batman year one tales of the demon second chances dark knight detective vol 1 year two haunted knight long halloween dark victory dark knight returns the cult killing joke caped crusader vol 1 death in the family caped crusader vol 2 dark knight detective vol 2 lonely place of dying arkham asylum caped crusader vol 3 dark knight detective vol 3 caped crusader vol 4 robin reborn robin triumphant azrael vol 1 fallen angel knightfall knightfall vol 2 knightfall vol 3 zero hour batman - doug moench kelley jones vol 1 tales of the batman j h williams contagion legacy vol 1 legacy vol 2 batman - doug moench kelley jones vol 2 cataclysm road to no mans land vol 1 road to no mans land vol 2
Little correction: Second Chances and Dark Knight Detective vol 1 should be right before The Cult. The Long Halloween introduces Dick and happens during year three/four, it's a bit weird to put that story *after* Jason's introduction in Second Chances during year nine/ten. Also, Tales of The Demon should be after Dark Victory, as Dick is already Robin in it.
@@Mark-pl3bv hi mark How do you know what happens and in what year? I'm trying to write an order to read and can't find it anywhere (Google) Now trying to piece a reading order together from TH-cam videos
@@dom020876 Have you tried CLZ Comics. It’s a comic database app, and is amazing. You just scan the barcodes and it uploads everything for you. It’s good for when your out and you need to check what’s in your collection.
I really appreciate your spoiler warnings and how you avoid those pages. Some people are like "Well it's been out for so long so who cares", but that makes no sense to me. The stories are new to a lot of us, can't expect us to be caught up on EVERYTHING out there lol. Love your reading order vids!!
First of all. Welcome aboard. Second: Do not be overwhelmed. I promise the more you read the more things will make sense. This is more of a guide as to when to read these stories available in collected editions. If anything I’m here to help if you have questions.
@@NearMintCondition I started reading Batman at the start of lockdown with Morrisons run and though it probably wasnt the perfect jumping on point what you say is true. The more you read the more you'll understand.
All I wanna say is, Thank you!! You are awesome! Your "Batman Reading Order" is my guide and I'm sticking to it (with occasional diversions like reading Batman Ego or War on Crime) but I'm slowly slowly slooooooowly making my way through all of it and I'm having the bast time while doing so! Currently I am at Robin Reborn and even though I really would like to skip and go straight to No man's land I am sticking with an order. And really works! I get to experience fantastic stories, all the most important events, character change and growth (or sometimes lack of it) it is amazing journey and without you I'm sure I would be completely lost and expirience would not be the same. Thank you again for this series!
Man... I really want to get into this, but like, while i appreciate these videos and i can see the passion and love for the comics that go into them, literally every reading guide of any long running comic series infuriates me. It's always like "Oh yeah, start with these collection of issue 404-407 from 1987 and then read this one from 1995, and then you need to read this one-off of shoot from 1991, then you can read this almost direct followup to the first run you read, but it takes place after a major event that you haven't read yet, and then you need to see this stage play from 1975, and then you can read issue 402....... I hate it I hate it I hate it
I agree! This is what I feel like has gotten people to no longer read comics. But what I’ve been doing is just jumping right into it man. I try not to stress out about what to read first. I just dive right in to what I see interesting. Later on your brain will start connecting the dots.
@@harlingen23 yeah i feel like this as well, i'll just start picking up what interest me the most and go from there, not bothering with reading orders and following sagas, this stuff is 30+ years and iam just in it for the whole vibe
@@pedrocoelho2135 yup! Plus, it takes the fun out of it. Makes it feel like homework. Just jump right in. We already know the origin story of most of the characters.
@@harlingen23 I agree! When I was first getting into these comics I was stressing out about trying to read it all in order, and how expensive some of these oop trades are, and just trying to read each characters origin. I’m still trying to do that in order but I no longer stress out about skipping chunks of these stories.
I think you should just pick up where you want and go from there. I have started with Year One, currently reading Year Two. Have The Dark Knight Rises, Arkham Asylum, Batman/Supetman, The Man Who Laughs all on the way now for me to get into... May not be the most definite way to start, but its a start! Comics are just for fun at the end of the day
Omar out here doing the Lord's work and helping the community to know what's up. Thanks for doing this, man! You've given me and so many other people a great breakdown here on Batman reading.
Still watching but you have no idea how much I appreciate these videos Omar. Got quite a few of the Batman omni's but also lots of different trades that go all over the place and make it more complex where to place them compared to the omni's. Now I can finally start reading it in the correct order.
Oh man... batman year one it is and go from there. I'm no stranger to new hobbies and researching all the info I can find but this is next level in depth.
Thank you so much for finally making this video! While a lot of Batman's most popular stories/comics are continually printed and talked about today, some of the lesser known but still essential stories are forgotten or passed over. This is my chance to finally see what I've missed and still need to read. It also goes to show how few of these amazing stories are collected in deluxe, oversized format. I don't know what DC is waiting for. Batman is pretty much one of their biggest and most well known IP and they should make sure that these books are accessible to newer readers. Very excited for parts 2, 3, and 4.
