What era of Batman comics are your favorite?

[shadowbat69]

One more insult to anyone in this thread and I will close the topic.

Consider this a warning to those involved. Too many attitudes are cropping up lately and its not liked or appreciated. You want to start internet fights? Go to Superhero Hype.

[batsam]

_{Not having time to read them is not an excuse......If you were a genuine Batman fan, you'd find the time and know the basics}.



what do you mean by basics?maybe there is something i don't know can you list the main of them?

did some of you see the drawings of kelly jones and lee bermejo , they are quite weird  , oddy dark drwings , i find them very interesting

[DarkVengeance]

One more insult to anyone in this thread and I will close the topic.

Consider this a warning to those involved. Too many attitudes are cropping up lately and its not liked or appreciated. You want to start internet fights? Go to Superhero Hype.

Its funny cause some people seem just as viscious over here lol!

[thecolorsblend]

The cold blooded killing Batman is a grain of sand in the sand pit in terms of the characters history. Hardly true to the character on the whole. It is from the comics from a time, but it is hardly true to the comics. Burton is very lucky to have this point to argue, as he being a non comic reader, wouldn't have even known of this fact in the first place.

Burton's visual and textual references to that period of Batman's comic book history are so clear and specific that I cannot even entertain the notion that he didn't know exactly what he was doing.

But more broadly I simply do not find a non-killing Batman to be psychologically believable.  I realize it's been canonized in the comics to the Nth but that doesn't make it a coherent philosophy.  It makes all the sense in the world for Superman to never kill but Batman's a human who has decided to take the law into his own hands on essentially every single other aspect of criminal investigation and law enforcement.  Drawing the line at killing is arbitrary at best, incoherent at worst.

As for Raleagh's comic book pedigrees (or the lack thereof), he's read enough comics to have some kind of opinion on the subject.  I don't think he should be picked on just because he doesn't have as many comics as I do.

As for me, I grew up in the Alan Grant/Norm Breyfogle era.  There are some legendary Batman runs out there but those are the guys I keep coming back to.  When the subject of the comic book Batman comes up, their's is the one I think of.

[DarkVengeance]

Who cares who has more comics than another person, that dosent mean a thing in this world. It most definitly does not make them a better or cooler person, but I guess to some its easy for others to suck up to them constantly just because they wish they had what the other person does.

[DrMirakle32]

I love the early 1939-1940 stories. To me that is the pure, definitive, dark knight-detective Bat-Man created by Kane and Finger. Anything later is just an adaptation of that.

[Batmoney]

Here's one for you, the Batman movies are what actually got me into Batman, and eventually into the comics. I had an average comic collection as a child, you know, a bit of Spidey, Superman, Spawn, Batman, X-Men and some random stuff in between, but I was never a huge reader, probably read a couple a year. I always loved the first few Batman films and super-hero films in general, and eventually (as many on this site I presume) my passion about the Burton Batman films grew because I was growing up, and could see these films for what they were worth.

As my love for the films grew, so did my love for all merchandise associated with the films. As that grew, so did my love for all Batman merchandise. Once that grew, my mind expanded into the comics and I have been an obsessive reader ever since. So in retrospect, it's because of the Batman films that I read the comics today. I don't know if I have a favorite era in particular, but the early comics, and the 80s and early 90s are what I really like thus far. What really got me into reading Batman comics was Frank Miller's work. The Allstar Batman and Robin series is what got me back into comics hardcore after I had touched on a few graphic novels.

[thecolorsblend]

The Allstar Batman and Robin series is what got me back into comics hardcore after I had touched on a few graphic novels.

Good to see another fan.  I'm really digging that series too.  If I've got a complaint about it, it's that I think other superheroes should be left out, at least for now.  But it's still awesome.

Now if only we could get more than one issue per year...

[Batmoney]

Yeah no kidding. I started on issue #4 and absolutely fell in love with it and thus ordered the previous issues off the net and proceeded to buy every issue since. I think we're on like issue ten or so, and I read the #4 issue back in like 2006, so indeed it is a little bit of a blue moon series.

"I love being the god-damn Batman!"
Gotta be one of the best lines from the series so far, haha!

[batass4880]

Please forgive my laziness but I have not read The Joker's Five Way Revenge(Batman-#251). Can somebody please give me a brief synopsis on that story? I know the shark tank thing was done in TAS. I thought I heard that it was an influence on the story for TDK. I know Batman-#1 was.