MARVEL/DC: DEADPOOL/BATMAN #1 Variant Covers Pit Marvel's Merc And DC's Dark Knight Against The Joker

MARVEL/DC: DEADPOOL/BATMAN #1 Variant Covers Pit Marvel's Merc And DC's Dark Knight Against The Joker

Check out new variant covers by Mark Bagley, Ryan Stegman, and Skottie Young for Deadpool/Batman #1, on sale September 17. And yes, one of them really does pay homage to the iconic Incredible Hulk #340!

By JoshWilding - Jul 04, 2025 04:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics

Announced last month, the world's biggest comic book companies will crossover for the first time in decades with September's Deadpool/Batman #1, published by Marvel Comics, and November's Batman/Deadpool #1, published by DC.

Deadpool/Batman #1 will be written by Zeb Wells and illustrated by Greg Capullo, with backup stories featuring more exciting Marvel/DC team-ups. Today, you can see all-new covers for the highly anticipated one-shot by superstar artists Mark Bagley (Ultimate Spider-Man), Ryan Stegman (Venom), and Skottie Young (Oz).

All three covers spotlight the main event: Deadpool and Batman crossing swords and batarangs after Wade Wilson is hired for a job in Gotham City. Will the Caped Crusader help him or destroy him?

Bagley’s special Foil Variant Cover depicts Deadpool and Batman joining forces against the Clown Prince of Crime, The Joker; Ryan Stegman's Homage Variant Cover reimagines Todd McFarlane's iconic Incredible Hulk #340 cover with Deadpool and Batman; and Young's Variant Cover captures this landmark moment in his unmistakable and ever-adorable style. 

"After writing Amazing Spider-Man for 60 issues, I told Marvel I needed a break," Wells previously said. "Marvel told me I could do that or I could write a comic starring Deadpool and Batman with the best Batman artist of our generation. I no longer needed a break."

"In Batman, we've found someone who has even less time for Deadpool's antics than Wolverine, but a city-wide threat from the Joker makes strange bedfellows (literally, if Deadpool had his way). It's been a blast letting Deadpool loose in Gotham City and watching what happens."

Capullo added, "Am I dreaming? This crossover is likely to be the high point of my career...and, I’ve had a great career. Some of my earliest work (many years ago) was on X-Force, so Deadpool and I go way back. More recently, I spent 10-plus years drawing Batman at DC. The idea that I get to do a crossover event with Deadpool and Batman...If I am dreaming, please don’t wake me!"

If this crossover is a hit, then we can surely expect more to follow. Comic book sales remain steady, but they haven't benefited from the success of superhero movies as much as either Marvel or DC would like. That might go some way in explaining why this event is happening. 

More Deadpool/Batman #1 announcements are expected to drop in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for more on the comic as we have it.

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MARVEL/DC: DEADPOOL/BATMAN #1
Written by ZEB WELLS WITH KEVIN SMITH, KELLY THOMPSON, CHIP ZDARSKY & MORE
Art by GREG CAPULLO WITH ADAM KUBERT, GURIHIRU, TERRY DODSON & MORE
Cover by GREG CAPULLO
Foil Variant Cover by MARK BAGLEY 
Homage Variant Cover by RYAN STEGMAN 
Variant Cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG
On Sale 9/17

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CoHost
CoHost - 7/4/2025, 5:47 AM
This is what the industry has come to now?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/4/2025, 6:06 AM
@CoHost - Thankfully.
dragon316
dragon316 - 7/4/2025, 7:51 AM
@CoHost - about time
UncleHarm1
UncleHarm1 - 7/4/2025, 10:09 AM
@CoHost - 😂 clearly you don't read comics
FinnishDude
FinnishDude - 7/4/2025, 6:05 AM
I understand that Deadpool isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I'm suprised how many people have been saying that this match-up doesn't make sense. Not only is there pretty clear and straightforward dynamic between the two (Deadpool's wacky guy vs. Batman's straight man), but it also isn't too hard to contrive a plot around a street-level vigilante facing a mercenary.
AnungUnRama
AnungUnRama - 7/4/2025, 7:24 AM
I like the idea of the crossover. But I don't think Deadpool's extreme healing Faktor and de facto immortality fits Batman's story and rogues well.

Beide that: "...after Wade Wilson is hired for a job in Gotham City."

No word of how this is even possible? So are DC's and Marvel's universes unexplaynedly merged somehow? Or how can Deadpool simple be hired for a job in Gotham? How does he come over from one multiverse to another? How can he even contacted to be hired for a job in Gotham?
FinnishDude
FinnishDude - 7/4/2025, 7:42 AM
@AnungUnRama - I think these crossovers will simply take place in an Universe, where DC and Marvel have always "cohabitated", like in their very first crossovers, which is honestly the right call to make. Crossovers are rarely treated as canon after the fact anyway and having to both establish how the dimensional crossover happened and how the characters got back home would eat more time than they are worth, so let them cut some corners and say that for the purpose of the crossover the two sides live in the same Universe.
dragon316
dragon316 - 7/4/2025, 7:52 AM
@FinnishDude - if that’s true captain America will remember forgot who he’s teaming up with Wonder Woman
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/4/2025, 9:04 AM
@AnungUnRama - crossover universe
dragon316
dragon316 - 7/4/2025, 7:53 AM
Make it even they need another villain two against one is easy win be intersting how Deadpool play of joker
dragon316
dragon316 - 7/4/2025, 7:56 AM
@dragon316 - all covers I saw Deadpool in batarang reflection looks better
Thing94
Thing94 - 7/4/2025, 8:28 AM
I plan on getting the Bagley cover

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