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Pete Kilmer has been in the comics retail industry for ten years as a member of Downtown Comics in Indianapolis. Downtown Comics is one of the Midwest’s largest comic retailers with over four locations in Indianapolis. All opinions are his own, and they cannot be bought with free swag.
| Batman And Other DC Classics No. 1 (Featuring the 1948 Origin of the Batman) | ||||
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| Batman Villains Secret Files & Origins #1 (Gotham's Greatest Gangsters) | ||||
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| Batman Annual Bloodlines No. 17 1993 | ||||
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| Batman Gotham Nights No. 2 Apr Part 2 of Four | ||||
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| Batman Detective Comics No. 680 Dec 1994 | ||||
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| Batman Detective Comics No. 611 Feb 1990 | ||||
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| Batman Detective Comics No. 610 Jan 1990 | ||||
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| Batman Detective Comics No. 609 | ||||
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| Batman Detective Comics No. 625 Jan 1991 | ||||
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How to Draw Comic Book Heroes and Villains $13.3 Would-be cartoonists can learn how to draw heart-stopping heroes as well as vicious villains with this book featuring tips and artwork by Gray Morrow of Superman, Frank McLaughlin of Batman, and Frank Springer of Spiderman and Conan the Barbarian, among others. Pitfalls and problems that beginning artists are most likely to encounter are demonstrated. 144 illustrations, 72 in color. |
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Villains $15.21 Experience the power of the dark side with nine three-dimensional pop-ups of such fan favorites as General Grievous and Assaj Ventress along with 15 different comic book-style stories. Full color. 6 spreads. |
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Comic Book Villains $5.99 To some, comic books are a hobby, but for Raymond McGillicuddy and Norman Link, they are a way of life. Both men own comic book stores in the same sleepy hamlet, and both are after the hottest ticket in town–a rare collection of old comic books–potentially worth millions to the right dealer. However, when the elderly owner won’t sell, it becomes a madcap free-for-all with friend turning against friend in a battle for the loot. As the stakes get higher, the antics take a darker turn and begin spiraling into a dangerous game of greed, betrayal and murder. |
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Batman $13.52 Filled with rare archival comic-book art, sketches, movie stills and photographs of Batman merchandise, this is the first definitive history of Bruce Wayne’s nocturnal alter ego. |
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Batman Comic Book Dark Knight Halloween Costume $47.49 Back to basics in this old school Batman Costume! |
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Heroes and Villains $24.95 Hercules, Jesus, James Bond, Luke Skywalker, Gandalf, Frodo, Harry Potter, Buffy Summers, Spiderman, Batman, Captain Kirk, Dr. Who, Darth Vader, Sauron, Voldemort, Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, the Daleks, the Borg. Almost anybody living in the developed West would be able to group these individuals into two camps: the heroes and the villains. However, what criteria they may use to do this is less clear.Mike Alsford introduces us to a range of heroic and villainous archetypes on a journey through film, television, comic books, and literature. On the way, he addresses questions such as: What is a true hero? What is a true villain? Have we misunderstood these terms? What kind of societal values do our mythical heroes and villains represent? In trying to understand the extremes of hero and villain we are made more aware of our own ethical standards and given a space in which to explore contemporary concerns over notions of right and wrong, good and bad |
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Of Heroes and Villains $5.99 The Misfits are mysteriously summoned to a comic book convention, where a comic book villain seems to come to life to commit a daring crime. |
iFanboy – Episode 87 – Comic Book Villains
Who else thought the New Batman Movie was boring?
I heard all this Hype. I was excited to see the movie. It just sounded like it was going to be the best movie I have seen in a while.
I have to tell the truth here. I was Bored! I’m not a big fan of Batman movies, but this one was Nothing like the Hype it Received. I think it was all Heath Ledger’s Death that made it so popular.
Two Face and the Joker to me are just Corny villains. I think Jack Nickolson was way better. As for Two Face, that guy was cheesy. I think a HORRID actor like Eric Roberts that was also in the movie would have played a better Two Face than the guy they chose.
