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THE BATMAN CHRONOLOGY PROJECT
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BATMAN AND THE ART OF CONTINUITY MAINTENANCE
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The Batman Chronology Project is a study of serialized storytelling in superhero
comics. More specifically, it tracks the narrative continuity of DC Comics via
the lens of Batman, plotting his appearances into detailed timelines. To most
folks, simple questions arise: “Doesn’t one just read the comics in the order
they are published? Why does there need to be a project dedicated to ordering
comics? If it is so difficult to figure out a reading order, surely there must
be a lot of similar projects online, right?” Ultimately, we get to the bigger
question: “Why is this site necessary?”
These questions (which I will answer, don’t worry!) speak to something broader
than just Batman (we’ll get to Batman in a minute, don’t worry!)—they speak to
the complexity of superhero comics in general. Beyond the already layered
intricacy of writing and reading sequential art, the very nature of superhero
comics is unique compared to other forms of media. When you read (or create)
serialized superhero comic book narratives, you are engaging in a perceptive (or
artistic) process that is unlike any other. This site, using Batman as a primary
case study, serves to analyze and catalogue this phenomenon.
A typical comic shop rack.
The narrative complexity of mainstream comics consists primarily of a few key
things. First, as Douglas Wolk says in his book All of the Marvels (2021),
superhero universes exist in comics as “a cluster of overlapping serials” that
have “a different relationship with time and sequence than most kinds of
narrative art.” This “cluster” is comprised of vast collections of
interconnected serialized fiction—authored by hundreds of different people,
including writers, pencilers, colorists, inkers, letterers, editors, publishers,
and more—over the span of decades. Beyond this (and because of this), much of
the superhero genre is hermeneutic—open to both reader interoperation and
authorial interpretation of previous authorship. Every week, dozens of new
titles come out continuing the story from the previous week’s batch of titles.
And all of these titles—week to week, month to month, and so on—tell an ongoing
über-story in which the events and characters of said titles all exist in the
same shared world, directly influencing each other. Media scholars have referred
to the über-story as a mega-text or aggregate narrative (Jim Collins),
macro-structure (Marie-Laure Ryan), and fiction network (Jason Craft). The Big
Two are DC and Marvel, having combined to regularly garner over 70% of the
annual market share since the 1990s. (Image, Dark Horse, and IDW, along with
small indie publishers, account for the rest of the share.) The Big Two each
release dozens of new comics per week. In 2017, according to The Atlantic,
“Marvel [was publishing] around 75 ongoing [monthly] series, along with
miniseries and single-issue specials. DC [was publishing] around 50 [monthly]
ongoing series.” According to Comichron, in 2019, Marvel released 1,191 single
issues while DC released 890. That’s a lot of material, and the Big Two don’t
tell you in what order to read them or how to organize them. To be clear, Marvel
and DC do publish trade paperbacks and their issues are all numbered and can be
read in some sort of an order. But when it comes to stitching every title
together to make the über-story that tells the whole tale, that is not a task
that either company really gets bogged down in. If we look solely at DC, for
example, we are talking about literally hundreds of creators working together to
create a “shared universe”—essentially one single unified story. How can all
these titles (and creators) possibly exist and function cohesively? How can
there be a coherent story, both visually and narratively? Holistically, the
comics form a puzzle and it’s how the pieces fit together that really interests
me.
Spongebob Drops a Pipe Bomb
But before moving on, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the commercial effect
upon story. Most purely narrative-based approaches to comics studies don’t
address the industrial processes that determine how comics texts get made.
Because the Batman Chronology Project is a narrative-based study, and
specifically not a media industry study, it won’t often touch upon the
commerce/merchandising side of things. However, one of the failings of any
narratological study is to stray too far from identifying indelible industrial
factors that contribute to story. As such, the Batman Chronology Project will
touch upon these connections when appropriate. When I say “DC” in this
introductory section, I’m referring to the beast that is “DC the company.” Same
goes for “Marvel.” (DC is owned by Warner Bros Discovery. Marvel is owned by the
Walt Disney Company.) Without Warner Bros Discovery, Disney, and other
conglomerates, our favorite characters and stories would not exist in the forms
they do today. Is this good? Is this bad? It’s an issue that increases in
complexity as you peel back the layers. We cannot deny that Big Business has a
long-documented tradition of screwing over some writers, and artists. (Superman
creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster spent most of their lives in the
poorhouse, fighting for a share of their character’s riches. Bill Finger went
decades without acknowledgement that he co-invented Batman.) Most creators still
don’t own their own creations, although a balance of creator-owned, co-owned,
and work-for-hire models has led to better financial compensation for creators
within the contemporary comics ecosystem. Nevertheless, when it comes
to precious intellectual property, corporations have a long history of throwing
their weight around to extend copyright, and this still goes on today with
intense lobbying and litigation. Big Business also played its dirty hand in the
form of the gross Diamond Comics print distribution monopoly, which existed from
the mid 1990s through the early 2020s before being broken up by a combination of
an augmented digital market, DC’s move to creating its own distributor (Lunar),
and both Marvel and IDW switching to publishing giant Penguin Random House.
