It was great stuff, and their Joker story was really memorable. Specifically, no "Creator X better not be in the top ten!"

In "Wars Ended ... Wars Begun!" Mazzucchelli's art is sublime.

It was no longer just a Bat-Squad or a Batman Family. He was the first person who called Batman “The Dark Knight Detective”, created so many important characters for the Mythos (including Batman), and his work is what inspired the comics of Miller and O’Neil in a lot of their great creative choices for the character. Created the update to Mr Freeze's backstory.

"To Kill a Legend" has all the tropes of a good "Imaginary Story." His writing has been featured at ESPN.com, the Los Angeles Times, About.com, the Huffington Post and Gizmodo. We asked more than a dozen Batman creators about their first and/or favorite Batman issue and to explain why it left a mark on them.

In honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Batman, we're doing four straight months of polls having to do with Batman, culminating with the official celebration of Batman's 75th anniversary on July 23rd. Just find out what you like about Batman and search for the writer who does that well. 75 Greatest Batman Writers and Artists: Artists #5-1, Anime Anatomy: 5 Weird Secrets About Goku’s Body, Nickelodeon's HallowScream Rings in Spooky Season With SpongeBob, Loud House & More, Amazon Dodges Question About PS5 Prime Day Availability, Avengers: A Future MCU Hero Just Turned Into the Phoenix, Burn the Witch: The Bleach Spinoff's First Episode Is Bewitchingly Bold, Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy Is a Forgotten Pioneer of Comic Book Movies, Shang-Chi #1 Has Solid Action But Stumbles Out of the Gate, Batman: Three Jokers Goes Full Tilt Horror With Its Second Issue, Hellblazer, John Constantine: Marks Of Woe Presents Superb DC Magical Horror, Immortal She-Hulk #1 Gives Jennifer Walters Her Time in the Spotlight, Sun Eater #1 Is a Strong Start To Dylan Sprouse's Norse Epic, The Department of Truth #1 Is a Paranoia-Fueled Odyssey, VIDEO: THESE Marvel Characters Are Being Set up for MCU Phase 5, Spider-Man 3: Jamie Foxx's Electro Set to Join the MCU, Sex Education's New Villain Broke Otis and Maeve - And That's a Good Thing, The Flash: How Daniel West Became DC’s OTHER Reverse-Flash, Ironheart Just WIPED OUT Marvel's Other Zombie Avengers, The Craft: Legacy Trailer - Every Callback to the Original Film, WB Games President Distances Hogwarts Legacy From Rowling's Anti-Trans Comments, Raised by Wolves: How Campion's Bogeyman Saved Him - and the Colony, The Boys, Mulan Lead Amazon Prime, Disney+ Into Top 10 Streaming List for the First Time, Joker War: Clownhunter Is Gotham City’s New Favorite Hero, Crunchyroll Releases New Noblesse Trailer, Announces More Fall Anime Titles, Super Smash Bros. Batman vol 1. Click on any creator's name to see a description of their work on Batman, a few pages from one of their Batman comics and comments from other readers about that creator.

If you are not a fan of a particular creator, that's fine, but be respectful about it. And there's no story that had more impact on my young, impressionable consciousness than "Robin Dies at Dawn" in Batman #156, which features one of the greatest covers in the character's history. "Two stories I definitely didn't touch were 'There's No Hope in Crime Alley,' when Denny added a lovely human dimension to the Wayne tragedy, and 'The Batman Nobody Knows,' written by Frank Robbins, both drawn by Dick Giordano," Levitz said. I lost interest in Batman for a few years until seeing that Two-Face story, and then began following Batman and Detective Comics again.

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I re-read all of them at least once a year. Scott Snyder is probably one of the greatest Batman writers DC has ever had but in a way he's had an advantage over most writers before him. Batman #404 (Writer: Frank Miller, Artist: David Mazzucchelli). The last installment will deal with Batman stories, but this month will be about Batman's writers and artists. 75 Greatest Batman Writers and Artists: Writers #5-1. These were mine. Read the... […] a one-and-done character. Had DC's Shadow comic continued into a third year, no doubt these two crimefighters would have met again.

To win a war on crime, he needed a bat-army. The entire story turns out to be a cheat — a hallucination resulting from Batman's participation in a government-run isolation experiment — but it had a massive impact on me nonetheless. Pretty sure Denny O'Neil wrote it. Batman: Gotham Adventures #26 (Writer: Scott Peterson, Art: Tim Levins, Terry Beatty, Lee Loughridge), Batman: Gotham Knights, Batman/Joker: Switch, Nightwing and Huntress.

