Batman by Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers

>>87632922
That is a sick cover.

Great choice. This is ESSENTIAL Batman. One of the top three runs ever.

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>>87632975
Pretty fucking metal.

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>>87632988
Indeed, and I've never read it.

These ten or so issues make up one of the most influential eras of Batman's entire history, to the point that you'll see a lot of things that inspired or were adapted into the Animated Series years later.

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Though this is Walt Simonson on art, Rogers comes in on issue #471.

i didn't realize this was the Englehart/Rogers run at first, excited to finally read it. Mad it's not collected

>>87633113
Kek, that phone call is hilarious.

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>>87633142
It actually was collected in a book called "Strange Apparitions", which has become the informal title of this whole storyline involving Hugo Strange and Rupert Thorne.

The book is now out of print and hard to find though. And I know this because I spent the last hour trying to track down a copy until I decided to storytime it.

>>87633192

meant to say out of print

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Also these first two issues and the last two I'll be doing later on are actually scans from that very book because the scans of the actual issues are a little ugly.

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Now this is some fuckin' 40's Detective Comics shit.

>>87633192
>>87633142

Actually there is. It's in Legends of the Dark Knight - Marshall Rogers, which is out of print. Maybe your LCS will have it in stock

>>87633113
>Rape... the... *thud*

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>>87633286
>my lcs
>having anything other than things related to Marvel movies
LOL

But thanks, it'll make finding it easier.

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This Simonson art is a nice little treat for me, at least. Because Simonson's Thor was one of the things that first helped me get into comics, his art has always had a special appeal to me.

Especially the paneling, such as on this and the last page.

>>87633387
Have you been reading Ragnarok?

>>87633332
It looks like DC cancelled the second Norm Breyfogle volume, because why would something nice happen?

>>87633422
I dropped it when he killed off the qt drow

OK, just kidding, but I do think she was a more interesting protag than Thor /again/

>>87633445
Sure, she was an interesting character - but it was always gonna be Thor.

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>>87633422
Is that the current storyline? Because I haven't read Thor since... Fraction.

Though the amount of sheer hatred for Aaron's run on /co/ has lead me to be interested in reading it.

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>>87633423
This is the worst of all realities, sometimes.

>>87633528
No, it's a IDW series by Simonson.

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>>87633572
Oh shit, I remember saying I was gonna read that when it started. And then never reading it.

Thank you for reminding me because that's going on my pull this instant.

>>87633528
It's the Thor thing Simonson is doing for IDW. No Marvel connection but some similarities, e.g. the mystic technology. Set after the Twilight of the Gods with an undead Thor.

It's pretty good. Thor is a little bit of a worse person than Marvel Thor, but interesting.

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>>87633668
>Batman
>paranoid
No way

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>>87633728
I wonder who this guy is supposed to be

>>87633728
>Sprang Memorial Arena

Based

>>87632922
Shouldn't a man made out of phosphorous standing in a pond be more exploding?

>>87632963
>Walt Simonson

Has he mastered onomatopoeia yet at this point? The Son of Simon is a God of Sound Effects.

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wat

I didn't know O'Hara was actually in the comics at any point

>>87632922
So is this guys where they got the inspiration for Blight?

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>this entire scene
lol

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>>87633924
Huh, I never noticed the similarity before. It's certainly possible.

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Ah, Silver St. Cloud! Who would, years later, be a major character in Kevin Smith's MASTERPIECE the Widening Gyre.

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>>87633778
Oldfag here.

For 30 years I've wanted to know did they all die? Did any of them die? Was it just a panic & maybe people got trampled?

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>>87634058
I just realized they left that plot point hanging.

>And everyone died. Anyway, back at Bruce's cool elevator...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv7Z75sxLFY

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Yeah, what the fuck? They literally never mention the fact that like a couple hundred people got Fur Convention'd.

>>87633297
>Boss Rupert Thorne

Man, they ought to have dropped the "Boss" bit because the Party Machines were well and truly disassembled by the 70s, even if they do make great villains.

>>87634138
I considered doing their final story arc last week, for the timing.

