Vote for the one you liked the most and comment on some others! WRITER/ARTIST
Denny O'Neil/various: Overall overrated, especially when not paired with Neal Adams but some of his stories are truly great and important classics. But many of his stories are pretty bad. When Denny is bad he is REALLY REALLY bad.When Batman is struggling fighting an old business-man in love with an old opera singer who turns out to be Bruce Wayne's cleaning lady or Bruce Wayne financing a big kangaroo race... 6.5/10
Frank Robbins/various: The forgotten man of Batman's history who was responsible for emphasis on the detective/hard-boiled stories of the Bronze Age/New Look Batman while Denny O'Neil did his "Creature of the Night" fantastical stories. His stories were good for its time but now they often seem VERY dated. Yet, they are on avergae better than Denny's. 7/10
Bob Haney/Jim Aparo: An all time great! Bob Haney's Batman was a little bit of a jerk and not so much a dark figure, more like a hardass cop and his stories and characterizations were crazy but the plotting was usually very very good. And Jim Aparo at his peak was clearly as strong as Adams. Overall, a great duo! 8/10
Archie Goodwin/various: Good ol' Archie. Always underrated but under his reign the regular Batman titles improved again after the sharp decline a few years in the 70s. Sadly, I do not remember his stories that much! Time to re-read. -/10
David V. Reed/various: Well, Reed was already an old veteran in the 70s, like a fossil resurrected. His stories were like a throwback to 50s Atom-Age Batman and seemed very dated even back then. But by the late-70s all darkness had left the Batman titles once again. Nonetheless, his stories were good, nice and safe adventure stories. 6.5/10
Englehart/Rogers: young people of today can just not even remotely fathom who much better those stories were to virtually almost everything that had ever appeared under the Batman label. Batman stories became somewhat more real as for the first time Batman was portrayed as a real human being and so was the world around him. At the same time, Englehart rooted the stories in a world where all the past Batman adventures HAD happened, from the Golden Age, the typewritters. 9/10
Len Wein/various: started very good but then it became worse. Campy villains (probably editorially enforced) and sloppy stories. But it introduced "soap opera" into Batman's world. 7.5/10
Conway/Various: After a bad start it ended on a high note with the Jason Todd/Killer Croc story. Still odd how tame Batman had still been in the early-80s. But also cool: Batman as a vampire. 7/10
Moench/Various: A very big run of a good reader. Introduced many things but almost none of it caught on (except for his re-introducion of Bullock) and its additions to the mythos are largely forgotten by now. Still, except for a certain silliness (Nocturna, love triangle etc.) probably my favorite run (englehart's is better overall but too short) which was probably the last time Batman had been portrayed as a "normal" human being with an odd hobby. 8.5/10
Frank Miller does not count here, I see his run as a graphic novel published in the regular series.