Ethics in the comic book industry isn’t something that I will tackle with
regularity on this site, but it should be kept in our minds as consumers and
fans. All superhero comics, including Batman books, are the products of many
different creative minds, but it is the conservative or neoliberal committee of
corporate bigwigs, marketing execs, publishers, and editors that control the
characters and the worlds in which they live—even if most of the time the
committee has contributed little or nothing towards either. Thus, from a
narratological perspective, strong (i.e. accessible and unbroken) continuity or
innovative story development are tough things to achieve in a capitalist
money-focused market. The hierarchical dynamics of the industry directly affect
how story, character, and continuity are shaped. For example, as eloquently
extrapolated by Alisa Perren and Gregory Steirer in The American Comic Book
Industry and Hollywood, throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, comics would
primarily be purchased at newsstands—and because you couldn’t guarantee that a
given title would appear each month at the same retailer, issues couldn’t be too
serialized or contain impenetrable continuity-driven narrative. After all,
readers had to be able to follow the story even if they missed a few issues. “By
circumventing newsstand distribution entirely,” as Proctor explains in Reboot
Culture (2023), “publishers would ensure comics reached a certain audience made
up of super-readers, collectors, and speculators, rather than the childhood [and
mainstream] audiences that had been their primary consumer market for decades.”
As the direct market model of distribution, speculation, collection,
overproduction, boutique shop inclusivity, IP farming, and mismanaged crossover
event-style cash grabs all became more commonplace, superhero comics began to
see more tropes of serialization, including more detailed world-building and
cumbersome continuity tailored to the niche fan. There’s obviously way more to
say about this topic, but it’s likely better served in a different forum. In the
end, no matter what, I love superhero comics and hope they will continue to
evolve for the better.
Batman Cover to Cover: The Greatest Comic Book Covers of the Dark Knight (2005)
But why Batman? Why is he so important? Well, he’s not just an awesome
character. He’s quite popular, in case you didn’t know—he shows up in almost
every DC title at some point or another. Batman—along with Superman, and to a
lesser extent Wonder Woman—is a primary lens through which DC Comics has been
able to tell a consistent narrative for the past 80 years-plus. In the DC
Universe, everything kind of revolves around the Holy Trinity of Batman,
Superman, and Wonder Woman. Therefore, sticking with the appearances of one of
the Trinity—in our case, Batman—allows for the easiest determination of
character age, passage of time, event placement, where things need to be
rearranged, how things come together, or how things fail to come together for
the entire DC Universe. Of course, a ton of variables have to be considered and
the process gets complicated. This is the reason why there are so few attempts
at what I’ve done. The few that exist—in dedicated areas of the Internet and in
a few rare books—have either been quickly abandoned or left incomplete. Because
Batman’s past is so rich, most evaluations or analyses from the narratological
perspective of serialization have been less than successful. I’m sort of a
masochist for continuing such a Sisyphean project with such rigorous diligence!
But I do so because of a desire to prove certain theses: one, continuity equals
congruity (meaning that, contrary to what a lot of folks think, continuity isn’t
supposed to over-complicate or make texts feel exclusive—it actually helps us
understand narrative more easily); two, serialized multi-authored narratives
utilize truly unique forms of storytelling; and, three, a cohesive superhero
universe is the result of a collaborative interpretive process undertaken by
both creators and readers alike. By focusing on the media archeology of
fictional canon and reboots, the Batman Chronology Project has been able to
verify this list and remain the preeminent source of comic book continuity
information on the web.
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Please click on the following link to continue reading the next part: Fictional
Canon: What Counts?
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ABOUT THE SITE CREATOR/PROJECT MANAGER:
Collin Colsher, creator of the Batman Chronology Project, is a writer and comic
book historian that currently lives in Philadelphia. He has lectured at various
universities, libraries, and book fairs. Collin has also served on the jury for
the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, which is sponsored by the US Library of
Congress.
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55 RESPONSES TO
1. Chris Barr says:
October 11, 2011 at 8:18 am
I just wanted to take a second to thank you for what you are doing here.
I’ve been attempting to read Batman chronologically, and your site(s) have
proven invaluable in my collector hunts. Cheers!
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2. Evan Hyjurick says:
October 17, 2011 at 7:54 am
Collin, thanks so much for all the hard work you’ve put into your site.
I’ve been a big Batman fan for years and am finally getting a good
collection of comics together. Great to be able to reference this
chronology to see where those comics fit in the scheme of things.
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3. Boosterrific says:
November 28, 2011 at 12:06 am
I just discovered this site, and I love it. I chronicle Booster Gold
appearances, and those alone can be daunting. Ordering Batman appearance is
a Sisyphean task, indeed, but you are making it look effortless. Thanks for
making the effort.
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4. Monster Zero says:
December 4, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Longtime fan here, and when I first heard about the New 52 my thoughts
turned to you and what it was going to mean for the BCP! Good to see you’ve
been able to survive this DC-inflicted madness I’m running a Catwoman
scripted fiction project, and the BCP has been an invaluable resource as we
develop plots and storylines for that, so just wanted to say thanks and see
you when the new site is up and running.
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5. Chip says:
February 15, 2012 at 11:48 pm
I love this site, and it’s a great resource, even for people developing
their own chronology of Batman that may not fully match up to yours. As I
alluded to in another post, I’m creating my own Batman
collection/chronology without using Long Halloween and Dark Victory. They
are fine stories, and I like them, but they do prevent a lot of other
stories from fitting in, or cause some awkward placement. (Look at the
Unofficial DCU Chronology site…he has both stories compressed down to a
couple of months and moving scenes all around.) So, I might post a comment
from time to time asking why an issue might not fit exactly. If you say
issue x can’t fit because it contradicts issue y, but I don’t include issue
y in my Batman collection, then maybe I could work issue x into it.
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6. Collin Colsher says:
March 18, 2012 at 10:56 am
It is definitely possible–see Chris Miller’s amazing and profoundly seminal
work over at the Unauthorized Chronology of the DC Universe
(http://dcu.smartmemes.com/). However, I really am just focusing on Batman
here. I even omit Bat Family titles if the Caped Crusader fails to appear.
