Batman: Nevermore Vol. 1

Batman: Nevermore #1

by Len Wein, Guy Davis

A 5-issue Elseworlds miniseries that brings the World's Greatest Detective together with the inventor of the modern detective story: Edgar Allan Poe! In Baltimore in the late 1800s, a number of high-ranking citizens' have been murdered in ways that defy explanation. The only thing linking the murders are sightings of a giant raven fleeing each crime scene

Genres: Comics, Batman, Fiction

24 pages, Comic

First published June 1, 2003

About the author

Len Wein was an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men (including the co-creation of Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus). Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons' influential DC miniseries Watchmen.

Wein was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008.

Reviews

[Melissa]

This was an interesting crossover - combining Edgar Allen Poe's 19th century Baltimore with Batman. Told by EAP, we see him as a young, failing journalist for the Baltimore Sun sent to report on the murder of a local elite. As the murders pile up, Edgar tries to solve the mystery - first hindered (as he doesn't know if he can trust him), then helped by "the Bat-Man". Batman is always there to save EAP and as their lives become more in danger they team together to catch the murderer before he gets to them!

[Earl]

An interesting and fabulous beginning, in which we can set out on our DC and Edgar Allan Poe reference hunting.

[Tojuan Gordon]

this is so much fun, a perfect melding of two of my great loves, Batman and Edgar Allan Poe.

[Bill]

Guy Davis!

[Eddie B.]

You know nothing, Len Wein!