Superman Through the Ages! Forum

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Holy Lazarus Pit, Batman!  Look what came back from the dead!   :wink:

Thanks for reviving the Batman (Comics) Through the Ages, Great Rao.  I particularly appreciated the inclusion of the "forgotten" Earth-1 Jason Todd.  I always liked that kid, even though another orphaned circus acrobat strained credulity.  I had no great love for Jason's Post-Crisis incarnation, and though I usually hate killing off characters I wasn't altogether sorry to see him go.  (You can imagine my reaction to his apparent "return".)   :roll:

In his all-too-short career, Jason Todd of Earth-1 was an appealing character.  It was fun watching a new kid "learning the ropes", though Jay often found life difficult in Dick's old pixie boots.  (Villains with a grudge against the former Teen Wonder were all too happy to redirect their vendettas against the less-proficient newbie.)  He did forge an interesting partnership with Harvey Bullock, though.  Too bad Jason's complicated relationship with Nocturna was cut short by the Crisis.

While still essentially untrained as a detective, Jason Todd I was pretty sharp -- acting on Batman's hunch, he was among the first to realize that the Earths had merged during the Crisis.  And his shining moment was in "For the Man Who Has Everything" when he deal the finishing blow to MONGUL -- literally knocking out the galactic warlord with his own potted plant!   :wink:

Excellent, Rao (in best Monty Burns/Johnathan Harris voice)

8) Yay!

I can read the Autobiography of Bruce Wayne again.

First time for me.  Great stuff --answers my questions about Alan Brennert and his Earth-2 stories.  A nice compliment to the wedding of Mr and Mrs Superman.  Also nice to see George Freeman art.  Freeman made his name on Captain Canuck before freelancing for DC and Marvel.  He worked on the Jack of Hearts for the House of Ideas and a great Alan Moore Clayface story at the Distinguised Competition before I lost track of him.  In this story he takes some of the rubbery edge off of Joe Staton's lines.

Post, people post...

Its "GOOD" Batman!!!!!!!! 8)

Well, wait, I can't find the forum yet, but still... 8)

By the way, Great Rao -- are there any more Batman stories you want scanned for this site?  Or perhaps more importantly, what stories you DON'T want to see (Bat-Mite, Ace the Bat-Hound, Alfred as the Outsider...)?   :wink:

I've been slowly collecting all the issues where Earth-1 Jason Todd appeared, so that covers most of the last Pre-Crisis Batman and Detective Comics.  I also have most of the Huntress backup stories in Wonder Woman.  

While I have (somewhere) both "Incident on Earth-Two" and "To Kill a Legend", these stories are already available in compilations.  Perhaps Brave and the Bold #184 (where Huntress pays a Christmas visit to "Uncle Bruce") might be a better choice?  Brave and the Bold #192 had Batman teaming up with Super...BOY?, which could also be accessed from the Superman Through the Ages site.  Usually Brave and the Bold can be VERY "out of continuity" (though not quite as bad as World's Finest), but the ones I cited seem OK.

I had never read the 'autobiography of bruce wayne' - good read. Theres a lot of broneze pre crisis stuff I never read because I had stopped paying attention to comics circa 74-75 when I had 'grown up'.

Yeah, close to when I stopped paying attention to comics as well...according to Beppo, that's when sound movies ("talkies") came in... :wink:

Someone, maybe nightwing, said having the "Ride, Bat Hombre, Ride" scanned, I dig that story... 8)

I do have the "Bat Hombre" story and I can scan it if Rao wants to host it.  In fact, with the BTTA comics section back online I needn't re-tool my Batman site to an "All Eras" format after all.  Thus if I stick with my "Bronze-only" scheme I have a couple oddities like Batman's Silver Age showdown with the Hooded Hangman -- as drawn by Carmine Infantino -- ready to go, again if if Rao wants it.  I can't say it's necessarily "important to the mythos" but it is pretty to look at.  And as one of the stories in the first Limited Collector's Edition tabloid I ever had (maybe the first made?) it's rather dear to me.

Good to see Batman back in action.  Thanks, Rao!  :D

They have movies with SOUND now?  Kids today...

not only that but they have stop using a hand crank to make them move, talk about crazy!

Ya know I heard tell they got this thing called televison now, sort like looking at pictures while listening to the radio. It sounds interesting but I bet it's just a fad.

Much love for Ride Bat Hombre Ride! Have that annual myself!

Stupid parrot! :twisted: (<<<<almost a bat)

(http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/141/400/141_4_0000193.jpg)

HEY GO GO CHECKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too bad Matter Eater Lad missed the classic go-go checks thread here way back when.....

Oh, I was around for the Go Go checks, don't think I posted anything though...

http://superman.nu/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=411&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Kind of miss Aldous and India Ink posting these days...

Back on topic, LOL, there's always something in a classic DC story, be it the Sargasso Sea of Space, or the digits of a parrot... 8)

And just after I deleted all my scans to make room on my hard drive :cry:

Just in case you were wondering:
All of the Challenge of the Man-Bat THB, including the O'Neil stories
A couple of stories from the Seven Lives of the Catwoman TPB (her first appearance and the first Post-Crsis story she starred in with Batman, to name but two)
And I was about to scan some stuff from the new Greatest Stories TPB (y'know, the one with the Alex Ross cover?) when Rao pulled it.

I could rescan most of them, but it's take a while.