It’s not a knock to the other characters; but to add a handful of “major
story-arcs” into this chronology would be hard because I feel you either
need to pick one character (as I have done) or do a comprehensive
all-encompassing list of the whole DCU. Who am I to say what story-arcs are
the most important? If I were to begin adding other stories, then it would
be wrong of me to leave others out. I do try, though, to add important
event items that affect the whole DCU. Maybe I will add a series of
footnotes including pertinent info about the goings-on during the “Death
and Return of Superman,” “Green Arrow: Year One,” and “Superman For All
Seasons.” Thanks for your input and comment!
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7. Allie says:
April 8, 2012 at 7:16 pm
Hi Collin, Would there be any way to put a note in your chronology listings
as to what collected edition (if any) a comic book in question belongs? As
I’m not hugely knowledgable about comics, it’d be great to know what
graphic novel/book that, say, Batman 536 belongs to when I’m following the
chronology. Thanks so much for establishing and maintaining this site and
blog – I’d long been looking for something that could give me direction as
to where to start with Batman comics when I stumbled across TRBCP. It’s
been very informing and helpful, keep up the great work! -Allie
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* Collin Colsher says:
April 9, 2012 at 7:29 pm
Dear Allie, Thanks so much for the kind words and your continued support
of the site! I’ve had a lot of requests lately, among them: adding a
downloadable version of the quick lists and making the whole site more
navigable in general. Your suggestion is a good one as well, and one that
I will add to the list. It’s tough maintaining everything solo, but
hopefully in the months to come I can start to take care of some of this
business. Trade Reading Order.com is a faaaantastic site that lists just
about every single trade/collected edition that has ever been published
and also gives the info regarding which issues are in which books. In the
meantime (before and changes are likely to be seen on my site) I’d
suggest perusing over there for some info regarding this specific topic.
If and when I do add trade/collected edition information to TRBCP it will
likely come straight from that source. Take care, Allie. And again, thank
you! –CC
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8. marvofsincity@yahoo.comMatt says:
April 19, 2012 at 9:38 am
I’m curious, do you own all of the bat titles, if not how do you go about
taking care of all the placement and so on and so fourth?
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* Collin Colsher says:
April 19, 2012 at 10:57 am
Having been a collector for quite a while now (and having had family
members that collected for years) I own nearly 100% of the Batman corpus
from the Modern Age, which allowed me to complete the Modern Age section
mostly from reading actual physical comic book issues and trades. Of
course, I don’t have much of the Golden or Silver/Bronze Age stuff—if I
did I’d be a millionaire. Thus, torrent downloads of cbr and cbz files
are my outlet there. I hope I’m not exposing myself as an illegal
downloader, but really the only way to get your hands on some of the
older stuff is via digital downloads. (Also, I’m not against downloading
stuff purely for research purposes). That being said, I do try my best to
purchase (or borrow) some of the Sunday/Dailies trades and Golden Age
Batman trades that have been released when I can. Currently, economic
times are rough (as we all know) and it’s hard to make ends meet, but I
haul my ass over to the comic shop and am able to gather the issues I
need for the New 52 stuff.
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9. Collin Colsher says:
October 24, 2012 at 11:29 pm
I usually advise the reader to ignore an incorrectly-drawn costume if it is
drawn in a flashback sequence because it most often means the error was
simply made by the artist or writer (as opposed to a non-flashback story
deliberately written in “current time” narrative style that gets it
definitively wrong)—if that makes any sense. It is a bit confusing, I know.
Let me try to explain it in another way. Here is a specific random example:
Gotham Knights #43 occurs in Year 18—it absolutely has to for various
reasons including publication date, in-story factors, numbering, etc… In
this issue there is a flashback, which must be canon since it effetcs a
canon issue and is shown in a canon issue. This flashback shows a retired
Batgirl take a new Jason Todd Robin out on patrol at the behest of Batman
to psychoanalyze him and test his physical capabilities. It also tells us
that Joker breaks out of Arkham and foreshadows that he will soon do
terrible things to both Babs and Jason. Therefore, this flashback has to
take place in Year Eleven, relatively close to the events of Killing Joke
and “Death in the Family.” However, by this point, Batman is wearing his
yellow-oval costume, and yet in this flashback he has his black bat
insignia! Thus, this becomes a prime instance of a canonical flashback
where we must ignore the incorrect costume. As far as how the significance
of Batman’s costume can make an otherwise “fine” story into a non-canonical
story, it all depends. Usually, there is something more going on than
simply the costume to make it non-canon. If you have specific questions
about specific tales in mind, I’d be happy to answer questions regarding
them. Shoot me an e-mail at therealbatmanchronologyproject.com if you do
have any queries. And for the Modern Age there is definitely a
chronology/canonicity for the Dark Knight’s suit designs. Batman’s costume
definitively goes through many changes, in this order: The black insignia
costume with gray tights, the yellow-oval with gray tights, the yellow-oval
with black tights, back to the black insignia with gray tights, then the
raised-yellow oval with gray tights. Of course, the switch from the
original costume to the yellow insignia has had many different time
placements and been retconned a bunch, but it always signaled the
transition from the Golden Age to the Silver Age. So for the Modern Age,
the yellow-oval is kinda-sorta linked to the inception of the Teen Titans.
For the intents and purposes of my chronology, everything pre-Titans era is
original costume. Following that (in Year Seven) is the yellow-oval period.
After “Knight’s End” and returning from the Bane affair, Batman dons an all
black (with yellow-oval) ensemble at the end of the “Prodigal” story-arc
(in Year Fourteen). He will rock this look until the end of “No Man’s
Land,” at which point he returns to his original costume design (in Year
Sixteen). When Batman returns from his jaunt through time and starts Batman
Inc (in Year Twenty-Two), he will switch to a raised yellow-oval symbol on
gray set of togs. Always remember, this is a suggested chronology. There
can never really be the exact dead-on version. Everyone is free to mold
their own timeline and pick and choose as they see fit. But hopefully, this
is as close as anyone has ever gotten (and ever will)! And hopefully this
is the numero uno reference point for any other lists out there!
