NYCC 2024: Batman Hush 2 Confirmed, Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, and Team Start With Batman #158 This March 2025

 

After longstanding rumors of a follow up and that the two iconic comic book creators would be teaming up again to work on the Caped Crusader, writer Jeph Loeb and DC Comics president, publisher, and Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee are teaming up again to take on a sequel over twenty years in the making!

As confirmed during their DC Comics panel at this year's New York Comic Con, Loeb, Lee, and their frequent collaborators Scott Williams and Alex Sinclair are reteaming for "Batman Hush 2" or "H2SH" -c the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 12 issue run that began with 2002's Batman #608. That new storyline will begin with Batman #158 this March 2025.

More details about the scoop can be found at Bleeding Cool. For those who have never read Batman: Hush, that story has been collected and printed in several formats and trades including the new DC Compact comics series, and DC Comics will run a Facsimile Edition run of that series from Batman #608 to 619 starting January 2025!

McFarlane Toys Unveils Hush from “Batman: Hush” as Upcoming DC Multiverse figure!

 

Todd McFarlane and his toy manufacturing company McFarlane Toys are bringing one of Batman’s newest villains to life in action in figure form - as the once enigmatic and sinister Hush will be getting 7” DC Multiverse treatment! 

First appearing in the 2002 storyline “Batman: Hush” by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee,  the alter ego of Bruce Wayne’s childhood friend turned criminal Thomas Elliot is a well known rogue to modern day Batfans - and now he’s been teased to get the new figure treatment by McFarlane Toys soon. Unfortunately due to new WB/ DC merchandise making policies, the firearms are replaced by knives instead.

We’ll be seeing more of this DC Multiverse figure and other new ones soon.

ICYMI: Batman Hush statue unveiled BY DC at Burbank, California

 

Fans of DC Comics and Batman may probably have touched upon "Batman: Hush" - one of The Dark Knight's most critically acclaimed modern adventures depicted in Batman #608 - Batman #619 and saw a mystery the puts Bruce Wayne through a gauntlet involving his deadliest enemies and closest allies - and sees a renewed romance blossom between him and Selina Kyle aka Catwoman. The storyline, written by Jeph Loeb and pencilled by Jim Lee, also sees the introduction of the titular villain Hush - who would go on to plague the Caped Crusader in later adventures.

This November, DC has unveiled the completed Batman statue in Burbank, California - as part of The Dark Knight's 81st anniversary celebration this year and modelled after Jim Lee's design of Batman and erected by Visit Burbank. If you're in California, it can be seen at AMC Walkway of Downtown Burbank. More details can be read here via DC's press release.