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BATMAN COMICS - - READING GUIDE... HELP?


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 :)

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Your best bet may be to read a wiki article about the different eras of Batman. I mean, the Golden Age, Silver Age and Bronze Age did not necessarily follow the same canon. In fact, in the Bronze Age they made 'Year One', Batman's origin story. I would suggest you start with that (it is the beginning of the best Canon of Batman...even if I am not a fan of Frank Miller usually), and then move on to the older Canons.

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