Superman Through the Ages! Forum

I just got my new Batman fan site on-line and you're all invited to come visit.  It's under construction, so bear with me, but ultimately I hope to have more stories and other goodies available.

Special...BIG...thanks to Great Rao for setting me up with server space.

http://batfan.superman.nu/

Super-Cool!

A great-looking site, with a great appropriate and imaginative use of graphics and a breezy writing style.  I even like the "Coming Soon" pages.  I love the Joker's 5-Way Revenge: first read it in a DC Digest.  The Bronze Age was good after all.

looks really great!

why no link to http://batman.superman.nu/

Looks great NightWing - now more on-line comics to read and since I dropped out circa 75 - lots acatching upto do.

No New Look Bats though? ........sigh...well that's Silver, not Bronze.

Thanks for the kind words.  I figured a companion site to my Superman tribute was overdue.

re: the link to "Batman Through The Ages"...a pretty glaring oversight, eh?  I'll get right on it.

re: "Joker's 5-Way Revenge": I had the good fortune to stumble across this issue when it first came out, and the even better fortune to be with a generous grandmother at the time.  I still remember buying it at a Fredericksburg, VA five-and-dime and reading it over and over and over.  This was the story that convinced me Batman was a real person, and when I saw the Adam West movie on a Sunday night soon after, that cinched it.

But...it's been reprinted to death, and will be again in the fall.  So I'll probably never post it.

re: "New Look" Batman::  I decided to keep the focus on a narrow slice of time, even though I love the Golden Age, and the Adam West series, and consider Dick Sprang the greatest Bat-Artist of all time.  I didn't want to compete with BTTA...also the Bronze Age was the era when I discovered comics, and in the case of Batman it was serendipitous timing indeed.  Like the Superman site, I intend this to be more personal than authoritative.

Good news is I have lots of fun Silver Age and 80s stories I intend to scan and donate to BTTA's "Comics" section.  So stay tuned...

Good stuff, Nightwing.

That's a great intro page!

Looks very promising, Nightwing.

Here's a link to a great site featuring all the major (and many of the minor) Golden and Silver Age Batman artists that you may want to include:

http://www.supermanartists.comics.org/batman/batwho.htm

I'm not sure I've ever said how much I enjoy your writing (on all sorts of subjects), Nightwing. The two most enjoyable articles about James Bond I ever read were yours, over on the ianfleming.org website: the "know-it-all" Bond article, and the one about Bond's "intuitive improvisation".

That's only one part of your work, but what all your little pop culture articles have in common is an easygoing accessibility... They are easy to read and very entertaining, the Bond ones being good examples, but this doesn't belie their genuine insights.

What a nice thing to say, Aldous.  Thanks, I appreciate it.

Ironically, just before reading your post, I went to the old Bond site, noticed it still hasn't been updated since late May, and let out a mournful sigh for the good old days.  My fellow editors and I have wandered off to other pursuits and left poor old 007 in the dustbin, it seems.  But there was a time I just bubbling over with ideas for articles; writing, writing, writing to get them all out and having the time of my life with -- at last -- a platform from which to share the thoughts I'd had for years.  I got so many nice e-mails from those pieces, and met so many great Bond fans from all over the world.  Oh well.

I have to say -- with what sounds even to me like an appalling lack of modesty -- that sometimes I read my old stuff and think it's quite good, brilliant even.  The downside is that once a little time has passed and it's time to write again, I always think, "I can't write like that anymore!" Between job obligations and two kids in diapers, I'm frankly lucky to have enough brain cells to put a sentence together (unless it's "get off the coffee table!" or "stop hitting your brother!").  

I was inspired by Rao's BTTA site to do my own Batman tribute, but almost as soon as he agreed to give me the space I realized I'd bitten off more than I could chew.  I did have fun putting it together, design-wise, because that's something I can do in bits and pieces.  But in the last couple of weeks, I realized, "I'm going to need some written content, too," and so, dutifully...painfully, even...I hammered out what I've got up now...which ain't much.

Anyway, sorry to ramble on, but I do appreciate the kind words.  Makes the effort worth it.

It's a good site Nightwing.  8)

There are some interesting articles on there about Batman, I look forward to reading more when you have the time to write.  :wink: