The product that runs the engine of Batman's Universe.

 #1 Focusing on the main Products of Batman universe

The most remarkable products of DC Comics - Batman universe, are comics, novels, movies and video games. There are also more products merchandised by DC Comics like, clothing, accessories, collectibles, jewelries and others.
But at this point we would like to focus most on the main products of Batman's universe.
To start we will present you the “main” product of Batman that runs the engine of his universe

Product overview - Batman Comics

Comics

Lets start with little history. The word “Comic” is from the greek word “κωμικός” (komikos) that means comedian, someone that pertaining to comedy. “Κωμικός” derives from the word “κώμο” (komo) which was a group of youths who were rollicking in Dionysian festivals in ancient times.

So how a piece of paper with illustrated images end it up with the word Comic?

-The comics are printed a sequence of cartoons that unite to tell a story.

Around 1900, the strips of pictures being printed in magazines and newspapers were all funny. At first newspaper comic strips were called "the funnies". The term "comics" came into common use in the United States and later the term became more popular. As Will Eisner(American comic writer) said “Comics are the arrangement of pictures or images and words to narrate a story or dramatize an idea”

Batman

A new hero was drawn...

All started with ink and a piece of paper, with a combination of words and pictures Bob Kane conceived “the Bat-Man” in the Detective Comics #27 in May 1939, garnering great popularity.

The debut of self-title comic book was in the March of 1940 which was decided by National Allied Publications that it was worthy of, and could support, his own self-title series, like “Superman” title.

Now that we have summarize little bit of history, lets focus more in the product(comic) details, specifically on the readers perspective.

Batman comics

Batman comics in compare of movies and novels, but not the video games, asks for much more interaction like every other comic. When you are reading a comic book you have to participate in the creation of sound, movement, width, depth and time, the experiences of the character on the page is shared with the you, the reader. The one variable depends on the other for the overall product satisfaction.

Batman comic book is a combination of a strip of illustrations and text, that narrate the mysterious story of the dark detective.It is a mature content comic book with a vengeful hero, not hesitant to kill when he saw it as a necessary sacrifice, so it is right to assume that the Batman's comic targeting purpose, is dedicated mature comic readers.

Batman comic book, is a product that you can find in local comic,magazine or book stores, and of course on the internet. The price varies from store to store, usually in stores you will find only brand new comics, on the internet you can find many online stores for buying new issues but are also able to find second handed comic issues, that is very useful if you like to have an older version-maybe for collectable purpose of the comic you are interested in.

In 2010 the Batman issue #1 was sold in an auction to an unidentified buyer for $55,269 !

 So you can notice that Batman comics are generating two types of value, the entertainment as a commodity, and the investment in collectable form.

Batman comic as product have gone through many changes all those years. In the 2011 you can find it in fine quality paper and colorful pictures with official price of $2.99 instead the $55,269 that the oldest issue cost to the lucky? buyer. Also you can consider that If you are thinking of buying the latest one you are pretty much going to buy the first one, as DC Comics relaunched Batman issue#1 in September 2011, written by Scott Snyder and drawn by Greg Capullo.

Batman comics are the driving force of Batman universe.

The Batman comics made a great material, for adapting moves, novels and furthermore video games and other products.We will be back with further details on the Batman products in “Product” section of strategicbatmanagement.blogspot.com