Omg I used to own the story at the start of the dark Knight detective vol 2 with the Ventriloquist. I have been looking for it for a while and you just opened a book and it appeared. Man I feel like crying as the story fascinated me so much as a kid.
Thanks for the very informative video. Picked up Batman Year 1 yesterday. Will pick up The Dark Knight Returns after I finish Year 1. Thanks again for making these videos very easy to understand for us new readers and keeping them spoiler-free
Excellent, work Omar. I've been on a Batman kick lately(Specifically Nightwing which your video was awesome. I've picked up all of Chuck Dixion's stuff on Nightwing) and I'm definitely going to pick some of this up. I love Loeb and Sale's work with Long Halloween(I have the omnibus). I think for me, I enjoy Batman early years because I always love the idea of seeing how a superhero figures out how they go about defending the city. It is why hot take; I actually like a lot of origin stories, like the MCU films. Formulaic as they can be. My favorite Batman comic is a tossup between Hush and Gotham Central. Yeah, I know Hush gets a lot of naysayers, but I'm a sucker for Jim Lee's art and I like Loeb's writing. Also, I love Gotham Central because Brubaker and Rucka are on it and giving me the Shield with Gotham city is awesome.
For anyone who'd like more pre-No Man's Land trades, here's a bunch of good ones that haven't been retconned and weren't mentioned because they don't influence the main storyline! I only mention the ones I greatly recommend but there are many others to pick up if you like early post-crisis Batman stories. Pre-Robin era (before The Long Halloween): - The Man Who Laughs : Bruce's first encounter with the Joker. - [Dead to Rights: Bruce putting the Joker to jail] - Collected Legends of the Dark Knight: The introduction of Poison Ivy and an uncommon vigilante. - Irresistible: a teenager has the ability to influence anyone by shaking their hand. - [Blink / Don't Blink: a blind man who sees through the eyes of those he touches becomes the witness of a crime.] - Going Sane: the best Joker story ever in my opinion. - Venom: Batman on steroids. Dick Grayson as Robin era (before Second Chances): - The Gauntlet: Dick's final test before becoming Robin. Short and fun. - Batman and the Outsiders: Batman leaves JLA. Jason Todd as Robin era: everything was mentioned in the video. Tim Drake as Robin era: - Batman/Demon: Bruce teams up with a demon and it's somehow really solid. - [Batman DOA: Bruce has 24 hours left to live.]
@@NearMintCondition I do too! I also wish they would made a post-crisis Jason omnibus. An omnibus that collects Second Chances, the first 2 Caped Crusader trades, A death in the Family and A lonely place of dying would be amazing.
Feel free in the next videos to do the Absolute and Deluxe suggestions for certain story arcs. Crazy that you need 4 videos for the Bat reading order! So Much BATMAN!!!!! Love it!
I just read two of the stories by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones, about Killer Croc and Scarecrow, in an old German edition of Batman Special from October 1997 which I had found in a second-hand bookshop in my street, and thanks to your vid I found out about the two collected editions and ordered them at once since I love Kelley Jones's horror take on Batman (Batman: Vampire is one of my favourite Batman books), and at least the story about Killer Croc was also very well written. The first volume of the collected editions was out of print but I found an offer at ebay that was acceptable. These two volumes will make a great addition to my collection. Thanks again for all the great information and I am looking forward to Part 2.
back in the 90's Knightfall was my introduction to comics. My little sister (she's 20) is collecting all the Jason Todd and Tim Drake stories, she has a thing for Robin's. I was in college when Cataclysm came out and wasn't reading mainstream comics, so I'm really looking forward to those Omnibus!
It is very interesting that you had the opportunity to decide Robin's fate. You were part of comic book history, Omar! Cool! Saludos desde Puerto Rico.
Today I found a copy of Second Chances in perfect shape for cover price. Thanks to your videos I snagged that boy boy up. So excited to add it to my ever growing Collection of Trades and Hardcovers.
Today I found a copy of second chances from my LCS at cover price! When I paid they gave me 20% off! If had never watched this video then I would have never known about that trade. Thank you for all the info you put together!
Wow. You covered so many eras then over a big period of time. And now coming up to the more modern stuff will have three videos. This was fantastic - can’t wait for the rest, but I will.
While your DC universe starts post-crisis, I’d love to see a video talking about some of the classic Bronze Age stories/runs, especially by Denny O’Neil.
This rips! Thank you, Omar. Dreaming of the day when we get a Superman reading order as well. PD: didn't know about the Moench/Jones trades. I'm going to get that asap
Jim Aparo is my default Batman too and I’m a huge Neil Adams fan who grew up on the 70’s. Aparo used to draw Batman’s cape with the big sweeping style.
Me : Reading comics from the pre-crisis era , cronologically Every comprehensive look : Starts at 1986 ( post-crisis ) :( I'll get to your guides really soon though , currently at 1984
:) At least with those pre Crisis era, they've done an amazing job collecting the Golden Age of characters and some Silver age. Bronze age though, needs some love.
Cool list Omar, I would also include Matt Wagner's 2 miniseries "Batman & the Mad Monk" and "Batman & The Monster Men" - essentially modern updates of some of the earliest Golden Age Batman stories which take place between Year One and Long Halloween - they were recently released in the "Legends of the Dark Knight: Matt Wagner" hardcover Looking forward to the rest of the reading orders!
