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Showcase Presents: Batman, Vol. 1 Paperback – August 30, 2006

by Gardner Fox (Author), Ed Herron (Author), Bill Finger (Author),
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  • Paperback: 552 pages
  • Publisher: DC Comics (August 30, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1401210864
  • ISBN-13: 978-1401210861
  • Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.3 x 10.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #498,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful
A NEW BATMAN FOR THE 60'S!
By Tim Janson HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on October 21, 2006
Format: Paperback
Amazingly enough Showcase Presents Batman vol. one is the first time DC is collecting Batman's Silver Age adventures in the Showcase series (unless you count the Brave and the Bold). This volume features Detective Comics #327-342 and Batman #164-174! The reason why this particular period was chosen is because longtime DC editor Julie Schwartz had take oven the titles and did a long overdue revamping of the character. While it's not exactly the Dark Knight of Frank Miller, it was at least several cuts above the stories from the last decade where Batman routinely fought aliens, monsters, robots, and traveled time.

The stories have a certain grit to them, even if it is a fine grit. Batman is back to battling gangsters, thugs, and mixes in a few of his longtime foes as well. He's back to being a detective as well. The stories are mainly written by Gardner Fox or John Broome with art by Carmine Infantino or Bob Kane. One can clearly see how this period inspired, for better or worse, the 60's TV show. Lots of new things would be in store for Batman readers of the time. Batman #164 introduced the brand new and sporty Batmobile. Batman also put in an elevator in the mansion to take him down to the Batcave--imagine, he'd been using the stairs for over 20 years! A new tunnel was made that led out of the Batcave as well.

Detective # 329 would see the death of Alfred as he perishes assisting Batman & Robin. Detective #332, "The Joker's Last Laugh" finds the Clown Prince of Crime experimenting with "loco weed" dust to make his victims laugh uncontrollably at his corny jokes.Read more ›
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Buy this book and do yourself a big favour.(Favor!)
By Glenn Cook on November 20, 2009
Format: Paperback
I can not recommend this book highly enough.
For once 5 stars do not do it justice.
This is a brilliant collection of stories from the titles Batman and Detective Comics of the 1960s.

To basics. Although printed on cheap paper and in black and white this means that the books can be stacked high and sold cheap. Does this detract the reader? NO. Simply because the |American comics tended to have an artist who drew the strips in pencil then an `Inker' would go over the pencil drawings(finally a colorist would add the colours them rather like those paint by numbers books from our youth.) In England it was done by a single artist .

So what you still get is the great art and brilliant storylines but loose the colour.
Now my point is that no one ever bought these for the colouring in did they? So 2 out of 3 aren't bad?

Now to the stories.
They are magnificent, especially to people that are new to them and even old readers too. There is no way anyone could remember all these stories (??) so the readers are in for a brilliant run through of a well planned and magnificently detail set of stories and nostalgia. The great thing about this book is that volume two is out as well. Sheer enjoyment and for less than the cost of a pizza. A bargain.
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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Holy Batman! This is a great buy!
By Sursubbu on October 20, 2006
Format: Paperback
A nice thick (500 plus pages) book of old-skool Batman adventures when the costumed detective and his sidekick Robin could still have fun fighting colorful crime-doers in campy getups without worrying about their disturbed childhoods or their questionable sexuality. This is an era I really like. Most of the stories are pretty fun, usually involving some bubblegum SF element, like a photographic device that morphs the face of the person being photographed or a man who is mutating into a superior future human. The comics are in B/W but the action comes across quite colorfully. At this bargain price, collections like these are a steal! I've ordered for the Superman collections vol 1 and 2 and I'm looking forward very eagerly to further volumes for Superman, Batman and other franchises in this series.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Great, Escapist Fun
By Jeff & Wendy S VINE VOICE on May 13, 2011
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase
Black and white reprints from the innocent days of superhero comic books. I almost didn't buy this book because I had previously purchased the Showcase versions of Superman, Green Lantern, and Flash, and while they were fun and I don't regret buying them, their story lines are so amazingly idiotic and illogical that I had to cringe every time I read them... not so with Batman. While not up to modern, darker, standards, the Batman stories are far more sensical (and therefore enjoyable) than the others.
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Batman's Silver Age Golden Age Stories
By Adam Graham, Superhero and Detective Fiction Author on March 2, 2015
Format: Paperback
A few significant things happen in this book which collects 16 months of Batman stories from Batman comics and Detective comics from May 1964-September 1965.

Fist, there's a new design for the Batmobile introduced in the second story of the book. Second, Alfred is killed off unceremoniously early in this book and Aunt Harriet moves in with Batman and Robin and makes perhaps two o three appearances during the rest of the period.

There are four stories featuring Batman's remarkable rogue's gallery (two with the Joker and one each with the Riddler and the Penguin.) The Riddler tale was notable because the character had last been seen sixteen and a half year's previously. The book is the best issue in the collection. Elements of "The Remarkable Ruse of the Riddler" would be the basis for very first episode of the 1960s Batman TV show. Another story that would be adapted to television would be, "The Joker's Comedy Capers."

The only other highlights is the introduction of the Outsider who periodically menaces the Dynamic Duo with wannabe supervillains. This particular storyline isn't resolved in this book. We also see Robin have one adventure on his own and one where he's the prime character as well as Batman on his own while Robin was on a mission with the pilot issue for the Teen Titans setting the stage for the future status quo.

Other than that, the comic is surprising for how out of date it is. Most of Batman and Robin's foes are the fairly generic crooks they were taking on in the Golden Age. Robin looks the same as he did when he was introduced twenty-four years ago. The Batman of this era was stuck in a rut, doing the same thing it'd been doing with the Golden Age with a few silly Silver Age touches thrown in.Read more ›
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