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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2024 18:39:56 GMT -5
Catman for me as well, no question. I first ran into him with the Doug Moench crossover story in Batman #371 (Don Newton pencils) and Detective #538 (Gene Colan pencils), and he became an instant favorite. He deserved more appearances in the Silver and Bronze ages IMO! I like your overall list too, the Black Spider also brings back a great memory. I "think" this may have been the first Batman comic book I ever got as a kid in 1978, I still remember seeing the cover and thinking before I read it "wait, is that Spider-Man fighting Batman?".  My choice and I had that comic, from a Whitman bag sampler. Come to think of it, I may have gotten it from a Whitman bag as well! Those were such fun  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 2, 2024 18:54:14 GMT -5
I'm going with "Other," specifically Val Kaliban a.k.a. The Spook, prison architect turned escape specialist. His duels of wit with Batman in the early '70s were a highlight of that era to a newly teenaged Cei-U! I summon the green-garbed ghoul! I love the Spook! I read Detective #488 just a few days ago. Another Bronze Age Bonkers character. I’m not sure who I’m going to pick for this thread, but the Spook is a great candidate! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 2, 2024 18:56:13 GMT -5
It seems my destiny in these things to choose "Other." I like a lot of "lesser" villains. I'm not sure that Clayface II is actually lesser than Clayface I...but whatcha gonna do. I suspect my answer is probably Nocturna. I loved that era of Batman/Detective. Now I haven't read those books in eons, so who knows if they'd hold up. But I dug her visually and it was nice to have another female antagonist, particularly one that was kind of night based.  I would argue that Nocturna is not a lesser villain. But I would probably be the only one! Another candidate for my final choice for this thread! |
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 3, 2024 1:47:54 GMT -5
If you want to talk the tv series, then it is King Tut, all the way! Loved Victor Buono and he had just the right amount of ham to make it fun. he also was the only lively part of The Man From Atlantis tv series, when they would bring him back, after the pilot film. If I hadn't decided beforehand to restrict myself to villains from the comics, Tut would've been my choice too.
Cei-U! I summon the phelonious pharaoh!
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Post by berkley on Oct 3, 2024 1:55:37 GMT -5
I don't recognise any of those names apart from Catman, and even him I've only seen in online samples, So I would vote "Other" and go with Death Man, based on that one great cover where it looks like he's single-handedly getting the better of both Batman and Robin. I don't think I'll ever read the actual story because I have a feeling there's no way it'll live up to that cover.
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Post by rich on Oct 3, 2024 2:26:23 GMT -5
I voted KGBeast because I have no fond memories of any of the others, but I haven't read the Ten Nights of the Beast (or whatever that story was called) that featured him back in 1988, probably since about 1991. I did not recall he had a bondage/fetish gimp costume 😂😂😂 Who the hell designed that and put it in a kids comic? 🤣
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 3, 2024 2:35:55 GMT -5
Much as I like the Black Spider, I had to go 'Other' too, for Firebug:  The choice of the Whitman-logo cover is deliberate, as I got this one in a Whitman 3-pack (like the Black Spider issue). |
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 3, 2024 2:37:24 GMT -5
Ah, Firebug. I’d forgotten about him!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 3, 2024 2:39:02 GMT -5
If you want to talk the tv series, then it is King Tut, all the way! Loved Victor Buono and he had just the right amount of ham to make it fun. he also was the only lively part of The Man From Atlantis tv series, when they would bring him back, after the pilot film. If I hadn't decided beforehand to restrict myself to villains from the comics, Tut would've been my choice too.
(...) Yeah, Tut was pretty cool. And multi-talented. After the Batman TV was cancelled, he went on to have a successful musical career in the 1970s:
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 3, 2024 5:57:10 GMT -5
I went with another "Other" vote. From Batman # 188 (1966) The Eraser  |
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Post by rich on Oct 3, 2024 7:26:32 GMT -5
I went with another "Other" vote. From Batman # 188 (1966) The Eraser 😂 What a hilarious character. Silver Age Batman was so unashamedly silly! |
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Post by DubipR on Oct 3, 2024 7:26:41 GMT -5
I like the Terrible Trio. That's a lesser known Batman villain.  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 3, 2024 9:34:35 GMT -5
After mulling over Nocturna, the Spook, Dr. X and Double X, the Grasshopper Gang, Johnny Witts, Two-Tone, Professor Arnold Hugo, Calendar Man, the Hobby Robber, Dodo Man 🦤 and so many others, I decided to go with …
CHECKMATE
from Detective Comics #238.
Batman never caught him!
Escaping Batman after one of his crimes, Checkmate hid in a space too close to a radium lab (or something like that) and developed incurable radiation poisoning!
But he came up with a hopelessly complicated scheme for revenge that involved re-creating death traps 🪤 that had originally been inflicted on Batman by four obscure Batman villains who are named but not shown: the Bowler, the Harbor Pirate, Wheelo and the Robot Master.
Of course, it didn’t work, and Checkmate did not enjoy his “from beyond the grave” revenge.
Nonetheless, Checkmate must have been a Gotham Underworld legend, at least for a time in the early Silver Age.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 3, 2024 9:38:00 GMT -5
I just noticed Crazy Quilt among the choices. I love Crazy Quilt! I want to see him decide to have another go at Robin and it’s Damian Wayne!
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Post by mikelmidnight on Oct 4, 2024 11:48:32 GMT -5
I just noticed Crazy Quilt among the choices. I love Crazy Quilt! I want to see him decide to have another go at Robin and it’s Damian Wayne! The main thing I liked about Crazy Quilt is that he started out as a Boy Commandoes villain. I always had a thing for this guy:  |
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