“Gonna Change My Way of Thinking” is a feature spotlighting notable examples of retcons that don’t fit into the framework of Abandoned an’ Forsaked, which is specifically about stories that outright “overturn” older stories. There are many examples of “retroactive continuity” that do not actively abandon the works of the past (especially cases where the overall continuity was rebooted). Some of them are minor, some of them are major. Today, we look at how comic book writers would frequently reveal new detective mentors for Batman. Something that you have to understand about comic book character in the Golden Age of Comics is that the characters were never intended to be all that deep. I don’t mean that as a shot at all to the very smart comic book writers of the Golden Age of Comics, of course. Bill Finger kept so many notes on various facts about the world that his peer, John Broome, paid homage to Finger by inventing a super villain who fought Green Lantern purely armed with the brilliant ideas that he would keep in his notebooks. Gardner Fox, another early Golden Age writer, was a brilliant student of history who had filing cabinets FILLED with fascinating pieces of information. So it wasn’t like these writers weren’t thoughtful people, it was just that the nature of a comic book feature at the time, when you just had 10 pages to fill every month, didn’t really lend itself to depth.However, that changed in 1955, when we got the start of a series of reveals of the detectives who trained Batman into becoming the Dark Knight Detective!
“Gonna Change My Way of Thinking” is a feature spotlighting notable examples of retcons that don’t fit into the framework of Abandoned an’ Forsaked, which is specifically about stories that outright “overturn” older stories. There are many examples of “retroactive continuity” that do not actively abandon the works of the past (especially cases where the overall continuity was rebooted). Some of them are minor, some of them are major. Today, we look at how comic book writers would frequently reveal new detective mentors for Batman.
Something that you have to understand about comic book character in the Golden Age of Comics is that the characters were never intended to be all that deep. I don’t mean that as a shot at all to the very smart comic book writers of the Golden Age of Comics, of course. Bill Finger kept so many notes on various facts about the world that his peer, John Broome, paid homage to Finger by inventing a super villain who fought Green Lantern purely armed with the brilliant ideas that he would keep in his notebooks. Gardner Fox, another early Golden Age writer, was a brilliant student of history who had filing cabinets FILLED with fascinating pieces of information. So it wasn’t like these writers weren’t thoughtful people, it was just that the nature of a comic book feature at the time, when you just had 10 pages to fill every month, didn’t really lend itself to depth.
However, that changed in 1955, when we got the start of a series of reveals of the detectives who trained Batman into becoming the Dark Knight Detective!
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