Cover Poll: Best Cover of 2015

The time has come… This is going to be a battle royal of Batman themed covers, and while I typically have an idea of how the votes will go, I honestly have no clue how you guys are going to vote for this. Anyway, below you’ll find a ton of covers – seriously, I’m not joking, there are over sixty – to vote on for the top cover of the year. There shouldn’t have been this many covers, but we ran into a few growing pains concerning processes since this was our first year doing this.

Since there are so many covers featured here, we had to create two separate polls – as we did with the previous Dark Knight III: The Master Race Variant Cover Poll. You can vote for as many different covers as you would like until January 7^th. At that time, we’ll pull together the Best Cover of 2015 post, ranking the top covers as voted on by you. For an overview of how the covers are laid out below, click on the spoiler tag, otherwise, review each entry one last time and get to voting!

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You’ll find eight different groupings below. The first four groups contain the winners from each quarter’s cover poll. Following that, you’ll find the six covers that won the Dark Knight III variant cover poll, followed by the winners from our Cover Poll Catch Up post (these covers weren’t included in their respective quarterly poll since we didn’t hold these polls until after the associated quarter’s cover polls). The final two groupings consist of Wild Cards – six covers with the most votes out of all of the quarterly polls that were just shy of making the year-end poll the first time – and Late Entries consisting of covers that weren’t included in the Q-4 Cover Poll due to timing. And that’s pretty much the run down…

Q-1 Covers

Catwoman #40 by June Chung and Jae Lee

Batman #39 by Greg Capullo, Danny Miki, and Francisco Perez

Batgirl #41 by Rafael Albuquerque

Batgirl #40 by Cameron Stewart

Batman #38 by Danny Miki & Greg Capullo

Batman/ Superman #21 by Jock

Q-2 Covers

Batman Eternal #52 by June Chung and Jae Lee

Batman & Robin Annual #3 by Guillermo Ortego, Kyle Ritter, and Ardian Syaf

Batman #40 by Greg Capullo, Danny Miki, and Francisco Perez

Convergence #0 by Adam Hughes

Justice League #41 by Brad Anderson and Jason Fabok

Grayson #9 by Mikel Janin

Batman/ Superman Annual #2 by Jonathan Glapion and Ardian Syaf

Batman #41 by Greg Capullo and Danny Miki

Q-3 Covers

Justice League #42 by Brad Anderson, Jason Fabok, and Jaime Mendoza

Justice League #44 by Brad Anderson and Jason Fabok

Batman #44 by Jock

Justice League of America #2 by Francis Manupal

Grayson #12 by Mikel Janin

Justice League #43 by Brad Anderson and Jason Fabok

Q-4 Covers

Batman & Robin Eternal #1 by Tony Salvador Daniel, Sandu Florea, and Tomeu Morey

Dark Knight III: The Master Race #1 by Klaus Janson, Andy Kubert, Frank Miller, and Alex Sinclair

Batman Europa #1 by Jim Lee

Grayson #14 by Mikel Janin

Robin War #1 by Mikel Janin

Grayson #15 by Mikel Janin, Emilio Lopez, and Khary Randolph (Tied for 6^th place)

Titans Hunt #1 by Tony S. Daniel (Tied for 6^th place)

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Dark Knight III Variant Covers

Dark Knight III #1 by Dave Jonhson 2

Dark Knight III #1 by Lee Bermejo

Dark Knight III #1 by Tim Sale

Dark Knight III #1 by Jim Lee

Dark Knight III #1 by Greg Capullo

Dark Knight III #1 by Gabriele Dell’ Otto

Cover Poll Catch-Up Winners

Grayson #6 by Jock (Flash Variant)

Batgirl #39 by Cliff Chiang (Harley Variant)

Batman #40 inspired by The Mask, with cover art by Dave Johnson (Movie Variant)

Batman #38 by Andy Kubert

Batman #39 by Andy Kubert

Detective Comics #40 by Jenny Frison

Batman #40 by Andy Kubert

Justice League #40 by Alex Garner

Justice League #41 SDCC

Robin, Son of Batman #1 by Robbi Rodriguez

Batman Beyond #1 by Kalman Andrasofszky

Wild Cards

Batman & Robin #39 by Patrick Gleason, Mick Gray, & John Kalisz

Justice League #38 by Scott Williams & Jim Lee

Detective Comics #44 by Cliff Chiang

Grayson #6 by Mikel Janin

Grayson #10 by Mikel Janin

Batman Eternal #50 by Cliff Chiang

December 30th/ Missed Variants:

Batman #47 by Alex Ross (Harley’s Little Black Book/ December Variant Winner)

