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Bat to the Beginning: March 2014
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Sunday, March 30, 2014. Detective Comics #77 (July, 1943). Brilliant, fashionable, rich person's surgeon Matthew Thorne leads a double life - he secretly operates a "crime clinic" where instead of examining patients and prescribing medication he examines criminal plans and prescribes methods for carrying them out! Not a cop, Doc? They follow the Crime Doctor to Matthew Thorne...
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Bat to the Beginning: February 2015
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Detective Comics #79 (September, 1943). Diamond Pete Ransome is a diamond thief (don't say? Anyways, turns out the strong fighters who follow him are actually Batman and Robin, and after they beat up him and his mean they help him enter a heavily guarded place, which is to say - jail! Turned the unclaimed trunk over for auction! Get the wrong tru...
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Bat to the Beginning: August 2014
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Sunday, August 10, 2014. Detective Comics #78 (August, 1943). Oooh, boy. Prepare for patriotism and propaganda! Dick is reading book on American History, presumably for school, and the thought strikes him that World War II is a revolutionary war for freedom in the same way as the War of Independence! One of the applicants is a former merchant marine captain who's ship was des...
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Bat to the Beginning: August 2013
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Saturday, August 24, 2013. Detective Comics #71 (January, 1943). Batman has agreed to give a daily series of lectures about crime fighting for the USO, and so come Monday crowds of Gothamites show up to watch Batman's lecture (can you imagine modern-day Batman doing something like this? Joker and his men make off with the painting in an oil truck and while the Batmobile is in...
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Bat to the Beginning: September 2012
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Saturday, September 22, 2012. Detective Comics #59 (January 1942). For those wondering, this cover is a good indication of what Bob Kane's artwork looks like when no one else is inking him - flat like cardboard. The King of the Jungle! Bruce and Dick, meanwhile, are travelling by train on vacation (picking up from the Winter issue of World's Finest. 4 left off) That being sai...
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Rowe Rowe Fight The Power: August 2012
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Rowe Rowe Fight The Power. Official Blog of Ben Rowe. Friday, August 31, 2012. 8220;There’s no way in hell we are moving! 8221; I thought my voice was strong, and firm, but the most accurate word was probably a bellow, and if I could have seen beyond my own tunnel vision I would’ve noticed the look in Jessica’s eyes, as she watched us fight from behind the couch. That look of unmitigated terror. 8220;Is this the kind of city you want your daughter to grow up in? This is how little she means to you? IR...
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Bat to the Beginning: BATMAN Chapter 7 (August 27, 1943)
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Saturday, February 21, 2015. BATMAN Chapter 7 (August 27, 1943). McLeod, Leslie Swabacker, Harry Fraser. Rudolph C. Flothow. Luckily, the rubble fell in such a way as to form a convenient arch that actually protected Batman from any harm. And claims to have been sent to check on Colton by Linda. When Bruce and Dick arrive at Colton's hotel they find him gone, but Bruce smells...
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Bat to the Beginning: January 2015
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Sunday, January 25, 2015. Batman #18 (August/September, 1943). Another patriotic cover, this time courtesy of artist Dick Sprang - who we've yet to see any interior work from, but who's time will come soon enough (and I couldn't be more excited for! The Secret of Hunter's Inn! Strangely, the inn's famous Hunter's Stew is awful, the rooms are shit, but there's still no sign of...
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Bat to the Beginning: Detective Comics #79 (September, 1943)
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Detective Comics #79 (September, 1943). Diamond Pete Ransome is a diamond thief (don't say? Anyways, turns out the strong fighters who follow him are actually Batman and Robin, and after they beat up him and his mean they help him enter a heavily guarded place, which is to say - jail! Turned the unclaimed trunk over for auction! Get the wrong tru...
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Rowe Rowe Fight The Power: September 2012
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Rowe Rowe Fight The Power. Official Blog of Ben Rowe. Wednesday, September 5, 2012. The Annotated Cinematic Batman: BATMAN and ROBIN (1997, Joel Schumacher). Time indexes refer to the 2005 Special Edition NTSC Region 1 DVD of the film. 00:00:13 - Once again, the WB logo morphs into the Bat-symbol, only this time frozen inside it's oval. On the one hand, this tells us of Mr. Freeze's involvement in the plot, on the other hand, it looks an awful lot like the teaser poster for BATMAN RETURNS. 00:01:34 - The...