Little Batman is the Hero We Didn’t Know We Needed

Sure, the much anticipated “Hush” sequel “Would You Be Damn Quiet” – er, I may have that title wrong – dropped this week with 87 variant covers.

Honestly, I got a bit batty myself at the local comics shop staring at the three rows of covers for sale, including the oversized edition, a third taller than a Treasury Edition.

Good luck storing that one in mint condition, kids!

Oh, “Batman” No. 158 is gorgeous, just what you’d expect from artist Jim Lee.

But we have, what, eleven more issues to go to settle a verdict on Jeph Loeb’s story.

Let’s talk about the recently concluded miniseries “Little Batman: Month One.”

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Brace Yourself for the Billion Dollar Debut of Bat-Girl!

The dazzling debut of Bat-Girl!, from "Batman" No. 139.
The dazzling debut of Bat-Girl!, from “Batman” No. 139.

It just had to happen.

Batman gained a female counterpart in 1956 in Batwoman, just in time to head off these freaky academics who were convinced Batman and Robin were P-Town buddies.

Readers had to wait five years for the next obvious addition to the Bat-Family.

In “Bat-Girl!” in “Batman” No. 139, cover date April 1961, written by Bill Finger and drawn by Sheldon Moldoff, the Bat-Family has been cornered by those dastardly fiends, the Cobra Gang.

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