By Joe Desris (Introduction) and various (Abbeville Press Inc 1994)
ISBN: 1-5585-9837-5
This second pocket cover-art compendium, reproducing the seductive and blatant images that first made us buy all those funny-books, is probably the more potent of these little Nostalgia Grenades, covering as it does Detective Comics #301 (The Condemned Batman! – drawn by Sheldon Moldoff and dated March 1962) to #600 (Blind Justice by Denys Cowan and Malcolm Jones III from May 1989) a period during which surely most of us initially caught this four-colour bug.
From the whimsical, through the double-edged sword of 1960s Batmania, to the gradual return of the Dark Knight of Justice these incredible images are a catalogue of childhood and growing maturity for us all, as well as being incredible examples of popular art and design.
So come revel and recall the talents of Dick Dillin, Carmine Infantino, Joe Giella, Joe Kubert, Murphy Anderson, Gil Kane, Irv Novick, Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, Mike Kaluta, Bernie Wrightson, Nick Cardy, Jim Aparo, Ernie Chan, Mike Grell, Rich Buckler, Vince Colletta, Marshall Rogers, Terry Austin, Jim Starlin, José Luis GarcÃa-López, Ross Andru, Walt Simonson. Gene Colan, Don Newton, Ed Hannigan, Gene Day, Todd McFarlane, Alan Davis and a host of others as they depict the incredible world of Batman.
A true childhood dream and a guilty pleasure.
© 1994 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.