@@NearMintCondition people should get omnibus editions of everything.even though its more expensive .also what is your top five recommended comics of all time
Yeeesss Batman Batman Batman now if they only came out with omnis for the caped crusader trades we can have this reading order looking great on the shelf.
Oooh a Road to No Man's Land Omni? I'm there! ...As for the rest of this...a fun watch, and a guide to 'things I might get for my nephews someday' without giving them anything too inappropriate. But I may also look for the Tim Drake origin books for myself.
I'll be getting that omnibus of No Man's Land for sure. Looks good. A lot of the other stuff I can read on DC Universe. Good review, Omar on my favorite comic book character. This helps a lot for me to catch up on some Batman reading. Great review. Cheers!
That's some pretty awesome Batman collection you got there Omar !! I think you should also check out Batman & Robin Advebtures. That is a great series that continues afrer the animated show !!
@@NearMintCondition I dont know about collected omnis but I did see 3 trade vol. paperbacks on Amazon tho !!They also got the Batman Gotham Adventure trade paperback volumes which is the prequel. Also how do you like the new batsuit ?? I meant the blue one made by Alfred before he died !!
Good reading order. I feel that Batman Year 3 through the end of Legacy Volume 2 is the best run published. I read Cataclysm through No Man's Land and it feels so different; like they just ignore all the subplot developments leading into it from after Legacy. Good review.
Wow Omar- just wow ! Four Batman installments ! One of my favorites is Haunted Knight for the Scarecrow and Mad Hatter stories , with the art they are simply superb.
Thanks for this, I read and collected Batman comics when I was a kid. But I’m older then you so by the time some of these came out I wasn’t reading them anymore. All my comics are boarded and bagged at my parents house in my old bedroom. If I didn’t live so far away I’d get them and see what I have.
Well I can’t get Into every amount of detail. I open up that Shondra door and then I’ll have to talk about every one of his ladies. Jack I was saving for a Robin walkthrough. But I know what you meant.
Thank you so much for this Omar! I had been purchasing the Dark Knight Detective and Caped Crusader TPBs based on your videos recommending them earlier this year, and am having a blast re-reading so many of my old Batman stories. Now after watching this video, I just had to pop off to CGN & ebay to fill in several holes in my Bat-library --- Curse of the Demon, Year Two, the two Moench/Kelley volumes & the J.H. Williams HCs, as well as the Contagion and two Legacy TPBs. Let's hope that one issue from Cataclysm (553) is included in the upcoming Road to No Man's Land Omnibus (no whammies no whammies...) I am very much looking forward to Part 2!
Your comprehensive reading order videos are a great public service. Keep up the good work! I'm also a Jim Aparo fan but I prefer his earlier Brave and the Bold work, where he did his own inks and colors. Comparing that to the art in Death in the Family is like knight and day. :) I'm also a fan of the Grant/Breyfogle era. It's the most underrated Batman creative team. I've been reading Batman since the 1970s, around the time of O'Neil/Adams's "The Joker's 5 Way Revenge" but for me the pinnacle of monthly Batman teams is Grant/Breyfogle ,for both quality and quantity of work. Between your video and the "Every Omnibus" videos Gem has been dropping, this week has given us a good video "haul."
I really enjoyed this reading order very informative as always the 1 comic I have included would be BATMAN: The Man Who Laughs after Batman year 1. I cannot wait for part 2❤️🌟
I love that you did a Batman Reading Order Omar! This is my first chance to watch it though. Also, just in case you weren't aware or forgot, the 2012 Knightfall trades collected KnightQuest: The Crusade for the first time, but the Omnibus was the first time that KnightQuest: The Search had been collected, prior to the 25th anniversary trade paperback releases. I had to look that up, because I was pretty sure that the Omnibuses had come out after the 2012 thick three volume trades, but I didn't know for sure.
@@NearMintCondition You're welcome. At this point there's so many editions of Knightfall that it's hard to remember what was collected in each edition. Lol.
This is a very late reply, so you may have found them already lol. But ebay was my best friend when finding more niche stories. They unfortunately just don't seem to get modern reprints unfortunately. That's also kind of fine by me though, I think the art often looks better on that old paper.
The Matt Wagner art is SO GOOD!!! I love my trades and it saddened me that the HC they dropped recently wasn't oversized. Fun fact: they're actually updated versions of classic golden age batman stories.
Thanks Omar! Hopefully the dark knight and caped crusaders line continue and close the gap to knightfall. My Batman starts with Bronze Age and that’s also terribly collected. I don’t know why DC started with collecting the gold age material. I doubt they’d sell as well as bronze or post crisis omni’s. Looking forward to the next vid. Btw I recently found second chance in the wild. That was a great find. The Batman by Moench v1 is also hard to find.
Hot Damn, Uncanny Omar may not talk pretty but he makes one hell of a reading order video. Thank you for all your hard work on this. Let the Batmanathon reading begin! (Would the Neal Adams Omni be pre-crisis then?)
Neal Adams is all pre crisis. With the exception of Odyssey, but I can’t even remember if that’s even cannon anymore. But feel free to read that after Year One.
