Batman: The Joker's Revenge [Paperback]

Denny O'Neil (Author), N. Adams (Author), Nick Giordano (Author), Mike Friedrich (Author), Bob Haney (Author), Duncan McAlpine (Introduction), Terry Pratchett (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 14, 1990

One in a series of Batman graphic novels portraying the Batman of the 1970s. This volume contains five stories: "The Superman-Batman Revenge Squads", "The Superman-Batman Split", "Half an Evil", "The Joker's Five Way Revenge" and "The Silent Night of the Batman".

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (January 14, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 185286253X
• ISBN-13: 978-1852862534
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,624,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars negative reviews are inaccurate, June 23, 2010

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gregmag - See all my reviews

This review is from: Batman: Red Water, Crimson Death (Paperback)

The negative reviews posted here all seem to deal with a completely different book. This confusion isn't the reviewers' fault; Amazon somehow imported reviews of that other book to this page. Anyway, the book called "Batman: Challenge of the Man-Bat" is exactly what the Amazon listing says it is: a black and white trade paperback, published by Titan Books in the U.K., that reprints four Batman stories from the 1970s with Neal Adams art. The stories are pretty great, by the way; but I'm mainly posting this to try to clear up the confusion.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this book like the plague, December 31, 2003

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R. SHARIFF "rayhans1282" (Jamaica, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Batman: The Ring, the Arrow, and the Bat (Paperback)

The story in this book is predictable, unexciting and is simply not worth the time or money. The first part is a story about how Green Arrow and Green Lantern try to beat a very colorful and prdictable and rather cheesy villain. The second story is where Green Arrow teams up with Batman in order to defeat the same cheesy villain who have accumulated more wickedness (rather cheesiness) over the years. The writing is very dated and more suited for comics from the 80's. For the modern reader, it is ill-suited and they will not enjoy it, especially when compared to the quality of recent stories. It is simply not a good Batman, Green Arrow or Green Lantern story.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Misleading Rehash, December 22, 2003

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Hassan Galadari (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Batman: The Ring, the Arrow, and the Bat (Paperback)

The first thing that a person notices when seeing the book is that it has Batman's name written on the cover when in fact he does not appear until later in the book.

The book is a collection of two stories, both appearing in previous issues of Green Lantern and Legends of the Dark Knight in comic book form. The first has Greena Arrow teaming up with Green Lantern and the second one has the Green Arrow teaming up with the legendary Dark Knight, Batman. The stories have nothing to do with one another, so it would seem strange that a book has the mantle of the Bat on it, when in fact, the main character through both of them is Green Arrow. This is the main misleading theme in this and one can wonder why would DC do such a thing, excepy knowing full well that a book with Green Arrow is not going to sell as much than having the Bat on the cover and in the book.

How about the stories? Both feature the Green Arrow, an extremely arrogant and obnoxious character that is extremely self conceited, you sometimes root for the villain to beat the heck out of him. He resembles Marvel's character Hawkeye in terms of having those same character flaws, but in the latter, you understand where he comes from and you can never go wrong with Hawkeye as he is considered the spirit of the Avengers where Captain America is the hear.

In the first story, he teams up with the original Green Lantern, Hal Jordan and the story is a mundane one where they have to save a nation from utter destruction from the clutches of a tyrant general.

The second one has him team up with Batman and the story still has the same tyrant in it, but now he's living in asylum in another rogue nation. Both stories are truly not worth the read and are very poor compared to the rich texture of how Batman has evolved through the years and what he is right now.

In all, the book is not worth reading as other great works that feature the Dark Knight. Batman simply is too dark and foreboding to work with Green Arrow.