Batman in the '70s

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Great video analysing and paying tribute to Marshall Rogers for his work on Batman, and the impact that he and Englehart had on Batman comics.

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I was reading this article praising Neal Adams as a Batman comic book artist, and I was surprised to learn that he hated Joker, Penguin and Riddler. There's no citations for it though.

I can see the comparisons between Batman and Ra's al Ghul and Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty. Moriarty always admired Holmes as his intellectual equal, and Ra's al Ghul complimented Batman as "detective" is pretty obvious, so it's not so surprising to hear Adams was a big Sherlock Holmes fan.

Neal wanted to do more. He helped created Ra's al Ghul to be Batman's Moriarty; he loved Sherlock Holmes. He drew (in my opinion) the sexiest woman ever when he drew Talia and drew the best Alfred of all time. His Robin was always Dick Grayson, a brilliant gymnast and loyal to a fault.

Neal knew Batman needed big adventures. That's where Ra's Al Ghul came from. That's where sexy Talia came from. That's where Man-Bat came from. A desire to expand Batman from the "clowns" — the Joker, the Riddler, the Penguin. Neal secretly hated all of those characters. He never did the Penguin because... well, an umbrella helicopter? Maybe he could deal with the Joker — and he did, with Denny, in one of their very best stories — but he really wanted to expand Batman's world.

https://13thdimension.com/why-neal-adams-is-still-the-greatest-batman-artist-of-them-all/