Batman & Robin Eternal #13 by Carlo Pagulayan (December 30^th Winner)

Justice League #47 by Brad Anderson and Jason Fabok (December 30^th Runner Up)

Batman Europa #3 by Diego Latorre

Batman Europa #3 by Francesco Mattina

Dark Knight III #2 Frank Miller & Alex Sinclair

Dark Knight III #2 Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair

Dark Knight III #2 by Cliff Chiang

DK III 2 Eduardo Risso & Patricia Mulvihill

Dark Knight III #2 Eduardo Risso & Patricia Mulvihill

Dark Knight III #2 Klaus Janson & Brad Anderson

Justice League #47 by Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair (Harley’s Little Black Book Variant)

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20 comments

Ultan Schmultan
January 1, 2016
If Batgirl #41 by Rafael Albuquerque wins I demand a recount since it was pulled and not an actual released variant cover. =p
1. Joshua McDonald
  January 2, 2016
  Ha! This became a topic of conversation when we first voted on the Joker covers, and the resounding feedback was to included it. lol
  1. Brandon@BatmanNews
    January 5, 2016
    I hope it does win cover of the year. If it does come out as #1, I'll totally tweet Rafael Albuquerque so that he knows his work is appreciated by the fans, even if not appreciated by the writer of the title.
    1. Dnieper2491.
      January 5, 2016
      I'm still baffled at that choice to pull it and the strawman argument that the team used to justify it. With Batgirl sinking in sales and ratings, I'm gonna vote for it as a "take that" to the writers.
    2. Dan C
      January 6, 2016
      Whoever wins, I bet they'd be glad to hear about it. :-)
      I had to vote for several as they'r e all sooo good! Jim Lee and Jason Fabok have turned out some great ones this year and I also love Jae Lee's Catwoman and Cliff Chaing's Batman/Green Lantern.
      1. Brandon@BatmanNews
        January 9, 2016
        I voted for several of them, but if I had to pick just one as my favorite, it would be the Adam Hughes one featuring the Silver Age and Modern Age Catwoman.
2. Grant Dreed
  January 3, 2016
  But it was friggin' amazing..
Emperor Joker
January 2, 2016
So I came in here thinking Batman #40 would be my obvious pick, but then I saw Batgirl #41 and now I'm conflicted...
EDIT: Also, I totally forgot that original Batman Eternal was (even in some part) in 2015, just seemed like so long ago for some reason.
1. Dnieper2491.
  January 2, 2016
  I think roughly only a third of Batman Eternal took place in 2015. (issues 37-52) Whether that is a testament to the various quality of the title or the fact it was one of the last Batman comics with the "New 52" label is sure something.
  I'm conflicted on selecting what cover I like better, Batgirl 40 for the only remainder of the Old Batgirl or Batman 40. However, both stories had conclusions that I did not like and led to stories I found subpar at best with terrible characterization in the case of Batgirl.
  1. Joshua McDonald
    January 2, 2016
    You can vote for more than one cover in each poll, so if there are five or six that you think are absolute standouts, then go ahead and vote for them. :-)
2. Joshua McDonald
  January 2, 2016
  Yeah, it ran all the way up until Convergence... Now THAT is something I could stand to forget...
gunsrlove
January 2, 2016
Can't choose, too many good ones.....Still overall I have to go with DK3 by Dell'Otto , JL#40, Batgirl 41, BE:Eternal 13 and Europa 3 by Latorre. Batgirl 40 and Convergence are also cool...Pretty much the ones i really want to hang as posters
SunRiver
January 2, 2016
Janin's work with Grayson..
Fabok on Diana & Hal..
That Robin SOB snow cover just made me order the trade. (T_T)
Brittany Anne
January 2, 2016
I couldn't make up my mind! I chose several.. Ha!
1. Joshua McDonald
  January 5, 2016
  Don't worry... I did too. lol
favre1fan93
January 3, 2016
Luckily most of these covers are the ones I liked and voted for in the original polls, so basically all of them got my votes! =D
1. Joshua McDonald
  January 5, 2016
  How funny would it be if someone actually did vote for all of them... hahahaha
  1. favre1fan93
    January 5, 2016
    .....(slowly raises hand).....(slowly backs away from site)......
    Haha. But they are all really good covers (mostly).
Grant Dreed
January 3, 2016
My Favorite Covers
Dark Knight III #1 by Gabriele Dell' Otto
Batman #39 by Andy Kubert
And of course Batgirl #41 by Rafael Albuquerque
1. Joshua McDonald
  January 5, 2016
  Those are all some outstanding covers!

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