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10. Andy Smith says:
April 12, 2013 at 11:02 pm
I was intrigued to read about your take on the costume/insignia and its
effect on chronology and canonicity (probably not a real word but you know
what I mean). I agree that it’s undoubtedly a useful indicator for story
placement, especially where other evidence is lacking. However, my take is
that any individual book (and by extension any individual panel) is just a
representation of the “reality” of the DC Universe (whichever one it
happens to be). For instance, I’ve been reading “Wargames” in order, and
the change in art styles between, say, “Detective” and “Batgirl” is
dramatic – in one, Batgirl (Cassandra) looks like the perviest thing you’ve
ever seen, and in the other she looks cute as a button. Both issues are
clearly canonical (at least within the overall arc) despite one or both
clearly not representing “reality”. The characters obviously don’t live
their “real” lives as a series of static images with bubbles coming out of
their mouths. I think of it like Julius Schwartz channelling the original
Flash and turning his adventures into a comic which was read by Barry Allen
(which was a stroke of storytelling genius in my opinion, decades before
everyone was dropping the word “postmodern” into every conversation). We’re
not seeing a reality, but a retelling/reinterpretation of that reality.
Factual/timeline inconsistencies are a different issue, and I appreciate
your point that the costume alone isn’t usually enough to discount a story.
However, I don’t think an inconsistency (or a downright error) should
necessarily discount a story from canon either. For instance, I’m a fan of
Doctor Who, mainly the original 26-year run (I’m going to assume you’re not
familiar with it; if you are then you probably know where this is going…)
Clearly every story that was shown on TV during that run is canon; removing
almost any given story would have a house of cards effect on the rest
(arguments will rage for eternity over whether to include the hundreds of
books, comics, audio plays etc). However, there are massive inconsistencies
within just the TV show which make it impossible for events to all have
happened as shown. For instance, in a mid-seventies story a certain
character is clearly established as being a high-ranking officer in a UN
military organisation in 1980, but in a mid-eighties story is seen retired
from the military and visibly older in 1977. Theoretically you could
pretend that the later story doesn’t count and never happened because a
different production team made a mistake (or wilfully ignored continuity
for the sake of telling their story) , but the fact remains that at the
time of production both the stories were meant to be part of the ongoing
tale (and it can be argued that it was in fact the earlier of the two
stories that got it wrong). There are whole books dedicated to trying to
resolve this and many other problems, and they all fail (or at least cheat
outrageously). The only truly workable explanation is that we are seeing an
interpretation of a different reality, not that reality itself. There are
endless other examples; Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has a handful of timeline
problems, but it all still counts; the New Testament has two very
contradictory accounts of the birth of Jesus, but are both considered
canonical (which is I think is where the term originates); any TV or film
series that has recast a character has a problem akin to that of a change
in art style; Dr No and Skyfall can’t both be about the “real” James Bond,
but both are unquestionably canon. So I suppose my argument is that unless
a story is clearly meant or stated to be outside of continuity, then why
not include it? Point out any issues with continuity, and if it can’t be
explained or retconned away, then it can be put down to an error on the
part of the creatives who reinterpreted the events of the DC Universe(s)
for those of us unfortunate enough to live in the real one. My final point
is that whatever your intentions people will use your work as a reading
guide (I know I do); to that end it makes sense to me to throw out as
little as possible. Anyway, feel free to completely ignore my little essay
and keep up the great work. Been getting into comics and Batman
specifically after a long break (I used to rely on
http://dcu.smartmemes.com/index.html to help me make sense of it all but
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* Collin Colsher says:
April 13, 2013 at 12:07 am
Dear Andy, Thanks for your support and kind words! I would never ignore
such a well-thought out and insightful comment. And as far as “The
Unauthorized Chronology of the DCU” goes, it was originally my primary
source when I started this mess five years ago. (I’ve corresponded with
site author Chris Miller before as well—I believe he stopped because he
is in the process of getting his PhD). As I always say, continuity is in
the eye of the beholder, so to speak. We all create our own personal
continuities and the beautiful thing is that we can never really be
wrong. I’ve tried to include as many stories as possible—I agree with you
when you say that all stories that aren’t explicitly meant to be
out-of-continuity should therefore be IN-continuity. I’ve tried to stick
to that concept while building my timelines, although my natural
stubbornness probably has a significant effect in what gets left in and
left out. I’m sure others are more willing to accept stories as
canon—ones which I haven’t, while others still are upset with the stories
I have chosen to include. It’s funny you mention Skyfall too. Skyfall is
the perfect example of everything I love about comics—seamlessly folding
in bits of old continuity into new continuity, meshing an older version
of a character’s history with the new. Except in this case, the problem
(for me) with Skyfall is that it isn’t a comic book, it’s a movie, and
one which I had always regarded the same way Alan Moore playfully does—as
a chain of decidedly different British agents “filling the Bond role”
over time. The Broccoli family seemed to quietly share that same view for
decades, until the Craig films, of course. That’s precisely why Skyfall
was so amazing yet baffling and frustrating for me. You are absolutely
right, the very smarmy Scottish Bond seen in Dr. No who drives the
trick-gun-equipped Aston Martin could never in a billion years be the ice
cold decidedly not-Scottish badass from Casino Royale. And yet they are
one and the same thanks to Skyfall! I’m digressing a bit (or a lot) here,
but the Skyfall example is something so intrinsically linked to
narratological issues stemming from comic book type continuity, I’m
surprised there aren’t more write-ups about it. Anyway, thanks for taking
the time to say hi and to give a wonderful piece of your mind. Not sure
if this has been an adequate response, but I hope it is! Best, Collin C
PS. Canonicity is indeed a REAL word and one I use far, far too often!
