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it was really interesting
It was horrifying especially when his parents were shot
Just best Batman origin story pre-Frank Miller's Batman: Year One.
Alfred basically hijacking Bruce's mansion is probably my favorite part of this story. I constantly forget that the origins of Batman were akin to an acid trip, but it's always worth revisiting.
When his father's bat-suit arrives in the mail, shredded, Batman finds that someone close to him means to destroy him, someone who knows his true identity. Will Batman find the person targeting him before winding up dead?I actually own two versions of this: the black and white paperback version DC put out in 1982 and the undersized individual issues that came with the Batman cereal to coincide with the first Tim Burton movie. My old copy got waterlogged when my beer fridge leaked but I stumbled
Interesting climax, but mostly just compiles and redraws older Batman stories relating to his origin and backstory in a. way that really just highlights how badly the precrisis canon backstories have aged. The new art is nice, but many of these are just identical to what was being done in the 40s and 50s and they really needed a more radical updating which Crisis would allow.
The format, a typically sized paperback, is of it’s time of 1982. I’d be interested in seeing the material in the modern trade paperback size. The artwork, by John Byrne (the first issue) and then Jim Aparo, would benefit from the reconstructed pages and larger size.
this is a amazing comic book.
This particular edition loses a star for the fact that it's a mass market paperback reprint of the comics. In this version, the artwork is all black and white—which, admittedly, looks pretty good—and the panels have been rearranged to fit the format. I wish DC Comics would actually collect the issues in a proper trade (or within an anthology along the lines of The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told or Batman in the Eighties). That said, this is a well-done retelling of the backstories of the main...
Good, decent story. I've read this as child, so - nostalgia overload. Even those audios.. Ah.
One of those cute little B&W reprint pocket paperbacks that they used to sell in the 70's and 80's. The backstories of Batman and the main supporting characters (circa 1980) told in flashback, with a flimsy framing story that tries for "psychologically deep," but ends up being silly. The Jim Aparo/John Byrne artwork takes me back to the era that I first started reading Batman comics.
it was great
In The Untold Legend of the Batman, Batman, who keeps the bat costume his father wore to a masquerade ball when Bruce Wayne was a kid (and which is the inspiration for the modern Batsuit) in a display case in the Batcave, is mailed this bat costume, ripped to shreds. Dumbfounded, Batman looks to the display case and finds that the costume is indeed gone, and that a taunting note has been left behind, taped on the inside of the display case:This is only the BEGINNING, Batman! Before I'm done, I w...
Kinda silly, even taking into account the era it comes from. Still, a fun overview of pre-crisis Batman.
Going to start this off by saying I am a little bit biased towards Len Wein because he helped write and create characters like storm, and thunderbird ( watch gifted to know who he is) and night crawler ( he didn’t create him but he wrote him in which to me counts ). So my love out of the way, this story is good, but not great. So we followed Bruce as he loses his grip after witnessing a devastating warehouse explosion. Now we never witness the explosion first hand, and only learn about it throug...
Actual rating 3.75 This was a bit of a different vibe compared to other batman comics which sort of took em out of the story. And even though my child dick grayson was involved this wasn't my favorite. It was still really fast and entertaining and had some amazing action sequences.
This book is actually wonderful.
This is a cool little book. A great little recap of Batman's pre-crisis origin wrapped up in a mystery that takes Batman being his own enemy to a new (and kinda silly) level. I feel like I've read some of this before because a good chunk of it (the stuff with his dad) is used by Morrison in his run. I like how they go out of their way to explain almost everything related to Batman. I had no idea that a stunt driver built the Batmobiles for him. Also, weird version of Alfred, had no idea there wa...
The origin of the batcostume is actually quite clever. As is the fact that the robincostume was the first costume Batman tried in his vigilante career (as a sidekick named Robin, brilliant!). It's also smart that we're given a possible backstory behind why Bruce's parents got killed, but it is kept vague what the exact motive for the killing is. Was it assassination under orders, or a robbery that escalated? Or so i thought, until it became 100% obvious that it was a hired killing. I wish it did...
Batman's Origin story. Feels a little shallow today, but a good entry to Batman and his story
