"The Dark Knight Rises" tie in with Batman #13

[tabcom]

Now that the speculate buy for Detective Comics #140 has turned into a bust

 

 

Will Joseph Gordon-Levitt character, who plays special assignment cop John Blake, create a buying frenzy for Batman #13?

 

 

Or . . . is the connection to obtuse to care about?

[nearmint]

Looks like a coincidence to me.

[Theagenes]

I vote for obtuse.

[markseifert]

It's pretty thin, and could definitely be a coincidence, but there's a LOT of interest in it. People do care about the possibility -- a post laying this out last year was BC's most-read item of 2011.

 

Here's a chunk of the story:

 

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/04/19/the-dark-knight-rises-plot-thickens-batmans-first-encounter-with-john-blake-revealed/