I'm reading the Huntress backup in a 1982 issue of Wonder Woman and this is the scenario: Batman is dead, and the Huntress is Gotham's new protector. The intro points out that this is "a world different than our own", but never tells us which one. Anybody?
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Earth-2. She's the daughter of Batman and Catwoman, both of whom had retired. Batman came out of retirement for one last fight and died. He had retired in Batman #300.
Huntress was another character orphaned by Crisis on Infinite Earths, like Hawkman, Power Girl and the Legion of Super-Heroes (without a Superboy to inspire them and be their most important member). Her current origin, as the surviving member of the Bertinelli crime family, was invented after her original origin as Helena Wayne became impossible. She did retain the name "Helena," however.
One of the very few DC comics I got as a kid had a backing story with the huntress and all that Earth 2 stuff. People said it was got rid of because it was too complicated, but as a ten year old I just read - here's a world where Batman and co have got old/died and now its the next generation. I didn't think it was so difficult.
One of the issues I had showed Superman giving up the chin-punching to develop a cure for the common cold. Was it Batman vs the sportsman maybe?
It was actually an issue of Wonder Woman (#298). It appears that the Huntress had her own backup series in WW at the time. I'm wondering if the issue you had was maybe an issue of the Batman Family giant?
I'm pretty sure it wasn't Family or WW. I'd say Batman or 'Tec. And I think I'd put it a year or two earlier. For some reason DC comics were impossible to get in the corner of Ireland where I grew up, but I picked up a few on a visit to England in the summer of '79, when I was all of 8 years old (not ten as I thought earlier.) It would have been a different story to the one you are talking about, but probably part of the same sequence of stories, spread over several different comics over several years.
I think the first page of the back-up had Selina reading a newspaper front page that said 'Batman Dead!', or something like that.
Mr. Satanism said:
Heya Fig!
It was actually an issue of Wonder Woman (#298). It appears that the Huntress had her own backup series in WW at the time. I'm wondering if the issue you had was maybe an issue of the Batman Family giant?
The Superman story was probably the back-up story from Superman #363. This was the third in a series of imaginary tales in which Superman grew up as the adopted son of the Waynes. In this part he has married Barbara Gordon and she has convinced him he can do more good through scientific research. She adopts the identity of Batwoman (her costume looks like the Earth One Barbara's Batgirl suit) when her father is murdered.
This index of pre-Crisis Huntress appearances includes some issues of Batman Family.
That's definitely the comic I got back then. Thanks Luke. But my first holiday abroad (to Milton Keynes!) happened a bit later than I thought. August 1981. So I was ten then. I got a few Batman comics - One was vs the sports master (lame-oh). And a couple of Superman comics inc this one.
So in both the main and back-up stories, Superman is looking for different cures? A coincidence.
Luke Blanchard said:
The Superman story was probably the back-up story from Superman #363. This was the third in a series of imaginary tales in which Superman grew up as the adopted son of the Waynes. We learn that after marrying Barbara Gordon she convinced him he could do more good through scientific research. She adopts the identity of Batwoman (her costume looks like the Earth One Barbara's Batgirl suit) when her father is murdered.
This index of pre-Crisis Huntress appearances includes some issues of Batman Family.
I remember having doubts that Batman 300 was the Earth 2's version retiring. As I recall, (and it's been a long time since I read it) the issue did state this was a alternate world Batman, but I don't think it explicitly stated it was Earth 2. Batman had the yellow circle around his emblem, not a plain bat. To be fair, Robin did wear the Earth 2 costume. Most confusing was that Gotham was depicted as more of a Mega City One then the familiar version. I suppose I'll have to dig this issue out of the proverbial mothballs.
PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod said:
Earth-2. She's the daughter of Batman and Catwoman, both of whom had retired. Batman came out of retirement for one last fight and died. He had retired in Batman #300.
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What is the main story in that issue of Batman?
One of the very few DC comics I got as a kid had a backing story with the huntress and all that Earth 2 stuff. People said it was got rid of because it was too complicated, but as a ten year old I just read - here's a world where Batman and co have got old/died and now its the next generation. I didn't think it was so difficult.
One of the issues I had showed Superman giving up the chin-punching to develop a cure for the common cold. Was it Batman vs the sportsman maybe?
It was actually an issue of Wonder Woman (#298). It appears that the Huntress had her own backup series in WW at the time. I'm wondering if the issue you had was maybe an issue of the Batman Family giant?
I think the first page of the back-up had Selina reading a newspaper front page that said 'Batman Dead!', or something like that.
Mr. Satanism said:
This index of pre-Crisis Huntress appearances includes some issues of Batman Family.
So in both the main and back-up stories, Superman is looking for different cures? A coincidence.
Luke Blanchard said:
I remember having doubts that Batman 300 was the Earth 2's version retiring. As I recall, (and it's been a long time since I read it) the issue did state this was a alternate world Batman, but I don't think it explicitly stated it was Earth 2. Batman had the yellow circle around his emblem, not a plain bat. To be fair, Robin did wear the Earth 2 costume. Most confusing was that Gotham was depicted as more of a Mega City One then the familiar version. I suppose I'll have to dig this issue out of the proverbial mothballs.
PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod said:
I always had the sense that Batman #300 was a one-off story, unrelated to any other version of Batman.
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