@NMC / To: Uncanny Omar. Question: Did DC ever Publish an Omnibus or OHC of the “Elseworlds” Red Rain Trilogy..? / Btw, I relate to your comment about Jim Aparo. He was always a consummate pro. It was his art that drew me in to read “Brave and the Bold”, and “A Death in the Family”. Beautiful solid work, every issue, on every single page. My favorite late 1970’s early 80’s artist. Then came, George Pérez. Awesome stuff! Great years!
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batman year one
tales of the demon
second chances
dark knight detective vol 1
year two
haunted knight
long halloween
dark victory
dark knight returns
the cult
killing joke
caped crusader vol 1
death in the family
caped crusader vol 2
dark knight detective vol 2
lonely place of dying
arkham asylum
caped crusader vol 3
dark knight detective vol 3
caped crusader vol 4
robin reborn
robin triumphant
azrael vol 1 fallen angel
knightfall
knightfall vol 2
knightfall vol 3
zero hour
batman - doug moench kelley jones vol 1
tales of the batman j h williams
contagion
legacy vol 1
legacy vol 2
batman - doug moench kelley jones vol 2
cataclysm
road to no mans land vol 1
road to no mans land vol 2
Tom, thank you so much. I would add the Cult before Killing Joke, since my dumb butt forgot it. :)
@@NearMintCondition Ok mate I'll add it! Thank you more though, finally know how to get into Batman, looking forward to part 2!!
Little correction: Second Chances and Dark Knight Detective vol 1 should be right before The Cult. The Long Halloween introduces Dick and happens during year three/four, it's a bit weird to put that story *after* Jason's introduction in Second Chances during year nine/ten. Also, Tales of The Demon should be after Dark Victory, as Dick is already Robin in it.
@@Mark-pl3bv hi mark
How do you know what happens and in what year? I'm trying to write an order to read and can't find it anywhere (Google) Now trying to piece a reading order together from TH-cam videos
@@dom020876 Have you tried CLZ Comics. It’s a comic database app, and is amazing. You just scan the barcodes and it uploads everything for you. It’s good for when your out and you need to check what’s in your collection.
Show of hands, how many would LOVE a 45 part series including Legends of the Dark Knight, etc. reading order.
Hahaha... :)
How about a 100 part series with pre crisis batman😂
@@NearMintCondition 1 year later I want the full 45 parts updated reading order still 😀
Release the expanded version with every spin off series. C'mon we'd all watch it.😁
I’d take a combined Batman, robin, nightwing, any pivotal catwoman/ bat family stories + crisis events.🙏
I really appreciate your spoiler warnings and how you avoid those pages. Some people are like "Well it's been out for so long so who cares", but that makes no sense to me. The stories are new to a lot of us, can't expect us to be caught up on EVERYTHING out there lol. Love your reading order vids!!
I really don't want to spoil anything for anyone. So I'm trying to be as cautious as I can...hence the cuts I have to make. :)
When you just started reading Batman comics and see the almost 40 min video is called "part 1" 👁👄👁
Nothing weird about that serious
Welcome to comics XD
First of all. Welcome aboard. Second: Do not be overwhelmed. I promise the more you read the more things will make sense. This is more of a guide as to when to read these stories available in collected editions. If anything I’m here to help if you have questions.
@@NearMintCondition I started reading Batman at the start of lockdown with Morrisons run and though it probably wasnt the perfect jumping on point what you say is true. The more you read the more you'll understand.
Then you look on Amazon and some of them are $200
Part 1 of 4 and it's almost 40 min long?! Hell yeah!! This goin to be a fun ride.
:) I hope you enjoyed it.
All I wanna say is, Thank you!! You are awesome! Your "Batman Reading Order" is my guide and I'm sticking to it (with occasional diversions like reading Batman Ego or War on Crime) but I'm slowly slowly slooooooowly making my way through all of it and I'm having the bast time while doing so! Currently I am at Robin Reborn and even though I really would like to skip and go straight to No man's land I am sticking with an order. And really works! I get to experience fantastic stories, all the most important events, character change and growth (or sometimes lack of it) it is amazing journey and without you I'm sure I would be completely lost and expirience would not be the same. Thank you again for this series!
What a thorough video series! Thank you Omar, very helpful!
Man... I really want to get into this, but like, while i appreciate these videos and i can see the passion and love for the comics that go into them, literally every reading guide of any long running comic series infuriates me. It's always like "Oh yeah, start with these collection of issue 404-407 from 1987 and then read this one from 1995, and then you need to read this one-off of shoot from 1991, then you can read this almost direct followup to the first run you read, but it takes place after a major event that you haven't read yet, and then you need to see this stage play from 1975, and then you can read issue 402.......
I hate it
I hate it
I hate it
I agree! This is what I feel like has gotten people to no longer read comics. But what I’ve been doing is just jumping right into it man. I try not to stress out about what to read first. I just dive right in to what I see interesting. Later on your brain will start connecting the dots.
@@harlingen23 yeah i feel like this as well, i'll just start picking up what interest me the most and go from there, not bothering with reading orders and following sagas, this stuff is 30+ years and iam just in it for the whole vibe
@@pedrocoelho2135 yup! Plus, it takes the fun out of it. Makes it feel like homework. Just jump right in. We already know the origin story of most of the characters.
