After teasing the title in a print ad earlier this summer, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and the Warner Archive Collection have officially revealed plans to release
Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Complete First Season on Blu-ray. Warner confirmed the first season will be available in early November 2013. Amazon is already taking pre-orders (currently with November 5th listed as the title's street date).
Official Series Synopsis: Extremely popular on Cartoon Network,
Batman: The Brave And The Bold teams the Dark Knight with some of DC Comics' favorite and more eclectic heroes, including the Blue Beetle, Plastic Man, Green Lantern, Kamandi, Doctor Fate, Jonah Hex, Black Canary, Green Arrow, Mister Miracle and The Atom. The combinations create a perfect mesh of fast-paced action and humor for the first season, which spans 26 episodes.
The Complete First Season marks Warner Archive Collection's first-ever animated release on Blu-ray disc.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has also provided details for an upcoming event, held by The Paley Center for Media New York (in conjunction with New York Comic-Con 2013) on Friday, October 11th at 7:00pm, tocelebrate the Blu-ray release of
The Complete First Season. The event will feature a special screening of high definition clips and a full episode from the series, as well as appearances by the cast and crew of
Batman: The Brave and The Bold, among them special guest Diedrich Bader (the voice of Batman), producer James Tucker, 8-time Emmy Award-winning dialogue director Andrea Romano, and Warner Archive podcasters Matt Patterson and DW Ferranti. Moderator Gary Miereanu might even have some unique prizes waiting for a few lucky audience members.
Tickets for the October 11th event are limited but free, and are available to the general public on a first come, first serve basis. Fans wishing to receive free tickets to the New York event must RSVP by sending an e-mail to
BatmanBATB@gmail.com. The body of all fan RSVP e-mails
must include 1) the name of the entrant, 2) a valid e-mail address and 3) the name of the media outlet/website by which the entrant learned of the screening. Those who receive tickets will be notified by e-mail.
Further updates on the upcoming Blu-ray release of
Batman: The Brave and The Bold - The Complete First Season will be revealed at a later date.