ Otto
Cover Poll Catch-Up Winners
Grayson #6 by Jock (Flash Variant)
Batgirl #39 by Cliff Chiang (Harley Variant)
Batman #40 inspired by The Mask, with cover art by Dave Johnson (Movie Variant)
Batman #38 by Andy Kubert
Batman #39 by Andy Kubert
Detective Comics #40 by Jenny Frison
Batman #40 by Andy Kubert
Justice League #40 by Alex Garner
Justice League #41 SDCC
Robin, Son of Batman #1 by Robbi Rodriguez
Batman Beyond #1 by Kalman Andrasofszky
Wild Cards
Batman & Robin #39 by Patrick Gleason, Mick Gray, & John Kalisz
Justice League #38 by Scott Williams & Jim Lee
Detective Comics #44 by Cliff Chiang
Grayson #6 by Mikel Janin
Grayson #10 by Mikel Janin
Batman Eternal #50 by Cliff Chiang
December 30th/ Missed Variants:
Batman #47 by Alex Ross (Harley’s Little Black Book/ December Variant Winner)
Batman & Robin Eternal #13 by Carlo Pagulayan (December 30th Winner)
Justice League #47 by Brad Anderson and Jason Fabok (December 30th Runner Up)
Batman Europa #3 by Diego Latorre
Batman Europa #3 by Francesco Mattina
Dark Knight III #2 Frank Miller & Alex Sinclair
Dark Knight III #2 Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair
Dark Knight III #2 by Cliff Chiang
Dark Knight III #2 Eduardo Risso & Patricia Mulvihill
Dark Knight III #2 Klaus Janson & Brad Anderson
Justice League #47 by Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair (Harley’s Little Black Book Variant)
