What's your favorite top 3 non Frank Miller Batman TPBs?

[frostedone]

What is your favorite non Miller Batman TPB? The Dark Knight Returns, Year One, and any other TPBs by him are not allowed, since those stories would probably be on pretty much everyone's list.

My top 3:

1. Batman and Poison Ivy: Cast Shadows (relatively unknown, but it is a masterpiece.)

2. Hush

3. Batman: Tales of the Demon (Ra's Al Ghul)

4. Batman: The Long Halloween.

5.Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth.

[Maxwell Edison]

The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and The Killing Joke by Alan Moore

[Bradley]

3. The Black Glove
2. Batman in the Seventies
1. Strange Apparitions

If we're counting graphic novels, I'd put Arkham Asylum at the very top of my list and bump everything else down one space.

[DonC]

What is your favorite non Miller Batman TPB? The Dark Knight Returns, Year One, and any other TPBs by him are not allowed, since those stories would probably be on pretty much everyone's list.


They would?

I mean, I can see The Dark Knight Returns, but I'd rank quite a few higher than Year One and The Dark Knight Strikes Again.

And why limit it to trade paperbacks? The Doug Moench/Kelley Jones run on Batman was fantastic, yet I don't think one issue has been collected. How much of Denny O'Neil, Steve Englehart and Neil Adams's work has been collected?

Anyway, given the scope of the question, I would go with Strange Apparitions, Mad Love, The Killing Joke and The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told.

[Lew Moxon]

The Killing Joke
The Long Halloween
Batman Chronicles volum 1

[Maxwell Edison]

I've been lookng for Mad Love for a while but I havent been able to find at stores or even Amazon. I might try eBay

[Karl O'Neill]

Great Thread:

Anybody who posts alongside me on these boards knows i am an avid fan of Denny o'neill's work on the Batman titles and can't friggin wait to see what he does on the bat titles next week, with his two part story *Last days of Gotham*

There is probably tons more stories i am missing and might remember them all later and will come back to post about them.

1.Batman: Shaman--Denny O'Neill
2.Batman: Venom--Denny O'Neill
3.Batman:Prey--Doug Moench
4.Batman:Heart of Hush-Paul dini and Dustin Nyugun
5. Hush--Jeph Loeb and jim lee
6.Batman:Faces --Matt wagner
7.Batman:Blades---tim sale and James Robinson
8.Gotham central Vol 2. By greg rucka
9.Batman; RIP---Grant Morrison and Tony Daniel
10.Batman: Batman and Son. --Grant Morrison and andy Kubert

O'neill set up pretty much the whole backstory, locations and ideas for all the stuff they would go on to do with BANE and the Knightfall Trilogy in his work on the Legends of the Dark knight anicillary batman title, especially Batman: venom.

[Karl O'Neill]

I've been lookng for Mad Love for a while but I havent been able to find at stores or even Amazon. I might try eBay

I have it bagged and boarded and safe in my long comic batman box:)

don't mean to rub it in but it's a class issue, love the catooney style of bruce timm's pencils.

and guess what? This is the first comic book appearance of Harley Quinn! she went on to have her own title and appeared in plenty of the batman books over the years.

[Lew Moxon]

They would?

I mean, I can see The Dark Knight Returns, but I'd rank quite a few higher than Year One and The Dark Knight Strikes Again.

And why limit it to trade paperbacks? The Doug Moench/Kelley Jones run on Batman was fantastic, yet I don't think one issue has been collected. How much of Denny O'Neil, Steve Englehart and Neil Adams's work has been collected?

Anyway, given the scope of the question, I would go with Strange Apparitions, Mad Love, The Killing Joke and The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told.


I'd rank Year One rather highly along with DKR. But as far as DKSA and ASBR no, those wouldn't rank, Miller wrote good Batman stories, but he is not the be all and end all of the genre.

[davepaton]

Assuming that I can't include any of Gotham Central or JLA stuff -

1. The Long Halloween
2. Dark Victory
3. Batman and the Monster Men
4. The Man Who Laughs
5. Joker
6. Batman Year 100
7. Black and White vol. 1
8. No Man's Land volume 4
9. Arkham Asylum
10. Hush

[Clayton]

Batman: Year 100
Batman and the Monster Men
Gotham Central: Soft Targets (12-15) - this should be HC'd shortly.