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11. Man-Bat6789 says:
January 21, 2015 at 3:28 pm
Hello, I want to say I am looking forward to reading these timelines and
remember we must all be vegetarians because of the dark beef (Batcow)
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12. Rebel says:
June 17, 2015 at 12:59 pm
Hi Collin – pretty awesome that this has been going on now near 6 years and
thank you for all the hard work. Just a couple quick questions: 1. Where
did the updates section go? I used to be able to tell when and which
updates you made and now i can’t seem to find it. 2. Are you still updating
the site? Understandably TRBCP/’disContinuity’ Blog is being continuously
updated and has great stuff but haven’t seen much movement on the Silver
Age and cant tell if you have made any new discoveries/changed anything
around in the Modern Age in the last couple months. As always, great work
and hope that that ‘updates’ section can be re-introduced (or you can
provide a link as i simply cannot find it) and that if, understandably, you
are stepping away from updating TRBCP that hopefully somone will don the
cape, cowl, and keyboard that you have been wearing/wielding these last 6
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* Collin Colsher says:
June 17, 2015 at 7:09 pm
Hey Rebel, I got rid of the updates page because it wasn’t giving much
specific information and it wasn’t being kept up to date (which is
terrible for an “updates” page). I am definitely updating the site still.
There hasn’t been much to add or correct on the Modern Age section. And
the Silver Age has been going slow. We had a terrible site crash and lost
some info in the Silver Age section (even despite having had everything
backed up multiple ways). Hopefully, the Silver Age will get rolling
again—it is frustrating to have to re-write chunks of it, though. I will
look into better means of keeping my readers and patrons up to date on
the latest site changes. Like I said, I think what was up before was
simply inadequate. Thanks for your continued support.
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13. Andy G. says:
June 24, 2015 at 3:10 pm
Keep up the great work man. Still my go to site for chronology!
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14. Zak says:
April 17, 2016 at 8:45 pm
Hey man. First off, tremendous job on this site! Quite possibly my favorite
comics-related web site of all time. Second, with DC launching their
Rebirth Series soon, will you be starting to make a new time line to
accommodate that (The Rebirth Age?)? Thank you and keep up the great work.
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* Collin Colsher says:
April 18, 2016 at 10:54 am
Thanks for your very kind words, Zak. Comments like these keep me going
strong after all these years. If Rebirth functions similarly to the way
Zero Hour or Infinite Crisis did—as line-wide SOFT reboots, then I will
simply continue the New Age timeline. I’m not sure that any major retcons
are happening that would constitute a new timeline, although the Justice
Society being folded back into Earth-0 history seems pretty major. Things
may be “returning to their roots” (aka lining up with the cinematic
universe a bit more and giving us a more Geoff Johns Modern Age feel),
but so far as I have heard, this soft reboot will not jettison the
continuity that has been built up since 2011, meaning that Rebirth
shouldn’t be a massive total relaunch. That being said, we shall see…
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15. Joseph Altomere says:
January 31, 2018 at 7:42 pm
Hey there. Just wanted to thank you for putting all this together. It’s
been really helpful to me. Is there anyway to tell if any updates have been
made to any of the sections? Again, thanks so much. All the best and best
of luck.
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* Collin Colsher says:
February 1, 2018 at 3:38 pm
Hi Joseph, Thanks for the kind words. There used to be an updates page,
but updates are made so frequently it didn’t make sense to keep it
active. The Modern Age section is completely finished. The New 52 is
completely finished. The New Age is current comics, ongoing but
completely up to date week to week. The Golden Age is about 90% done. And
the Silver Age is about 50% done, and it gets updated basically every
other week. Hope that helps a little bit. Feel free to email me directly
(ccolsher@gmail.com) if you have any questions. Best!
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* Joseph Altomere says:
February 3, 2018 at 1:56 am
I really appreciate the response. And I also want to reiterate how
great a job you’re doing with the site. The wealth of knowledge you
have about the comics, as well as the ability to put them in a proper
order, is absolutely staggering. Getting all of my issues/books
together and putting them in the right order is almost as fun for me as
reading them. So thank you for your tireless and continued effort. I’m
currently on Part 2 of Year 15 of the Modern Age, so that’s good to
know it’s 100%. If I have any further questions I’ll be sure to reach
out. Thank you again, and all the best.
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16. Nicholas Anderson says:
September 24, 2018 at 9:19 pm
Hi Colin, I just wanted to say this is insanely amazing , and thanks so
much for having put this together. As a newbie I am pretty daunted at the
scope of all the narratives, even when you’ve broken it down into different
eras. I was wondering if you could add a curated recommended essential
reading list (across eras) for newbies? A kind of chronologically condensed
‘best of’, but not too cursory. There are plenty of lists like this on the
internet, but I definitely feel you are best qualified to build the
ultimate go to!! Thanks again in any case and keep up the great work.
Nicholas
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* Collin Colsher says:
September 26, 2018 at 12:29 pm
Hi Nicholas, There’s a footnote in the “Year One Era” intro to the Modern
Age section of the site that includes an “essential reading list.”
However, it’s for the Modern Age only. I’ll e-mail it to you in case you
can’t locate it. As for the Golden Age and Silver Age, it’s a bit tougher
to compile an essential list for them since they both have shorter (or
single-issue) arcs and generally less collected trades in comparison to
later eras. I’ll see what I can manage for the Golden and Silver Ages,
and I’ll try my best to compile a list for both the New 52 and New Age.
