11:03 This story shows how scared most criminals are of Batman seeing as they get paranoid and think he's after them even when he's not there. Which fits with the psychological warfare Bruce uses to make his Batman identity seem like a supernatural monster punishing criminals instead of the man in a suit using intelligence, fighting skills and gadgets that he actually is.
Excellent! Here are my favourite stories of the Dark Knight Detective. Batman issue # 300 (The Last Batman Story) Brave and Bold Issue #93 (Batman in the House of Mystery) Batman Issue #237 ( The Night of the Reaper) Batman Issue # 227 (The Demon of Gothos Manor) Detective Comics Issue #395 (The Secret of the Waiting Graves)
That is amazing. You really picked out some great gems. Some of the best times to love the character. So sick and tired of the generic stories. Great that you found other levels of the dark knight's other skills.
"Hunt for a Robin Killer" looks interesting just for seeing Gil Kane pencil a Batman story. Batman going on a rampage over Robin being hurt is a trope that was also used in the Golden Age stories "The Case of the Honest Crook" and "The People Vs. Batman," reprinted in Batman 241 and 242, respectively. There's another Batman story, from the February 1976 issue of Detective Comics, where Batman is fighting through a poison.
I've read "Case of the honest crook", and it's a goodie for sure, but haven't read the other one. The boy blunder often seem to get himself into trouble.
@@mr.rogues4145 "The People vs. Batman" is the story where Batman first gets deputized, and I think it's reprinted in the the issue featuring "Bruce Wayne, R.I.P." And Batman taking six bullets bringing in the crime boss in "Case of the Honest Crook" is one of my favorite moments from any Batman story (along with "No, Robin. It's the only thing" from "Messiah of the Midnight Sun."
Ideas for "forgotten Batman villains" episodes: the Architect the Brand Atomic Man Doctor Double X Doctor Hurt Mr. Camera Spinner the Squid and Mirror Man.
It feels like Factor of Fear could have easily been some Twilight Zone Episode about a man driven to insanity by his sin that haunts him quite literally. But because it's set against the DC Universe's backdrop and deals with the "criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot" aspect of Batman's mythos quite literally, we get a really interesting tale thats only enhanced and made stronger by the backdrop its told behind.
...Well, these are indeed overlooked, because until now I had not even HEARD of any of them, and at least two or three of them will be getting a read from me in the hopefully-near future. Also, thank you, artistic gents who made the banner! I doff me topper to ye! (tips hat) I sadly have nothing else to say. It's kind of hard to comment on things like this, for some reason. XD Great work as always, and I look forward to whatever shenanigans you get up to next, be they roguish or more heroic. ;)
Nice video, i only own 3 Batman comic , Legends of The Dark Knight: Infected Part 1 of 2, Legends of The Dark Knight Testament: Shadow War, and Shadow of The Bat- Creatures of Clay; Child's Clay (the crusade version of the batman)
Rogues, I actually have an idea for a video for you. Everyone knows the top hero in Gotham is Batman. There there are his partners like Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing, etc. Well how about a top five video on the lesser known or even forgotten heroes of Gotham? Just a suggestion.