@@harlingen23 I agree! When I was first getting into these comics I was stressing out about trying to read it all in order, and how expensive some of these oop trades are, and just trying to read each characters origin. I’m still trying to do that in order but I no longer stress out about skipping chunks of these stories.
I think you should just pick up where you want and go from there. I have started with Year One, currently reading Year Two. Have The Dark Knight Rises, Arkham Asylum, Batman/Supetman, The Man Who Laughs all on the way now for me to get into... May not be the most definite way to start, but its a start! Comics are just for fun at the end of the day
The Batman Vampire trade you showed (I have that one too!) Is now collected in Batman Elseworlds Vol. 2 for anyone looking
Good man.
Found it for $5 at a used book store.
Been watching a lot to get started on my reading and collecting. This by far has been the most interesting and informative.
Well saying "Raj" is one way of dealing with the "Raysh" vs "Rahz" argument 😆
slaps desk* Never thought id see the day we'd get a Batman reading order
lol it’s finally here.
Omar out here doing the Lord's work and helping the community to know what's up. Thanks for doing this, man! You've given me and so many other people a great breakdown here on Batman reading.
Still watching but you have no idea how much I appreciate these videos Omar. Got quite a few of the Batman omni's but also lots of different trades that go all over the place and make it more complex where to place them compared to the omni's. Now I can finally start reading it in the correct order.
Thank you so much for the kind words.
Same situation here as well and now I can make a list for reading order 🙂☺️
WOOOOOOO. LET'S GOO! I have been waiting for this ever since I found your channel, thank you SO SO SO SO MUCH Omar, you are literally the best!!!
My pleasure!! Thank you so much for the kind words.
Whos still watching this in 2024.👆
Oh man... batman year one it is and go from there. I'm no stranger to new hobbies and researching all the info I can find but this is next level in depth.
I’m glad I could help.
WHAT Batman reading order! Sir, I must say that you are brave (& bold) to jump on such gargantuan task. This is what we've been all waiting for!
Thank you so much.
Thanks for the listing! I've been reading comics from different top ten lists, but now i want to read 'em in order. Gonna use this list for that
Thank you so much for finally making this video! While a lot of Batman's most popular stories/comics are continually printed and talked about today, some of the lesser known but still essential stories are forgotten or passed over. This is my chance to finally see what I've missed and still need to read. It also goes to show how few of these amazing stories are collected in deluxe, oversized format. I don't know what DC is waiting for. Batman is pretty much one of their biggest and most well known IP and they should make sure that these books are accessible to newer readers.
Very excited for parts 2, 3, and 4.
Thank you so much! I really enjoyed doing this.
Yeeeeeees, finally, awesome Omar! Been waiting for this. Thank you sooooooo much!
Thank you for watching.
Looking to add more Batman books in my collection in the future. Really helpful video!
I’m glad I could help.
Omg I used to own the story at the start of the dark Knight detective vol 2 with the Ventriloquist. I have been looking for it for a while and you just opened a book and it appeared. Man I feel like crying as the story fascinated me so much as a kid.
I really hope you find it again and it brings me so much joy that you immediately knew what it was.
@@NearMintCondition I ordered the trade right away as I really wanna read the rest of those stories!
Oh god, these videos are gonna cost me a bit of money aren't they...
:) it’s the least I can do to help.
Don’t forget Libraries.
@@redkalel YES! A lot of stuff I've read is from a library, Hoopla os also good app tonread comics on
Thanks for the very informative video. Picked up Batman Year 1 yesterday. Will pick up The Dark Knight Returns after I finish Year 1. Thanks again for making these videos very easy to understand for us new readers and keeping them spoiler-free
Thank you so much for the kind words.
Ok, I screenshoted some of the material that I personally wanna checkout myself...🤘🏼💯✔️
Excellent, work Omar. I've been on a Batman kick lately(Specifically Nightwing which your video was awesome. I've picked up all of Chuck Dixion's stuff on Nightwing) and I'm definitely going to pick some of this up. I love Loeb and Sale's work with Long Halloween(I have the omnibus). I think for me, I enjoy Batman early years because I always love the idea of seeing how a superhero figures out how they go about defending the city. It is why hot take; I actually like a lot of origin stories, like the MCU films. Formulaic as they can be. My favorite Batman comic is a tossup between Hush and Gotham Central. Yeah, I know Hush gets a lot of naysayers, but I'm a sucker for Jim Lee's art and I like Loeb's writing. Also, I love Gotham Central because Brubaker and Rucka are on it and giving me the Shield with Gotham city is awesome.
I still think Hush is one of the best. BEST Batman stories. GC really is in a world of its own.
For anyone who'd like more pre-No Man's Land trades, here's a bunch of good ones that haven't been retconned and weren't mentioned because they don't influence the main storyline! I only mention the ones I greatly recommend but there are many others to pick up if you like early post-crisis Batman stories.
Pre-Robin era (before The Long Halloween):
- The Man Who Laughs : Bruce's first encounter with the Joker.
