Can you help me find this Batman ISSUE?

[joint venture]

When I was around 6, my father used to buy me all sorts of magazines. They got here (Costa Rica) translated and I suppose a little bit late.

What I remember of this story is Batman and Robin going after some sort of oriental mage, who's come back to life thanks to an antique staff or crosier thet's split in 3 parts (i think).

The villain manages to get his hands on the first two I think and there is a race to find the third one, because if he does he'll be almighty and undestructible (as usual).

I'm talking early eighties here. I've tried buying the Neal Adams hardcovers, and guessing a lot...which has done me no good. I still cannot find those issues and would really love to find them.

Can anyone guess, or does somebody actually know?

If there's a better place to ask this please tell me so, thanks guys.

[Jaye]

What year were you six years old?
Was the story in color or black and white?

Thanks, that info might help...

[joint venture]

-full color.
-dick grayson robin.
-we're talking 1981-1982

-villain had some purpleish-dark red tunic
-long fingered hands with talon-like nails
-white hair / white long beard
-wore some sort of beanie-cap
-he flew and was more metaphysical or ethereal at the begining
of the story.

-one part of the staff/crosier was obtained from a museum.

i can't believe there is someone so expertised in batman that might know what i am talking about. thanks for the help.

[Aetherus]

If you have the time and the memory of what the cover looked like, you can browse through cover scans of websites which contain them. Are there rules against posting other websites on this board?

[Jaye]

Are there rules against posting other websites on this board?


Only if its spammy.
This is fine, fits a context... go ahead and link.
Thanks.

[Aetherus]

This is fine, fits a context... go ahead and link.

Thanks. Whenever I try to remember a particular comic book from my youth (but can't remember the issue), I browse through Comic Covers (http://www.comiccovers.com/) (http://www.comiccovers.com/). Sure, it may take a (loooong) time browsing through the site, but I've been able to find a few issues just based on a "guesstimate" of the issue date and a memory of what the cover looked like.

[joint venture]

still can't find a thing. maybe it's a lost cause, just thought it'd be worth it to ask you guys. there has to be at least one batman guru among us, i'm sure we'll find them sooner than later.

[nuclearman]

What did the cover look like??

I have a vague recollection of a story like that.

[nuclearman]

http://www.adelaidecomicsandbooks.com/images/batman350.jpg

Was it this one??

If not have a look through www.dcindexes.com ... great covers site.

[Lorendiac]

http://www.adelaidecomicsandbooks.com/images/batman350.jpg

Was it this one??

If not have a look through www.dcindexes.com ... great covers site.

That's definitely not it. That's from the story arc in which Batman was tangling "for the first time" with a vampire duo, Dala and The Monk (her brother), who were the Earth-1 analogs of some baddies the Earth-2 Golden Age Batman had fought in one of his earliest published cases, back around 1939. Both Dick and Bruce got transformed into vampires before all was said and done (but conveniently made complete recoveries by the end of those events, with the help of a kindly, mysterious Catholic priest who had a cure for recent victims, and who ended up loading Dala and The Monk on stretchers into the back of his vehicle and then drove off into Comic Book Limbo, announcing he'd keep them out of trouble).

[Watchman]

You should try the "Classic Comics" board, they'll probably be able to help you out.