Bat-Timeline Archeology
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A month or so ago we went to a back issue sale at a local comic shop. The deal was that you could fill a box with whichever issues you wanted out of these huge boxes for $25. It was a pretty great deal. We ended up with a lot of scattered issues of various titles, and reading through some of them, I had a thought. I understand the feeling that it can be hard to get into comics, that the history is too long or too complicated to just jump in. But the core of a major character hardly ever changes, and one can easily piece together the history with just a little enjoyable comic archeology. In the box o'comics, I have 7 issues of standard DC comics with Batman in the title. I'm going to look at 4 today. In date order: July 93 Batman 496 (subtitle: Knightfall 9) July 93 Detective Comics featuring Batman 663 (subtitle: Knightfall 10) Dec 94 Batman 513 (subtitle: Prodigal 5) Aug 98 Batman 557 (subtitle: Aftershock) Here we go: Batman 496 (Knightfall 9) Plot: