Counting Comics - 13

The totals from last week were

DC = 3439

Marvel = 59

Others = 53

I picked up 39 books of The Demon that you can see in my blog HERE

And here is this week's count




Bruce Wayne: The Road Home (2010)

Batman and Robin

Red Robin

Outsiders

Batgirl

Catwoman

Commissioner Gordon

Oracle

Ra's Al Ghul

Bruce Wayne: The Road Home is a series of one-shots released in 2010 chronicling the return of Batman and his interaction with his fellow members of the Batman Family. Characters with ongoing monthly series had the month of October, 2010's issue replaced with an issue from this series. I suppose Ra's counts as Bat-family seeing as he is Bruce's son's maternal Grandfather!

Battle for the Cowl

Azrael: Death's Dark Knight (2009)

1 - 3

With the Batman cowl up for grabs could Azrael be the one to wear it? An Azrael stepped up to the plate before after Knightfall and that didn't turn out too well at all. This is a different Azrael though, I don't remember whatever happened to Jean Paul Valley, in fact I don't remember much about this book at all really. Azrael is now a guy named Michael Lane. The synopsis online mentions as Order of Purity? Whatever happened to the order of St Dumas?

Batman and Robin (2009 - 2011)

1 - 26

After the Battle for the Cowl, Dick Grayson obviously assumed the mantle of the Batman and come on was there ever really any doubt who it should be? No one other than the original Robin was really in the running in my mind. He also took over him for a time just after Knightfall and taking down Jean Paul Valley, Azrael.
So Bat-Dick teams up with Damien Wayne son of Bruce and Talia Al Ghul, who is a rather abrasive and arrogant little so-and-so which makes for interesting interaction and stories.

Five of a Kind (2007)

Wonder Woman and Grace #1

Nightwing and Captain Boomerang Jr. #1

Katana and Shazam #1

Thunder and Martian Manhunter #1

Metamorpho and Aquaman #1

This is a cool little set of books. The story is Batman (Bruce Wayne) is putting together a new team of The Outsiders and each of these issues see him trying out and assessing a duo of heroes. Who will he end up recruiting to the team?

Gotham City Sirens (2009 - 2011)

1 - 6, 8 - 26

Launched in the wake of Batman: Reborn, Gotham City Sirens follows the titular team of Catwoman, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn as they are forced to band together to protect themselves in Gotham City. The trio end up at war with each other attempting to kill each other before deciding to just go their seperate ways. After the New 52 the group is no longer mentioned, I am not sure if it ever existed in that continuity.

Azrael (2009 - 2011)

1 - 18

Michael Lane and the Order of Purity are back with an on-going book. Apparently, and I'd forgotten this, Jean-Paul Valley was shot and fell into a river at the end of his old book that ran for 100 issues from '95-'03. It was only confirmed that he was actually dead when he returned as a Black Lantern during Blackest Night. Lane's version of Azrael only lasts the 18 issues before getting cancelled.

Batman: Streets of Gotham (2009 - 2011)

1 - 21

There's a cool angle with this book where Batman stories are told from the view point of people at street level, so it will be like Commissioner Gordon, a villain or some other supporting character telling the story with Bats (Dick Grayson in this run), popping in and out of the story at key points. The back-up stories spin off of each other with Manhunter replaced by Two-Face and then Ragman.

Batman Confidential (2007- 2011)

1 - 54

I think I remembered this in the video that this book was like Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, as it featured stories by rotating creative teams that were set in the early years of modern Batman’s career, post-Batman: Year One, and illustrated formative moments in the character’s past, such as first encounters with allies and foes. Most of these were put into collection books.

Nightwing 80-Page Giant (2000)

Kate Riordan was an honest cop in Bludhaven, the latest in a long line of Riordans on the force. The corrupt mayor wasn't happy with that fact so arranged a media event to honour all 20 of the family on the force and arranged it for a bomb to blow them all away. Only a scarred and mentally damaged Kate survived, becoming Hella in order to exact her revenge. She has a very cool look but has only had a handful of appearances so I guess she wasn't too popular a character to get featured more.

Nightwing (1995)

1 - 4

Nightwing is a superhero legacy name associated with the planet Krypton and the Batman Family, usually working alongside a sidekick and partner named Flamebird. Originally it was an alias used by a mysterious Kryptonian figure, and later adopted by Superman and Van-Zee in the bottle city of Kandor. Later the name was adopted by the human vigilante Dick Grayson, taking it after he had graduated from the position of Batman's sidekick Robin.

Nightwing was created by Edmond Hamilton and Curt Swan, first appearing in Superman #158. (1963) The Dick Grayson version of the character was reinvented by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, first appearing in Tales of the Teen Titans #44. (1984)

Apparently there was a 1-shot of Nightwing before this called Alfred's Return which I guess I don't have as it not in this pile of books. This was a follow up to it and a tester for the characters popularity. It must have proved to be pretty good as he got his own book, which I go into below.

In this story Dick is about to retire from the hero game until an old letter is given to him by Alfred detailing a death threat to Dick's parents dated days before they died. This sends him to the small country of Kravia where the circus had visited shortly before they were killed to investigate

Nightwing/Huntress (1998)

1 - 4

When an undercover cop is killed whilst trying to get the goods on mobster Frankie Black, Nightwing and Huntress (Helena Bertinelli), team-up to take him down.

Nightwing (1996 - 2009)

1 - 96, 98 - 153, One Million

Dick Grayson was created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson, first appearing in Detective Comics #38. (1940) It took him 56 years to get his 1st on-going book!! I think DC missed a bit of a trick there somehow!! Damn I am getting peeved finding all these long runs of books with just one or two books missing from it, I need to make a list and start filling in these annoying gaps!!

Nightwing Annual

1 - (1997)

2 - (2007)

Nightwing Our Worlds at War

#1 (2001)

At a time when the world is at war and Gotham is reduced to looting and rioting, Oracle is in danger from a virus from the future and she and Nightwing have to use Project Tomorrow at S.T.A.R. Labs to travel through time to prevent her death.

So I make that 364 DC books, bringing the new totals to -

DC = 3803

Marvel = 59

Others = 53

Come back Friday to check out a more in-depth look at some of my 'Birthday Books' and join me again next Wednesday for another count of some of my comics.

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