CBR: CCI: O'Neil & Adams Take Back The Knight

[CBR News]

The legendary Bat-team of Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams took the Comic-Con stage to discuss their 70s Batman revamp joined by moderator Mark Evanier and former "Batman" and "Detective" editor Paul Levitz.


Full article here.

[ykw]

Given the chance, Adams started making small changes - setting the stories at night, having Batman enter rooms through windows, adding more shadows, etc.

Puh-leeze. Robbins and Novick were already taking the character down this road when Adams was still trying to shuck the BOB HOPE gig. Neal did it most famously and most distinctively, but he didn't do it first.

[T Hedge Coke]

Puh-leeze. Robbins and Novick were already taking the character down this road when Adams was still trying to shuck the BOB HOPE gig. Neal did it most famously and most distinctively, but he didn't do it first.

I like some of the Robbins work from that era, but there's something distinctly and excitingly different about the Adams/O'Neil works, and the works they had a hand in but weren't primary creators on. And, yes, there were a number of firsts during that period of their careers.

[fly on the wall]

Puh-leeze. Robbins and Novick were already taking the character down this road when Adams was still trying to shuck the BOB HOPE gig. Neal did it most famously and most distinctively, but he didn't do it first.

Actually the real question is who was the first to lengthen Batman's ears. I know that Jim Starlin was the artist that drew Batman's ears goofy longest, who was the first artist to make Batman's ears short again? Was that Frank Miller? Who was the first Bat-artist to get rid of that annoying yellow moon around the bat ensignia? I do believe that Carmine Infantion was the inventor of the yellow moon bat emblem.

[leokeil]

If I had to pick the start of this new version of Batman, I'd say it was Robbins and Novick's "One Bullet Too Many!" from Batman #217...not an O'Neil and Adams story.