Now that means they’ll be watching for him and that leaves us free to continue our work.” This isn’t a coincidence or an inadvertent side-effect. The leader boasts, “One good thing though, the cops think the ‘Bat-man’ is in on it. He deliberately interferes with an investigation into a gang of thieves, deflecting attention away from the criminals themselves. In one early tale, he’s shown oiling a police investigation. So, for example, Commissioner Gordon, Robin and Hugo Strange all first appear in The Batman Archives, while the Joker and Catwoman first appear in The Dark Knight Archives, and the Scarecrow first raises his head in The Batman in World’s Finest Archives.īruce is repeatedly shown to have absolutely no respect for authority, in marked contrast to the later decision to cast him as a deputised law man.
There are the softcover “Chronicle” collections that aim to collect every Batman appearance in order, but the “Archive” editions confine themselves to one book at a time. So that’s a lot of Batman related books in the “Archive” publishing line – perhaps reflecting the fact that he is at least as iconic as Superman, who anchors a similar volume of “Archive” collections. Disregarding his appearances in team-up books, the character also has his own World’s Finest series and a later Silver Age Dynamic Duo line. The Dark Knight Archives, confusingly, feature his early adventures in Batman, the book launched slightly later as a quarterly title for the hero.
The Batman Archives collect Detective Comics, the first series to feature the character and one of his two flagship books. Indeed, as one might expect for a character as iconic and marketable as Batman, there are a whole range of DC “Archive” Editions collecting early stories with the character. To be fair, this collection doesn’t include every Batman story in chronological order.
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