It’s October, the spookiest month of the year. So what better time to focus on the villains of the Batman universe? There are five Thursdays, and we’ll be focusing on five villains, all but one we haven’t had a spotlight on before. The first villain is a favorite of Matt’s, one who has appeared in some of the higher-ranked stories on the Big Board: Mr. Zsasz. The (as Will calls him in the episode) “knife pervert” of the rogue’s gallery, we read the story of his origin, a story of him and Batman both being hunted by the GCPD, and a lost tale that was found and printed in an odd manor.
- The First Cut is the Deepest: The Secret Origin of Mr. Zsasz (Batman Chronicles #3)
- Victims (Detective Comics V.1 #815-816)
- Draining (Batman: Arkham- Mr. Zsasz [originally intended for Batman: Gotham Knights #12])
In this week’s BatChat column, we read Detective Comics #1,089 and Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #31 and Batman: The Long Halloween- The Last Halloween #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.
