This is the Great Comic Book Detectives, where readers send in requests for the names of comic books that they remembered reading years ago, and I try to find them for them! Send any future requests to brianc@cbr.com! Today, we look for a particularly unusual Batman comic book, and it is unusual because it was an UNAUTHORIZED Batman comic book! Well, a fictional unauthorized Batman comic book, that is.One of the unusual aspects of concepts like “eras” in comic books is that it times change so quickly that fans forget that the great creators of a classic era were often still around during a whole different era. For instance, Dick Sprang was one of only a handful of comic book artists who could say that they literally defined Batman’s “house style” for a generation. Sprang started drawing Batman in the 1940s and soon developed the definitive 1940s/1950s barrel-chested Batman that proliferated in Batman’s appearances up until the mid to late 1960s.Here’s the thing, though, Sprang retired from drawing comic books in 1963, but Sprang didn’t pass away until the year 2000! So for many decades, Batman comics were coming out in a completely different style, while the guy who DEFINED Batman’s style for over a decade was still alive. And in the 1990s, DC decided to do some projects with Sprang again, and one of them is what I believe a reader Renee is looking for in her mystery comic!
This is the Great Comic Book Detectives, where readers send in requests for the names of comic books that they remembered reading years ago, and I try to find them for them! Send any future requests to brianc@cbr.com! Today, we look for a particularly unusual Batman comic book, and it is unusual because it was an UNAUTHORIZED Batman comic book! Well, a fictional unauthorized Batman comic book, that is.
One of the unusual aspects of concepts like “eras” in comic books is that it times change so quickly that fans forget that the great creators of a classic era were often still around during a whole different era. For instance, Dick Sprang was one of only a handful of comic book artists who could say that they literally defined Batman’s “house style” for a generation. Sprang started drawing Batman in the 1940s and soon developed the definitive 1940s/1950s barrel-chested Batman that proliferated in Batman’s appearances up until the mid to late 1960s.
Here’s the thing, though, Sprang retired from drawing comic books in 1963, but Sprang didn’t pass away until the year 2000! So for many decades, Batman comics were coming out in a completely different style, while the guy who DEFINED Batman’s style for over a decade was still alive. And in the 1990s, DC decided to do some projects with Sprang again, and one of them is what I believe a reader Renee is looking for in her mystery comic!
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