- [Dead to Rights: Bruce putting the Joker to jail]
- Collected Legends of the Dark Knight: The introduction of Poison Ivy and an uncommon vigilante.
- Irresistible: a teenager has the ability to influence anyone by shaking their hand.
- [Blink / Don't Blink: a blind man who sees through the eyes of those he touches becomes the witness of a crime.]
- Going Sane: the best Joker story ever in my opinion.
- Venom: Batman on steroids.
Dick Grayson as Robin era (before Second Chances):
- The Gauntlet: Dick's final test before becoming Robin. Short and fun.
- Batman and the Outsiders: Batman leaves JLA.
Jason Todd as Robin era: everything was mentioned in the video.
Tim Drake as Robin era:
- Batman/Demon: Bruce teams up with a demon and it's somehow really solid.
- [Batman DOA: Bruce has 24 hours left to live.]
Thank you and one day I hope they make a Tim Drake omnibus.
@@NearMintCondition I do too! I also wish they would made a post-crisis Jason omnibus. An omnibus that collects Second Chances, the first 2 Caped Crusader trades, A death in the Family and A lonely place of dying would be amazing.
Feel free in the next videos to do the Absolute and Deluxe suggestions for certain story arcs. Crazy that you need 4 videos for the Bat reading order! So Much BATMAN!!!!! Love it!
I promise I will. :)
Damn 4 parts , I am intimidated and excited at the same time!
23:39 Bane, the world's greatest chiropractor. Great stuff.
I just read two of the stories by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones, about Killer Croc and Scarecrow, in an old German edition of Batman Special from October 1997 which I had found in a second-hand bookshop in my street, and thanks to your vid I found out about the two collected editions and ordered them at once since I love Kelley Jones's horror take on Batman (Batman: Vampire is one of my favourite Batman books), and at least the story about Killer Croc was also very well written. The first volume of the collected editions was out of print but I found an offer at ebay that was acceptable. These two volumes will make a great addition to my collection. Thanks again for all the great information and I am looking forward to Part 2.
Thank you so much for watching and the kind words. I'm a huge fan of those Moench and Jones books.
back in the 90's Knightfall was my introduction to comics. My little sister (she's 20) is collecting all the Jason Todd and Tim Drake stories, she has a thing for Robin's. I was in college when Cataclysm came out and wasn't reading mainstream comics, so I'm really looking forward to those Omnibus!
I really enjoyed that time of Batman.
It is very interesting that you had the opportunity to decide Robin's fate. You were part of comic book history, Omar! Cool! Saludos desde Puerto Rico.
Muchas gracias, hermano. We decided and the little guy came back.
@@NearMintCondition Yeah, that's how comics are 😄
IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!!! I've been waiting 2 years for this!!!
You are a man of patience.
It's a very helpful video for me because I want to start reading Batman comics. I'm a guy from Uruguay, a small South American country. Thank you.
Today I found a copy of Second Chances in perfect shape for cover price. Thanks to your videos I snagged that boy boy up. So excited to add it to my ever growing Collection of Trades and Hardcovers.
What a great find!
Where?!
@@7OnAtuesday at a local comic shop in Greenville SC it was the only one he had back then. I was excited to find it for cover.
@@glenclark8696
So lucky, I'm trying to find that and caped crusader ones
I was actually just wondering when you'd do a Batman reading order this morning. Crazy
Look no further :)
We need a Red Hood reading order!!!
YES!!! Wow much like everyone else in the comments I have been waiting for this for so long! Awesome video!
Hope you enjoyed it!
I just discovered your TH-cam channel, great upload!
Welcome aboard! Thank you for the kind words.
Today I found a copy of second chances from my LCS at cover price! When I paid they gave me 20% off! If had never watched this video then I would have never known about that trade. Thank you for all the info you put together!
Awesome video, I've been waiting for this one. Thanks Omar.
My pleasure!
My favorite TH-cam Video so far and I’m only half way through
Thank you so much.
Amazing video
Would love reprints of dark Knight detectives and caped crusaders
Wow. You covered so many eras then over a big period of time. And now coming up to the more modern stuff will have three videos.
This was fantastic - can’t wait for the rest, but I will.
Thank you so much for watching and the kind words.
Impressive, most impressive.
Jaw dropping 😱.
Thank you so much.
While your DC universe starts post-crisis, I’d love to see a video talking about some of the classic Bronze Age stories/runs, especially by Denny O’Neil.
This rips! Thank you, Omar. Dreaming of the day when we get a Superman reading order as well.
PD: didn't know about the Moench/Jones trades. I'm going to get that asap
You are welcome.
Jim Aparo is my default Batman too and I’m a huge Neil Adams fan who grew up on the 70’s. Aparo used to draw Batman’s cape with the big sweeping style.
Thanks Omar! Much needed clarity to DC's Batman collected edition chaos.
You are very welcome. Thank you for the kind words and watching.
Thanks for this mate . I didn’t skip ads :D
Me : Reading comics from the pre-crisis era , cronologically
Every comprehensive look : Starts at 1986 ( post-crisis ) :(
I'll get to your guides really soon though , currently at 1984
:) At least with those pre Crisis era, they've done an amazing job collecting the Golden Age of characters and some Silver age. Bronze age though, needs some love.
