BATMAN: KNIGHT OF VENGEANCE FTW!!
Batman
Character » Batman appears in 23537 issues.
Bruce Wayne, who witnessed the murder of his billionaire parents as a child, swore to avenge their deaths. He trained extensively to achieve mental and physical perfection, mastering martial arts, detective skills, and criminal psychology. Costumed as a bat to prey on the fears of criminals, and utilizing a high-tech arsenal, he became the legendary Batman.
Comic Vine's Top 100 Batman Universe Stories
I would like to add the following two titles:
I would like to cosign the following titles:
Batman #700-703 (Time and the Batman)
Batman and Robin #1-16 (Morison's run)
Batman Incorporated
Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying
Batman: Dark Victory #1-13
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
Black Mirror (Detective Comics 871-881)
Catwoman: Selina’s Big Score
DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN
Detective Comics #854-860 (" Elegy")
Flashpoint: Batman Knight of Vengeance
Hush
Killing Joke
Long Halloween
Thrillkiller #1-3
Under the Hood
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader
Thanks:-)
C'mon, lets try and get The First Batman some notoriety.
The First Batman: Let's be honest, when people think silver age they think very silly comic books that never really stood out as good unless they had some ridiculous gimmick. Well, this story was made in the silver age, and sounds like it has a silly gimmick but it is still great. The story is that Batman finds an old tape, his father's diary and Batman costume and discovers (after watching the tape) that it was worn by Bruce's father Thomas Wayne during a costume party. After finding out that crime boss Lew Moxon kidnapped Batman's father at the costume party, which ultimately amounted to Lew ordering a hit on Thomas Wayne by hiring a certain Joe Chill, Batman decides to open the Wayne murder case once again to bring Lew Moxon to justice. I don't want to ruin the ending, but it is certainly dark compared to most other silver age comics.The comic builds on Batman's origins greatly (and rightfully so, since it was written by Batman co-creator Bill Finger) and is full of great art.
@PikminMania said:
C'mon, lets try and get The First Batman some notoriety.
indeed
I also feel we need more nominations and cosigns...we only have three days left (if we only do a week of this) and its not that impressive that the top cosigned stories only have 3 measly cosigns. Of course there will be 4 cosigns when I get around to cosigning it, but even still...
and 17 extra nominations isn't that impressive either. I might just extend the end date a bit so there is few more stories so things are at least interesting when it comes to voting. I'll have to bug a few more people...
Batman & Robin #1-7
Batman and Robin #1-16
Batman: Dark Victory #1-13
Batman: The Man Who Laughs
Batman: Year one
Bruce Wayne - Fugitive
Bruce Wayne - Murderer?
Dark Knight Returns
Emperor Joker
Heart of Hush
Hush
Killing Joke
Knightfall
Long Halloween
Lovers and Madmen
Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul
Tower of Babel
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader
I co-sign all of these (and fixed the typo in Batman Fugitive)
