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TimothyCallahan
08-29-2008, 03:52 PM
This is the place to talk all things Batman, because I'm kind of obsessed with the character these days, what with the mad genius-ness of "Batman R.I.P" and all.

Seriously, when was the last time I was eagerly awaiting an issue of Batman? Probably sometime around the low 400s? "Year One" and for a little while after? Yup, not since then.

So, Batman. I don't remember the first Batman comic, I ever read, do you? I remember reading an issue of "The Brave and the Bold" pretty early on -- maybe around age 13 or so, and I loved it. It was nothing special in retrospect, but it had the Riddler and some kind of crazy maze. Anyone know what issue I'm talking about?
deantrippe
08-29-2008, 04:40 PM
So, Batman. I don't remember the first Batman comic, I ever read, do you? I remember reading an issue of "The Brave and the Bold" pretty early on -- maybe around age 13 or so, and I loved it. It was nothing special in retrospect, but it had the Riddler and some kind of crazy maze. Anyone know what issue I'm talking about?
Haha, I don't remember that one, but I remember my first comic book ever. It was Detective Comics #645.

I was eleven years old, and had loved superheroes since I was a toddler, but hadn't been inspired to check out the comics until seeing Tim Burton's Batman flick on VHS as a treat during the last week of school in fifth grade. I bought the issue off the comics rack in the toy department of my local Wal-Mart.

The book opened with Batman clinically dead and lying in a sewer with Robin standing over him shouting, "NO!" It was a great introduction to the DCU and comics in general, via Chuck Dixon's Bat-books.
TimothyCallahan
08-29-2008, 05:35 PM
but hadn't been inspired to check out the comics until seeing Tim Burton's Batman flick on VHS as a treat during the last week of school in fifth grade.

It's always nice to see that school matters!

And, ah, VHS. How I do not miss you at all.
Cayman
08-29-2008, 06:54 PM
I've usually liked the character more in other media than in comics.

I like him on team books and occasionally I feel like reading some issues of the Batman books, but it's really taken Morrison to make me buy his book regularly.
TimothyCallahan
08-29-2008, 07:04 PM
Brave and the Bold #183--this was the first Batman comic I remember reading:

http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2007Images/B&B183Cover.html

Ha. The "Death of Batman" concept hooked me and Dean into the character, and now we're digging "R.I.P." Coincidence?!?
TimothyCallahan
08-29-2008, 07:09 PM
I would have been 10 when I read that, by the way, and it was written by some guy named Don Kraar. Anyone ever heard of him?

Apparently he was the writer on Gray Morrow's "Tarzan" comic strip throughout the 1980s and did a few comic books here and there.

Don Kraar, you were my gateway into Batman comics. And I salute you.
deantrippe
08-29-2008, 07:19 PM
Ha. The "Death of Batman" concept hooked me and Dean into the character, and now we're digging "R.I.P." Coincidence?!?
Ha! That's awesome.
Matthew E
08-30-2008, 07:24 PM
I don't remember the first one I ever read... man, I must have started reading comics pretty freaking young... but I remember one of the early ones for me was the one where Batman was fighting an organization he thought was called Rainbow, because they had green guys and blue guys and so on, but it turned out that they were called Spectrum, and this was some kind of a plot point. I think it was some kind of anniversary issue.
TimothyCallahan
08-30-2008, 10:22 PM
You should track down that comic and see if it BLOWS YOUR MIND.

I just tracked down that Brave and the Bold issue I was talking about, and it did not blow my mind one bit, sadly.
section 8
08-31-2008, 12:04 AM
I was more familier with Bat-man in other media (Tv Films) first
picked up the Comic at aroung 13 years old and loved the villans,
I also loved the idea the Bruce Wayne is the mask, and Bat-man is his true identity
Matthew E
08-31-2008, 06:06 AM
You should track down that comic and see if it BLOWS YOUR MIND.

I found a synopsis of it once and it seemed actually kind of weird. Like it was the last Batman story, set in the future or something, and it was going to be a whole new direction for the title and then DC decided not to pursue it.