Black Bat by Bai Xau Li

I don't have much to add about this piece, simply because I first struggled to find the person to give proper credit to, then when I did, the page was written in Spanish. So here is the image, and if your Spanish is far better than mine, then by all means give it click to reach its source!

Dynamite Entertainment's September Bat/Fury solicitations!

So much for the double dose of Miss Fury in September. August's Miss Fury digital #1 was said to be the first of two issues, but the second is not solicited for September.  That whole thing has been unnecessarily complicated, for some reason.

As for the regular books, here they are:

The Black Bat #5
Written by Brian Buccellato, art by Ronan Cliquet, covers by Jae Lee, Billy Tan.

The Black Bat's loyalty to Carol and his mystery benefactors are put to the test when he is ordered to team up with a foe from his past. Also, Snate's suitcase bomb is on the move, putting hundreds of lives in danger!


Miss Fury #6
Written by Rob Williams, art by Jack Herbert, covers by Billy Tan, Ardian Syaf, Colton Worley, Sean Chen.

Miss Fury's journey through time has ended. But when she returns to "her" Manhattan, she finds that her lover, Captain Chandler, has disappeared. Did he ever exist at all, and if not, what does that say about her sanity? And how do the Crusades-era knights fit into the puzzle?

Black Bat prose in "Domino Lady: Sex as a Weapon"

First Comics News revealed Moonstone Comics' October (already?) solicitations recently.  Here's an abbreviated version:

The Domino Lady: “Sex as a Weapon”
Interior Art: Ver Curtis
222pgs, Squarebound, 6” x 9”, $16.95

New printing of this long sold-out collection!

Nine all-new tales of one of the world’s first female masked crime fighters, by Nancy Holder, Chuck Dixon, CJ Henderson, Martin Powell, Ron Fortier, James  Chambers, Bobby Nash, Gail McCabe. Introduction: Mystery Writers of America Raven Award winner Joan Hansen!

Stunned and enraged by the murder of her crusading politician father, beautiful socialite Ellen Patrick becomes determined to bring her father’s killers to justice…at any cost.  A talented Berkley graduate, she knows that to truly fight the men who killed her father she must break all the rules.  Donning a distinctive white dress and a black domino mask, she becomes The Domino Lady, one of the sexiest –and most elusive—crime fighters of all time.

Guest-starring: SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE BLACK BAT , & AIRBOY!

I removed the cover artist's name because the cover itself was not displayed.  The one at upper right is from the original hardcover edition of the book.  Being that this solicitation is for a reprint, I'm not 100% that the same cover will be used.

I had written to Moonstone recently to find out which books featured their version of the Black Bat. I was told to expect the Black Bat "in the pages of the upcoming 'The Spider's Web' and 'Spider/Domino Lady'.

There already has been a Spider/Domino Lady book, but its solicitation says nothing about a Black Bat appearance therein.  Presumably, based on the wording of Moonstone's response, there's another such book on the way.

While it's good to see The Black Bat show up in various Moonstone books, I'd be more interested in seeing his own series continue.  That I know of, the second issue of his own has never been released and the story in the first issue was never completed. For those who may have missed it, here's an unused cover below (or if it was ever put in proper use, by all means someone draw my attention to it).

Miss Fury cover(s) reveal

When Dynamite's August solicitations first became available, the various covers for the fifth issue of Miss Fury were not displayed, oddly enough.

Here's one of them below.  You can click on it to be taken to the full solicitation to view the others.

I'm still unclear about the solicitation for Miss Fury digital #1 since it sounds very much like the story from the current book.

An all-new Miss Fury adventure never before seen in print! Miss Fury is back in time again! Or is she? Will Miss Fury be able to make it home for a nice long bath, or will she forever be transported? Find out now! This issues has all three digital chapters of Miss Fury in a new, never printed, super-sized collection!

There are a couple of extra details now though.  For one, it is now listed as being 40 pages instead of 32, so the claim of the book being "giant-sized" makes a bit more sense.  Also, it is now specified that the book is the first of two, so I guess we get a double serving of Miss Fury in September as well.  Good news!

The solicitations also offer an alternative cover to Black Bat #4, available to early subscribers.  It was done by Billy Tan.