Over his thirty plus year career in comics, Archie Goodwin racked up a lot of accomplishments. He wrote horror stories for lots of Warren Publishing’s anthologies. At DC, he wrote Detective Comics, “Manhunter” (more on both of those later), and was the editor behind Batman: Black and White, the early issues of Legends of the Dark Knight and James Robinson’s Starman. At Marvel, he co-created The New Universe (they can’t all be winners…). But possibly the biggest accomplishment, before his untimely passing in 1998, was that he was regarded as the nicest guy in comics. Everyone loved Archie. So this week, we’re reading his first story on Detective, the Manhunter backups he wrote for that same series and a loving, tongue in cheek tribute done in the animated series style.
- Deathmask! (Detective Comics V.1 #437)
- Manhunter (Detective Comics V.1 #437-443, Manhunter Special Edition)
- The Threatening Three! (Batman Adventures Vol. 1 #10,20, 30, Batman: Gotham Adventures #13)
InĀ this weekāsĀ BatChat column, we readĀ Batman/Superman: World’s FinestĀ #29,Ā Batman ’89: EchoesĀ #3Ā andĀ From the DC Vault: Death In the Family- Robin Lives!Ā #1.
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Matt Lazorwitz read his first comic at the age of 5. 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 podcasts BatChat with Matt & Will and The ComicsXF Interview Podcast.
Will Nevin loves bourbon and AP style and gets paid to teach one of those things. He is on Twitter far too often.
