Batman - Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #1

Batman - Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #1 2025.

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Batman #153

Batman #153

I have to admit, I haven't read Batman in a few years now. I always pull a copy of the milestone issues and so forth for collecting, but I haven't actually read them in a while. I love that cover, though.

The Joker: Year of the Villain #1

The Joker: Year of the Villain #1

This is on my pull list, along with Ellis' Batman maxi, but I'm not going in for the entire Year of the Villain thing.

© The Weirding, 2019

Batman: Universe #1

Batman: Universe #1

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Batman: Curse of the White Knight #1

Batman: Curse of the White Knight #1

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Kevin Eastman - Batman and TMNT (Original)

Kevin Eastman's Batman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles original artwork (available on eBay)!

© The Weirding, 2018

Archie Meets Batman '66 #1

Archie Meets Batman '66 #1

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2 Cool Internet Things and 3 Streaming Media Things

Daredevil Season 2

It's Friday! So, once again, we have a handful of links to help you through the weekend. Almost all of this week's selections are comics-related.

1. The preview trailer for the animated adaptation of Batman: The Killing Joke was released over the weekend.
   
2. David Apatoff loves great art, and enjoys sharing what he finds on his blog, ILLUSTRATION ART. (This link should have been in the sideboard already, but it got lost in my bookmarks. It has since been added.)
   
3. ICYMI, Canadian authorities declassified the personal records of one James Howlett last week.
   
4. Daredevil Season 2 is now playing on Netflix. (Image by SpiderMonkey23.)
   
5. Pee Wee's Big Holiday is now playing on Netflix, too! AAAAAAHHH! Haha!

© The Weirding, 2016

Happy Birthday, Batman

Today is Batman's 75th anniversary - the birthdate of the creation (in the comics, Bats sorta defies the aging process). Happy birthday, Bruce Wayne!

We have a lot of things going on behind the scenes and that's why I haven't been around much. I also forgot to promote last week's movie but that turned out for the good since it was a dud. I will get some things together for this week's film, Are You in the House Alone? The event starts every Saturday night around 9:30pm CST.

I drew a picture of Bats a few years back and just came across it the other day. This is a great opportunity to share it but I cannot locate it right this second. If I come across it, I'll be sure to photograph it and add it to this post. I don't have a scanner, so I don't know how it will turn out.

© The Weirding, 2014

The Dark Knight Shooting

As all of you are surely aware, someone killed about 50 people at an Aurora, Colorado theater screening of The Dark Knight Rises over the weekend. I would love to say something about this, but details are still emerging and can be found across the Web as well as through traditional media outlets.

Kevin Smith's Hulu show, Spoilers, addressed the issue in its latest episode, and I'm sure many blogs on comic books and related hobbies have also done the same, but I have no idea what to think right now. Obviously I'm moved by the event, but if the guy is truly insane, then there really is no one to blame - he has no control of his own actions and needs help. Of course, when in the throes of such a horrible thing, people do not want to hear that; they need to blame someone/something, they need to put things in a tidy pile to bring order back to their worlds.

I understand this and do not want to upset anyone any further, but I've been very clear as to my position on mental illness - I covered the shooting at Virginia Tech in some detail and made the same points about mental illness in those posts. I may have more to say on this terrible tragedy as details emerge, but for now I'm just going to let the people involved do their jobs and the victims try to come to terms with this horrible, inexplicable, and unfair turn of events.

© C Harris Lynn, 2012

RIP Michael Gough, Batman's Alfred

British actor, Michael Gough, who appeared in over 150 films, both TV and movies, has passed away at 94. Gough was best known to American audiences as Batman's (Bruce Wayne's) butler, Alfred Pennyworth, from the 1990's series of films based on the superhero.

Gough's later career included several other Tim Burton films, including Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, and Alice in Wonderland. Michael Gough appeared in numerous sci-fi/fantasy and cult selections over the course of his 40+ year career - Dr. Who, The Saint, The Avengers, and many more.

© C Harris Lynn, 2011

'Lost' Detective Comics #27 Proofs Up for Auction

Detective Comics #27 contains the first appearance of the Bat-Man, who would later become the Dark Knight of Gotham. For years, fans assumed the original art for the issue had been lost or destroyed, and it may well have been, but one lucky junker found what may be the only surviving proofs from the issue that introduced the world to Batman.

Mario Sacripante rescued a steam trunk from the curb outside his apartment builduing in 1975. He learned later that Batman artist and creator, Bob Kane, had once lived in the building. The trunk contained the proofs, as well as sketchbooks, and more. All items are up for auction.

A copy of Detective Comics #27 recently sold for over $1 million. These proofs are expected to fetch about $1000 per page, but that price could well skyrocket. At the time of this writing, Internet bidding is closed at $1100. The auction is today.

