Favorite Batman Back Issues

[Timothy]

Split from: 1989+Batman+Comic+Book+Influences

batmangelus said:

Oh definitely. Night of the Stalker is an outstanding story and is now one of my favorites. My Beginning and My Probable End had pretty cool perspectives on Bruce's pre-Batman life. Other stories that I've read in it so far are The Case of the Honest Crook- which definitely ranks high among the other "landmark" stories of 1940- and 24/7, which is cool for seeing a glimpse of "a day in the life of the Dark Knight."

There's also a volume 2 that I don't have with another Alex Ross cover. All I can remember flipping through it was that it had a 1970s-1980s retelling of Detective Comics #27 that was illustrated by Marshall Rogers. Looked pretty cool.

I recently purchased Batman #423, and was amazed to find a tale of three distinct aspects of Bruce Wayne's psychology within 22 pages. The first, featured him talking down a down-and-out drug addict about to commit suicide, the second, featured him beating the CENSORSHIP! out of armed punks who were ready to murder an elderly woman, and the third featured him rescuing two orphaned children from the streets. What was interesting was the choice to feature the GCPD officers as the POV's throughout the tale as they swap stories in a diner. Great issue, and, it's a Batman comic with a cover drawn by Todd McFarlane, for fans of Spawn or Spider-Man.

[Jack Napier]

My all-time favorite (and probably favorite Batman story ever) is definitely DC Special Series #15, Death Strikes At Midnight And Three by Dennis O'Neil and Marshall Rogers. It's featured in editions of The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (and deservingly so). I love the intensity as well as how characterestics of Batman come through in his dialogue and actions.

[Timothy]

To be honest, I own that comic but I've never actually read it... What's it about?

[Jack Napier]

Batman has until 12:03 am to find "The Blind Man," a witness with total recall who is willing to testify against mob boss Milo Lewes, before Lewes's assassins get to him first.

[Timothy]

Whoa! That does sound interesting

If Superman/Batman counts, I absolutely dug the TPB Vengeance, especially with the slams on Marvel Comics ;D

[Jack Napier]

If "one-shots" count, I'd go with Paul Dini and Alex's Ross's Batman: War on Crime. A great story (which is, of course, what I expect from Paul Dini). I love the ending.
And, recently, I've found out that if you look or read closely, you can spot out cameo appearances of Edward Nygma, The Joker, Two-Face, Selina Kyle, and Oswald Cobblepot throughout the whole comic.

[Timothy]

Indeed, I found those characters too

Batman: Dark Detective was an interesting re-teaming of Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers since the 70's, and to me a treasure with the unfortunate passing of Mr. Rogers.