November 6, 1989: With the VHS release of the summer’s smash Batman movie just a week away, the Dark Knight swept into another venue when he returned to newspaper comic strips. Picking up where the film left off, the strip recounted the Joker’s seeming demise in its first week and moved on to another familiar adversary in the form of the Catwoman as the story progressed. Beloved Batman artist Marshall Rogers was on hand to draw the feature while novelist Max Allan Collins was its uncredited scripter. Collins’ absent byline—and departure following the January 21, 1990 episode—was a consequence of his simultaneous work on Tribune Media Service’s Dick Tracy strip and his TMS’ editor’s concern over the writer’s involvement with a competing feature. Rogers joined Collins in leaving the strip at that point with writer William Messner-Loebs and artists Carmine Infantino and John Nyberg continuing the feature through August 3, 1991. Although no book collection of the feature exists, its entire run was serialized in Manuscript Press’ Comics Revue #41-67 during the early 1990s.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 13:28:59 +0000
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