Hello All comic book fans and non comic fans as well.... I know that I can't say it enough times but I really enjoy reading comics, and more than anything Marvel over their competition of Decetevice Comics yet over the past couple of years I had definitely given myself the opportunity to grow more than just into my main man of Peter Parker also known as Spider-Man. Lately besides knowing of Batman from what I have heard from other comic fans and the other forms of media the old Adam West television series mostly come to mind besides the many animated cartoons the character is in, I don't know much about Batman's comic lore in greater details other than some big well known story lines! What I really know about Batman stories besides his greatest foe being a fellow that calls himself the Joker... is that he also has a few other key nemesis such as the Penguin, Catwoman, The Riddler, to name a few of the classical rouges that I and most of you all know about. Batman was originally started way back in the late spring and early summer of nineteen thirty nine a whole year after two young men named Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster had created a character known as Superman to a publisher named National Comics. One particular title that National Comics had ongoing was named Decetevice Comics that was started in February of nineteen thirty seven with a cover date of March by National Comics. It had ten stories in it, as to how many pages were part of each story I can honestly say that maybe not many at all if the page count was twenty two pages as is the main count of morden comic books unless it is a special anniversary issue, those go for about sixty four pages which can be a main story of the title character and then maybe three mini stories. Which cost about close to ten dollars with whatever state tax is of where the book is brought. Back then in the nineteen thirties the cost of a comic was ten cents and why readers loved them were because of three things: number three people who read comics were meant to be for children, but even way back then I am sure the readers ages did like now truly varied from teenagers to guys in the armed services. , number two now I will actually be honest this might me but I really would want to believe that children and adults who read comics love/loved the art that accompanied the words of dialogue between the said creative creations of characters rather if they are of the title character or whatever they are facing in the creative stories. , the number one reason comics of yesteryear I know that they the comics are important to all who read them is the stories help us be inspiring to not only ourselves but to others in their everyday lives by more than anything they help people who read comics to learn to increase not only their imaginations but as well increase their overall vocabulary. Batman was created by two men just like Superman a whole year before. The two men were named Bill Finger seen here from
a comic creator card set that came out around nineteen eighty nine that I have the whole set in my collection of comic stuff. Bill thought of Batman more as a pulp character than a comic book character. He was born February 8th, 1914- January 18th, 1974. The other man was the illustratior of Batman and his name was Bob Kane seen here.
He was born in October on the 24th,1915- November 3rd, 1998. Bob claimed that for many years that he was the sole creator of Batman, when in truth he was just a fantastic penciler of those in the Batman family of characters... He did make a cameo in the Batman movie by Tim Burton in nineteen eighty nine. When Bob took on that claim the only thing Bill Finger did to keeping a connection to Batman is he wrote a couple of episodes of the Batman television series that starred Adam West and Burt Ward who portrayed the main leads... of Batman and Robin in the mid nineteen sixties! Before I get into what the name of the company Event was at the same time over at Marvel comics they too had just started a new Event at their company that had all of their major comic characters in a ongoing reset of sorts at the same time theirs was to for the first time in a long amount of time have toys of their characters in toy stores worldwide the toyline was also named as the comic storyline, which was known as Serect Wars. And I have a couple of copies of that too. Decetevice Comics as a company decided to reset or clarify all of their main characters that was designed differently from Marvel's way of doing so, they had wanted to modify each heroes history since by this time in Decetevice Comics history ALL of their heroes had been around as far back before World War II even had begun... While Sercet Wars was happening at Marvel in the mid nineteen eighties, over at Decetevice Comics at the same time their story line was known as Crisis on Infinite Earths and like Sercet Wars their story went and dusted off years of back histories and upon its ending even though I haven't read it yet... I know it made all of their heroes like Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and so many others including Batman a stronger character and those he knows likes Jim Gordon have a more interesting set of new stories too. What Decetevice Comics decided as well as new stories for readers they wanted to change things up for Dick Grayson who was the original Robin by letting him become after all of his time with Bruce's approval into a new hero besides that of being Robin he had became Night Wing and lead the teenager group of heroes calling themselves the Teen Titans. It was during this very time that Batman himself decided he would be better off without a Robin... Yet before the event known in 1985 as "Crisis on Infinite Earths" Jason Todd was introduced two years before in Batman 357, dated March nineteen eighty three seen here, with an actual release date of November nineteen eighty two. At that time I was ten years old and knew of Batman and other Decetevice Comics heroes as I said earlier from the superfriends various cartoon series... This new character that was introduced as a possible Interesting Robin had the background that was similar to Dick Grayson the original Robin with Jason Todd's family were acrobatics in a circus. A few issues later Bruce Wayne became Jason's guardian in Batman 360.
