Batman Adventures Vol. 4

Batman Adventures #28-36

by Kelley Puckett

Completes the series that mirrors the iconic style of the four-time Emmy award-winning Batman: The Animated Series!

Experience the comic that proved as groundbreaking as its television counterpart, in all-ages stories that feature the Dark Knight’s fiercest adversaries, greatest allies, and all-new threats to Gotham City!

Bruce Wayne takes Harley and Ivy on a shopping spree?

Anarky vs. Robin in a fight to uphold social justice!

Batman loses his memory and becomes Catman?!

The Napoleonic wars come to Gotham City!

Batman and the Demon fight the Demon’s Head!

Collects issues #28-36, THE BATMAN ADVENTURES HOLIDAY SPECIAL #1, and THE BATMAN ADVENTURES ANNUAL #2, featuring stories by writers Paul Dini (BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY, ZATANNA) and Kelley Puckett (BATMAN: NO MAN’S LAND, BATGIRL) and artists Bruce Timm (BATMAN ADVENTURES: MAD LOVE) and Mike Parobeck (SUPERMAN ADVENTURES).

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Batman, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 17, 2016

About the author

Kelley Puckett is a comic book writer. He is the creator of the character Cassandra Cain, the Batgirl who succeeded Barbara Gordon and who was succeeded herself by Stephanie Brown, as well as the second Green Arrow, Connor Hawke.

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a huge fan of B:TAS I loved this whole series from start to end, and I am sad there is no more to enjoy from this era. The recently released Batman: The Adventures Continue series was a delight as well but has also concluded after three volumes. What's a Kevin Conroy fan to do now???

[Himanshu Karmacharya · Rating 4 out of 5]

BTAS is one of the greatest animation seriea to ever air, and this comic book perfectly captures the essence of the series and the characters. Stories involving Hugo Strange and Mr. Freeze are poignant and great portrayals of the characters.

[I.D. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another excellent collection with a three part story about Batman losing his memory due to Hugo Strange, teaming up with the Demon to battle Ras Al Ghul, teaming with Talia to find out who supposedly killed her father, and dealing with Christmas themed problems in the great holiday issue.
The only stinker was the one with two billionaires paying people to reenact the napoleonic wars and it was still better then lots of other comics. You even get a new villain created here, Anarky.
Overall this has been such a great series that fits right in with the show. Great stuff!

[James Bowman · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great final volume of the original run of The Batman Adventures. The highlights are the bookend stories: the holiday anthology at the beginning (which was later adapted for the show) and the Etrigan tale at the end. The issues between are also good overall, especially the origin stories for some of the comic's original villains, a story where Batman deals with a mugger, and the final three-parter involving Hugo Strange and Catwoman. (A-)

[Erin Caldwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love that it's based off the animated series. My only gripe is that some of the first few comics were actual episodes made print instead of new storylines. Great illustrations; I could hear Kevin Conroy's voice the whole time.

[Dr Rashmit Mishra · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the largest of the 4 volumes and not a single bit boring , i really cant understand why DC comics stopped printing these . These are absolutely awesome books to have and read .

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was easily my favorite volume in this series, even if the last issue was a little too supernatural for my taste. I really enjoyed the Christmas issue, particularly the humor in it. I also enjoyed seeing a softer side of Mr. Freeze and seeing the friendship between Commissioner Gordon and Batman. Like the show, these comics are based on, the guiding principle is: character first. The other stories compiled in this volume were also fun, but the best was definitely the one where Batman lost his memory. It was strange to see the character acting happy and a great peek into the psyche of Bruce Wayne. The same can be said of the story "Just Another Night," in which Bruce Wayne's own tragic past is paralleled in Batman's current case. This was just solid comic book storytelling, which ended with no one getting hurt...except the hero himself. I believe this is the last volume in this series, which is a shame, because I've really enjoyed them.

[Jocelyn Bystrom · Rating 2 out of 5]

Possibly I need to go back and read Vol. 1 to get a better feel for these DC Comics. I felt the plot lines were thin and not very satisfying... choose not to finish after p.22. So many other good books on my self to get started that I chose not to persist.

I would not recommend this as a k-7 teacher-librarian for my school's collection. Possibly the target audience if for adults... now I'm curious who the target age group might be for these authors and illustrators.

[Gonzalo Oyanedel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fiel a la animación que lo inspira, el volumen que cierra su traspaso a viñetas mantiene el nivel de la serie, probablemente una de las mejores encarnaciones del personaje vistas en la pantalla. Y aunque número a número resulta amena y cautivante, la lectura de este tramo final denota una mayor inclinación a la violencia y un enfoque general más oscuro para bajar el telón a una sólida colección del Caballero Oscuro.

[Alessandro Gioia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Harley's and Joker story was fun and clearly has the humour of the show.

The Holiday Special was ok, but this is what to expect of this one-shots.

The Anarky story was just mediocre at best.

The soldier's story could have been erased, this was probably the lowest ranked story in the whole series.

But then we got more of a multi-part story that I think worked really well and brought some fresh air to the series that has a lot of one-shots. This story features the ventriloquist.

[Lizzy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the other volumes in this series, but this book was just really weak. Only issue I really liked was the holiday one about Joker and Harley. The rest where either boring or just plain weird.

[Edy Gies · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had a few good stories in it, but some were weird. Why do women in comic books have to be so sexualized? The male heroes get to function with cunning and power, but the women, no matter how amazing they act, are sexualized. Ugh.

[Elliot · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some really good stories that don't necessarily feature famous villains.

[Kloe · Rating 4 out of 5]

So many Harley Quinn stories I stan !!! I can say this is better than volume 2

[Harley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Living in fear of finishing the whole series because i want to live in it forever

[Lari · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just Another Night got to me.

[Al Berry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid Batman titles done in the animated Tv show style, brisk enjoyable read.

[Arthur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Crackerjack stuff. Easily among my favorite Batman comics. It's remarkably true to the feel of the TV shoe, from the art and sly humor to the hook-y three-act structure.

[Sam Poole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Batman Adventures is, as I've said before, the perfect distillation of what makes Batman & DC Comics as a whole enjoyable. It often times has the perfect melding of goofy, comic book-y nonsense and heartfelt, emotive story telling.

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

In which crew behind BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES pay tribute to Jack Kirby and Ty Templeton writes the single best damn Batman story ever.

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

Based on the 1990's animated TV series.
This is a good, fun read. Great Batman stories.

[Taha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bittikten sonra Batman'e üzülüp sarılmak istemeden edemedim:(