In September Taschen will release the title “75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking”, a tribute to the iconic comic book publishing house.

“In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, published New Fun #1, the first comic book with all-new, all-original comic material—at a time when comic books were mere repositories for the cast-offs of the newspaper strips. What was initially considered to be disposable media for children was well on its way to becoming the mythology of our time—the 20th century’s answer to Atlas or Zorro. Over 40,000 comic books later, in honor of the publisher’s 75th Anniversary, TASCHEN has produced the single most comprehensive book on DC Comics in an XL edition even Superman might have trouble lifting. Over 2000 images—covers and interiors, original illustrations (including Wonder Woman’s invisible jet!), photographs, film stills, and collectibles—are reproduced using the latest technology in digital reproduction to bring the storylines, the characters, and their creators to vibrant life as they’ve never been seen before. Telling the tales behind the tomes is 35-year DC veteran Paul Levitz, whose in-depth essays trace the company’s history, from its pulp origins through to the future of digital publishing.”

Take a look inside the book after the jump.

As part of their collaboration with DC Comics, colette has invited Italian footwear maker Superga to produce comic heroe themed sneakers. The sneakers come in the iconic colors of each respective superheroe with further branding all-over the sneaker. Included in the drop are Superman sneakers, Batman sneakers and Green Lantern sneakers. They are now available here.

More detailed images of the sneakers follow after the jump.

As we’ve seen, colette and Warner Bros. joined forces to celebrate 75 years of DC Comics with an extraordinary collaboration that combines the two worlds. French designer Alexis Mabille chose the Joker. Why the Joker? “A bow tie with fixed eyes, with an alarming eye which finally repeats funnily the strange Joker smile,” said Alexis Mabille. Now in at colette.

More Alexis Mabille x DC Comics “Joker” Bow Tie looks follow.

Earlier we presented the Pierre Hardy “Superman” bags from the colette x DC Comics 75 Anniversary project. We continue with these two Batman themed t-shirts by Lanvin and Balmain. It is just incredible what kind of brands the Parisian store can mobilize for such an occasion. Both tees are now available.

More looks of the t-shirts follow after the jump.

colette gets together with DC Comics to celebrate the comic book brands 75th anniversary. For the occasion colette worked with Pierre Hardy on two Superman themed bags.

Take  further look at the bags after the jump.

Many of you out there have probably already seen Watchmen, a movie that has been much talked about in recent months, especially since its release beginning of March. Medicom Toy got together with DC Comics to create a 100% and a 400% Watchmen Bearbrick set. The set will be coming out in May 2009.

More detailed images of the new Watchmen Bearbricks follow after the jump.

Once again New Era worked with DC Comics and releases a European exclusive – the Batman Black/White Collection. New Era took some of their previous Batman pieces and introduces them in black/white colorways. The collection is coming to stores this February.

Take a detailed look at the complete line-up of the New Era x DC Comics Black/White Collection after the jump.

After recently teaming up with Bape, DC Comics now got together with Eastpak and boutique Kinetics to collaborate on a limited edition Batman backpack. Limited to 500 pieces, the backpack comes in black and carries an all-over design of the iconic Batman logo. It is now available online, and will be released the 22nd of December in store.

Official Bape has some shots of the soon to be released Autumn/Winter 2007 collection by Bape. We continue to concentrate on the DC Comics collaboration. In the new collection there will a New Era cap featuring all characters of this collaboration as an all-over print. They also present the matching all-over print hoodie.
We actually do like the cap, but the hoodie is exactly the kind of Bape 5-year old all-over print that we are getting a little sick off. But they do have some nice plaid printed hoodies in the collection as well, which we can be looking forward to.

You might have noticed that we do not report all that much anymore about Bape. As inspiring and innovative as the brand was, we don’t feel that they are who they used to be anymore. But one still has to respect what they created and all the things that they started, that nowadays seem so normal, but were ground-breaking at the time when they introduced it. So, some of their special projects we definitely still like, such as the recent Bape x DC Comics collaboration.
After the recent release of the hoodies, crewnecks and toys featuring imagery of the DC Comic Heroes Superman, Batman, The Flash and Wonderwoman, Bape now releases the matching Bapesta sneakers. Just like the Marvel collaboration Bapesta series, these are also released in special packaging. They are now available at Cliff Edge.
Check out the other two models after the jump.