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BATMAN COMICS - - READING GUIDE... HELP?

posted 12 years ago by jordgrant
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Hey. I'm posint gthis on every Batman board I can think of on IMDb and any other databases I find, so sorry if you see this elsewhere..

I'm very new to comic books, but I've always loved Batman, and I've always looked up stories on DC/Batman Wiki's so I know quite a bit behind the mythology etc.

I've recently gotten a hold of Batman Comics #1-713 and many graphic novels and Trade-Paperbacks. My problem is this, I wll be getting all the Detective Comis soon (or at least all the ones remotely related to Batman, if he isn't in all of them -- I've never read a Detective Comic) and I need to know two things.

One; if any one has, or wouldn't mind spending a lot of time making (sorry), a kind opf reading guide to Batman comics. For instance, have a basic list #1, #2, #3 etc. but if there is a Detective comic that expands on the story, or a shadow of the bat, legends of the dark knight etc. simply put that next as either #484a or 485a depending on the story it affects.

Two; I need help knowing what the various story arcs are as I have an entire folder of Knightfall seperated into Prelude, Knightfall (Broken Bat/Who Rules the Night), Knightquest (The Search/The Conquest), KnightsEnd, Prodigal, Aftermath and then various comics relating to it; Nightwing etc.

I want to group my files for example; #345-347 (The Cat Attacks!). so that I don't have to memorise issue numbers to find stories.

If anyone knows where sucvh a guide exists, or they would be willing to take the time to put one together, I would be eternally grateful.

Thanks

P.S. -- Sorry for all this text :)

[–] eric20other2002 9 years ago

The way I got into it is getting Batman Chronicles, it has every Batman comic in chrinological order, through the Detective Comics, Batman, World's Finest and when it gets to other titles I'm sure it will have them.
Outside of that you have the more expensive Batman Archives, which only deals with Batman titles, The Dark Knight Archives are Detective Comics pulled together and than Justice League Archives.
Than If you are interested in Elseworld stories or Trade Paperbacks outside of chronological reading you have:
Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale Run, which includes The Long Halloween, Dark Victory, Catwoman: When in Rome and Haunted Knight.
Than you have Frank Miller's run which includes Batman: Year One, All Star Batman & Robin, The Dark Knight Returns and The Dark Knight Strikes Again.
Grant Morrison also has a good run which include, Batman & Son, Batman RIP, Batman Incorporated, Batman & Robin.
Other titles I can recommend based on what I liked with Batman are, Batman: Mad Love, JLA: Tower of Babel, The Man Who Laughs, The Killing Joke, Superman: Red Son, Batman: Hush and Batman: Heart of Hush, Knightfall(only get the reissued editions that came out as they have all the connecting stories) Batman: Eternal just finished as well.
There is also The Greatest Story Ever Told editions of Batman and The Joker

[–] TMC-4 (19392) 6 years ago

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