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You're the bestest friend a grammar nerd could have.

Batman 181 Summary Review
Three Dames fighting for Number 1
with interference with Poison Ivy


Note to All

I'm not going to showcase Poison Ivy and this is her 1st appearance and later on in this countdown - I will handle Batman 181 a bit differently of which Poison Ivy is involved in.




Batman 181 ... Contains the first appearances of Dragon Fly, Silken Spider, and Tiger Moth.


Basic Review of Batman 181


Basically this story of which involves the three deadly villains of which they are all dames in their own evil ways to settle the score of who is Public Enemy Number One. It's involves them going to a neutral site (Possibly Gotham City Museum) of which each of the three dames in crime with their own teams (Henchmen) trying to stead a priceless crown and rightfully claim to be Number One Public Enemy.

That's pretty sums up the story that I can share to you!





I find this story quite full of action, drama, and gorgeous ladies of crime, imagine having these three dames (all of them evil) and the appearance of a knockout of a redhead by the name of Poison Ivy that really put the icing on the cake so to speak here and giving Batman and Robin a dose of feminine wiles that made them edgy and puts them in spot that they have a hard time dealing with them.

I just find this story a fun, weird, unusual, and one of the popular stories in the early days of the Silver Age of Comics.


Hoosier X

Gave me food for thought and this story could have been an inspiration for a Batman TV Show entitled "The Devil's Fingers" and followed by "The Dead Ringer" of which three phantoms of crime that assist Chandell / Harry being played by Liberace.







Left to Right:

Edy Williams as Rae, Marilyn Hanold as Roe, and Sivi Aberg as Mimi.



Sorry for not finding great color pictures and I consider the COLOR pictures in the Internet inferior.


I'm moving onto Number 43 and because I'm head of schedule - I will share that the day after Christmas.

Crime Doctor Continued ...





Because of having dual career of being a criminal and a doctor - it's often conflicts his value on the oath of being a surgeon ... 


The Hippocratic Oath is an oath historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards.

From Wikipedia

One of his duties as a criminal he often fixes up Criminals that often get injured while performing evil deeds for a price so that they don't have to go to a regular hospital and/or clinic to get patched up and that's one of the many benefits that he performs while fighting against the law in his own right. He gets tangled up on Batman on several undisclosed moments and one time I heard that he even fix up Robin by performing emergency surgery that makes certain criminals angry that he actually saved the boy life in one event in the life of the Dynamic Duo.

He quite sadistic with certain individuals using his medical knowledge to extract pain beyond any human can take and that alone makes him quite deadly to those who opposes him. This practice is often repeats itself and that alone make him worthy in this countdown.

He is one of the most challenging character to write because of his two careers - as a criminal and a doctor. It's gives him much needed depth to analyze his character that's quite challenging one to write because of unpredictable elements that he brings to the table so it's speaks.

He is an expert in consulting lower end criminals to perform acts of crime and that alone makes Batman's job a whole lot harder to control and that's why he gives the Caped Crusader all that he can handle. That's another area that most comic book readers do not know and you'll be surprised how many of them do not know this. I do know that because because of reading other adventures (of which were very few of them) that he was involved in along with his brother Rupert Thorne who I consider a joke and not a favorite of mine at all. His brother is a die hard criminal and Rupert is nothing short of a man that have others to do the dirty work.

That's kills Rupert on this list.

Having learned all this and you can see why he's crafty, deadly, and have all sort of problems dealing with the Hippocratic Oath and dealing with his own enemies that often don't see things his way. A client of his got so angry with him and he was shot to death (Story Unknown) because in those days the concept of malpractice suits was unheard of.









Three excellent You Tube Clips on the Crime Doctor and find them quite fascinating and I just watched them last night and came away quite informative about his career as a criminal and a doctor at the same time. This is all I have about the Crime Doctor - Bradford Thorne.


#42 is Next and that's coming in a day or two.

Beauty of Nocturna, Natalia Knight





Another Panel from Batman 363 and you can see she has that Movie Star Look and you can see why Bruce was attracted to her in the first place and that's why I consider her an underrated character that needs to be used more and I find her a fascinating character to learn more from.

Drop Dead Gorgeous Here.

If she had a good writer and learn more from her - she could give Catwoman a run for her money and I find her very seductive and charming and that's why she is a favorite of mine in a lesser degree.

Tomorrow, the Origin Story of Nocturna.

They should never ever try to resurrect Nocturna or revamp the character in any way. The Nocturna storyline in Batman in the 1980s had a baffling Bronze-Age beauty to it, and the way she just floated away in a hot-air balloon, disappearing into the crimson clouds that the Crisis cast over the DC Universe, it was a beautiful moment that, to me, has always been the official end of the Bronze Age.

They will never recapture that. If they want a female vampire character, just come up with a new character.

Or use Dala!

Detective Comics #529





Note to All: I never, ever read this book in my life and that's why I wasn't into Detective Comics at all at that point of my life in the early 80's.


In Detective 529 (Aug. 83), Doug Moench, Gene Colan and Dick Giordano introduce the Thief of Night, and Nocturna, both of whom will play major roles in this series over the next couple of years.





The Thief of Night is garbed completely in black, not even his face is visible, and for this debut, we only see him unmasked on the last couple of pages. He is better at eluding Batman than fighting him.





Colan’s art is perfect for this character. Jason Todd appears, eager to go into action, but told he will not be allowed to. Bruce Wayne winds up ditching Vicki Vale in the middle of a date to pursue the Thief of Night, but doesn’t manage to catch him.





On the last page, we see the Thief unmasked, and the white hand of Nocturna. We also see a really pissed off Vicki Vale, and Jason Todd threatening to run away back to the circus.





Joey Cavalieri, Paris Cullins and Frank Giacoia conclude the Ozone story in this issue.





Rick reveals how much he knows about Z.Z.Z., the secret government science organization, and the destructive things they have created – such as Ozone’s weaponry. He is the son of the founder of the group.





Green Arrow defeats Ozone with a high pressure arrow that causes all of his spray cans to explode. Remarkably, as they are hanging from his belt, this does not seriously maim, or kill him. But Green Arrow has little trouble with him after that.



From Me

First of all, I do not know anything about Ozone and I did not realize that Green Arrow was involved as well. Having painfully aware that I did not read Detective Comics #529 and I'm sorry to report this but I had to share this to cover my bases and I don't want anyone here thinking that I'm right or not.

I'm done with Nocturna and moving on to Number #41.

Nocturna is AWESOME!

I've been reading Batman on and off for more than 40 years, with several lengthy periods where I was picking up every issue brand-new off the racks for YEARS! And my favorite period for off-the-rack Batman is the early 1980s from about Batman #340 to #400 and Detective Comics #511 to about #570.

It was really amazing to pick up those comics every two weeks (because the continuity ran directly from Batman to Detective and back for most of that period) in the 1980s. And a big part of the success of that run can be attributed to Nocturna. (And writer Doug Moench, artists Don Newton and Gene Colan and Pat Broderick, Black Mask, Harvey Bullock, Jason Todd, Killer Croc, Catwoman ... a bunch of stuff.)

I read it all the way through over a few weeks just two or three years ago and I feel like I'm overdue to do it again.