Today at ComicsAlliance, I’m once again putting my degree in Batmanology to work with a look at Dick Sprang’s “Secrets of the Batcave” lithograph, wherein I do my level best to play Jess Nevins by identifying every bat-tchotchke Sprang drew.
Unfortunately, even with Michael Fleisher’s truly indispensable Batman Encyclopedia
If you know where something comes from (and if you can prove it with a scanned panel or an issue number), then leave a comment on CA, and we’ll see if we can’t do this thing up right!
http://malcolmspage.net/images/thunderbird.gif
Im pretty sure thats whats next to the Joker… no idea what it has to do with Batman though, just that it’s a depiction of the Thunderbird from the Pacific Northwest.
I’m pretty sure that’s Batman in the bottom right corner.
Oh shit, bottom left. MY SENSE OF LEFT AND RIGHT HAS FAILED ME.
I’m delighted to say I came up with one (the portraits of the Gordons between the computer and the hydraulic lift), if only because Chris has written an article where it is logically impossible to write a “you forgot” comment and if, therefore, no one wrote anything, it would be too blisteringly accurate a critique of us, his readers. I can’t take the harsh mirror of reality right now.
Yep: This is basically an article that says “Oh, you want to tell me you know more about Batman than me? BY ALL MEANS, TRY.”
(Seriously though, try. I’d really like to know where that 8-Ball comes from)
Well, the Comic Treadmill has been indexing all the giant props throughout Batman’s history, though they don’t have a complete set of Batman issues.
A giant pool ball is listed in 2 of their entries:
Batman 81, although the panel they printed doesn’t show an 8 ball:
http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2008/2008_Individual/2008_05/001725.php
Detective 570 has an actual 8 ball that looks right, but of course this is long after the Sprang era. Still, it’s well before 1995:
http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2009/2009_Individual/2009_09/001992.php
FWIW, here’s the link to their most recent giant prop entry, so you can see what they’ve catalogued so far:
http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2010/2010_Individual/2010_02/002024.php
Also consulting the list, there was a giant fingerprint in the scenery to Batman118, although they say it doesn’t play a part in the story:
http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2009/2009_Individual/2009_06/001962.php
Has this print ever been made availaable other than as a signed lithograph? I can only find 2 of the signed ones for sale online around $300-$350. They shouldd make a poster version available. I’d buy that in a hearbeat.
That’s the nattiest Alfred I’ve ever seen. That suit looks better on him than it ever did on Joseph Cotten.
Also, that’s a helluva lotta runways for one damn plane.
I assume it’s to host the ArrowPlane and the Batmen of All Nations when they’re in Gotham for a jamboree.
Wait, China has their own goddamn batman?! And Lichtenstein, too?! What have I been missing all my life?