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Batman's Brave and Bold Journey

One of the books that I got as regularly as possible growing up was Brave and the Bold as I loved the team-up concept. Of course, my other favorites included Marvel Team Up, Marvel Two-In-One and the later DC Comics Presents. The star of B&B was BATM

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New Podcast by former Batman Comics editors

The Batguys Return,  a couple of 90's DC Comics Batman editors made this podcast sample. I'm sharing it because if they get enough positive responses they'll launch it as a regular show. 

Apple link to the pod

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Batman/Catwoman/Huntress Questions AKA I Was Wondering #32

With the recent news about a big change in the status quo of the rather bumpy relationship between Batman and Catwoman, I thought about their eighty year history and, well, wondered about a few things. Changes in continuity have played havoc with DC'

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Silver Sightings: Batman's Silver Age: What Took So Long?

Beyond Commander Benson's examination of Batman's "New Look" period which began in 1964, I was always puzzled that the Caped Crusader was so behind the times as far as his Silver Age "entry" in Detective Comics #327 (Ju'64). View the cover of Detecti

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Just Imagine if Jack Kirby Took Over BATMAN in 1971!

It was BIG news when Jack Kirby left Marvel for DC in 1971. His soon-to-be legendary titles of New Gods, Mister Miracle and Forever People had readers (and DC's top brass) hoping for new versions of Thor, Captain America and Fantastic Four. They wo

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Batman's Proposal/Catwoman's Answer

Batman 32 (the conclusion of "The War of Jokes and Riddles") is out today, and we get to learn what Catwoman's answer is to Bruce's proposal from a few months ago. (And we also get to the point of the story he's telling her -- quite literally.) 

What

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THE BUTTON - BATMAN/FLASH CROSSOVER - - SPOILERS

This is the place to record your reactions to the much-anticipated Batman/Flash crossover appearing in Batman 21-22 and Flash 21-22.

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - !!! SPOILERS !!!

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Silver Sightings: When Batman was Engaged, Had His Heart Broken, Got Framed and Arrested....oh, and ECLIPSO was There, Too!

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Gotham Season 1

Now that the show has debuted, what are your thoughts?

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A Comic a Day: World's Finest #177

World's Finest #177

August 1968

Cover art: Ross Andru & Mike Esposito

Story: Duel of the Crime Kings!

Writer: Jim Shooter

Pencils: Curt Swan

Inks: Mike Esposito

Lex Luthor is stuck in Gotham Jail (I wonder why he is in that jail?), and fashions a

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Batman, Star Trek and Monsters on ME TV Saturday Nights!

Every Saturday night from 7PM to 1 AM, ME (Memorable Entertainment) TV shows Batman, Wonder Woman, Star Trek, Svengoolie (monster movies from the 40s & 50s) and Lost In Space. I have been taping them, though I haven't been watching WW and LiS....yet.

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New 'Gotham' TV Series‏

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_%28TV_series%29

New live action series on the Fox network, probably this fall, featuring James Gordon and Harvey Bullock investigating the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne, interacting with young Bruce Wayne, Alfr

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A Comic a Day: World's Finest #159

World's Finest #159

August 1966

Cover art: Curt Swan & George Klein

Story: The Cape and Cowl Crooks

Writer: Edmond Hamilton

Pencils: Curt Swan

Inks: George Klein

I dunno. This comic just didn't work for me. I was always a big fan of Edmond Hamilto

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Grant Morrison is wrapping up his DC runs

In an interview with CBR, he states that Action Comics #16 and Batman Inc #12 will be his last issues.  He is finishing the 8 issue Multiversity mini and has a few pages to go on a Wonder Woman project.  Then, that's it for the foreseeable future.

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Batman - Earth One by Johns and Frank (spoilers)

Just thought I'd start a thread about the new graphic novel that hit shelves this week.  There are some big changes to some of the characters, but it still feels very much like Batman.  I think that, for some reason, Batman as a character can be very

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How Bill Finger almost received a co-creator credit on the Batman films.

http://noblemania.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-dark-knight-creator-rises.html

Fascinating stuff.

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Batman by Snyder & Capullo

It blows my mind, but apparently we've barely discussed the DCnU Batmanseries by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, despite it being one of the best superhero books on the shelf right now. Let's see if we can correct that.

 

After reading the most recent

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Batman and the Court of Owls

Random question from the current Batman storyline:

I'm not very well versed on DC's multiversal lore, so as I read the Court of Owls storyline going on right now in Batman, I keep wondering if there's any precedent for this concept in any of the inte

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I kid you not...the greatest piece of Batman art...EVER.

http://www.evilspacerobot.com/evilspacerobot/1001101/uploads/2011/10/mayhem-complete-72.png If you start at the left upper corner, you can "read" the story. Can't wait to see it in color.

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