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Holy hell, have I made a discovery today.
After years of searching, I've finally found copies of the Batman newspaper comic strips from 1990. They're not collected anywhere, nor are they online. They'd only been reprinted once, in Comics Revue magazine, the issues of which have been IMPOSSIBLE to track down, and I've been looking in comic shops literally from coast to coast.
But today, I finally found a handful of issues. Not a complete run, but a goodly chunk. These are comics which no one I know remembers, stories which no one has seen, and while I wasn't expecting much (about the quality of Stan Lee and Larry Lieber's Spider-Man comics, maybe), I thought maybe it'd offer a fun, slightly-different look at Two-Face.
What I got was more. So, so much more.
After reading these three complete story arcs ("The Penguin," "Trial of the Joker," and "Two-Face"), I became a man possessed. I scoured online comic shops and found the issues of Comics Revue which will hopefully complete the run for me. Even then, I was worried that I was wasting my money. That is, until just fifteen minutes ago, when I found a precious few scans of how the strip actually ends. And I have no regrets.
At the risk of jinxing it without having yet read the entire saga from start to finish, I'm going to hazard a dangerous proclamation when it comes to the short-lived Batman comic strip:
Folks... this is one of the greatest Two-Face stories I have ever read.
I'm seriously tempted to even call it THE greatest, but not yet. I need to read it all first, and when I do, rest assured, I'll be posting the entire thing here. Good lord... the greatest Bat-Saga no one's ever read (with one of the best takes on Harvey Dent)... I've found it, and I'll be posting it here ASAP.
I started this blog expressly for times like this, when I'm utterly blown away by something that... well, most people don't care about. Hopefully this story'll hit you that way too. I don't want to hype it up too much, but I can objectively say that it's unlike any other Two-Face origin you've ever read. For that alone, I hope you guys will check it out with me.
After years of searching, I've finally found copies of the Batman newspaper comic strips from 1990. They're not collected anywhere, nor are they online. They'd only been reprinted once, in Comics Revue magazine, the issues of which have been IMPOSSIBLE to track down, and I've been looking in comic shops literally from coast to coast.
But today, I finally found a handful of issues. Not a complete run, but a goodly chunk. These are comics which no one I know remembers, stories which no one has seen, and while I wasn't expecting much (about the quality of Stan Lee and Larry Lieber's Spider-Man comics, maybe), I thought maybe it'd offer a fun, slightly-different look at Two-Face.
What I got was more. So, so much more.
After reading these three complete story arcs ("The Penguin," "Trial of the Joker," and "Two-Face"), I became a man possessed. I scoured online comic shops and found the issues of Comics Revue which will hopefully complete the run for me. Even then, I was worried that I was wasting my money. That is, until just fifteen minutes ago, when I found a precious few scans of how the strip actually ends. And I have no regrets.
At the risk of jinxing it without having yet read the entire saga from start to finish, I'm going to hazard a dangerous proclamation when it comes to the short-lived Batman comic strip:
Folks... this is one of the greatest Two-Face stories I have ever read.
I'm seriously tempted to even call it THE greatest, but not yet. I need to read it all first, and when I do, rest assured, I'll be posting the entire thing here. Good lord... the greatest Bat-Saga no one's ever read (with one of the best takes on Harvey Dent)... I've found it, and I'll be posting it here ASAP.
I started this blog expressly for times like this, when I'm utterly blown away by something that... well, most people don't care about. Hopefully this story'll hit you that way too. I don't want to hype it up too much, but I can objectively say that it's unlike any other Two-Face origin you've ever read. For that alone, I hope you guys will check it out with me.
