A review by plaidbrarian
Batman: Strange Apparitions by Steve Englehart, Len Wein, Terry Austin, Walt Simonson, Marshall Rogers

5.0

This collects the all-too-short Detective Comics run by Steve Englehart, Marshall Rogers, and Terry Austin, which for my money, is the best run of Batman stories ever. It's not particularly innovative or unusual, just very, very good. The stories follow a definite arc - experiences are had, characters grow and change - but it doesn't require an extensive knowledge of prior continuity to appreciate beyond the bare basics of who Batman is and what it is he does. And it feels like a complete tale, with a beginning, middle, and end, and in longform serialized comics, that's a rarity.