Welcome to the “World of Bats,” the Batman Book Club! Every week, we take on a comic (or movies or television) available on the DCU subscription service related to Batman or the greater Bat-Family, and discuss, dissect, and just plain have fun with them.
Who Should Join
Anyone willing to join me in this war on – I mean, anyone who wants to! If you are interested in digging deep into the greater world of Batman comics from the past 80 years, and talk to fellow, like-minded folks about them, this is the place for you!
When/Where
We have been posting a new book to read every Saturday, and you can join us by going onto the Community Events tab.
If you have questions, concerns, or good pie recipes, you can contact me, @Jay_Kay, @Aquamon or @BatJamags.
So, here’s the link, and I hope to see you guys there!
Previous Discussions Master Thread:
2019
8/3: Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #1-5 “Shaman”
8/11: Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #6-10 “Gothic”
8/21: Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #11-15 “Prey”
9/1: Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #16-20 “Venom”
9/8: First Appearance Bat-Tacular!
9/16: Batman: Sword of Azrael #1-4 & Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1
9/23: Detective Decades
9/29: Knightfall Prelude
10/6: Batman Confidential #6-12 “Lovers & Madmen”
10/12: Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #65-68 “Going Sane”, Batman: Batgirl #1
10/23: Batman Confidential #22-25 “Do You Understand These Rights?”
10/26: The Joker (1975) #1-10
11/2: Batman/The Spirit & The Batman of Arkham
11/10: Batman: Black & White (2013) #1-6
11/16: CRISIS ON INFINITE CLUBS – Batman (1940) #389-391 & Detective Comics (1939) #556-558
11/23: Batman: The Dark Prince Charming #1-2
11/30: Batman: Europa #1-4 & Batman: In Darkest Knight #1
12/7: Bronze Age Bats! January - July 1970
12/15: Knightfall Part One – The Gauntlet
12/22: Bronze Age Bats! August 1970 - May 1971
12/30: Knightfall Part Two – Broken Bat
2020
1/4: Casefile 001 – Zero Year
1/4: Batman: Year One
1/11: Batman: Year Two
1/18: Batman: Year Three
1/25: Batman: Year 100
2/1: Batman: The Cult
2/9: Batman (2011) #1-7 – The Court of Owls Pt 1
2/17: Batman: Night of the Owls
2/29: Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying
3/9: Robin Vol. 1
3/15: Robin II: The Joker’s Wild!
3/22: Robin III: Cry of the Huntress
3/28: Catwoman Vol 1 – Her Sister’s Keeper
4/4: Catwoman Vol 3 #12-15 – Relentless
4/12: Catwoman Vol 5 #1-6 – Copycats
4/18: Catwoman: Year Two & When In Rome
4/21: Casefile 002 – Batman: White Knight
5/2: Batman: Strange Apparations
5/6: Casefile 003 – Batman: War Games
5/17: Cat Scratch Poison
5/25: Blimps, Ghosts & Cats
6/4: Bronze Age Bats! June - October 1971
7/4: Batman: Broken City
7/11: Batman: Gotham Noir & Batman/Elmer Fudd Special
7/18: Penguin: Pain & Prejudice
7/25: Gotham Central: In The Line Of Duty
8/1: One Year Anniversary! Detective Comics #1000
8/14: Batman #598-600 – “Blind Justice”
8/22: Batman Anniversary – Batman #300, 400, & 700
8/28: Detective Comics #27-29 – “Gothtopia”
9/8: Gotham Academy #1-6 “Welcome To Gotham Academy”
9/19: Bronze Age Bats! November 1971 - March 1972
9/26: Bronze Age Bats! April - June 1972
9/26: World Of Bats/Renegade Robins Crossover – Batman Eternal
10/1: Casefile 004 – Batman: The Long Halloween
10/2: Batman: Kings of Fear
10/9: Gotham By Midnight #1-6 “We Do Not Sleep”
10/17: Batman: The Dark Knight Vol 2 #10-15 “Cycle Of Violence”
10/23: Batman: Red Rain & Gotham Academy: Endgame
11/7: Batman: Black & White (1996) #1-4
11/14: I Am Gotham
11/28: Batman Vol 3 #9-15, Annual #2 "I Am Suicide/Rooftops & Date Nights/Last Rites
12/5: Batman: Turning Points
12/10: All-Star Batman #10-14 “The First Ally”
12/19: Detective Comics #934-940 “Rise of the Batmen”
12/25: Wonder Woman #164-167 “Gods of Gotham”
12/27: World of Bats/Renegade Robins Event: Robin War!
