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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 :)

[–] GForce59 12 years ago

I don't know if such a guide exists. I would be interested in that as well. Have you searched for anything on amazon.com, like "Batman comic guide" or something like that? With DC now completely focused on the New 52 universe--which I am not very fond of, except for Jason Todd in "Red Hood and the Outlaws," which I think is awesome--I'm not sure they would put any effort forth with such a guide if they haven't already.

[–] ronaldt49 9 years ago

Three years Later!!!

I still have my collection from the 50s and 60s of many DC characters and would never sort them that way.

I would go from issue one chronologically and enjoy escaping the realities of this world for a few minutes, hours, whatever.