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brucefarrar's review
4.0
As a reaction against the campy sixties television series, the Batman portrayed in comic books of the nineteen seventies returned to the darker aspects of his beginning in 1939. Once again in the prologue to the stories he is introduced as the Batman, the definite article preceding his identity as the Darknight Detective and emphasizing the more fearsome impression his appearance was designed to have on evildoers. This was a deliberate choice by editor Julius Schwartz and emphasized by writers and artists during the decade, notably by author Dennis O’Neil, and pencil and ink men Neal Adams and Dick Giordano, and this collection contains a good representative sample of their work and others working in the same vein.
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