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Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight is a DC Comics Batman anthology launched in 1989, running to 215 issues through 2007, with standalone multi-part arcs like Shaman, Gothic, Prey, and Venom, and revived as digital-first anthologies in 2012 and 2021.
Batman: White Knight
Batman: White Knight is an eight-issue 2017-2018 DC Black Label miniseries by Sean Murphy in which a cured Joker, Jack Napier, campaigns against Batman; it spawned the White Knight universe sequels.
Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle (銃夢火星戦記)
Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle (銃夢火星戦記, Gunnm: Mars Chronicle) is Yukito Kishiro's third Gunnm manga, launched April 2014 as the sequel to Last Order, intercutting adult Alita's ES 594 return to Mars with Yoko's ES 373 childhood in 11 Kodansha volumes.
Beetle Bailey
Beetle Bailey is Mort Walker's American newspaper comic strip, debuting September 4, 1950 via King Features. The lazy private of Camp Swampy, originally a college student, was banned by Stars and Stripes in 1954 and now runs under Walker's sons.
Ben 10 (comic series)
Ben 10 is Dynamite Entertainment's 2026 comic series retelling the Cartoon Network franchise's origin, plotted by original creators Man of Action with scripts by Joe Casey and art by Robert Carey, a darker serialized take whose first issue sold out an 82,000 print run.
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, Patrick Horvath's IDW cozy-horror comic (2023), follows serial-killer bear Samantha Strong in the Busytown-like town of Woodbrook; its sequel is Rite of Spring (2025).
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring, a six-issue IDW Dark cozy-horror comic (July 2025–March 2026) by Patrick Horvath, sequel to Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, following Monica's search for Samantha Strong's victim.
Beta (The Walking Dead)
Beta is a Whisperer antagonist in The Walking Dead comics and TV series, Alpha's towering second-in-command who hides his face. Comic Beta was an NBA player, killed in issue #173; TV Beta, played by Ryan Hurst, was country singer Half Moon.
Betty Cooper
Betty Cooper (Elizabeth "Betty" Cooper), Archie Comics' blonde girl-next-door, debuted in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941), vies with Veronica Lodge for Archie Andrews, fronts the Betty (1992-2012) series and the Superteen alter ego, and is played by Lili Reinhart in Riverdale.
Beyblade Burst (ベイブレードバースト)
Beyblades Burst (ベイブレードバースト) is the third generation of Takara Tomy's customizable battling-top franchise, launched July 2015, and includes a seven-season OLM anime, manga, and Hasbro toy line.
Bibliomania (ビブリオマニア) (manga)
Bibliomania (ビブリオマニア, BIBLIOMANIA) is a 12-chapter Japanese web manga by ORVAL (story) and Macchiro (art), serialized on KAI-YOU.net 2016–2018, an Alice-in-Wonderland-based SF dark fantasy published in one print volume and translated into Spanish, French, and Italian.
Big Game (comics)
Big Game (comics): 2023 Image Comics five-issue limited series by Mark Millar and Pepe Larraz, a crossover uniting over twenty Millarworld franchises including Kick-Ass, Kingsman, Nemesis, and The Magic Order, published on the 20th anniversary of Wanted.
Big Hero 6 (comics)
Big Hero 6 is a Marvel Comics superhero team created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau, debuting in 1998 as Japan's government-sanctioned team (Silver Samurai, Sunfire, Hiro Takachiho, Baymax, Honey Lemon, Go-Go Tomago), later rebooted in 2008 and adapted into Disney's 2014 animated film.
Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson (William Boyd Watterson II, born 1958) is the American cartoonist who created Calvin and Hobbes (1985–1995), refused all merchandising licensing, won Reuben Awards in 1986 and 1988 and the 2014 Angoulême Grand Prix, and returned in 2023 with The Mysteries.
Billy Butcher
Billy Butcher, William J. "Billy" Butcher, is the vengeful antihero leader of the Boys in Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's The Boys comics (2006–2012) and Karl Urban's TV counterpart. Comic final antagonist killed by Hughie; TV Butcher kills Homelander in the 2026 finale.