124 Total!
A Death in the Family (Nominated by sinestro_GL)
Adventure Comics #462 ("Only Legends Live Forever!") (Nominated by Chalkshark)
Arkham Asylum (Nominated by TDK_1997)
Azrael #36-40 ("Angel and the Bane" & "Hour of the Quake" (Nominated by k4tzm4n)
Bane of the Demon (Nominated by entropy_aegis)
Batgirl Rising (Nominated by BoyDetective)
Batgirl: Year One #1-9 (Nominated by UpUpAndAway)
Batman #250 ("The Batman Nobody Knows") (Nominated by sinestro_GL)
Batman #253 ("Who Knows What Evil--?") (Nominated by Chalkshark)
Batman #300 (""The Last Batman Story--?") (Nominated by Chalkshark)
Batman #400-"Resurrection Night" (Nominated by chalkshark)
BATMAN #416 - White Gold And Truth (Nominated by feebadger)
Batman #620-625 ("Broken City") (Nominated by Billy Bastson)
Batman #663 ("The clown at Midnight") (Nominated by entropy_aegis)
Batman #666 (Nominated by shadowknight666)
Batman #700-703 (Time and the Batman) (Nominated by RUKM)
Batman & Robin #1-7 (Nominated by k4tzm4n)
Batman & Robin #20-22 (“Dark Knight vs. White Knight” ) (Nominated by BoyDetective)
Batman & Son (Batman #655 -658) (nominated by BoyDetective)
Batman 654-656 (“God of Battle, Anvil of War and Besieged”) (Nominated by Liberty)
Batman Adventures: Mad Love (batman adventures #1) (Nominated by NewKid)
Batman and Robin #1-16 (Morison's run) (Nominated by entropy_aegis)
Batman and Robin #26 (Earthly Delights: Scenes From A Work in Progress) (Nominated by The Mighty Monarch)
Batman and the Monster Men (Nominated by TheGoldenOne)
Batman Annual #11 ("Mortal Clay") (nominated by Breeble)
BATMAN CHRONICLES # 1 (Nominated by feebadger) Cosigned by primepower53
Batman Confidential #1-6 ("Rules of Engagement") (Nominated by entropy_aegis)
Batman Ego (Nominated by cosmo111687)
Batman Incorporated (Nominated by NewKid)
Batman RIP (Nominated by TheGoldenOne)
Batman Special #1 "The Player On The Other Side" (Nominated by Chalkshark)
Batman Tales of the Demon (Nominated by SupermanJohnathanKentJr)
Batman/Captain America (Nominated by Chalkshark)
Batman/Grendel: Devil's Riddle (Nominated by Chalkshark)
Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying (Nominated by Backflip)
Batman: Black and White (Nominated by kfhrfdu_89_76k)
Batman: Cataclysm (Nominated by ReVamp)
Batman: Dark Victory #1-13 (Nominated by CitizenBane)
Batman: Death and the Maidens #1-9 (Nominated by CitizenBane)
Batman: Gates of Gotham #1-5 (Nominated by RedheadedAtrocitus)
Batman: Gotham By Gaslight (Nominated by The Mighty Monarch)
Batman: Harley and Ivy (Nominated by Liberty)
Batman: In Darkest Knight (Nominated by RedheadedAtrocitus)
Batman: KnightsEnd (Nominated by sinestro_GL)
Batman: Nine Lives (Nominated by BoyDetective)
Batman: Noël (Nominated by sinestro_GL)
Batman: Red Rain
Batman: Son of the Demon (Nominated by TheGoldenOne)
Batman: Sword of Azrael (Nominated by The Mighty Monarch)
Batman: The Laughing Fish (nominated by PikminMania)
Batman: The Man Who Laughs (Nominated by Tunsieon)
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne (Nominated by ReVamp)
Batman: War On Crime (Nominated by chalkshark)
Batman: Year 100 (Nominated by Tunsieon)
Batman: Year one (Batman #404-407) (Nominated by RedheadedAtrocitus)
Batman:The Cult (Nominated by chalkshark)
Battle for the Cowl (Nominated by shadowknight666)
Batwing 1-8 (Nominated by k4tzm4n)
Birth of the Demon (Nominated by CitizenBane)
Black Mirror (Detective Comics 871-881) (nominated by Backflip
Bruce Wayne - Fugative (Nominated by NewKid)
Bruce Wayne - Murderer? (Nominated by NewKid)
Catwoman #12-16 ("Relentless") (Nominated by CitizenBane)
Catwoman #1-4 (“Anodyne”) (Nominated by BoyDetective)
Catwoman: Selina’s Big Score (Nominated by UpUpAndAway)