Cool list Omar, I would also include Matt Wagner's 2 miniseries "Batman & the Mad Monk" and "Batman & The Monster Men" - essentially modern updates of some of the earliest Golden Age Batman stories which take place between Year One and Long Halloween - they were recently released in the "Legends of the Dark Knight: Matt Wagner" hardcover
Looking forward to the rest of the reading orders!
Thank you so much for watching and the kind words. And I almost brought those stories up, but then decided against it.
YESSSSS! It's finally happening! Thanks Omar. I have been trying to compile a reading order of my own so this will help me reorganise my list.
You're so welcome!
Ibdeed😊
I need all that early Tim Drake material!
I hope one day. We get them.
I need any and all things Chuck Dixon.
@@NearMintCondition people should get omnibus editions of everything.even though its more expensive .also what is your top five recommended comics of all time
Yeeesss Batman Batman Batman now if they only came out with omnis for the caped crusader trades we can have this reading order looking great on the shelf.
You said it.
bout to binge all four parts!!!!
Oooh a Road to No Man's Land Omni? I'm there! ...As for the rest of this...a fun watch, and a guide to 'things I might get for my nephews someday' without giving them anything too inappropriate. But I may also look for the Tim Drake origin books for myself.
Tim Drake is my Robin as well. :)
thank you for these videos, this is fantastic ! I do think we need more comprehensive orders like these !
I'll be getting that omnibus of No Man's Land for sure. Looks good. A lot of the other stuff I can read on DC Universe. Good review, Omar on my favorite comic book character. This helps a lot for me to catch up on some Batman reading. Great review. Cheers!
Thank you so much for the kind words. Seriously. :)
That's some pretty awesome Batman collection you got there Omar !! I think you should also check out Batman & Robin Advebtures. That is a great series that continues afrer the animated show !!
It is, did they wrap it up in collected edition?
@@NearMintCondition I dont know about collected omnis but I did see 3 trade vol. paperbacks on Amazon tho !!They also got the Batman Gotham Adventure trade paperback volumes which is the prequel. Also how do you like the new batsuit ?? I meant the blue one made by Alfred before he died !!
Awesome video I have been Batman fan since 1990-now the Batman is awesome 1:09
Good reading order. I feel that Batman Year 3 through the end of Legacy Volume 2 is the best run published. I read Cataclysm through No Man's Land and it feels so different; like they just ignore all the subplot developments leading into it from after Legacy. Good review.
Definitely get a Robin reading order please!!!!
I’ll put it up in the poll sometime later.
Wow Omar- just wow ! Four Batman installments ! One of my favorites is Haunted Knight for the Scarecrow and Mad Hatter stories , with the art they are simply superb.
Yes! Those stories are so great.
Thanks for this, I read and collected Batman comics when I was a kid. But I’m older then you so by the time some of these came out I wasn’t reading them anymore. All my comics are boarded and bagged at my parents house in my old bedroom. If I didn’t live so far away I’d get them and see what I have.
You could have a gold mine. :)
DAMN 1 of 4. This is great!
It all begins here.
A lot of comics to collect! But with some points I disagree like The return of the Dark Knight or the Deamon. But nice video :)
Brilliant, amazing run through as always! Cant wait for part 2! Definitely think I need to upgrade my knightfall to omni's now :-)
Thank you so much for the kind words.
Great episode Omar. You never disappoint.
Thank you, my dood!
There are two people in Omar's videos: Omar and Omar's hand 🤣🤣🤣
And camera man. :)
Hahahaha
Hot damn, Omar! I recommend watching this video with a Batman mask on for an immersive experience!
My man! Thank you.
Thanks for showing the recent Tales of the Demon hardcover has the original coloring as previous collections had some questionable re-coloring.
I love it!
Yes! Yes! The dark Knight finally rises. I am indebted to you Omar SIR.
You are so welcome and thank YOU for watching.
Keep up the great work, I enjoy your videos!👍
Dark Knight Detective vol.2 cover art is so recognizable, gotta love Mignola.
Oh for sure.
During Knightfall Bruce was looking for Jack Drake and Shondra not the cure for his back.
Well I can’t get Into every amount of detail. I open up that Shondra door and then I’ll have to talk about every one of his ladies. Jack I was saving for a Robin walkthrough. But I know what you meant.
Thank you! I’ve been looking for the reading order for months!
You’re welcome 😊
Thank you so much for this Omar! I had been purchasing the Dark Knight Detective and Caped Crusader TPBs based on your videos recommending them earlier this year, and am having a blast re-reading so many of my old Batman stories. Now after watching this video, I just had to pop off to CGN & ebay to fill in several holes in my Bat-library --- Curse of the Demon, Year Two, the two Moench/Kelley volumes & the J.H. Williams HCs, as well as the Contagion and two Legacy TPBs. Let's hope that one issue from Cataclysm (553) is included in the upcoming Road to No Man's Land Omnibus (no whammies no whammies...) I am very much looking forward to Part 2!
I think that might have been a misprint. So I hope that it does contain 553.
I wish most of these books weren’t oop 😩 here’s to hoping for many many reprints LOL
Detec 618-621 included in the lovely Norm Breyfogle hardcover Volume 2
And we have an upcoming Chuck Dixon HC later this year.
