Reblogging this from Required Reading … because it does fit into the category of reading something that I own but haven’t read. For the record, this is a keeper.
-Tom
As our mutual friend, The Irredeemable Shag, says, “Everyone has a Batman phase.” I think that Stella is still in hers. Mine started in 1990 and while I finally gave up Batman in the early 2000s, I’d say that its high point ended sometime around the middle of the decade. The comics collected in this volume are from a few years before my phase; specifically, they are the first several issues of Detective Comics in the post-Crisis DCU.
I’d read a few of these both digitally and in print over the years, but most of my experience with this era of Detective was via the trade paperback for Batman: Year Two, which I had gotten from the Waldenbooks at the Smith Haven Mall back in the early 1990s. Oh, and sometime in 1990 or 1991, I spent the $5 I earned from the only time I ever umpired a…
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