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Batman: Hollywood Knight #1
Batman: Hollywood Knight #1
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two studios vie for cinematic supremacy: Gotham Pictures, featuring the successful adventure serials starring Batman, and Arkham Studios, which is determined to shut the serial down at any cost...even murder!
24 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2001
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June 6, 2020
Byron Wyatt is an owner of a Hollywood studio that is making popular movies about the Batman. While Jack Napier is the unscrupulous chief of the competing Arkham Productions that is hell-bent on getting his paws on the Batman franchise. Set in 1948, this nice Elseworlds story has a somewhat more old-school look than the usual. Art by Dick Giordano is excellent for this, giving a fine vibe of the Golden Age, whether of Hollywood or of comics.
October 31, 2011
Okay, I read this because every once in a while I indulge myself with some Elseworlds comics by DC.
Okay, for those who doesn't know what Elseworlds is, here is their tagline:
"In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places — some that have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow."
So it's similar to fanfiction wherein they put Origingal Characters like Harry Potter and put them into a different setting or give them a different personality e.g. A Slytherin Harry Potter.
Enough about the Comics background.
This Story of Batman is a fast paced read but, not quite fun. Tells about the wars of film production companies. I don't want to spoil. So just read it.
I don't recommend this to newbie comic readers. If you're interested to read some Elseworlds comics try "Superman:Red son" by Mark Millar instead. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
Okay, for those who doesn't know what Elseworlds is, here is their tagline:
"In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places — some that have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow."
So it's similar to fanfiction wherein they put Origingal Characters like Harry Potter and put them into a different setting or give them a different personality e.g. A Slytherin Harry Potter.
Enough about the Comics background.
This Story of Batman is a fast paced read but, not quite fun. Tells about the wars of film production companies. I don't want to spoil. So just read it.
I don't recommend this to newbie comic readers. If you're interested to read some Elseworlds comics try "Superman:Red son" by Mark Millar instead. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
July 1, 2012
Regarding the series as a whole: another neat little Elseworlds concept, but with poor follow-through (that is, provided that the plodding dialogue, boilerplate story and spirit-wilting restraint aren't all part of some kind of way-too-effective grand-scale commentary...one on the nature of the very early Detective Comics, the camp Batman of the '60s, B/C-grade film serials or all of the above...the Errol Flynn, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope cameos do give some credence in that defense, but not enough to wholly redeem the books).
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