Batman: Gotham Adventures #43

by Scott E. Peterson, Robert Smith (Cover Art), Lee Loughridge (Colorist)

Who's out to get Harley Quinn? The answer awaits deep in Harley's history...that is, if she and the Dark Knight survive the traps set for them all over Gotham!

Genres: Comics, Batman

22 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 24, 2001

About the author

Scott Peterson got his start in comics as an editor on the Batman line of comics, working with the legendary Dennis O’Neil. He edited DC’s flagship title, Detective Comics, and launched the first of the the Adventures sub-genre of comics, The Batman Adventures. He later went on to edit for WildStorm, where he oversaw such titles as WildCats, Midnighter, A God Somewhere and North 40, as well as Scooby-Doo and Looney Tunes. As a writer, he has been published by Disney, Scholastic, Golden Books, HarperCollins, and DC Comics, including a four-year run as the regular writer of The Gotham Adventures. He is the author of Batman: Kings of Fear with art legendary artist Kelley Jones, and the original graphic novel Truckus Maximus.

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Reviews

[cauldronofevil · Rating 3 out of 5]

”Turnabout” starts with Harley Quinn jumping out of a record store window and falling onto Batman. Someone is trying to kill Harley. On the way to Arkham a bomb goes off near them both before he can drop her off.

Batman questions the doctors inside but they’ve only heard rumors that someone wants revenge. He questions some inmates but no one knows anything.

”And you have no idea why someone would want to kill you.”
”Hey, you got a pen? I should probably write these down.”

Mr. & Mrs Clinton, Madonna, Tiger Woods, Superman….

Batman hears about a crime on Timm avenue and takes Harley with him. When they get to the novelty store there, there’s an explosion that wraps Harley in ribbons.

Batman figures out that maybe they’re not after Harley Quinn..

Another fun Harley story. Should be a 4 but this series sets the bar pretty high. 3 stars

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classic Harley.

[Jimmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

My kids favorite Batman comics are from any issues that takes place in the 90s Animated series world. Here in this short issue the story is titled “Turnabout” where someone is out to get Harley. Its up to Batman to try to get to the bottom of it and stop it from happening. It turns out there’s someone that’s behind it and its not the typical Batman rogue gallery of villains. There’s somewhat of a touching ending when Batman shows up and the solution isn’t punching somebody or using physical force. A good and fun story!