Catwoman: When in Rome #1-6 (Nominated by The Poet)
Collision (Red Robin #9-12, Batgirl #8) (Nominated by NewKid)
Court of Owls (Batman #1-7) (Nominated byBoyDetective)
Creeper # 7-8 ("Madhouse" and "He Who Laughs Last") (Nominated by Avenging-X-Bolt
Crisis on Infinite Earths (Nominated by TheCannon)
Dark Knight Returns (Nominated by shadowknight666)
DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN (Nominated by feebadger)
Dark Knight, Dark City (Batman #452-454) (Nominated by RedheadedAtrocitus)
Deadshot #1-5 ("Urban Renewal") (Nominated by k4tzm4n)
Detective Comics #235 ("The First Batman")
Detective Comics #500 ("To Kill a Legend")
Detective Comics #572 (Sherlock Holmes-Batman team up) (Nominated by The Poet)
Detective Comics #784-786- "Made Of Wood" (Nominated by chalkshark)
Detective Comics #854-860 (" Elegy") (Nominated by TDK_1997)
Detective Comics 27 (Nominated by Razza Tazz)
Detective Comics Annual #2 ("Blood Secrets") (Nominated by Razza Tazz)
Emperor Joker (Nominated by The Mighty Monarch)
Face the Face (Nominated by Tunsieon)
Flashpoint: Batman Knight of Vengeance (Nominated by cosmo111687)
GOTHAM CENTRAL #12-15 and #19-22 ("Unresolved Targets")
Half A Life (GOTHAM CENTRAL #6 – 10) (Nominated by feebadger)
Heart of Hush (Nominated by RedheadedAtrocitus)
House of Hush (Streets of Gotham #14, 16-21)
Hush (Nominated by TheGoldenOne)
Hush Beyond (Nominated by SupermanJohnathanKentJr)
Infinite Crisis #6-7 (Nominated by Razza Tazz)
JLA: New World Order (Nominated by Backflip)
Joker (graphic novel) (Nominated by shadowknight666)
Joker: Last Laugh (Nominated by The Poet)
Joker's Asylum (Nominated by Backflip)
Justice League #5 ("Gray Life Gray Dreams") (Nominated by Liberty)
Killing Joke (Nominated by ReVamp)
Kingdom Come (Nominated by Liberty)
Knight and Squire #1-6 (Nominated by The Poet)
Knightfall (Nominated by shadowknight666)
Legends (Nominated by Liberty)
Long Halloween (Nominated by TheGoldenOne)
Lovers and Madmen (Batman Confidential #7-12) (Nominated by CitizenBane)
Nightwing #13-15 (Nominated by Razza Tazz)
Nightwing #140-146: "Freefall" (Nominated by Backflip)
Nightwing #25 (Nominated by Razza Tazz)
Nightwing: Year One (Nominated by ReVamp)
No Man's Land (Nominated by Tunsieon)
Officer Down (Nominated by Newkid)
Ragman #1-8 (1991) (Nominated by Liberty)
Red Hood: The Lost Days #1-6 (Nominated by BoyDetective)
Red Robin #1-5 (Nominated by Newkid)
Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul (Nominated by TDK_1997)
Riddle Me That (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185-189) (Nominated by entropy_aegis)
Robin #85 ("Fool's Errand") (Nominated by Razza Tazz)
Robin: Year One (Nominated by NewKid)
Secret Origins Special (Nominated by The Poet)
Superman/Baman # 1-6 ("Public Enemies") (Nominated by feebadger)
Superman: The Man of Steel #3 (Nominated by sinestro_GL)
Thrillkiller #1-3 (Nominated by SupermanJohnathanKentJr)
Tower of Babel (Nominated by ReVamp)
Under the Hood (Nominated by k4tzm4n)
War Games (Nominated by Tunsieon)
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader (Nominated by UpUpAndAway)
Ok, so 2 Announcements:
- Nominations end 24 hours from now, please add the stories you think are missing
- I'm ending cosigning as of now. We don't have enough cosigns to actually rearrange the list without depending on an alphbetical order for nominations without any cosigns. I appologise to all users (including @SupermanJohnathanKentJr) who did cosign stories. I'm sorry there was not enough to really make an inital order. The initital order will now be based on an alphebetical order.
ok... my top choices, that aren't mine, for cosigning (if that's still going on).
