The Road to Episode 100 Part 2 – Bat Flashback – Episode 1 – The “Untold Legend of the Batman”

The road to Episode 100 continues by going ALL the way back to the very first episode of the show! Presented just as it was when it came out, without any cuts to make the guys look better!

Way back in 2017, Andy and Mike started The Overlooked Dark Knight with a mandate of talking about Batman comics that hardly anyone talks about. They promptly side stepped that mandate by starting things with an exploration of Batman’s history. The Untold Legend of the Batman was a three-issue mini-series written by Len Wein with art (initially) by John Byrne and then (eventually) Jim Aparo. The point of the series was to take all of various tellings and re-tellings of Batman’s origin, as well as the origins of his friends and foes and and present them as one, clean history.

Back when you could do such a thing.

After telling you why they started the show and discuss the pros and cons of doing an index podcast, the guys talk about the first issue of the series. That’s all Mike remembers of the episode, so hopefully neither he nor Andy said anything that has since become problematic.

Below is the cover and select pages from the book discussed during this episode.

It may not seem like it, but Andy and Mike do like feedback even if they are crap at getting to it. The most direct way to do this is to email them, which you can do by directing your thoughts to overlookeddarkknight@gmail.com. You can also leave a comment over on their Facebook page. You can also leave a comment at the new web home of the show, The Bailey Planet.

Next Time: The march towards episode 100 continues with a replay of the second episode of The Overlooked Dark Knight!