#mike w barr

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From Detective Comics #569, the first issue of the seminal, if far too short Mike W Barr / Alan Davis Detective Comcis run back in 1986

Let's hear it for "Straight Line", the hardest working henchman in Gotham City.

He may not look like much, he's not the biggest, or the strongest, but he knows how the game is played.

Straight Line knows that when you work for the Joker, the only way to break your overly-dramatic criminal artist (with casually homicidal tendencies) of a boss out of one of his dangerously depressive funks, is by outdoing him with the dramatics, whilst simultaneously NOT outdoing him with the dramatics (no one upstages the Joker). It's a fine line, but he walks it well, and the rest of the henchmen LOVE him for it.

And to me, this is perhaps THE last gasp of the "old school" Joker in the comics. Still primarily a "criminal first, killer second" character, who will plan complicated, themed heists (With henchmen with appropriate nicknames) to make sure people remember he's the Joker, and to fund his lifestyle, but money is not the point. The point is to be known as the Joker and to confound Batman.

So, though Batman, Robin and anyone who gets in his way are definitely fair game, he doesn't see the point in killing bystanders for no reason, because who will remember THEM? Plus who will remember that he's the Joker if they're dead?

#The Joker #Straight Line #Mike W Barr #Alan Davis #batman #robin #Detective Comics

[thecruellestmonth]

#Jason is an UNO reverse card. #Jason Todd #Bruce Wayne #Under the Red Hood #UtRH #Detective Comics #Batman comics #Mike W Barr #Alan Davis #Robin II #Red Hood #Detective Comics 569 #panels #Batman: Under the Red Hood #Batkids #Batman Under the Red Hood #Bruce and Jason #thecruellestmonth #You are ABSOLUTELY free to remake this post with a better quality GIF. #I'm bad at GIFs. #GIF #JasonToddposting

[about-faces]

I wish more people knew that Gilda was canonically a sculptor way back in her first appearances with Harvey. Aside from her creator Bill Finger, the only person to remember that was Mike W Barr in 1993.

Sad to think she had more of a life outside of Harvey in 1942 than she did in 1996’s The Long Halloween, along with most of her appearances since, where she’s almost universally viewed as a murderous housewife. She had a career! In a story from 1942!

In tribute to her, here’s a Gilda portrait I commissioned from Rags Morales. I envisioned her using clay rather than carving stone, because she’s talented that way.

#gilda dent #gilda gold #harvey dent #Batman #dc comics #bill finger #mike w barr #dick grayson #robin

[cryptocollectibles]

Batman Full Circle #1 (1991) by DC Comics

Written by Mike W Barr, drawn by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer.

#Batman #Batman Full Circle #DC Comics #1991 #The Reaper #Bruce Wayne #Etsy #Vintage Comics #Comic Books #Comics #Gotham City #Mike W Barr #Alan Davis #Mark Farmer #Robin #Dick Grayson

[cantsayidont]

March 1987. Batman meets Sherlock Holmes in the 50th anniversary issue of DETECTIVE COMICS, written by Mike W. Barr.

The figures behind Ralph at the center of the first panel are Mary Watson, granddaughter of Dr. Watson, and her fiancée Thomas Moriarty, a blameless descendant of Holmes' old enemy. This ultimately isn't a terribly good story, although it has some nice art, but Alan Davis' marvelous depiction of the aged Holmes makes it all worthwhile.

#comics #detective comics #mike w barr #alan davis #paul neary #batman #robin #elongated man #ralph dibny #slam bradley #sherlock holmes

[onlylonelylatino]

Ragman by Joe Kubert

#ragman #joe kubert #dc comics #modern age #peter sanderson #mike w barr #paul levitz #bob rozakis #greg weisman #e nelson bridwell

[comicarthistory]

Page from The Outsiders Annual #1. 1986. Art by Kevin Nowlan.

#dc comics #batman #dc universe #justice league #the outsiders #geo force #halo #katana #metamorpho #black lightning #looker #kevin nowlan #mike w barr

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#green arrow #oliver queen #mike w barr #dc #dcu #dc comics #poll

[lexluthordirectoroflexcorp]

Batman: Son of the Demon (1987) by Mike W Barr & Jerry Bingham

#Batman #Ra’s Al Ghul #Talia Al Ghul #Damian Wayne #Mike W Barr #Jerry Bingham

[popping-your-culture]

The Maze Agency is one of the most fun indie or otherwise comic book series of the 1980s and deserves so much more love than it gets.

