Major names of mention by Kubert include Jerry Robinson, Carmine Infantino, Neal Adams and, of course, Batman's co-creator Bob Kane. Gaiman asked artist Andy Kubert to make the artwork throughout the series represent various eras of notable artists that had worked on Batman. Would you like to write the last issue of Batman and the last issue of Detective Comics? And when they make an offer like that, you say yes." "It's one of those things where they phoned me up and said, 'This is what's going to be happening with Batman. Gaiman described the job as something that he had to take part in. When the introduction was finally published in Gaiman's essay collection The View from the Cheap Seats, Gaiman revealed in a footnote that that idea had since been turned into one of his favourite sequences within the comic. That conversation would eventually lead them to plot an idea about a theoretical Batman story. In the introduction to the 1999 book Kurt Busiek's Astro City: Confession, Gaiman revealed that he and Kurt Busiek, along with Kurt's wife, had been in a car on the way to visit Scott McCloud when Gaiman struck up a conversation with Kurt about Batman. The story's title is a reference to the backup stories published in DC Comics Presents from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s (which revisited various long-unused Golden Age and Silver Age characters and were all titled "Whatever Happened to (x)?") and is akin to writer Alan Moore's "last" Superman story Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?. Written by Neil Gaiman, pencilled by Andy Kubert and inked by Scott Williams, the story is purported to be the "last" Batman story in the wake of severe psychological trauma that Batman endures within the story Batman R.I.P.
The story is published in two parts in the "final" issues of the series Batman (#686) and Detective Comics (#853), released in February and April, respectively. "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" is a 2009 story featuring the DC Comics superhero Batman.
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