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>Yes, Batman! I have constructed a face mask composed entirely of pizza!

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I suppose I actually could have just started here. But Simonson's art was so good!

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>>87634108
>>87634215
I know, right? Even by Gotham standards ya think 15,000+ 16-25 year olds choking to death on acid gas would be a big deal.

And Joker would be seriously pissed

>>87634327
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoPR88koEIw

>>87634415
Please stop posting images in the storytime, ya nimrod

>>87633616
>Alfred pushes through a fast recovery of his phosphorous poisoning because Butlers gonna Butle.

Truly a Gentleman's Gentleman's Gentleman.

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>Finger Alley
Right next to Kane Waste Processing

>>87633778
>Giant glowing laser skull

Man, the people at that concert to high to realize they're dying must be going out of their goddamn minds.

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wew

>>87634477
Up yours, now I'm gonna fuck this up.

Because of you.

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More name droppin'

>>87633979
It's not like there's really that much you can really do with "glowing skeleton man" outside of a particular range without losing that basic idea.

>>87634582
Whatever, enjoy your ban.

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I think I have this album somewhere, man

>>87634058
>>87634415

Quit fucking up the storytime you idiot

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Calm down, folks

>>87634626
This looks like it was a black light poster in so many dorm rooms.

>>87634387
Also, a giant laser skull gassed a rock concert to possibly fatal effect.

>>87634500
Making Batwoman's dad, a Kane, into a villain that was basically trying to turn Batman into massive international thing for his own personal benefit is an underappreciated move by Tynion.

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It's a Monster, Man!

>>87634668
Wait, is that the Kane family mansion from Batman: Earth One? The one Birthday Boy hid out in?

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IIRC Strange is literally Batman's very first recurring villain.

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!!!

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OK, I can't take it anymore, I have to drive to get pizza.

But I'll be back in thirty minutes, sorry fellas.

I hate living so far from any delivery place.

>>87634887
Was this the first time Hugo learned Batman's identity? I recall two other times.

>>87634925
>Long live the new Batman
>You could be in the Superman Movie

Well, that's an unconventional way to cast Batman in a Superman movie.

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The first storytime I ever did actually turned into a discussion about pizza somehow. I don't remember what it was I posted, but I remember that,

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>>87634936
This was the first

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>Roxxon
Strange reads Marvel Comics

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DUDE WOMEN RIGHT LMAO

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D I C K
I
C
K

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>The Spirit
>Mister Miracle

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What do Don Corleone, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prince want with Batman's identity?

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I guess he didn't really think that last part through.

Holy christ digital coloring does NOTHING good for Bronze Age art.

These pages look horrendous.

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>>87636303
They're a mixed bag. On one hand it's so bright and clear, on the other without the effect of grain and ink it looks TOO clear

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>>87636365
And this one is particularly bad... look at that bottom right panel

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>Hugo Strange
>dead
Yeah I'm sure.

Thanks for reading, be back tomorrow evening to do the other half.

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>>87636432
Welcome back and good night

>>87636074
Maybe he was early on global warming. The dude was all over the map.

>>87632922

>>87634215

Hey look, it's Jason Wyngarde in the bottom panel.

>>87636074

Roxxon... in DC? Englehart, you sneak.

>>87636212

Look what company issued that check.

>>87636379

"Did you know Strange put snakes out there, too!"

...but the snakes were trained to attack Batman, not Robin, so he probably just walked past them.

Thanks

>>87633145
I wonder if the writers on Batman Beyond were aware of Dr. Phosphorous when they thought up Blight.

>>87641576

Of course they were. Blight is just Norman Osborn crossed with Phosphorous. This run in general is probably the most influential on Batman TAS

>>87634848

Scooby-Doo reveal!!!

>>87636161

>Monogrammed VW Bus

Fuckin' stylin', holy shit

>>87634772
Military dudes turning out to be evil is such a huge cliche, though. It was kind of cool that Kate's was actually an okay guy.

FYI, we will FINALLY have a proper Doctor Phosphorus in non-comics media, and it'll be in the Lego Batman Movie.