#maze agency #mike w barr #comics #1980s #80s comics

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A reminder, if any were needed, why Mike W Barr writing and Alan Davis on pencils (with Mark Farmer on inks and Tom Ziuko on colours) are my absolute favourite Batman creative team.

And re-reading it I realise that it also has what might be the first time we see a Robin (in this case Dick) driving the Batmobile by himself, but having to stack telephone directories on the seat so he can see out properly.

#dick grayson #robin #bruce wayne #batman #batman: full circle #mike w barr #alan davis

[thecruellestmonth]

Jason Todd + references

Batman #408 || Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Detective Comics #574 || Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Batman: A Death in the Family || A Death in the Family by James Agee

Batman Annual #25 "Icarus and Daedalus: The Return of Jason Todd" || Icarus as depicted in The Lament for Icarus by H. J. Draper

Batman Annual #25 || Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Red Hood: The Lost Days #6 + Nightwing (2016) #42 || Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #7 || Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer: Superwoman/Batwoman + Detective Comics #1042 || James Dean, star of Rebel Without a Cause and East of Eden

plugging @thekillingvote

#Can this guy stop being dramatic for one second? #Jason Todd #Batman comics #Detective Comics #DC Robin #Frankenstein #Mary Shelley #Deb Donovan #TFZ #dailyjasontodd #ADitF #Mike W Barr #Judd Winick #Matthew Rosenberg #Jim Starlin #Max Allan Collins #Faye Gunn #panels #bookshelf #references #Walt Whitman #Leaves of Grass #Yeah I threw in the last one because it made me laugh. #Like all these English-language classics and then James Dean smouldering. #Obviously I'm not really skilled at photosets and sizing. If anyone wants to redo this except better--be my guest. #thecruellestmonth #described #id in alt #id in alt text

[ewzzy]

Marvel Fanfare #6 from the briefest moment where Scarlet Witch thought she was the daughter of Bob 'The Whizzer' Frank and was going by Wanda Frank. Even when she thought that was true she didn't go by that name. It's basically just this comic that was running with it. (and mysteriously the Iron Man cartoon)

#scarlet witch #wanda maximoff #marvel comics #mike w barr #sandy plunkett

[all-action-all-picture]

Last Call at McSurley's from Batman: Gotham Knights No. 25, 2002. Art by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer.

#batman #dc #alan davis #2002 #mark farmer #mike w barr

[cantsayidont]

September 1986. Launched a month after the end of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, SECRET ORIGINS was ostensibly a way for DC to put its new house in order, continuity-wise, initially alternating Golden Age and modern origins and then (starting in this issue) combining one of each. Publishing the origin of the Golden Age Batman who had just been pointedly and retroactively erased in the Crisis was perhaps off-message, and while Roy Thomas does cross a few "t"s and dot a few "i"s, Batman's origin was in no way "secret." However, the first half of this issue is nonetheless a welcome if bittersweet farewell to the original Batman, with exquisite artwork by Marshall Rogers (who also colored it himself) and Terry Austin that establishes a vivid sense of time and place, adding to the story's autumnal atmosphere:

Consequently, this is one of Thomas's finest "Earth-2" stories, and a fitting bookend to Alan Brennert's "The Autobiography of Bruce Wayne" three years earlier. (It's reprinted in the LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT: MARSHALL ROGERS hardcover, although frustratingly, no attempt was made to adjust Rogers' carefully selected color palette to suit the whiter, glossier paper, making the colors far brighter and gaudier than Rogers intended.)

The Halo origin is less successful, illustrating what would become an ongoing problem for SECRET ORIGINS: trying to sum up a complicated storyline (which originally unfolded over the course of many issues of BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS) in a few pages, making it largely redundant for people familiar with the original story and yet unlikely to entice or even make much sense to readers who had never heard of the character.

#comics #secret origins #roy thomas #marshall rogers #terry austin #mike w barr #dick giordano #golden age batman #earth-2 #batman and the outsiders #this has nothing to do with the halo video game

[onlylonelylatino]

Cheetah and Wonder Woman by Trina Robbins

#cheetah #wonder woman #trina robbins #dc comics #modern age #len wein #paul levitz #marv wolfman #mike w barr