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You can’t celebrate Christmas without Batman and Frank Miller and Santa...
Frank Miller’s first dalliance with Batman was certainly no harbinger of what was to come. The man who would go on to write and draw the seminal The Dark Knight Returns and script the deft origin of...
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Infantino instructs Gorilla Grodd on “No feet where we eat!” table etiquette...
Of the in-house fanzines published by the big two in the 1970s, Amazing World of DC Comics is the unquestioned master of the field. It wipes the floor with FOOM, doing the publishing equivalent of...
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Shatter your friends’ senses with this Batman Full Color (Electric) Projector
Already this thing is blowing the lame-o Caspar Tru-Vue projector out of the water. So basically it’s an overhead projector. Could you pair it with the Batman Magic Photo Kit? Do you dare? And really,...
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A cross-company bromance for the (golden) ages – Batman & Captain America
Cross-company crossovers rarely succeed. They just have too much “cross” in them. Meaning? Meaning most of the time they operate in that fuzzy, two-layered ”imaginary” imaginary story zone, where...
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Trading Card Set of the Week – Batman Returns (Topps Stadium Club, 1991)
A major part of the sports card arms race referenced here two weeks ago was Topps’ Stadium Club brand. It made its debut in 1991 with baseball cards, issuing a premium, glossy set with no borders,...
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Batman saves Commissioner Gordon from Hostess Fruit Pies and — Tomax and Xamot?
I mean, these guys do finish each other’s sentences. And they’re nefarious. Granted, neither has a scar, but whatever — close enough. Also, if Batman had waited a few more minutes I’m sure the Hostess...
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Being told to put something “in your Batcave” sounds a bit perverse, no?
It would seem that Batman is the only person who can either refer to the Batcave or have the Batcave referred to in his presence without it coming dangerously close to meaning “rectum.” NO I DO NOT...
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Bat-Swami (Batman) and Super-Seer (Superman) are here to do their crystal...
If Batman and Superman are the World’s Finest tag team, then might I suggest that Bat-Swami and Super-Seer are the World’s Dopiest? Wouldn’t it be better (worse) if Superman had a giant Carnak the...
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Here’s your free Detective Comics #27 reprint from Fig Newtons (lovable scamp...
One of the perils of running a comic book shop is having to look at someone’s treasured old collectibles and give them a lowball offer to unload them at your store. A corollary to that is bursting...
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Bob Kane wrote(?) the song “Have Faith in Me,” which definitely wasn’t about...
We don’t need to relitigate Bob Kane’s overreach as the “sole” creator of Batman, or go over his history of plopping his name and distinctive signature down on material ghosted by others. We can,...
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Batman vs. Hawkman vs. The Silver Age vs. You, the Reader – The Brave and the...
If you had to pick two DC characters who you might not normally picture having a knockdown, drag-out, throwdown fight, but who you’d nevertheless like to see battle one another, Batman and Hawkman...
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Batman, Robin, Joker, Penguin, and Riddler would very much like to decorate...
Even in 1960s kid terms, a dollar for six, count ‘em SIX (6) 11″x14″ Batman and Batman-related posters is a bargain — and it’s a toss-up whether I’d personally go for these or four larger Marvel Kirby...
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Trading Card Set of the Week – Batman Returns (1992, Zellers)
Hey, didn’t we already do a Batman Returns thingamabob for the Trading Card Set of the Week? Yes we did. But the Topps Stadium Club Batman Returns product, though certainly the most prominent of its...
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Yes, Silly Batman can be Enjoyable Batman – The Brave and the Bold #77
No DC character’s Silver Age tenure gets more eye-rolls than Batman’s. The silliness of the time and the gravitational pull of the campy Adam West TV show conspired to create Caped Crusader adventures...
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DC COMICS GOES APE!!! – DC Special #16
A right of passage for movie stars is to make a movie with a lesser primate. The legendary Clint Eastwood, who’s become over the years one of the great auteurs of American cinema both in front of and...
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Batman vs. The Mummy vs. Twinkies
You can always make wry comments about the old Hostess comic book ads (sometimes sexually charged wry comments), but sometimes they write themselves. As they do when Twinkies, the food product with a...
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Me vs. (that’s VS.) Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Here I am getting all set to pound out a review of X-Men: Days of Future Past, and what should come across the wire but that the gestating Batman/Superman film finally has a title. And what a title it...
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Black Orchid meets the Super Friends, because why the hell not – The Super...
I’ve made no secret of my trepidation over the upcoming sequel to last year’s Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Indeed, it was the announcement of that bland, lame,...
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There’s a metric ton of stuff going on in this Batman and Robin Hostess ad —...
The classic comic book Hostess ads are usually one-note oddities, brief, quirky little “stories” (you have to use quotes) that hawk cupcakes and Twinkies and the like using the great superheroes of...
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It’s October, so here are some terrible old DC Comics Halloween costumes to...
Who wouldn’t want to dress up as Batman or Superman for Halloween? But since when did Batman have “BATMAN” written across the bat-symbol? And when did Superman start wearing an eye mask? And when did...
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