My Top Five Overlooked Batman Stories: 1. Case of the Honest Thief (Batman 5) 2. Deathmask (Detective Comics 437) 3. Messiah of the Midnight Sun (Batman Annual 9) 4. The Giant Gorilla Boss of Gotham City (Batman Annual 2) 5. The Solomon Grundy story from Batman: Shadow of the Bat
Wow thank you for showing me that first issue I did not know I always thought Daniel Neill and Neal Adams and also Frank Miller we're the ones that brought him back to his darker roots
When I saw your title, "5 Overlooked Batman Stories" there were three that immediately sprang to mind, that are not on your list. I am sorry to say I cannot remember the specific title they were in, date, or artist as I started reading Batman comics (all the Batman titles) in the late 60's and continued to do so on a regular basis for several decades. (I stopped buying comics in bulk when I started having children - but I like to think that I was a good parent, after all my age two and four year old grand-kids love dressing as The Batman.) (And my eight year old grand knows all of the animated series villains, and can name many of the voice actors.) (Alas I don't have my comics to refer to anymore as my brother-in-law opened a used comic / bookstore many years ago, and I donated my collection to his venture.. I remember the frantic phone call where he asked me, "do you know what's in these boxes! Do you know how much they're worth?" Yes, yes I did.) First is a story I associate with Dick Giordano, though I may be wrong. (Mid to late 70's I think.) A family (Mom, Dad, and son,) is walking through Crime Alley, I think it may have been the anniversary of the Death of Bruce's parents, and they are accosted by some armed thugs. And Batman swings into action, saving the family, and going in pursuit of the attackers. Batman pursues the criminals into the outskirts of Gotham. It has my favorite comic panels, which involve one of the guys wrestling Batman in a river, gets Batman's head underwater, long enough that he thinks he's drowned The Batman. And boasts out loud. Then a gloved first snaps out and grabs the guy, pulls him under water to come nose to nose with a smiling Batman, then you have a brilliant panel of the head snapping back, the water arcing off, as the fist comes out having connected with the foolish man. (If you know the title issue of this story I'd love to know - I'll try to find it, and gift it to my grands.) Second is actually a back-up story. Bruce Wayne takes a group of boys camping, and around the campfire they share their understanding of who Batman is. One describes him as a Black High-tech superhero. (This was in the 70's, so pre-dates the current BatWing, but...), one describes him as a Bat-Man, and I forget what the others share. All the while Bruce Wayne is grimacing at what he's hearing. So after the story ends, into the campfire light springs the Batman, "You want to know what the Batman looks like?" (I want to say drawn by Neal Adams, but...) My favorite part is the kids basically yawning, saying "nice try Mr. Wayne, good night" and going to bed. (Again, if you recognize the story...) And finally a simple murder mystery very much akin to "Strangers On A Train" I fondly remember. Three men (strangers) in Gotham, one an Umpire, get together to commit murders for each other, only to be fouled up by Batman. I remember this as a nice Detective story. As always, thank you so very much for your videos. I've recently discovered them, and I'm happily catching up.
After I wrote the above I went looking ("Google-ing") again for the stories, and I found one! The second story I mentioned is from "Batman" #250 in July of '73. (Still looking for others.)
Dang it, I know exactly which stories you're speaking of, but I just spent 20 min looking for them to no avail... (Your grandkids are lucky to have you, may you be a wise guide into the Batman universe ^^) If I manage to find the 2 missing stories, I'll be sure to post it here!
@@uzzab6937 - Well done ^^ That was the one that kept escaping me... the last one sounds really familiar, but with just these details it's hard to narrow it down... You don't happen to remember anything else about the plot of that one, Mr Graham? Anything could be useful...
Haha yes, you really could... I thought about making it a top 10 instead, but the video would've been too long. I tend to yapp on too much about each story.
If you wanna know more about Batman and how he was changed back to his roots it happened with the new look in 1964 by late Julius Schwartz (sadly his name is tarnished by his inappropriate behavior) who became an editor. The New look was primarily written by John Broome and drawn by Carmine Infantino. Due to the success of the TV show in 1966, they had to change course to a more campy tone. captaincomics.ning.com/profiles/blogs/from-the-archives-deck-log-entry-22-the-new-look-batman-back-to
It makes sense gardner fox would write a good dark silver age story, he was one of the 1st writers out side of bill finger to write batman, created the batarang and utility belt and created dr death anf the monk batmans 1st two rogues.
Are you aware of "Batman/Judge Dredd: The Ultimate Riddle" and "Batman: Manbat" (from 1995)? I am a huge kelley Jones fan and fan of a stylized batman as you, and these two mix the Kelley jones vibe with a nightmarish, gothic photorealism.
He should be in Blackgate, yeah, but I've discovered that appears in Arkham in far more comics than you would think. A lot of writers dont seem to realize he dosen't belong there.
