I’m looking for stories I can read or buy for this upcoming Batman Day. Any recommendations for stories focused on…
Batman?
Tim Drake?
Batgirl?
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If you haven’t already read it, A Lonely Place of Dying is great for Tim since it’s his origin story as Robin. It’s typically collected w/ the Death in the Family trade, or you can check it out here
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The new 52 court of owls run is good. night of the monster men is a fun batman crossover. I mainly recommend rebirth detective comics, because it focuses on multiple members of the bat-family.
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Hmm. An easier thing to ask is…what have your already read?
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This place just so happens to have a vast majority of what you need to know regarding Batman with the exception of the Killing Joke. Here is a list of stories that are must reads.
The Batman Timeline
Batman: Year One https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/batman-year-one
Legends of the Dark Knight #1-23 https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/batman-legends-of-the-dark-knight/c126159b-18a2-4c93-8f7a-200f0b181891
The Man Who Laughs https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/batman-the-man-who-laughs-2005/16c19780-8893-4cdf-b53b-2b2fdb2c36da
The Long Halloween https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/batman-halloween
Dark Victory https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/story-batman-dark-victory
Robin Year One https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/robin-year-one/3a2ba692-dbb7-456b-b027-315ebf60e404
Batgirl Year One https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/batgirl-year-one
Detective Comics #500 https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/book/detective-comics-1937-500/b14ceaf7-9bdf-4ab1-a77a-452d3eacf442/
Strange Apperations https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/story-batman-strange-apparitions
Second Chances https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/story-batman-second-chances
The Cult https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/batman-the-cult/b76316d4-c2f6-4be8-ab0e-746d0e447f32
The Killing Joke - Not on here sadly
Death of the Family https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/batman-death-family
Batman #430-432 https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/book/batman-1940-430/1bcbcff6-714c-4cb7-881b-3b845b424b3f/
Birth of Oracle https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/book/the-batman-chronicles-1995-5/49509d6f-96d3-42e9-b87b-2e7bff244319/
A Lonely Place of Dying https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/story-batman-lonelyplacefordying
Robin’s Parents #618-621 https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/detective-comics-1937/b9a2adfa-19b9-4951-ad28-9d5e9a0e0eda
Batman #443-458 https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/batman-1940/0f31ba44-d5a9-4712-ad3b-a8ac301d977b
Robin Reborn https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/robin-1991/366a23f0-24b2-43bc-bd1a-fcd798fcadbd
Spoiler introduced #647-649 https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/detective-comics-1937/b9a2adfa-19b9-4951-ad28-9d5e9a0e0eda
Knightfall https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/story-batman-knightfall-saga
Knightquest https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/story-batman-knightquest
Knightsend https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/story-batman-knightsend
Nightwing Mini Series https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/nightwing-1995/fa407126-c783-4ff4-8ae9-f70ca4a4459b
Nightwing https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/nightwing-1996/a64b752f-24cd-4ce7-a063-b13de0ce3a51
Robin https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/robin-1993/b6bfe679-3689-4daf-915e-7af881e44e68
Birds of Prey https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/birds-of-prey-1999/b1bc75d1-91c4-4146-8ec3-d0fdf1fd55e1
If you wish to catch up to modern day
Batman The Black Mirror https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/story-batman-black-mirror
Batman New 52 https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/batman-2011/e98b04b0-b3b3-4fda-b735-3c120c7c4f4a
Batman: Detective Comics The Rise and Fall of the Batmen https://www.dcuniverse.com/collections/story-dc-rise-and-fall-batmen
Batman Rebirth https://www.dcuniverse.com/comics/series/batman-2016/bf73a76a-c16d-439c-b3f1-b74a03e34198
Note that Batman Rebirth books are still being posted each month on here, So you may have to wait until the run is complete if you want to read the whole thing in one go on here
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Here are the two stories that lead into his official tenure as Robin:
And then I’d recommend the second Robin miniseries:
Paul Dini had a good run in Detective Comics with mostlyone or two issue stories. It starts in 821, There’s a good time drake and Joker issue invite as well I think in 828.