Yes it's finally here I've been waiting for this since I discovered this channel
Hope it helps you out.
@@NearMintConditionI've read most of this stuff but I still love listening to you go through it and seeing all the books side-by-side
Your comprehensive reading order videos are a great public service. Keep up the good work! I'm also a Jim Aparo fan but I prefer his earlier Brave and the Bold work, where he did his own inks and colors. Comparing that to the art in Death in the Family is like knight and day. :) I'm also a fan of the Grant/Breyfogle era. It's the most underrated Batman creative team. I've been reading Batman since the 1970s, around the time of O'Neil/Adams's "The Joker's 5 Way Revenge" but for me the pinnacle of monthly Batman teams is Grant/Breyfogle ,for both quality and quantity of work.
Between your video and the "Every Omnibus" videos Gem has been dropping, this week has given us a good video "haul."
Ha! knight and day :)
Just worked out i have 17 of these 32 books. Need to buy more now😁
I wish they would make an animated series showing all of this
I really enjoyed this reading order very informative as always the 1 comic I have included would be BATMAN: The Man Who Laughs after Batman year 1. I cannot wait for part 2❤️🌟
I decided to put that one in part two. But I am going to mention that it can be read after year one.
I love that you did a Batman Reading Order Omar! This is my first chance to watch it though. Also, just in case you weren't aware or forgot, the 2012 Knightfall trades collected KnightQuest: The Crusade for the first time, but the Omnibus was the first time that KnightQuest: The Search had been collected, prior to the 25th anniversary trade paperback releases. I had to look that up, because I was pretty sure that the Omnibuses had come out after the 2012 thick three volume trades, but I didn't know for sure.
The Search, that's right. Thank you for correcting me.
@@NearMintCondition You're welcome. At this point there's so many editions of Knightfall that it's hard to remember what was collected in each edition. Lol.
Yes thank you bro I was starting to think batman wouldn't happen
Thank you so much.
Omar I can't believe you've done it
I can’t either :)
I'm looking forward to part 2
Yes finally i have been waiting for this video for ages. I bet you enjoyed doing this one.
A big thank you omar and gang.😀
Hope you enjoyed it and thank you so much.
Looking forward to that part 2 of the batman reading order.
Coming soon.
YES!!!!! I’ve been waiting for this for so longgggggg! Thank you!
Hope it didn’t disappoint. Even with four parts.
Does anyone know where to buy Batman Venom, The Cult, Tales of the Demon and Second Chances bc they are extremely hard to find?
This is a very late reply, so you may have found them already lol. But ebay was my best friend when finding more niche stories. They unfortunately just don't seem to get modern reprints unfortunately. That's also kind of fine by me though, I think the art often looks better on that old paper.
Yo, just to add. Batman and the Monster men/Batman and the mad monk take place after year one. In case any of you guys are into after year one stuff
Great addition. I purposely left those out. Because they were minis that didn’t affect anything later. But, damn are they so good.
The Matt Wagner art is SO GOOD!!! I love my trades and it saddened me that the HC they dropped recently wasn't oversized.
Fun fact: they're actually updated versions of classic golden age batman stories.
Ricky G We need a Batman Dark Moon Rising ohc, or hell, a Legends of the Dark Knight omni
@@matsmagnussen yeah we have a hard cover but I would love a ohc
@@matsmagnussen a legends of the dark knight omni is so over due, some of that stuff still isn't collected
Thanks Omar! Hopefully the dark knight and caped crusaders line continue and close the gap to knightfall. My Batman starts with Bronze Age and that’s also terribly collected. I don’t know why DC started with collecting the gold age material. I doubt they’d sell as well as bronze or post crisis omni’s. Looking forward to the next vid.
Btw I recently found second chance in the wild. That was a great find. The Batman by Moench v1 is also hard to find.
I hope they continue too. And those Bronze Age Batman books, I'm sure are coming.
Hot Damn, Uncanny Omar may not talk pretty but he makes one hell of a reading order video. Thank you for all your hard work on this.
Let the Batmanathon reading begin!
(Would the Neal Adams Omni be pre-crisis then?)
I was wondering the same about neal adams omni 🤔
Neal Adams is all pre crisis. With the exception of Odyssey, but I can’t even remember if that’s even cannon anymore. But feel free to read that after Year One.
@@NearMintCondition As our prophet Omar the Uncanny doth spake, so shall we listen and so shall we read
Omar! You are awesome for doing this. You put so much effort in your video's and that's why I will always keep coming back for more :)
Thank you so much. For coming back too. :)
I just started to collect DC comics 2 weeks ago. By far Batman is my favorite DC character!
He is one of the best.
@NMC / To: Uncanny Omar. Question: Did DC ever Publish an Omnibus or OHC of the “Elseworlds” Red Rain Trilogy..? / Btw, I relate to your comment about Jim Aparo. He was always a consummate pro. It was his art that drew me in to read “Brave and the Bold”, and “A Death in the Family”. Beautiful solid work, every issue, on every single page. My favorite late 1970’s early 80’s artist. Then came, George Pérez. Awesome stuff! Great years!