And still the per "Crisis on Infinite Earths" version of Jason Todd was trying to figure out if fans were actually accepting of him as a adopted placement for Dick Grayson who was trying to figure OUT where he belongs during this given time. During this very time it turns out that Gerry Conway who a whole decade before was at Marvel and wrote Peter's girlfriend Gwen Stacy out of existence in Amazing Spider-Man issue 121 dated July of 1973. Yet a whole decade later he scripted the actual introduction of the worst sidekick to Bruce Wayne before the company's resetting their comic universe. Still here is Jason's first appearance cover wise in nineteen eighty four, is issue
Batman 368 which was released in February on the cover even though it was released in January as Robin and it seems as Bruce just acts like his relationship with Dick Grayson is at a certain unknowable for the foreseeable on the upcoming future. Now before getting to ahead of myself I must admit I don't know exactly what month in nineteen eighty four was the official end date of the fifty years of time that Decetevice Comics the company decided to start the official planning process for their upcoming new destinations directly. I just remember seeing the cover of "Crisis on Infinite Earths" issue 7 at Payless when I was picking up in their music department the audio cassette of the Masters of the universe new movie called the secret of the sword, which features the branching out of the HE-MAN toy franchise with his sister She-Ra added to it. Here's what that issue number seven cover looks like
the one in the upper left hand upper corner is the one I am talking about here, where Superman is holding his cousin Supergirl. Three years earlier at Marvel during a storyline called "The Dark Phoenix Saga they had Scott Summers known as Cyclops holding Jean Grey in issue one hundred and thirty four of The Uncanny X-MEN in nineteen eighty three
which was part eigth of The Dark Phoenix Saga out of ten issues for a story that was originally split in two arcs storywise. I have found out about something known as Homage covers from one site that I have followed for years that I will write about soon! Actually now back to the main topic at hand of the Batman year one and year two trade in D.C.FINEST and the reintroduction of Jason Todd as Robin after the event known as "Crisis on Infinite Earths". Batman was now able to finally be his darker version of himself while the newer version of Robin was able to be edger as well, in a way that had comic readers unclear and possibly undecided as to if they would love him at all. Batman the New Adventures number four hundred and eight says it all Jason is stripping the Batmobile of it's tires. The main plot of this story is about the couple of days before Batman witnessed the death of his parents in Crime Alley. After he and Dick Grayson stop the Joker from stealing the smile of death which are known as Hopeless Diamonds. And when Robin nearly falls to his death Batman has some heavy thinking to do... and decided that he needed to work alone from now on and not put any teenagers in trouble by them being Robin. Then on the night of his parents murder he finds no criminal activity going on till he returns to the Batmobile
a better look. Maybe before the editing of this scene Decetevice Comics editors let MazzuchellI art speaks volumes he added his favorite newspaper comic strip in the story but it really wasn't just "peanuts" that got snuck in a Batman tale. Yet Charlie Brown wasn't going to be the thing MazzuchellI snuck into the Year One story for in issue two of the series he put a certain famous mouse of who owns Decetevice Comics competition Marvel on Gillian B. Loeb jacket's seen here
as he is talking to Gordon about where Batman possibly is? Unbeknownst that Batman is just outside his property taking out the commissioner's personal protective guards on the night of May nineteenth! Then in the fourth issue we see yet maybe more Disney possible interesting show of Decetevice Comics ownership when we see that MazzuchellI places a Micky Mouse phone in Gillian B. Loeb's hand when he orders that Gordon's wife be held hostage till Batman is dead. One other thing that is priticular indeed important is that writer Frank Miller gave a part of a future Batman writer Jeph Loeb an acknowledgement he will ģet to be crafting words of Batman in the far far future by naming Jim Gordon's boss in part with the last name of Loeb.The next three issues are still written by Mike W Barr, but penciler Alan Davis must of had another comic title he was assigned to because after his few issues of the the title "INFINITY INC" the one of seven who walked away from both Marvel and Decetevice Comics in nineteen ninety two was the illustratior of Batman year two in nineteen eighty six... His name is Todd McFarlane and he did at least one Batman cover
seen here. In this story which was released in September of 1988 Batman was trying to save two teenagers from their addiction to drugs. The main story is written by Marvel writer of the original Infinity Gauntlet and creator of mad titan known as Thanos, Jim Stariln. Back to Batman year two where Todd had taken on being a bit gritter than ever before with the greatest Decetevice Comics character of comics! Now there is one more pair stories in Batman annual # 11 with Batman creator Alan Moore who writes in nineteen eighty seven with the famous arc called "The Killing Joke"... which is another DC FINEST which I have as well!
Now you're probably wondering what novel yours truly is wanting to throw at myself for the foreseeable future, I had found earlier in early this month at Barnes and Nobles... It is called Revelation Space and it's for sure going to be a very interesting read since it is the first part of a trilogy, that is written by Alistair Reynolds...




















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