Batman: Second Chances

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There was a lot of good stuff back then, including the precursor to the Frank Miller "dark" reboot, prefigured in much of this earlier material. When Marvel Comics wished to use the name of Captain Marvel for a new, different character,[citation needed] Starlin was given the rare opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Starlin is adept at telling tightly plotted 22-page stories with an emotional arc, and Aparo, for me, was the definitive Batman artist of the eighties. If you’re a Batman completist, you’d love it, but there isn’t much here if you are someone looking for the high notes and the significant events.

report information) Pencils Denys Cowan (signed as Cowan) Inks Dick Giordano (signed as Giordano) Colors Anthony Tollin Letters ?There are a couple of stories that have interesting themes, and another issue has Two-Face and Batman facing off in a baseball stadium that's full of painful, yet somehow entertaining, baseball lingo. I prefer the Nightwing: Year One version of Dick being fired, but I do like the overall consistency in that Batman just wants to keep him safe. It is a perfectly self-contained story that not only recaps the "retirement" of the first Robin, Dick Grayson, but Jason's revamped origin, as well.

I think any fan of Bronze Age Batman can have fun with this, but the only people who need this volume are completionists and like me they will disappointed by the glaring omissions. Gotham’s greatest hero has a new Robin – but can he truly teach his protégé to straighten up and fly right?What really turned me into an also-ran on BATMAN was the inability of O’Neil to pair me with an artist for longer than two issues. We get a single issue introducing the new villain, The Mime, who would never appear again aside from an Arkham Asylum mini-series published sixteen years later. Sadly, Issue 414 was interesting, but apparently isn't resolved until issue 421, 422, which aren't easily available. Dick tells Jason that he has someone to talk to, as he knows very well it’s a bit hard to share with Bruce.