Talk:List of Batman comics

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[edit] Moved from main article

I have moved these subsections from main article as they were just shoved in at an inappropriate place and contain many items that should not be in the article (eg story lines from existing comics series that were never reprinted), but do at the same time contain useful info that should be inserted in appropriate places in main article. Please strike out here when correctly inserted -Waza 06:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm Dark88. I was the one that listed those comic books. The original list was pretty helpful to me in buying the comic books but then I started going on Amazon.com to buy Batman comic books and saw that this list really missed a bunch of comic books. This was my first time posting on Wikipedia. I wasn't sure if I did it right. By the way would someone be as kind to help me out a bit. Some of the titles that I listed have been crossed out in this list with the following in parenthesis (Part of ongoing series already listed, never reprinted). Those titles that were crossed out, what ongoing series are they a part of? I feel dumb now for having bought Batman Year Three if it was available in another tradepaperback. I spend like 20-25 bucks for all the comic books in that series because I couldn't find it in tradepaperback form. And I also spend the time as you can tell getting the ISBN numbers for the books. I figured some titles might have been dismissed as nonexistant unless I got the ISBN number. --Dark88 06:50, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Dark88. In once sense you did do the right thing posting, if in doubt then always add to an article, just be prepared to be corrected. Often its better to make a change where someting needs it, even if you get it wrong it may promt someone else to come along and correct it where they wouldn't if you hadn't done somethign first. Several of these books should be in the list on the main page, just not under a category Miscellaneous as they really belong in other categories. Feel free to put them back in the main article as long as they are in a logical place.
With regard to your question on these story line contents check the Batman: Knightfall article for contents of KnightQuest storyline and the Batman: Year Three article. The others are storylines than ran across several different Batman comic titles (Batman, Detective Comics, Robin, etc.) - Waza 00:19, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Waza, it has been a while, but I put a lot of these back in their right place. I also created a new reference link that I think is really helpful since it lists just about all the Batman TBPs ever published. There are some missing here and there but I think it's a good way to cross-reference the comic book issues that are collected in the TBPs listed on this wikipedia page for Batman comic books.Dark88 08:56, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Miscellaneous

A list of Batman comic books that were not previously mentioned. The category they would fall under is unknown, but they do need to be listed nonetheless.


Batman isn't the the main character in these comic books but plays an important role:

As there is already a Batman Section on List of Elseworlds publications now linked from this page, I have crossed out those titles. - Waza 00:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Novels

This is a list of some Batman novels.

[edit] Merger notice

I agree with merging Bibliography of Batman titles into List of Batman comics... just haven't had time! Dyslexic agnostic 06:02, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I could agree with it as well. Unfortunately, other projects are right now preventing me from doing so personally.Badbilltucker 19:31, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I actually prefer the Bibliography layout and format so if it were to be merged, the List of Batman comics should be added to the Bibliography of Batman titles accordingly.

I agree a merger is not a bad idea in principle, but will it work and allow us to keep all the info in both articles? Not sure what the last comment is refereing to in terms of format. Both formats look vey similar to me. Unless the comment referers to the breif summaries given in the collections listed under the the Selected titles section of the Biographies article. However the List article is much longer and more comprehensive, and addign such descriptions for each of the titles in the list would make article too large. Even some of these comments need to be taken with a grain of salt - surely the The Dark Knight Archives Volume One is much more noteworthy for the first appearance of the joker than for the first batman/catwoman kiss, even then it is only a reprint. - Waza 04:29, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clean up needed?

I'm thinking some cleaning up is needed for this article. Some cross-checking is needed too. I also think somebody went overboard with listing every Batman book ever published. :) --Destron Commander 01:49, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't know, I think it'd be good if every Batman book could be punished, after all it would be nice to create an exhaustive list for easy reference. However as you point out, it would need cleaning up. I think it would be a lot better if new articles were created for each of the storylines which tell you what issues they come from, that article could also tell you trivia, storylines etc. All that is needed on here is the title and the year it came out, possibly the ISBNs. Also it would be good to keep differing continuities (ie Legends, main continuity) away from eachother, maybe even giving a seperate list to the Superman/Batman books. Certainly would like to see a cleaner list with just titles and years on them.Tony2Times 13:36, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


Is that clean up okay for everyone? Took me bloody long enough. (I know not everything is perfect yet.) Tony2Times 16:50, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ISBN

Finding ISBN is easy through Google. Is it possible to get the ISBN of all the comics listed here? Some of them have it, but some don't. I know that searching for some of them through Amazon gives you the ISBN, but not always. Dark88 08:56, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Batman Trades List

I'm going to remove the Batman trades external link (the one for batmantrades.com). For some reason, it requires a password to get to. This is not for any reason relating to Wikipedia standards. It can be put back up if the problem (if there is a problem) is removed, or somebody mentions why the registration is required.

And I seriously hope my computer is not the only one that does this. Ccm043 02:26, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More books to add

Shadow of the Bat and the new Brave and the Bold both seem to fit in well on this page. Darquis (talk) 10:22, 30 January 2008 (UTC)