Thanks for the kind words, they are much appreciated.
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17. Nicholas Anderson says:
September 26, 2018 at 12:43 pm
Hey Collin, thanks for taking the time to reply and to do that! It is
really difficult to know where to start as a newbie…. I’m gonna dig into
the modern era titles you suggested and will keep checking back. Keep in
touch and thanks again for your work! N
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18. Harrison Reeder says:
January 14, 2020 at 9:48 am
Hi Collin! I love this site, and have had so much fun reading it and diving
deep. I’m curious, do you record this information in a spreadsheet or any
form beyond the blog list format? For my own exploration and reference I’ve
been putting together an issue-by-issue spreadsheet of every batman-related
publication since the Modern Age and populating it with information from
online comic databases, but I’d love to be able to also try and map on the
notes and ordering that you’ve built up in your project. So, I thought I’d
ask whether you have anything like that! Best wishes.
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* Collin Colsher says:
January 14, 2020 at 8:49 pm
Hi! Thanks for such kind words, Harrison. I used to keep things organized
with Google Docs and spreadsheets galore, but I found that I was
basically organizing those IN ADDITION to the main site—and then THOSE
weren’t even matching up, which only added confusion to my workflow.
Basically, I abandoned the extraneous work and simply juggle things
around directly in my WordPress browser as I edit in real time. Sounds
crazy, right? But it’s actually made things a lot easier in recent years.
So, as a result, I don’t have anything like what you are asking for. The
best I could do is simply copy paste the “Quick List” into a spreadsheet,
but I’m sure you can do that just as easily. However, If there’s anything
I can do to help with your project, please shoot me an e-mail and let me
know. Happy to be of any assistance.
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19. H. E. Demir says:
January 16, 2020 at 7:15 pm
Thank you for your hard work, please keep up the good work!
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20. Dreamstar Moonlight says:
June 13, 2020 at 12:11 pm
Hello! First of all, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SITE!!! I REALLY REALLY REALLY LOVE
IT & APPRECIATE YOUR HARD WORK!!! I’m new to the worlds of DC Comics
(although I’ve read plenty of comics – but those were very random). I have
been a longtime DC fan, but I’ve never really had the time for comics – I
mostly just watched the animated shows (Justice League, Batman Animated
Series, Superman Animated Series Teen Titans, Young Justice) and
live-action shows (Arrowverse – Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Legends, Batwoman
– and DC Universe shows Titans, Doom Patrol and Stargirl). So I’m familiar
with most of the characters, but I really wanted to get down to reading the
comics – because the comics are what started it all! So I downloaded most
of the Batman comics from GetComics, referencing the “List of DC Comic
Publications” Wikipedia page for the titles. By now, I’ve collected most of
the Golden, Silver and Modern comics – especially the New 52 and Rebirth
ones, but here’s the problem I faced. SO MANY of the Batman comics are,
well, strictly speaking, not from the major continuities. Titles like
Batman’66 or Batman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – those don’t strictly
fall into the main DC timeline, do they? Also, I’m so unclear about which
issues take place on Earth-1 and whicvh on Earth-2 and so on. I hope your
site really helps me in streamlining the continuities so that I can fully
enjoy reading these epics! Please keep this site updated! Love your effort.
I can’t fathom what it must have taken you to compile such an exhaustive
list, but I really appreciate it!
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* Collin Colsher says:
June 15, 2020 at 9:38 pm
Hi Dreamstar! Believe it or not, long before I started this website, my
only connection with the DC characters was primarily through television.
Dipping your toes into the comic book world can be daunting and
overwhelming, but it’s certainly a lot of fun, especially if you only
know the TV versions of your favorites. Glad to help in the process. If
you ever have questions, shoot me a line!
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21. Jason says:
June 24, 2020 at 7:46 pm
Hello Collin, I have been facinated by the written, aural, and visual
mediums of comic books, since the late 1980’s. Shortly after I started
reading comics, Warner Bros. released the 1989 Batman movie. As a young
boy, I was fascinated by Michael Keaton’s Batman, but more by Jack
Nicholson’s Joker. This was mostly because in school, I was the outcast,
flying under the radar. I felt that the Joker was an outcast and product of
his environment. On the other hand, Batman made me think of the cool rich
kid that everyone wanted to be. For Halloween, I dressed as The Joker while
everyone else went as Batman. This quickly changed in the early 90’s. I was
introduced to the Tim Drake version of Robin. He is the Robin I think of
when I think of Batman and Robin. Of the Robin’s I am very familiar with,
Dick Grayson grew to become Nightwing, Jason Todd “died” and became The Red
Hood, Tim Drake stayed the same and became Red Robin, and Damian Wayne is
literally Batman’s son. Batman stayed Batman, mostly the same father-like
figure to Robin. For this reason, I drifted more towards Robin, than
Batman. In my early teens, I did not think too much about continuity,
chronological order, or canonicity of the mediums. I was just so enthralled
by the amazing stories. I mostly read Batman, Detective Comics, Robin, and
Shadow of the Bat. Knightfall was the first major arc that required me to
dive deeper and go from a mere hobby, to an investment. I started buying
two of each comic. One to read, one to collect. This became expensive and
soon I was spending more time collecting Batman stories, and less time
reading them. Around my early 20’s my daughter was born and I had to be a
father to her and I drifted away from the comics completely. I was still
able to watch the various shows, but I spent most of my time working and
being a father. Right around my late 20’s/ early 30’s, I tried yet again to
start up reading comics. This time, I had to start researching the New 52.