The last installment will deal with Batman stories, but this month will be about Batman's writers and artists (40 artists and 35 writers).

I just thought that was a great and different story, and Batman could not have looked cooler, his cape fanning sleekly behind him! Rahul Kohli & Malcolm Goodwin talk iZombie, Featured Review: Batman: The Joker War Zone #1 | Comics Valley, Review: Batman/Superman Annual #1 – DC Comics News | Comics Valley. Consequently, Batman is literally a comic book version of the great pulp hero. An older kid on my block had a box of comics, and it included a few issues from around that moment," he said. The only rule? CBR Senior Writer Brian Cronin has been writing professionally about comic books for over a dozen years now at CBR (primarily with his “Comics Should Be Good” series of columns, including Comic Book Legends Revealed). The most significant issues for me begin with Detective Comics #230, from April 1956, because it's the first time I ever saw Batman. returns the Shadow as the two crimefighters shake hands. Follow him on Twitter at @Brian_Cronin and feel free to e-mail him suggestions for stories about comic books that you'd like to see featured at [email protected]! Within Batman’s historic 75-year run, comic book artists and writers come and go. He chases the shooters, silently and relentlessly. Bob Kane art was bad but distinctive, and distinctive was interesting. A reminder you hear from time to time is "It's always somebody's first issue." In honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Batman, we're doing four straight months of polls having to do with Batman, culminating with the official celebration of Batman's anniversary at the end of July. Freeze, in Batman The Animated Series, involving the creation of the character of Nora Fries, which is now commonly used in the comics.

Click on any creator's name to see a description of their work on Batman, a few pages from one of their Batman comics and comments from other readers about that creator. NOTE: Don't be a jerk about creators in the comments section. Tom King's Batman is just an hornier version of Crazy Steve from "All Star Batman and Robin" Tomasi is Also my second favorite Batman writer.

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License in hand, DC decided that the two former rivals should meet, if only for cross-promotional purposes. Please remember that this was 1956, between the Golden and the Silver Age, and basically what we had for superheroes was Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. "The honor is mine!" Aside from Aparo defining the Dark Knight for me here, in countless Batman and Detective Comics tales, and in his monthly team-ups with other DC characters in the much-beloved The Brave and the Bold, this spin-off from B&B showed Batman at his ballsiest. This past month they have been releasing the results with 40 artists and 35 writers.

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Here, in Batman #614, Batman struggles with whether he should finally just kill the Joker - see how Lee depicts Batman's flashbacks... After Hush, Lee had another stint on a "regular" Batman comic book series, drawing All Star Batman and Robin with writer Frank Miller. Welcome to DC Comics News! For Levitz that was a problem, because he worked so closely on so many Batman titles during his tenure at DC. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, Dr. Robert Kirkland "Kirk" Langstrom/Man-Bat, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Batman_creators&oldid=947723240, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

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Honorable Mention: Kelley Puckett and Ty Templeton. Breyfogle drew Batman steadily from 1988 until he left DC in 1993. His swinging scenes are legendary.

He has written two books about comics for Penguin-Random House – Was Superman a Spy? Batman #156 (Writer: Bill Finger, Art: Sheldon Moldoff, Charles Paris), Detective Comics, Batman Confidential, Legends of the Dark Knight and The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul, Not so much for its quality – it was a pretty insane story of dubious merit – but for the place it has in my memory, one Batman issue I remember is "Robin Dies at Dawn.". The list included some of the best and most iconic comic book artists and writers ever. The last installment will deal with Batman stories, but this month will be about Batman's writers and artists (40 artists and 35 writers). So I didn't know how it ended. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. If you haven't read it, do yourself a favor and pick it up.

After one particularly cold-blooded episode in Detective Comics #32, DC ordered Finger and Kane to cease and desist depicting Batman toting a gun. Lee's art is still routinely used by DC to promote Batman, though. Created the character sheets for Batman: The Animated Series. According to the fans, these are the 75 Greatest Batman Artist and Writers. Year One is a short book, but it packs a whopper of a punch. That, in and of itself, makes me feel desperately old. But by telling the Justice League to go to hell because the life of one man was more important than political impotency, Batman revealed to readers that stuff like friendship and obligations were as important to him as his single-minded war on crime. And that's why they're so significant. Returning to Gotham City, Batman and the Shadow meet face to face.

He had done a few Batman short stories for Batman Black and White, but when the news broke that he was going to draw Batman for a YEAR? This was another side of Batman, who faced a seemingly impossible locked-room crime and solved it through scientific knowledge. That was not what Superman did.

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