The Best Batman Comics You (Probably) Haven't Read

I read all of them after this video, they're great. But I would ad the new 52 Batman and Robin Peter J. Tomasi run

I started reading Batman by reading The Long Halloween. It was such a great and enticing murder mystery. But I felt there was a lack of an emotional angle besides Harvey Dent.

But then I read the sequel, Dark Victory. Dark Victory was such an awe-inspiring story. It took the murder mystery angle of The Long Halloween but it made that even more powerful with the inclusion of Robin, and Batman questioning if his quest for crime is really helping.

Then I read Batman: War on Crime and Batman: Ego and have been a fan ever since.

I need to read Batman Universe! Art looks good and I love Up in the Sky. And personally, my favorite Batman story is Under the Red Hood and a close 2nd is Black Mirror

The best Batman story that is criminally ignored by the fandom at large is Matt Wagners 12 issue mini-series that was collected in two volumes as Batman vs the Monster Men and Batman and the Mad Monk and together with some other stuff as Legends of the Dark Knight: Matt Wagner. The stories take place between Year One and the Long Halloween and retell some classic Golden Age yarns including one of the earliest appearances of Hugo Strange

They really need some better collectible editions 4 Batman it would probably worthy of having in omnibus if had one.

Fantastic video, you’re very charismatic! Subbed!

war on crime is super underrated

Besides ego and black mirror this list is too soy, good number 1 though.

By far my fav Batman book is white knight by Sean Murphy as I enjoy the new take and it gives shows the holes in Batmans morality it’s a truly wonderful read

Can we get a Part 2 of less known batman comics that are good please? :)

What ever happened to the caped crusader

Omg, yes, thank you for making a video that isn't just "Killing Joke, Year One blah blah". I didn't like Ego as much as everyone else seems to (still really cool), but I adore Selina's Big Score, which is collected alongside Ego in that one trade. There are also many fun one off stories in that same trade, so people should definitely pick that book up, it's well worth the price of admission.

Thank you this is exactly what I was look I guess for!! ❤❤❤ can’t wait to read all of these!!!

The very first Joker story from Batman #1 is gold. Others I'd add include the Steve Englehart run, No Hope in Crime Alley, Knightfall, No Man's Land, and the recent Batman '89 miniseries.

Lemire is the man bro, his moon knight run is amazing and jaw dropping.

Zex und zex und zex

Thank you for this list.
I will have some reading to do.

Hi its me batman. My name is domitris now.

Someone should make Zack Snyder read Batman: War On Crime

Definitely checking all of these I have not yet checked. My pick for an underrated Batman comic would be Batman: Prey. It's great, giving one of my favorite underrated villains, Hugo Strange. Love it.

I just found my dads comic collection collecting dust in the Attic they were in very good condition! I took the time to bag and board them all. 718 comics in total mostly dc from the early 80’s to the mid 90’s! He had 2 copies of the first appearance of the black mask. He’s got an original death in the family set And he got a booster gold issue 1 and a entire set of the joker series. In total there are 610 Batman comics with maybe only 30 duplicates. He also has a entire punisher run. I think I found a gold mine.

Can you dress up as Batman? 😍

What are your favourite pre-Crisis Batman stories? I read the Untold Legends of the Batman and really want to explore that character

I would love to see more Batman comics I've missed

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OMG you look like a young ed kemper the coed killer

I would throw in Greg Rucka's work on Batman, mainly his two nonconsecutive runs on Detective Comics, "New Gotham" after No Man's Land and Batwoman Elegy. Death and the Maidens is also a really cool series. The Man Who Laughs is a cool modern retelling of Batman and Joker's first meeting. Batman: Night Cries by Archie Goodwin and Scott Hampton is a very thought provoking OGN about child abuse. Legends of the Dark Knight is filled with a lot of great stories, but my favorite is probably Prey by Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy.

2 Recommendations from me

"Batman Earth One" and "Batman Noel"

My favourite Batman story is The Long Halloween but a lesser known book that I think people should read is Batman Europia and Reptilian

Dickbats🙏

Batman cult is definitely one of my favorite Batman comics.

I would love a video like this but for Green Arrow comics, flash comics, pretty much every comic character but that isn't feasible

Is there any really good comic runs with Mr Freeze in them?

Awesome video, Troy!! Thanks for the recommendations

I’d love to see an animated Batman movie in the art style of Alex Ross

Maybe not the most “unknown” but I’m obsessed with The Batman Who Laughs!

Batman Gotham noir is pretty good

A great story that is packaged with most copies of “Batman Ego and other tales” now a days is the one shit Night of the Stalker or Darwyn Cooke’s remake of it “Deja Vu”. It’s basically Batman stalking and slowly taking out a group of thugs as they try to escape him all told from the thug’s prospective. Batman doesn’t say a word the whole story and is a terrifying presence throughout.

I hope to GOD that they adapt it in any of the upcoming Reeveverse shows. Give me a 15 minute sequence in the upcoming Penguin show where Batman is portrayed as a full on Horror movie creature taking out goons from the shadows any day! You don’t even actually need to see Pattinson himself since it’s not from his perspective, could just shoot it with Silhouettes and shadows

Me who hasn't read a single DC or Marvel comic: HOW DID YOU KNOW!!??!???!

When you've read already read all but one of these stories

Thank you for giving a shout out to Tom King’s Batman. I see way too many people giving it shit online mostly for decisions that were outside his control like the whole 50th issue wedding fiasco but when it hits, it really hits.

I was so happy when War On Crime made it to number one. The Paul Dini and Alex Ross collection was the book that got me into graphic novels. It is the book I recommend when people ask why I like superheroes.

Has anyone here read these Batman comics, are any of them well written and worth reading for Halloween:

Batman Arkham Asylum A Serious House on a Serious Earth

Batman Kings of Fear

Batman The Cowardly Lot

Batman The Doom That Came to Gotham.

Please let me know.

My favorite is where Batman said “I’m batmaning” and then proceeded to Batman all over the place

PLEASE do nightwing🙏

dude you have easily and instantaneously become one of my comfort content creators; your videos are helping me through a lot of things rn and something for you to be TRULY proud of

KEEP IT UP KING

I read this one comic about joker by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo and I thought it was pretty cool. It was a regular run of the mill comic where joker is being released from Arkham but it’s being told from the perspective of a henchman. He helps joker set up a bunch of traps and crimes for Batman and the whole time the henchman is like scared that he’s gonna pop out and beat the hell out of him and I thought it was pretty cool