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A month of Batman moments – Day 29

World’s Finest Comics #30

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15 surreal Batman covers

If there is one thing comic books excel at is producing WTF covers. Even by the standards of the medium, however, Batman has provided more than his fair share of utter weirdness, especially during the Silver Age. It’s a part … Continue reading

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Yet another long post about Batman’s humorous villains

Gotham Calling’s 400th post! This is the kind of benchmark I usually celebrate by spotlighting oddball members of Batman’s rogues gallery who don’t get enough love. While the Dark Knight has some of the most popular rogues out there, Gotham’s … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (16 November 2020)

If there is one thing Golden and Silver Age cover artists knew was that disproportionally tiny people and oversized everyday objects tend to make for particularly surreal – and therefore striking or amusing – visuals. It’s a motif that never … Continue reading

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On Batman’s title (and logo) pages

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been spotlighting one of the trademarks of The Spirit, namely the way Will Eisner and later creators kept adjusting that series’ logo to fit the title pages, ingeniously inserting new designs into each … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (6 April 2020)

Things are looking grim out there. At times like these, when I need some distraction and cheering up, nothing beats the classics, by which I mean watching the Golden Age Dynamic Duo kick butts and take names… With that in … Continue reading

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On the periphery of Batman’s rogues’ gallery

This is Gotham Calling’s 300th post! I usually take these occasions to celebrate the richness and weirdness of Batman’s extensive rogues’ gallery, which includes all sorts of odd criminals, ranging from iconic characters like the Joker and the Penguin all … Continue reading

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On Todd Phillips’ Joker

It turns out the most satisfying way to appreciate Todd Phillips’ Joker was to almost forget that it was a Joker movie. Taken as a DCU entry, the project didn’t particularly appeal to me: a Joker origin story (when the … Continue reading

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The looks of Vicki Vale

          Among the fascinating things about Batman comics is the fact that, because they have been going on for eight decades, you get to trace social and aesthetic evolutions on all sorts of fronts. One of those fronts is the … Continue reading

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My ideal deluxe omnibus volume – part 1

A couple of months ago, I listed a bunch of comics I assume every Batman fan will come across, sooner or later. With that out of the way, let us move on to some of my personal favorites – i.e. … Continue reading

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