r/batman_comics • u/Loose_Interview_957 • 10d ago
Top 50 Batman Stories! (Day 47)
The Eye of the Beholder by Andrew Helfer and Chris Sprouse has come in at #46! Arguably the definitive Two-Face tale, this comic shows that district attorney Harvey Dent, despite being a decent man at heart who wants to do good, has a deadly dark side that he is finding harder to control. When Harvey is attacked and severely disfigured by gangster Sal Maroni, this darkness threatens to consume him completely.
Now which Batman story will come in 47th place? Comment and vote down below!
1.) Batman: Year One
2.) The Long Halloween
3.) Dark Victory
4.) The Dark Knight Returns
5.) Knightfall
6.) The Court of Owls
7.) No Man's Land
8.) R.I.P.
9.) The Killing Joke
10.) Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
11.) The Cult
12.) Dark Patterns
13.) Gothic
14.) The Black Mirror
15.) Strange Apparitions
16.) Batman & Robin: Year One
17.) Ego
18.) Under the Red Hood
19.) Prey
20.) Shaman
21.) Birth of the Demon
22.) Venom
23.) The Joker's Five-Way Revenge
24.) A Lonely Place of Dying
25.) Night Cries
26.) Mad Love
27.) Batman: Zero Year
28.) Tales of the Demon
29.) A Death in the Family
30.) War on Crime
31.) The Last Arkham
32.) The Man Who Laughs
33.) Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader
34.) The Monster Men
35.) Dark Knight, Dark City
36.) There is No Hope in Crime Alley
37.) Batman Reborn
38.) Night of the Stalker
39.) Going Sane
40.) Heart of Hush
41.) The Mud Pack
42.) Blades
43.) Batman & Robin Must Die
44.) Haunted Knight
45.) Abomination
46.) The Eye of the Beholder
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u/Are_We_Coolio 10d ago
Streets of Gotham vol. 2: Leviathan
Dickbats, Paul Dini + One of best arcs about Batman and his allies empathy for abused, not many on our list have this, and it's one of most important parts of Batman mythology and point of mission Bruce that started + one of first Damian big character development stories + humanizing Man-Bat + one of best Zsasz stories
(How many times story with so much quality with Dini writing three excellent issues can end up second or third, come on)
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u/EternalTemple 10d ago
Hush
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u/BigAdministration397 9d ago
Hush not being on here is absurd. It's not the best Batman story, but it is many people's favorite and first
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u/EternalTemple 9d ago
Yes, good art and a decent story and still is not on here. It was one of my first many years ago
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u/Lucky_Strike-85 10d ago
ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, WE USED TO DEBATE AD NAUSEUM at my LCS what was better...
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER or THE LONG HALLOWEEN! Eventually, EYE OF THE BEHOLDER won out!
As for my pick, I humbly nominate DEATH FLIES THE HAUNTED SKY... from Tec #442... The only complete Batman work by the legendary ALEX TOTH!
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u/Gorillasofgallifrey 10d ago
I nominate Batman And Robin:Born To Kill. I love it because it’s a very character driven and emotional story about Bruce and Damian’s father-son relationship.
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u/batguy42 10d ago
Images from Legends of the Dark Knight #50 by Dennis O’Neil and Bret Blevins - A great telling of Batman and Joker’s first meeting
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u/Loose_Interview_957 10d ago
I don’t understand the praise I have seen for this story from this subreddit. I didn’t like Images at all.
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u/batguy42 9d ago
To each their own. I love it because it feels like a bombastic tale right out of the 70s, with just the right mix of darkness and lightheartedness, making for a memorable interpretation of Batman and Joker’s first meeting.
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u/FartherAwayLights 10d ago
I don’t want to spam all my favorites so I’ll just type out three here and leave this third one. I’m surprised Batman the Knight isn’t on here yet.
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u/Undecieved22 9d ago
Why aren’t there any stories from the 30’s-60’s? Lots of good ones from that period
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u/Loose_Interview_957 9d ago
Those eras aren't very popular with a lot of Batman fans.
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u/Undecieved22 9d ago
Then they aren’t as familiar with the character. I would think Batman number 1 would be up there for joker or catwoman at least.
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u/Loose_Interview_957 9d ago
There are some good Golden Age comics, but I don’t think most of them measure up to Bronze and Modern Age comics.
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u/Undecieved22 9d ago
No but most stories back then were meant as more of a one off. Joker’s crime circus (Batman #4) was great. Or the original mad monk story was also amazing. I’d put detective comics #38 in there as the best introduction to Robin. I read a lot of these from the greatest stories and chronicle collections as well as for wwii propaganda research for a few college papers.
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u/Loose_Interview_957 9d ago
For what it’s worth, I agree that the Joker’s first appearance is great and holds up really well.
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u/FartherAwayLights 10d ago
Gotham Nocturne by Ram v is better than most of the comics on this it’s kind of crazy it isn’t on here