@@mr.rogues4145 go check them out, they're real cool, supposedly this game would have been a sequel to Arkham Knight, set in the future where Damian Wayne would been the new Batman, Two-Face now as (The Judge), a possibly new Poison Ivy, and a female Black Mask.
Have you read the fairly recent (came out just one year ago) "Batman: Cold Days"? It's a 3 episodes mini-arc from Batman:Rebirth, and I don't really want to say too much about it to avoid spoilers... I'm hesitant to call it a "Mr Freeze story", even though he's the main focus as far as Bat-rogues go. *light spoiler next* In the end it's really a story about Bruce Wayne, trying to fix one of his fuck-ups as Batman, in a "12 angry men" setting. I definitely recommend it, even if it has its problems.
@@randallflagg3700 No because it's not in my subscription. I will pay the extra to get it when I finish "Damned" which will be today. I'll come back with my thoughts. Sounds like fun though. Thanks!!!!!!
Very nice, as always Rogues. A video suggestion for ya: "Forgotten Supervillain: Inertia". This one is a very sad missed opportunity. Inertia, real name Thaddeus Thawne was one of the Reverse Flash's, this one belonging to Bart Allen. He was cloned from Bart Allen's DNA by President Thawne in the 30th century. Because Impulse was half Allen and half Thawne, President Thawne spliced out the Allen DNA and replaced it with pure Thawne genetic material. In his first appearances in Impulse's comics revolved around him attempting to replace Bart and (guised as Bart) trying to kill Impulse's father figure, Max Mercury. He grows kind of attached to the old man amidst this scheme, however; and he genuinely starts to appreciate how warm and loving Max treats him. At the end climax of the story, Impulse and Inertia are fighting in the speed force, and Bart only wins because Thaddeus doesn't understand the warm and loving relationship between Max and Bart. It's at that point that Thawne realizes that his entire loveless and worthless life has only been spent continuing a pointless centuries long rivalry between Thawnes and Allens. After coming to the realization of just how pointless sad and alone his life realize, Inertia runs away into the speed force in what may have been attempted suicide. And that was his only good story. Every single other one after this made him into a boring 1-dimensional psychopath copycat of Professor Zoom with nothing but untapped potential. He showed up later fighting Kid-Flash (Bart Allen) in I believe two Teen Titans comics. Then when Bart took on the role of the Flash, in an absolutely *-atrocious-* story, he tricks the Flash Rogues into murdering Bart. Seriously, this was a horrible story. They made the Rogues look like complete idiots and broke -several- of the rogue rules. As punishment, Wally West hunted Thaddeus down like an animal, and considered killing the kid, but instead chose a fate much worse. He slowed down Inertia's molecules to the point where it would take a million years just to blink once, and stuffed him into the Flash museum to blankly look at a statue of Impulse for all of eternity. Afterwords, Hunter Zoloman broke him free and recruited him as his sidekick as Kid-Zoom. But the Rogues jumped in wanting revenge and brutally murdered Thaddeus. Aaaaaand, that's the end of Thaddeus Thawne. He's not appeared since, and I believe his death occurred in '08. Absolutely nothing but a missed opportunity right there. They could have went into how horrible being Reverse-Flash's sidekick is, they could have did some sort of redemption arch making Bart and Thaddeus brothers or something, they could have given the Flash's their own Red Hood anti-hero, could have explored that whole existential crisis of literally being created for the sole purpose of killing your genetic donor and living a pointless life void -any- relations, but... Nothing. It saddens me to no end. He's a fascinating character, and my second favorite Flash villain (just under my all time favorite DC character, James Jesse). I'd really appreciate it if you did a video on this kid, I think he deserves the exposure
I live in the real city of Huntsville Alabama . We a good size city thanks in part to Redstone Arsenal and Marshal Space Flight Center. (Where they build and tested the Saturn 5) The comic show the city as a small one road town, Come on people . Do some basic research. There a lot about Huntsville that would make interesting comic stories