© C Harris Lynn, 2011

Batmobile Sells for $12,000

A model of the Batmobile featured in the 1989 classic, Batman, sold at auction for $12,000 on January 22^nd, 2011. The Batmobile was built on a 1985 Corvette chassis with a Corvette engine and was used in the Tim Burton movie. It was expected to fetch between $5000 and $10,000.

The Batmobile was the big draw of the hundreds of lots offered as part of the American Superhero Museum sale. Sadly, the American Superhero Museum closed its doors, and sold-off its inventory. It was open less than five years.

© C Harris Lynn, 2011

Bluewater Presents the Misadventures of Adam West

© C Harris Lynn, 2010

Bats and Scooby - Together Again!

Batman and Scooby-Doo will reunite on the screen for the first time since their 1972 pairing in an upcoming episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold entitled "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!" airing on Cartoon Network. Batman formerly appeared in two episodes (a two-parter) of The New Scooby Doo Movies, along with Robin, but the Caped Crusader and the Top Dog Detective haven't seen each other since.

The episode features three incarnations of Batman, only one segment of which will include Scooby Doo.

© C Harris Lynn, 2010

Happy Birthday, Robin (Burt Ward)!

Burt Ward played the effervescent sidekick to Adam West's Batman on the campy 1960's TV show, Batman. Before that, Burt Ward was known as the youngest ice skater ever, and later, he became an activist and now runs Boy Wonder Visual Effects, which -- true to its name -- provides the visual effects for many productions. Though he has reprised his role numerous times in the past, including 2003's Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt, Burt Ward has since announced that he will no longer do personal appearances in order to concentrate on his family and canine rescue organization.

Ward's real last name is Gervis, but he chose his mother's maiden name, Ward, as his stage name because he feared fans wouldn't know how to pronounce "Gervis." Though he never found the sort of onscreen fame his counterpart, Adam West, did, Burt Ward appeared in many TV movies and productions over the years.

Burt Ward is 65 today.

© C Harris Lynn, 2010

Summer Glau, Supergirl

Summer Glau (Firefly, Dollhouse) will star as Supergirl in the direct-to-DVD animated movie, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, due out September 28^th, 2010. Tim Daly and Kevin Conroy return as Superman and Batman, respectively. Apocalypse is based on Jeph Loeb's 2004 run, which reintroduced Kara to the DCU. The late Michael Turner provided the stunning artwork.

© C Harris Lynn, 2010

Riddle Me This: Who is Hairy, Manic, and Wants the Role of the Riddler?

Not Sarah Silverman. Give-up? It's none other than Robin Williams, who told Empire Magazine that he would love to work with Chris Nolan again "Playing anyone in anything." Williams and Nolan worked together on Insomnia, in which Williams played a creepy, villainous-type quite well. He is, after all, a Juilliard graduate. But does that mean he'd make a good Riddler?

Williams says he's "a little hairy for tights," and though Batman 3 is expected in 2012, The Riddler has not been confirmed as the villain. But Robin Williams told Empire, "I could be a great character - or some weird little man in the background in Arkham Asylum."

Williams also talked about his history with the Batman franchise, noting that he was set to be the Joker before it went to Jack Nicholson, then got passed-over for The Riddler when it went to Jim Carrey. "Don't pump me again, motherfuckers!"

© C Harris Lynn, 2010

Batman 3: Nolan, Bale, July 2012

Warner Brothers has officially announced that Batman 3 will hit theaters July 12^th, 2012. Christopher Nolan will return to the director's chair, and according to all reports, Christian Bale will return to the cowl. Nolan has said he is already working on a script, with David Goyer and his brother, Jonathan Nolan, but he gave no details as to the villains, plot, or anything else.

The Dark Knight was released on July 18^th, 2008. The July 12^th, 2012 release date could always change, but it is - as of now - Warner Brothers' "official" release date for Batman 3.

© C Harris Lynn, 2010

Panelcraft: Robin Knows Spidey's Secret ID

This is great! This one predates even my tired, old ass by a good three-four years, so I would have had no idea about this, and I guess it flew under many experts' radars, because this is the first time I've ever heard anything about it, but the hip cats over to RETROcrush dug-up a panel from a back-up story featuring Robin in Batman #277 (1971) in which The Boy Hostage offers-up one Peter Parker's photography services to a rather unsurly editor.

This was a story which, according to the text, is included in what passes for DC's "continuity," which means that Robin apparently did know Spider-Man's secret identity. However, the most probable theory proffered by the writer is that (#2) Marvel Comics exist as comic books (fiction) in the DC Universe. Why is this the most likely rationale for this? Because they exist as fiction in the Marvel Universe.

© C Harris Lynn, 2010