I found that I started to care more about the story that brought the
characters to the New 52 world than the New 52. This led to my introduction
of following the chronology of Batman, not the issue numbers. During my
journey, I amassed a collection of roughly 3,000 physical comic books,
mostly related to Batman. I realize that this is really nothing compared to
what was released, but it quickly became an obsession. I spent thousands of
dollars on comics, just so I could read the original stories. I was able to
find the digital versions of the comics, but I enjoyed physically holding
them in my hands. It got to the point that I needed to create a “comic
book” room to hold them in. I even invested in special drawer type boxes to
prevent having to constantly move the boxes around to get to the issues I
needed. With all this being said, eventually, I did accept the digital
versions of comics. What I learned about comics is this. The stories are
meant to be read from an outside perspective. If the continuity changes,
think of it as a parallel dimension, or an alternate history. If new
stories get added to the older original, think of it as an addendum to the
original. I imagine I am traveling through the comic worlds in a time
machine. I can jump forward or backward at any time. If I find a change in
the past, I can then jump into the newly created future with the changes
present. The visual representation has little to do with the stories and
more with the artist’s style for the comics. In closing, I would just like
to tell you how incredibly easy and satisfying your site makes it to “time
travel” throughout the World’s of DC. Thank you for your time, Jason
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22. Mal the cow says:
July 11, 2020 at 8:57 pm
Hi there, Love your site! Especially the pictures you’ve added. Congrats on
reaching your milestone this year. Keep up the great work!!
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23. James E Owens says:
July 31, 2020 at 1:37 am
Thank You, I’ll be donating to you tomorrow or this weekend. Is there a
list to what certain abbreviations means? such i know fb is flashback but
what is r? Thanks
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* Collin Colsher says:
July 31, 2020 at 10:48 am
Thanks, James. I really appreciate that! “r” simply means reference.
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24. Tenzel Kim says:
August 21, 2020 at 4:30 am
Hi Collin I don’t know how I’ve managed to miss your site, but was just
informed of it and had to check it out as I’ve been doing DC Character
chronologies for my Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe for over 25 years,
and have been actively seeking out chronologies to see differences of
opinion and how others have tackled some of the problems I’ve faced in my
own investigations. I have only gotten to take a quick look so far but have
to say I’m really impressed. There are naturally things where I’ve handled
stuff differently and disagree with your placements, but this is not an
exact science. I really like the way you explain your reasoning for the
placements, something I’ve not been very good at myself, so sometimes I
have to go through a bunch of issues again to understand why I put
something where I put it, as my notes are not good enough. My work on the
DCU Guide takes up a lot of my spare time, but I will be digging into your
chronology and if I find something where I think you might have overlooked
some clues or have some comments I will post them for you to do with as you
like. Anyway, just wanted to say hi and as a fellow “chronologizer” I
really admire the work you’re putting into this.
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* Collin Colsher says:
August 21, 2020 at 8:01 am
Hi Tenzel! Thanks for the kind words. Hope you are staying safe and
healthy through these trying times. I couldn’t have done my site without
the Unofficial DCU Guide, so I am truly indebted to you! Twenty-five
years is a long time! I’ve been doing my site for ten—and every time I
think I’ve found a place to jump off or close the book, the comics seem
to pull me back in. Happy to hear from and to be in touch with you. Shoot
me an email at ccolsher@gmail.com if you ever want to chat about
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* Tenzel Kim says:
August 21, 2020 at 10:11 am
I’ve just tried doing a comparison between your and my Modern Age Years
11-15 and I can see that at least for that era we are pretty close. You
have a lot of flashbacks that I’ve not yet fitted into the chronology,
but for the most part we are pretty much on point. I see that some
issues have been moved quite a bit from their publication date which I
find a bit puzzling. Personally I always go by internal inter-title
references first, which might very well mean that some things have to
be moved slightly, but unless there’s some specific reason not to do so
I generally put the books as close to their publication date as
possible in the order (naturally keeping storylines together). Also I
try to place books using topical references being published around the
same together, but if a specific date is mentioned and it just doesn’t
fit the overall DCU timeline I’d rather disregard it than moving an
issue a year back or forward just to make it fit the date (unless it is
clearly a flashback issue) I’ll make a couple of notes on the page
dedicated to the one I’ve been looking at, but will send you a mail as
well as some of what I’m working on might be of help to you as well, or
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* Collin Colsher says:
August 21, 2020 at 1:19 pm
I definitely use the same methodology, although since I started my
chronology-building with the Modern Age (over ten years ago now), the
shakiest (and loosest use of those rules) has occurred around the
titles ranging from 1986 through 1994. This has led to a lot of fixes
around that era. Happy to have your eyes on this! Thanks, again.
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25. Julian says:
January 12, 2022 at 6:02 am
Hey, thx, what if I want to start reading Batman comics from the newest
timeline right now. With what shoulld I beign?
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* Collin Colsher says:
January 12, 2022 at 10:31 am
Hi Julian, you should start with Frank Miller’s Batman Year One!
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26. Milo says:
April 19, 2022 at 2:12 pm
Hi Collin. I sent you a message on Patreon.
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* Collin Colsher says:
April 20, 2022 at 9:56 am
Hi Milo! Yes, I saw it the other day. I’ll take a moment to respond as
soon as I can!
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27. Alex Miles says:
April 25, 2023 at 10:52 pm
Hi, Collin! I can’t help but notice it’s been about a year since someone
commented on this section. I wanted to thank you for making this wonderful
guide. It’s truly been an incredible help in reading comics in a
chronological order. I’ve been reading comics for some time now, but I
still consider myself to be new in the comics area. So stumbling through
your guide after several unfruitful searches was very exciting. I love how
detailed everything is and the fact that you add summaries and your
thoughts and reasons along with the issues. I’m currently on Year 3 of the
Modern Age and I can’t begin to tell you how awesome it’s been to read
everything in order. Like the moment I saw the fist tease of the Flying
Graysons coming to Gotham on a billboard as Batman grappeled away. I smiled
so wide you wouldn’t believe it, and I know part of it was thanks to this
blog and your tremendous efforts in putting it together and sharing it with
us. So, deeply, truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for doing
what you’re doing. I hope I keep seeing you in years to come.I believe
—correct me if I’m wrong— it’s been about 13 years since you’ve started
this. And, wow… what you’ve achieved is remarkable. Sincerely, Alex. Ps. I
usually comment this on fanfictions but I think they fit here as well,
extra kudos to you ♡♡♡. You deserve them.
