The law of diminishing returns is often true. It’s like that movie with Michael Keaton, Multiplicity (See, already brought it around to Batman!), the more times you tell a story, the more diluted or off it becomes. We have seen this proven wrong a few times: the newest versions of the Monk, the Monster Men, and the first Batman/Joker confrontation are ranked highest. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the first meeting of Batman and Superman. We already covered three, and the best was the first, and Patreon backer John Wickham brought three more, and none of them are better. This time as have an early Silver Age story, a New 52 story and latter day Frank Miller. So… yeah…
- The Origin of the Superman-Batman Team (World’s Finest Comics #94)
- Cross World (Batman/Superman V.1 #1-4)
- Superman: Year One #3
In this week’s BatChat column, we read Detective Comics #1,083, Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #25 and Batman: Dark Age #1.
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Matt Lazorwitz read his first comic at the age of five. It was Who's Who in the DC Universe #2, featuring characters whose names begin with B, which explains so much about his Batman obsession. He writes about comics he loves, and co-hosts the creator interview podcast WMQ&A with Dan Grote.
Will Nevin loves bourbon and AP style and gets paid to teach one of those things. He is on Twitter far too often.