I read Batman Dark Knight Comic Books and Batman just really isn’t all that Dark as people say he is in this one. I don’t think he’s that Dark at all compared to the comics.
Does anyone feel the way I do or do you still feel it was great?
The script was really sloppy. Some parts like where the joker cuts the guy’s face were sort of unnecessary and only added in to revolve around Ledger’s performance (not that it wasn’t good it’s just he wasn’t the main character). Harvery Dent was pretty bland and boring. Did we really need a mobster for every ethnic organized crime branch? A lot of the action sequences were contrived like where Dent kills the Mob Boss in the car (I don’t think the odds would be high enough to ensure a kill by making the car go out of control) and how the hell did the Joker manage to get all those bombs in the hospital and boats without getting noticed. I know he’s rich but still how could he do that without being noticed. Also, when Batman catches Rachel when she’s falling, it is totally ridiculous that he would survive the all, nomek survival suit or no nomek survival suit. A lot of the dialogue is a little on the nose. Like when the Joker meets with Harvey Dent in the hospital and describes himself as “an agent of chaos” he’s explicitly explaining the concept of the joker as an evil being for evil’s sake. Michael Caine’s monologues and Jim Gordon’s monologue at the end are similarly defective. Lastly, the part where Batman flips over the truck is such a ripoff of the Empire Strikes Back Hoth Battle.
Also: people are saying how dark this story was. They have no idea what a true dark story is.
Though the stories took on a more serious tone, this did very little to help the failing Batman books. Batman was in very real danger of cancellation by the time writer Frank Miller came along and wrote The Dark Knight Returns. The story, which features a future Batman coming out of retirement to take on Superman, the government and anyone else that dares to get in his way, featured a much darker Batman than before and the financial success of the comic inspired DC to use the Frank Miller style of Batman in the ensuing years.
The darkness of the Frank Miller influence extended to Batman’s supporting cast, as well. In 1988, the one-time campy Batman villain the Joker, shot Batgirl Barbara Gordon, crippling her. Also in 1988, DC hosted their infamous 1-900 telephone poll where readers were able to call in and vote on whether or not Jason Todd survived an encounter with the Joker. While the validity and appropriateness of the phone poll is in dispute, Jason lost the poll and was killed on panel after a brutal beating with a crowbar and having a building blown up around him.
DC has since corrected the decision to kill Jason Todd by bringing him back to life. The Jason Todd that came back to life was a darker, angrier version of the character because he blames Batman for his death and is angry that Batman never bothered to “avenge” his death. Killing primarily villains, Jason Todd post-resurrection is best categorized as an anti-hero, and sometimes an outright villain, depending on the writer’s whim.
The darker direction of Batman also made Batman a more insular hero. Batman was recast as an “urban legend,” despite the decades of public service with the Justice League. Thanks to the characterization by Miller, the long-running friendship with Superman was shown to be a suspicious tolerance at best. The new Batman forbade any other heroes from operating in his city, even in times of great need.
The height of Batman’s paranoia and darkness was reached when his superhero monitoring project Brother Eye project was stolen and used to kill and harm innocent people. After this incident, Batman took Dick Grayson and the current Robin, Tim Drake, on a cruise to bond and rethink things through.
As a result, the current direction of Batman seems to be a lighter one than in recent years. Batman recently adopted Tim and can be seen being chummy with Superman and Wonder Woman in the Justice League of America and Superman/Batman. At the same time, however, DC is publishing All-Star Batman and Robin, an out of continuity tale written by Frank Miller where Batman is verbally and physically abusive to a young Dick Grayson. Thus, the two main archetypes of Batman comics are readily available in the books currently being published.
Essential Storylines:
~ The Killing Joke
~ A Death in the Family
~ Year One
~ The Dark Knight Returns
~ Identity Crisis
~ Knightfall
~ Under the Hood
~ The Long Halloween
~ JLA: Tower of Babel and JLA: Divided We Fall
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