Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Sept 3, 2015 7:08:33 GMT -5
My Batman is actually two Batmen: He's the Bronze Age Batman...The Dark Knight Detective, and he's also the Dark Knight Returns/Killing Joke/Year One/Arkham Asylum Batman of the late '80s and early '90s.
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Post by Warmonger on Sept 3, 2015 12:25:59 GMT -5
Hard tossup between the Animated series and Moench/Dixon Batman
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 3, 2015 12:31:56 GMT -5
Doug Moench's early eighties Batman, drawn by Gene Colan.
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Post by MDG on Sept 3, 2015 12:49:28 GMT -5
The New Look through early bronze age. As long as Denny O'Neil isn't being too Denny O'Neil.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 19:51:03 GMT -5
I'm with Slam - the Darknight Detective of the Bronze Age. In addition to Adams, Aparo, Rogers & Newton, my Batman was drawn by Irv Novick. Same here. The Bronze Age was my favorite version of Batman. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 4, 2015 9:14:37 GMT -5
I wish I could cut and paste my answer from the CBR thread we did on this subject because I doubt I can reproduce my eloquence in that post.
Anyhoo, my Batman is the 1969-86 Batman in general and the Haney/Aparo B&B Batman in particular. I prefer the world's greatest detective rather than a paranoid sociopath, a Batman who is motivated by the desire to keep anyone else from experiencing his pain rather than mindless, monotonous vengeance on the underworld, a compassionate Batman who will work as hard or harder to solve the murder of a bag lady as he would a political figure, a Batman whose villains are colorful and dangerous but aren't all psychotic serial killers, and a Bruce Wayne who is a socially conscious businessman/philanthropist rather than a bored-and-boring playboy. I prefer a Batman who is respected, and often deputized, by law enforcement agencies around the world, whose best friend is Superman, and who can work amiably with heroes as disparate as the Spectre and Metamorpho. And I really like the streamlining Julius Schwartz and his writers did to the character at the dawn of the Bronze Age: no Robin, no Batmobile (just an unmarked sports car), living in Gotham instead of out of it. I was bitterly disappointed when Wein and Conway restored the pre-'70s status quo.
So yeah, I love the Finger/Robinson/Sprang Golden Age version and the Dini/Timm animated version and the Adam West TV version but it's the Bronze Age Bats who floats my boat.
Cei-U!
I flash the Bat-Signal!
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Post by coke & comics on Sept 5, 2015 3:42:35 GMT -5
My Batman is the impression I formed in my youth. This came from Batman: The Animated Series and the comics of the late '80s and early '90s. Art by Jim Aparo or Norm Breyfogle. Writing by Marv Wolfman, Doug Moench, Peter Milligan, Alan Grant, or Chuck Dixon.
Stories told in the night, in the shadows. Hero with a strict moral code. Robin. Insane villains. Sarcastic butler.
In my head, he's illustrated by Jim Aparo and sounds like Kevin Conroy.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 5, 2015 8:39:58 GMT -5
Hard tossup between the Animated series and Moench/Dixon Batman Pretty much this with a heavy dose of the bronze age thrown in. |
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Post by crazyoldhermit on Sept 5, 2015 9:17:57 GMT -5
I don't have a favorite Batman because I see it all as one guy. The young psycho vigilante, the Dynamic Duo father figure, the globe-trotting bachelor and the aging pessimist. Finger, Sprang, O'Neil and Miller are the same guy at different times in his life, changed by circumstance and age.
If I have to pick just one then I roll them all into an average and come out with TAS.
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Post by Who's Who on Sept 5, 2015 10:44:00 GMT -5
I still think off the Superfriends' Batman, and still hear Olan Soule's voice in my head when I read my golden/silver age books.   |
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 5, 2015 10:52:06 GMT -5
I still think off the Superfriends' Batman, and still hear Alan Soule's voice in my head when I read my golden/silver age books. That's Olan Soule. Cei-U! I summon the editor part of my brain that I CAN'T TURN OFF!!! |
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Post by Who's Who on Sept 5, 2015 11:00:16 GMT -5
A forgivable typo, I hope.
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 5, 2015 11:15:44 GMT -5
A forgivable typo, I hope. But of course!  Cei-U! I summon the absolution! |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 5, 2015 14:42:07 GMT -5
I was never a Batman fan, but the one I'll always sort of see as the "real" Batman is the Jim Aparo one. The Batman Bible, to me, is the three issue Untold Legend of the Batman* (even if the first issue was pencilled by John Byrne).
The Batman story I enjoyed the most, however, is Batman: year one.
*Can't remember if it was plural or not.
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Post by batlaw on Sept 5, 2015 19:16:19 GMT -5
When I hear the name Batman, my mind instantly and automatically pulls up images of Neal Adams and Jim Aparo Art. When I think of him I see those renditions along with Jose Garcia Lopez and some frank miller and norm breyfogle. Basically the popular artists of my youth when I discovered the character and those artist who worked on him during my most fanatical and impressionable period of reading. "My Batman" though is a combination of most all versions. Personally I'm not crazy for the silly, weird, space traveling batman of the 50's-60's. The closest interpretation of MY ideal / envisioned Batman to date has been Bruce Timm's from BTAS-JLU. Serious and dark but not too much so. Realistic but not too realistic or solely focused on realism.
My Batman is typically solo but robin exists along with rest of the basic "family" and his Superfriends whom he does share adventures with periodically. In my batmans world there is room for laughs as well as horror. He can fight both normal street criminals and super powered beings, monsters and robots etc. Just needs to stay in character and be well done.
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