Batgirl: Rising
Batman & Robin 1-7 (new52)
Batman & Robin 1-16 (Morrison's run)
Lonely Place of Dying
Dark Victory
Gates Of Gotham
Year 100
Year One
The Black Mirror
Court of Owls
Batwoman: Elegy (Detective Comics 854-860)
Long Halloween
No Man's Land
also, maybe add Red Robin: The Grail to the list?
:)
Voting has begun!
Each user are given 5 votes each (which can be divided however you want to whether you wall all 5 votes for one title or 5 for five different titles)
Voting Requirements:
- Must have minimum of 15 forum posts (to fight spammer block)
- NO Alternate Accounts (any accounts even suspected of being an alternate will be removed with the discretion of the Vote Tabulator--Me, The Poet--and under the guidance of the 20 nominators (see above)
- NO INSULTING OTHER OPINIONS (this is a biggie! I will not have anyone bash another peoples view on what is the best batman story...we all have opinions. I will not remove any votes, but I will ask the insulter to either apologize or leave)
Voting Ends: Thursday, May 3rd at around 6pm EST (Time tentative)
The List 124
- A Death in the Family
- Adventure Comics #462 ("Only Legends Live Forever!")
- Arkham Asylum
- Azrael #36-40 ("Angel and the Bane" & "Hour of the Quake"
- Bane of the Demon
- Batgirl Rising
- Batgirl: Year One #1-9
- BATMAN # 416 - White Gold And Truth
- Batman #250 ("The Batman Nobody Knows")
- Batman #253 ("Who Knows What Evil--?")
- Batman #300 (""The Last Batman Story--?")
- Batman #400-"Resurrection Night"
- Batman #620-625 ("Broken City")
- Batman #663 ("The clown at Midnight")
- Batman #666
- Batman #700-703 (Time and the Batman)
- Batman & Robin #20-22 (“Dark Knight vs. White Knight” )
- Batman & Robin (2011) #1-7
- Batman & Son (Batman #655 -658)
- Batman 654-656, God of Battle, Anvil of War and Besieged
- Batman Adventures: Mad Love (batman adventures #1)
- Batman and Robin #1-16 (Morison's run)
- Batman and Robin #26 (Earthly Delights: Scenes From A Work in Progress)
- Batman and the Monster Men
- Batman Annual #11 ("Mortal Clay")
- BATMAN CHRONICLES # 1
- Batman Confidential #1-6 ("Rules of Engagement")
- Batman Incorporated
- Batman RIP
- Batman Special #1 "The Player On The Other Side"
- Batman Tales of the Demon (
- Batman/Captain America
- Batman/Grendel: Devil's Riddle
- Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying
- Batman: Black and White
- Batman: Cataclysm
- Batman: Dark Victory #1-13
- Batman: Death and the Maidens #1-9
- Batman: Ego
- Batman: Gates of Gotham #1-5
- Batman: Gotham By Gaslight
- Batman: Harley and Ivy
- Batman: In Darkest Knight
- Batman: KnightsEnd
- Batman: Nine Lives
- Batman: Noël
- Batman: Red Rain
- Batman: Son of the Demon
- Batman: Sword of Azrael
- Batman: The Laughing Fish
- Batman: The Man Who Laughs
- Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
- Batman: War On Crime
- Batman: Year 100
- Batman: Year one (Batman #404-407)
- Batman:The Cult
- Battle for the Cowl
- Batwing 1-8
- Birth of the Demon
- Black Mirror (Detective Comics 871-881)
- Bruce Wayne - Fugitive
- Bruce Wayne - Murderer?
