Comic Book Easter Eggs - Batman Anniversary Easter Egg Explosion!

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By Brian Cronin

Published Jun 6, 2012

Every week, I will be sharing with you comic book "easter eggs." An easter egg is a joke/visual gag/in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really obscure. So come check 'em all out and enjoy! Also, click here for an archive of all the easter eggs featured so far! If you want to suggest an easter egg for a future column, e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com (do not post your suggestion in the comments section!).

This week, as suggested by reader Aaron, I am doing a special edition where we just look at easter eggs from the Alan Grant, Norm Breyfogle and Steve Mitchell story in Detective Comics #627, the 600th issue of Detective featuring Batman. There are over a dozen of them, so be prepared!

The conceit behind Detective Comics #627 is that the two then-current creative teams on the two ongoing Batman titles (not counting the rotating creative team of Legends of the Dark Knight, of course) would both do twenty page adaptations of the original Batman story from Detective Comics #27. For their take on it, Grant, Breyfogle and Mitchell added a little extra something. Throughout the story, they (well, it looks like letterer Todd Klein did it specifically) worked in the names of famous Batman artists and writers into signs, labels, and book names.

Here they are!

1. Steve Englehart

2. David Mazzucchelli