Max Allan Collins: one of the worst ever. Very odd. Very Bronze Age. Very dated. Very tame. Collins is a good writer. But here it was just too bad. Don't know why. Perhaps also the editor's fault. When you are writing a story about a villain stealing church-bells in 1987 you are in deep trouble. In many ways he had ruined post-crisis Batman right from the beginning. 2/10
Mike W. Barr/Davis(MacFarlane): Also odd, you have Collins on the other title that is supposed to introduce a new Batman and here you have Barr doing something entirely different, a sort of hybrid of grittier stuff and Golden/Atom Age stuff. It was good for the most part, good idea and approach to Batman. Wished it had been longer. 8/10
Jim Starlin/Aparo: That was a great run. Very down to Earth. Batman was mostly just a angry super-cop in a costume, hardly any supervillains at all, every character was kind of a jerk. In many ways, this was like the Nolan movie. It followed the Frank Miller grittiness but on the other hand his Batman is also quite different from Miller's. 8.5/10
Grant/Breyfogle: Mostly overrated IMO because of Norm Breyfogle's beautiful art. They also were on the title way too long. 7/10
Denny O'Neil/various: Overall overrated, especially when not paired with Neal Adams but some of his stories are truly great and important classics. But many of his stories are pretty bad. When Denny is bad he is REALLY REALLY bad.When Batman is struggling fighting an old business-man in love with an old opera singer who turns out to be Bruce Wayne's cleaning lady or Bruce Wayne financing a big kangaroo race... 6.5/10
Frank Robbins/various: The forgotten man of Batman's history who was responsible for emphasis on the detective/hard-boiled stories of the Bronze Age/New Look Batman while Denny O'Neil did his "Creature of the Night" fantastical stories. His stories were good for its time but now they often seem VERY dated. Yet, they are on avergae better than Denny's. 7/10
Bob Haney/Jim Aparo: An all time great! Bob Haney's Batman was a little bit of a jerk and not so much a dark figure, more like a hardass cop and his stories and characterizations were crazy but the plotting was usually very very good. And Jim Aparo at his peak was clearly as strong as Adams. Overall, a great duo! 8/10
Archie Goodwin/various: Good ol' Archie. Always underrated but under his reign the regular Batman titles improved again after the sharp decline a few years in the 70s. Sadly, I do not remember his stories that much! Time to re-read. -/10
David V. Reed/various: Well, Reed was already an old veteran in the 70s, like a fossil resurrected. His stories were like a throwback to 50s Atom-Age Batman and seemed very dated even back then. But by the late-70s all darkness had left the Batman titles once again. Nonetheless, his stories were good, nice and safe adventure stories. 6.5/10
Englehart/Rogers: young people of today can just not even remotely fathom who much better those stories were to virtually almost everything that had ever appeared under the Batman label. Batman stories became somewhat more real as for the first time Batman was portrayed as a real human being and so was the world around him. At the same time, Englehart rooted the stories in a world where all the past Batman adventures HAD happened, from the Golden Age, the typewritters. 9/10
Len Wein/various: started very good but then it became worse. Campy villains (probably editorially enforced) and sloppy stories. But it introduced "soap opera" into Batman's world. 7.5/10
Conway/Various: After a bad start it ended on a high note with the Jason Todd/Killer Croc story. Still odd how tame Batman had still been in the early-80s. But also cool: Batman as a vampire. 7/10
Moench/Various: A very big run of a good reader. Introduced many things but almost none of it caught on (except for his re-introducion of Bullock) and its additions to the mythos are largely forgotten by now. Still, except for a certain silliness (Nocturna, love triangle etc.) probably my favorite run (englehart's is better overall but too short) which was probably the last time Batman had been portrayed as a "normal" human being with an odd hobby. 8.5/10
Frank Miller does not count here, I see his run as a graphic novel published in the regular series.
Max Allan Collins: one of the worst ever. Very odd. Very Bronze Age. Very dated. Very tame. Collins is a good writer. But here it was just too bad. Don't know why. Perhaps also the editor's fault. When you are writing a story about a villain stealing church-bells in 1987 you are in deep trouble. In many ways he had ruined post-crisis Batman right from the beginning. 2/10
Mike W. Barr/Davis(MacFarlane): Also odd, you have Collins on the other title that is supposed to introduce a new Batman and here you have Barr doing something entirely different, a sort of hybrid of grittier stuff and Golden/Atom Age stuff. It was good for the most part, good idea and approach to Batman. Wished it had been longer. 8/10
Jim Starlin/Aparo: That was a great run. Very down to Earth. Batman was mostly just a angry super-cop in a costume, hardly any supervillains at all, every character was kind of a jerk. In many ways, this was like the Nolan movie. It followed the Frank Miller grittiness but on the other hand his Batman is also quite different from Miller's. 8.5/10
Grant/Breyfogle: Mostly overrated IMO because of Norm Breyfogle's beautiful art. They also were on the title way too long. 7/10
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