- Catwoman #12-16 ("Relentless")
- Catwoman #1-4 (“Anodyne”)
- Catwoman: Selina’s Big Score
- Catwoman: When in Rome #1-6
- Collision (Red Robin #9-12, Batgirl #8)
- Court of Owls (Batman #1-7)
- Creeper(1990's series) issues 7-8. "Madhouse" and "He Who Laughs Last"
- Crisis on Infinite Earths
- Dark Knight Returns
- DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN
- Dark Knight, Dark City (Batman #452-454)
- Deadshot #1-5 ("Urban Renewal")
- Detective Comics #235 ("The First Batman")
- Detective Comics #500 ("To Kill a Legend")
- Detective Comics #572 (Sherlock Holmes-Batman team up)
- Detective Comics #784-786- "Made Of Wood"
- Detective Comics #854-860 ("Batwoman: Elegy")
- Detective Comics 27
- Detective Comics Annual #2 ("Blood Secrets")
- Emperor Joker
- Face the Face
- Flashpoint: Batman Knight of Vengeance
- GOTHAM CENTRAL #12-15 and #19-22 ("Unresolved Targets")
- Half A Life (GOTHAM CENTRAL #6 – 10)
- Heart of Hush
- House of Hush (Streets of Gotham #14, 16-21)
- Hush
- Hush Beyond
- Infinite Crisis #6-7
- JLA: New World Order
- Joker (graphic novel)
- Joker: Last Laugh
- Joker's Asylum
- Justice League #5 ("Gray Life Gray Dreams")
- Killing Joke
- Kingdom Come
- Knight and Squire #1-6
- Knightfall
- Legends
- Long Halloween
- Lovers and Madmen (Batman Confidential #7-12)
- Nightwing #13-15
- Nightwing #140-146: "Freefall"
- Nightwing #25
- Nightwing: Year One
- No Man's Land
- Officer Down
- Ragman #1-8 (1991)
- Red Hood: The Lost Days #1-6
- Red Robin #1-5
- Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul
- Riddle Me That (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185-189)
- Robin #85 ("Fool's Errand")
- Robin: Year One
- Secret Origins Special
- Superman/Baman # 1-6 ("Public Enemies")
- Superman: The Man of Steel #3
- Thrillkiller #1-3
- Tower of Babel
- Under the Hood
- War Games
- Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader
@Tunsieon said:
Do we have to vote all at once, or can it be in separate posts? I ask because there are a few stories that I know I am going to vote for but I'm yet to make up my mind on all five choices.
I'd like to have them together so I can tell who has voted and who has not voted. I can change votes, but I can't really have voting halfway knowing how crazy some of these polls get when they get going...
I would like to nominate Scott Snyder's gritty, epic masterpiece of crime-fiction Batman: The Black Mirror.
Voting Talley
Total Voters Currently: 8
- Illuminatus
- TheCannon
- Spectre108
- Gambit1024
- sinestro_GL
- humanfly26
- NewKid
- sEsposito7
Poll Currently:
- A Death in the Family + 2
- Batman Incorperated +1
- Batman RIP +2
- Batman: Year 100 +1
- Batman: Year One +2
- Black Mirror: +6
- Court of Owls (Batman #1-7) +4
- Dark Knight Returns +1
- Hush +2
- Killing Joke +3
- Knightfall +6
- Long Halloween +4
- Nightwing: Freefall +1
- No Man's Land +2
- Robin: Year One +1
- Tower of Babel +1
Complete list:
The List 124
- A Death in the Family
- Adventure Comics #462 ("Only Legends Live Forever!")
- Arkham Asylum
- Azrael #36-40 ("Angel and the Bane" & "Hour of the Quake"
- Bane of the Demon
- Batgirl Rising
- Batgirl: Year One #1-9
- Batman #250 ("The Batman Nobody Knows")
- Batman #253 ("Who Knows What Evil--?")
- Batman #300 (""The Last Batman Story--?")