Birds of Prey (team)
Birds of Prey is DC Comics' premier all-female superhero team, created by Gorfinkel, Pittarese, and Dixon, first appearing in Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey #1 (1995/1996), built around Oracle, Black Canary, and Huntress, with notable runs by Gail Simone and Kelly Thompson.
Black Lantern Corps
Black Lantern Corps: DC Comics fictional undead army created by Geoff Johns, Ethan Van Sciver, and Ivan Reis, first appearing in Green Lantern Vol. 4 #25 (2008). Deceased beings reanimated by black rings, led by Nekron, based on Ryut in Sector 666, antagonists of Blackest Night.
Black Noir
Black Noir is a silent superhero in Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic The Boys and its Prime Video adaptation. In the comics he is Homelander's clone and secret antagonist; in the show he is a different character, twice replaced.
Black Order (comics)
The Black Order, also known as Cull Obsidian, is a Marvel Comics team of alien supervillains who serve Thanos as his generals, created by Jonathan Hickman in 2013.
Blackest Night
Blackest Night is DC Comics' 2009-2010 crossover event by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis, in which Black Hand and Nekron raise dead heroes as the Black Lantern Corps; it concluded the War of Light and led into Brightest Day.
Blame! (ブレム!)
BLAME! (ブラム) is Tsutomu Nihei's hard SF manga serialized in Monthly Afternoon 1997-2003, 10 volumes, following Killy's search for the Net Terminal Gene in an endless megastructure city; adapted as a 2017 Polygon Pictures anime film.
Bleach (ブリーチ) (manga)
Bleach (ブリーチ) is Tite Kubo's supernatural action manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2001-2016, 74 volumes, over 130 million copies, about Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki; Big Three member with One Piece and Naruto.
Blondie (comic strip)
Blondie, also starring Blondie Boopadoop and Dagwood Bumstead, is an American comic strip created by Chic Young, debuted September 8, 1930, in King Features syndication. The 1933 marriage turned it into the long-running Bumstead family domestic comedy; films, radio, and TV followed.
Blood Syndicate
Blood Syndicate is a DC Comics series about a Milestone team of super-powered former gang members protecting Paris Island in the fictional city of Dakota, launched in 1993.
Bloodshot (comics)
Bloodshot (comics): Valiant Comics anti-hero created by VanHook, Perlin, and Layton, first published 1992 (Eternal Warrior cameo, Rai debut). Nanite-blooded Project Rising Spirit operative with erased memories; relaunched 2012; 2020 Vin Diesel film.
Bloom County
Bloom County, Berkeley Breathed's Pulitzer-winning American comic strip (December 8, 1980 to August 6, 1989), satirized 1980s politics through Opus the penguin, Bill the Cat, Milo Bloom, and Steve Dallas, later revived on Facebook in 2015.
Bloom Into You (やがて君になる)
Bloom Into You (やがて君になる, Yagate Kimi ni Naru) is a yuri manga by Nio Nakatani, serialized 2015–2019 in Dengeki Daioh across 8 volumes, over 1 million copies sold, adapted into a 2018 Troyca anime and Sayaka spin-off novels.
Blue Lantern Corps
Blue Lantern Corps: DC Comics ring-wielders powered by hope, created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver, debuting in Green Lantern Vol. 4 #25 (January 2008). Founded by exiled Guardians Ganthet and Sayd on Odym; famous for supercharging green rings but needing a Green Lantern nearby to reach full power.
Bluto
Bluto, also known as Brutus, is the large, bearded, muscle-bound villain created by E.C. Segar in 1932 as 'Bluto the Terrible' in Thimble Theatre, Popeye's rival for Olive Oyl; Fleischer Studios made him the recurring cartoon villain, and a 1957 rights confusion briefly renamed him Brutus.
Bob Kane
Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn, 1915–1998) was an American comic-book artist who co-created Batman with writer Bill Finger, debuting in Detective Comics #27 in 1939.