2021:
1/2: The Next Batman Origins + The Lazarus Affair!
1/9: Batman: Creature of the Night
1/16: Batman #291-294 “Where Were You When Batman Died?”
1/21: Infinite! Batman: Arkham Asylum
1/30: Infinite! Batman: Earth One
2/6: Infinite! Batman: Ego & Other Tails
2/13: Detective Comics #846-850 “Heart of Hush”
2/20: Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #156-158, 164-167 “Blink / Don’t Blink”
2/27: Batman: Gotham Knights #1-6
3/6: Batman: The Man Who Laughs
3/14: JLA #43-46 “Tower of Babel”
3/20: Batman/Green Lantern SPOTLIGHT!
3/27: Detective Comics #943-949 “The Victim Syndicate / Batwoman Begins”
4/3: Batman: The Dark Knight #1-7 “Knight Terrors”
4/10: Batman: Universe
4/17: Poison Ivy Spotlight!
4/25: Swamp Thing Spotlight!
5/1: CASEFILE 006 – Batman: Hush
5/2: Cassandra Cain’s Origins in No Man’s Land!
5/8: Batgirl #1-8 “Silent Knight”
5/15: Detective Comics #950-956 “League of Shadows”
5/22: Detective Comics #30-34, Annual #3 “Icarus”
6/1: Pride Month! Detective Comics #854-856 “Batwoman: Elegy”
6/5: Pride Month! Gotham Central #6-10 “Half a Life”
6/13: Pride Month! Batwoman #12-17 “Worlds Finest”
6/20: Pride Month! Batwoman Rebirth #1, #1-6 “The Many Arms of Death”
6/26: Pride Month! Mother Panic #1-6 “A Work In Progress”
7/3: The Dark Knight Returns
7/10: DK2: The Dark Knight Strikes Again!
7/17: Dark Knight III: The Master Race + DKR: The Last Crusade
7/31: Two Year Anniversary Super Spectacular!
8/14: World of Bats/Justice League Fan Club: Flashpoint!
9/4: Detective Comics (Vol 2) #1-7 “Faces of Evil”
9/11: Batgirl #1-6 “The Darkest Reflection”
9/18: Catwoman #1-6 “The Game”
9/25: Batman & Robin #1-8 “Born To Kill”
10/2: Batman & The Monster Men!
10/9: Batman #13-17 “Death of the Family”
10/16: Series Discussion: Robins!
10/16: Batman: Damned
10/23: Batman: Haunted Knight & Legends of the Dark Knight #54
11/1: Return of Knightfall!
11/6: Batman Vol 3 #16-20 “I Am Bane”
11/14: Detective Comics #957-962 “Deus Ex Machina”
11/20: Batman Family #1-3
11/27: Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #127-131 “The Arrow & The Bat”
12/4: Detective Comics #569-574 “The Last Laugh”
12/11: Detective Comics #858-863 “Go / Cutter”
12/20: Detective Comics by Paul Dini!
12/25: Detective Comics #963-968 “A Lonely Place Of Living”
2022
1/1: Casefile 007: Batman in FUTURE STATE!
1/1: New Year, New Batman in KNIGHTFALL!
1/8: Batman: Shadow Of The Bat #1-6 Featuring “The Last Arkham”
1/15: Batman '66 #1-12
1/22: Gotham Academy #7-12 “Calamity”
1/29: The Button & The Proposal
2/5: The Next Batman: Second Son