Episode 809: The Greatest Bronze Age Batman Stories, Part 1

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Having finished with the Man of Steel, today’s episode is the first of three looking at the best Caped Crusader stories of the Seventies to the mid-Eighties with the DC3Cast’s very own Vince Ostrowski! Come for the Neal Adams, stay to find out more about double-threat Frank Robbins, the mad genius of Bob Haney, Ra’s Al Ghul, Bruce Wayne and Sgt. Rock teaming up to fight Nazis, Batman’s Congressional career, and much more. All that, and just what the hell a hellgrammite is!

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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL

Comics referred to in this episode are:

• The Brave and the Bold #79-86, 93, 94
• Batman #217, 232, 234, 237, 242-244, 250, 251
• Detective Comics #400, 402, 404, 407, 420, 421, 429
• Swamp Thing #7

All comics are available as individual issues on DC Universe Infinite except for Batman #242 and 250.

Batman #242 is collected in the Batman: Tales of the Demon collection, and Batman #250 is collected in the first volume of The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told collection series.

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