- Batman #400-"Resurrection Night"
- BATMAN #416 - White Gold And Truth
- Batman #620-625 ("Broken City")
- Batman #663 ("The clown at Midnight")
- Batman #666
- Batman #700-703 (Time and the Batman)
- Batman & Robin #1-16 (Morison's run)
- Batman & Robin #20-22 (“Dark Knight vs. White Knight” )
- Batman & Robin #26 (Earthly Delights: Scenes From A Work in Progress)
- Batman & Robin (2011) #1-7
- Batman & Son (Batman #655 -658)
- Batman 654-656, God of Battle, Anvil of War and Besieged
- Batman Adventures: Mad Love (batman adventures #1)
- Batman and the Monster Men
- Batman Annual #11 ("Mortal Clay")
- BATMAN CHRONICLES # 1
- Batman Confidential #1-6 ("Rules of Engagement")
- Batman Incorporated
- Batman RIP
- Batman Special #1 "The Player On The Other Side"
- Batman Tales of the Demon (
- Batman/Captain America
- Batman/Grendel: Devil's Riddle
- Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying
- Batman: Black and White
- Batman: Cataclysm
- Batman: Dark Victory #1-13
- Batman: Death and the Maidens #1-9
- Batman: Ego
- Batman: Gates of Gotham #1-5
- Batman: Gotham By Gaslight
- Batman: Harley and Ivy
- Batman: In Darkest Knight
- Batman: KnightsEnd
- Batman: Nine Lives
- Batman: Noël
- Batman: Red Rain
- Batman: Son of the Demon
- Batman: Sword of Azrael
- Batman: The Laughing Fish
- Batman: The Man Who Laughs
- Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
- Batman: War On Crime
- Batman: Year 100
- Batman: Year one (Batman #404-407)
- Batman:The Cult
- Battle for the Cowl
- Batwing 1-8
- Birth of the Demon
- Black Mirror (Detective Comics 871-881)
- Bruce Wayne - Fugitive
- Bruce Wayne - Murderer?
- Catwoman #12-16 ("Relentless")
- Catwoman #1-4 (“Anodyne”)
- Catwoman: Selina’s Big Score
- Catwoman: When in Rome #1-6
- Collision (Red Robin #9-12, Batgirl #8)
- Court of Owls (Batman #1-7)
- Creeper(1990's series) issues 7-8. "Madhouse" and "He Who Laughs Last"
- Crisis on Infinite Earths
- Dark Knight Returns
- DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN
- Dark Knight, Dark City (Batman #452-454)
- Deadshot #1-5 ("Urban Renewal")
- Detective Comics #235 ("The First Batman")
- Detective Comics #500 ("To Kill a Legend")
- Detective Comics #572 (Sherlock Holmes-Batman team up)
- Detective Comics #784-786- "Made Of Wood"
- Detective Comics #854-860 ("Batwoman: Elegy")
- Detective Comics 27
- Detective Comics Annual #2 ("Blood Secrets")
- Emperor Joker
- Face the Face
- Flashpoint: Batman Knight of Vengeance
- GOTHAM CENTRAL #12-15 and #19-22 ("Unresolved Targets")
- Half A Life (GOTHAM CENTRAL #6 – 10)
- Heart of Hush
- House of Hush (Streets of Gotham #14, 16-21)
- Hush
- Hush Beyond
- Infinite Crisis #6-7
- JLA: New World Order
- Joker (graphic novel)
- Joker: Last Laugh
- Joker's Asylum
- Justice League #5 ("Gray Life Gray Dreams")
- Killing Joke
- Kingdom Come
- Knight and Squire #1-6
- Knightfall
- Legends
- Long Halloween
- Lovers and Madmen (Batman Confidential #7-12)
- Nightwing #13-15
- Nightwing #140-146: "Freefall"
- Nightwing #25
- Nightwing: Year One
- No Man's Land
- Officer Down
- Ragman #1-8 (1991)
- Red Hood: The Lost Days #1-6
- Red Robin #1-5
- Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul
- Riddle Me That (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185-189)
- Robin #85 ("Fool's Errand")
- Robin: Year One
- Secret Origins Special
- Superman/Baman # 1-6 ("Public Enemies")
- Superman: The Man of Steel #3
- Thrillkiller #1-3
- Tower of Babel
- Under the Hood
- War Games
- Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader
The Dark Knight Returns (+1)
Court of Owls (+1) <== Showing respect for a classic of our time
Long Halloween (+3)
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