[frostedone]

Woops! I meant to put top 5 in the thread title, not top 3.

Also what is Batman and the Monster Men about? It made a couple of people's top lists.

Also any Batman book is allowed, as long as it is not JLA.

So Tec, Gotham Central, etc, are all valid as long as they have TPBs.

[zur en arrh]

The Long Halloween
HUSH
Dark Victory
The Man Who Laughs
The Killing Joke

[Karl O'Neill]

Woops! I meant to put top 5 in the thread title, not top 3.

Also what is Batman and the Monster Men about? It made a couple of people's top lists.

Also any Batman book is allowed, as long as it is not JLA.

So Tec, Gotham Central, etc, are all valid as long as they have TPBs.

Matt wagner wrote 12 issues of batman set around the time of year one(frank miller)

They are broken down into 2 Trade paperbacks.

Batman and the Monster men-#1-#6
Batman and the Mad monk#1-#6

Both awesome, Hugo strange and carmine falcone are the villains in the first one and the mad monk is the villain in the second one.

[n2doop5u]

Year 100
Man who laughs
RIP (in January)
Black and White vol 1 (surprised no one else had this)
Killing Joke long halloween dark victory blah blah blah

[Lew Moxon]

Matt wagner wrote 12 issues of batman set around the time of year one(frank miller)

They are broken down into 2 Trade paperbacks.

Batman and the Monster men-#1-#6
Batman and the Mad monk#1-#6

Both awesome, Hugo strange and carmine falcone are the villains in the first one and the mad monk is the villain in the second one.


I wish Wagner had a series covering the Bats early years. More than just Dark Moon Rising. I've only read the mad monk story (I ordered both but "Monster Men hasn't arrived yet) and its among the best I've read. Enoug for me to wish for more

[nepenthes]

Killing Joke
Batman & Son Black Glove RIP
Blind Justice
Strange Apparitions
Cult
Ego
Gothic
Son of the Demon
Year 100
Black & White1
All Star
Red Rain
Contagion

[Arksy]

Hush
Killing Joke
The Long Halloween

[Killsocket]

Matt wagner wrote 12 issues of batman set around the time of year one(frank miller)

They are broken down into 2 Trade paperbacks.

Batman and the Monster men-#1-#6
Batman and the Mad monk#1-#6

Both awesome, Hugo strange and carmine falcone are the villains in the first one and the mad monk is the villain in the second one.

I don't feel qualified to answer the post question about best since I only have a few, but I do have to echo Monster Men... I loved it. I think I actually liked Mad Monk a little better, but a little disappointing in the end. I really like Hugo Strange in Monster Men.

[Chiroptera]

My top three

1. Batman: The Long Halloween
2. Batman: Dark Victory
3. Batman: Heart of Hush

[the goddamn batman]

1. Arkham Asylum. McKean, man. You just can't beat that guy.

2. The Black Glove. J.H. Williams, man. What a beautiful arc that was. Story's kinda meh for me, but the art... :eek: :biggrin:

3. I dunno... something... maybe the Black and White books... any of them?

[d newton]

1 - Robin Wanted TPB.
2 - Nightwing Freefall TPB.
3 - Detective Death and the City TPB.
4 - Batman Black Glove HC.
5 - Birds of Prey Metropolis or Dust TPB.

[HaroldAllnut]

Batman: Knightfall, Part One: Broken Bat
Batman: Knightfall, Part Two: Who Rules the Night
Batman: Knightfall, Part Three: KnightsEnd

That is the stuff that got me into comics in the first place. Solid gold.

[dancj]

It's tricky. Much as I think Batman's a great character, his TPBs tend to not be that great.

Anyway here goes

1 - The TPB collecting Peter Milligan's run which which exists only in my head
2 - No Man's Land v1
3 - Batman and Son

[bodie_3_7_ci5]

1) Batman Year 100
2) Batman: Arkham Asylum
3) Batman: The Cult
4) Batman: Blind Justice
5) Batman: Gothic