I can’t swear to it with absolute certainty, but I suspect that this BATMAN cover by Neal Adams represents the first time that any person of color has been depicted on a Batman cover. And especially given the time period in which this cover saw print, late 1970, you’d expect that most readers would be … Continue reading Great Covers – BATMAN #230
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BHOCOS: BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS #1
BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS #1 1986 I was never much of a Batman fan–popular theory has it that children either love Superman or Batman, depending on their particular psyche, and I was clearly in the Superman camp. I’d read some decent Batman stories over the years, but nothing that really enamored me of the … Continue reading BHOCOS: BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS #1
BHOCOS: BATMAN #238
BATMAN #238January, 1972 BATMAN #238 exemplifies what made the DC 100-Page Super-Spectaculars truly the best buy in comics. It contained a pair of Batman classics from the 50s (one with art by the renowned Dick Sprang), the first Doom Patrol story, a Jack Cole-penned Plastic Man adventure, a short Sargon the Sorcerer story by Joe … Continue reading BHOCOS: BATMAN #238
BHOCOS: Halloween
A few years earlier, in 1973, I did Halloween as Spider-Man in a store-bought Ben Cooper costume, with my younger brother Ken attired as Batman.