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* Collin Colsher says:
April 26, 2023 at 9:26 am
Thanks so much for the kind words, Alex. Glad I can help guide you —
that’s half the reason I do what I do. And yes, it has been 13 years
since I first started this project… sheeesh, time flies! I’d be lying if
I said there weren’t a few moments where I wanted to stop, but it’s
comments like these that keep me going, even after a decade-plus. Again,
thanks from the bottom of my heart. I appreciate you!
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28. Steve Collins says:
May 2, 2023 at 9:00 pm
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AISocial, I checked out your website and I am impressed. I am currently
looking for a couple more social media specialists to join our team. The
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job but we are looking for the most qualified candidates to proceed.
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hope to see you on our team! Looking out for you, Steve from AISocial
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29. Manasven Raina says:
June 16, 2023 at 9:03 pm
Collin! This is such a wonderful resource. Im actually so amazed by your
dedication and research to this beloved character. Keep up the good work
friend, you are an inspiration to me!
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* Collin Colsher says:
June 17, 2023 at 8:05 am
Thank you so much for your kind words!
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30. Aria Stern says:
October 11, 2023 at 6:08 am
I found this site a few years back and I’m glad to see it’s still around.
I’m not a Batman fan much anymore but I still think it’s a great thing
you’re doing here. I want to read the DC comics from Crisis on Infinite
Earths up to New 52 (beyond just Batman) and want to know if there are any
good resources out there with a comprehensive reading order or that list
and organise the publications dates of the comics they were making back
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* Collin Colsher says:
October 11, 2023 at 8:35 am
Hi Aria, thank you for the kind words! There’s not much out there, but
Chris Miller’s Unauthorized Chronology of the DCU is a good one (albeit
left unfinished long ago, a couple years prior to the inception of the
New 52). It’s been scrubbed from the internet, but you can still find it
via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170606025601/http://dcu.smartmemes.com/.
Also of note, the brilliant Tenzel Kim still owns and operates the DCU
Guide, a valuable (and always up to date) resource:
https://dcuguide.com/w/Main_Page
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31. Dylan Hall says:
November 12, 2023 at 8:58 pm
Is the mobile version of the site down or do I need to check my phone?
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* Collin Colsher says:
November 12, 2023 at 11:20 pm
I use a wordpress plugin for the mobile site. It appears to be broken.
Sorry I don’t have more info, but hopefully the plugin
updates/patches/fixes soon. lmk if it’s still down in a week’s time and i
will see what can be done! Thanks!
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32. Cheimison says:
December 5, 2023 at 4:34 pm
This is an interesting project, though I have to say that I tend to view
‘chronology’ and ‘canon’ more through the meta of serial superhero comics,
ie think of every book as only really being connected with the events, from
any era of comics, whichever the writer invokes, and damn corporate
editorial fiat. There is no rational, credible, non-self parodying version
of any major superhero’s life so it’s best (in my view) to read every story
as ‘in the theme of this character, tied to these implicit circumstances,
and especially taking into account the current status quo and author
preferences’ as this is literally how these stories are written. I tend to
have zero respect for corporate intellectual property, considering it a
disgraceful scam and attack on both culture and commerce, so I could not
possibly care less what Jim Lee put anyone else in an editorial position
thinks unless I happen to like it. Headcanon of any random child is more
valid and actually relevant than every memo, advertising coordination and
marketing event in all of DC history combined. Batman is whoever you need
him to be, not shaw they want you to buy.
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* Collin Colsher says:
December 5, 2023 at 5:46 pm
Hey Cheimison, thanks for the comment! As a staunch anticapitalist, I’m
with ya. It’s unfortunate that all our beloved comic book characters of
yesteryear function as content cows that get milked dry at the
conglomerate IP farm. Nevertheless, for the academic and comprehensive
nature of this project, there has to be a structure/rule set that is
intrinsically linked to the whims of the corporate overlords. However,
I’m always quick to say that headcanon is headcanon—and no one’s
headcanon can ever be wrong… whereas, too often, in-house editorial is
wrong. As Roland Barthes said, text is not determined by an writer’s
intention, instead only by reader interpretation. And this couldn’t be
more true than in multi-authored serialized superhero fiction.
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33. Dr Arnoldo Molinari says:
January 12, 2024 at 6:19 am
Hello Collin, I want to congratulate you for the talent and dedication with
which you have done such an excellent job. Without a doubt it is helpful
for thousands of comic readers!!! I would like you to guide me to know
where I can see the reading order (with the numbers of each comic) of all
the Batman comics. It’s difficult for me to know which Batman number comes
before Detective, Catwoman, Robin, etc. A guide to organize the reading
would be very helpful. I wish you the best for you and your family!
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* Collin Colsher says:
January 12, 2024 at 7:20 am
Hello Dr. Molinari! Thanks so much for the kind words, it’s very much
appreciated. If you’ll explore the site a bit further, you’ll see that in
each section there is the chronological order in the form of “quick
lists.” These lists are just the issues (flashback items and reference
items included) in order, sans summaries or synopses. Most folks using my
site as a pure reading order tend to go by those. Thanks, again!
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