Batman Trades Poll Returns!

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I miss the old vote for the Batman trade polls which use to be a regular occurrence on this forum so let's do it again!

Vote for your top twenty favourite Batman books (labelled 1-20) and at the end I will count them up and put up the results, no.1 will get twenty points and so on until no.20 gets 1 point. I will close it off on the 30th Sep so there's over a month to think about it and for irregular poster to have a say too.


I'm trying to follow the old rules as close as possible which were;

Must be a Collected format

If you've read the story in single issues then that's fine, however you'll need to vote for it in Collected format. For instance a vote for ""the Greg Rucka Detective run" is probably best matched by Murderer/Fugitive or Batman Evolution. Otherwise OGN's, sequential collections, anthologies...all good.

Vote for your favourite books, not the "most important"

The IGN list explains this perfectly; "Sometimes too much importance is placed on the significance of a story rather than the quality of the storytelling. A story needs to be compelling beyond just the plot twists. It's not enough just to be a good read, each of these books must linger in our memories." You get the idea.

Group Voting

This is to simplify your list when it comes to multi-volume stories, runs, collections etc. Group Voting means that if you're choosing No Mans Land, for example, you don't need to use up four positions to include the whole thing, and you don't need to pick your favourite volume at the expense of the rest. Therefore a vote for Batman Eternal Vol.1 will also count for "Batman Eternal" as a whole, or a vote for Batman Reborn is a vote for the entire "Grant Morrison Batman & Robin" run. This also means you can't stack a submission with more than one type of book or anything too closely related. Just so we’re *absolutely clear* on this part, please refer to list below; if it has a parenthesis alongside then it's part of a Group - multiple votes from one Group cannot be counted.

The below link shows the previous results in case you want to check for inspiration,



https://community.cbr.com/showthread...249#post210249

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...=Batman+Trades

Have fun!

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Here's mine;

1. The Dark Knight Returns
2. Batman Year 100
3. Gotham Central
4. Batman: The Long Halloween
5. Batman: White Knight
6. Venom
7. Batman and the Monster Men
8. Grant Morrison's Batman run
9. Mad Love
10. The Cult
11. Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood
12. Death of the Family
13. Paul Dini's Detective
14. Zero Year
15. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
16. Shaman
17. Going Sane
18. The Killing Joke
19. Robin: Son of Batman
20. Planetary/Batman: Night On Earth

[Batman Begins 2005]

Yeah! Will do mine ASAP.

[Pohzee]

1.) Black Mirror
2.) Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth
3.) Gotham Central: Jokers and Madmen
4.)Year One
5.) Long Halloween
6.) Court of Owls (*NOT any of the rest of Snyder's run)
7.) Strange Apparitions
8.) Son of Batman (New Edition)
9.) Dark Victory
10.) The Cult
11.) The Killing Joke
12.) Rules of Engagement
13.) Scarecrow: Year One
14.) Showcase Presents Batman Vol 5
15.) Batman and the Mad Monk
16.) Death and Maidens
17.) Under the Red Hood
18.) Gates of Gotham
19.) Icarus
20.) Reqium

[joybeans]

1. Batman: The Long Halloween / Dark Victory
2. Batman: Year One
3. Grant Morrison's Batman/Batman and Robin/Batman Incorporated
4. Batman: The Black Mirror
5. Gotham Central

6. Batman: Ego
7. Batman: Dark Knight Dark City
8. Batgirl/Robin: Year One
9. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth
10. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

11. Batman: No Man's Land
12. Scott Snyder's Batman
13. Paul Dini's Detective Comics/Streets of Gotham
14. Grayson
15. Ed Brubaker's Catwoman

16. Greg Rucka's Batwoman
17. Batman: Lil Gotham
18. Bryan Q. Miller's Batgirl
19. Chuck Dixon's Nightwing
20. Batman: The Killing Joke

[nepenthes]

So awesome. Will have mine up soon!

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1. Batman: The Long Halloween / Dark Victory
2. Batman: Year One
3. Grant Morrison's Batman/Batman and Robin/Batman Incorporated
4. Batman: The Black Mirror
5. Gotham Central

6. Batman: Ego
7. Batman: Dark Knight Dark City
8. Batgirl/Robin: Year One
9. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth
10. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

11. Batman: No Man's Land
12. Scott Snyder's Batman
13. Paul Dini's Detective Comics/Streets of Gotham
14. Grayson
15. Ed Brubaker's Catwoman

16. Greg Rucka's Batwoman
17. Batman: Lil Gotham
18. Bryan Q. Miller's Batgirl
19. Chuck Dixon's Nightwing
20. Batman: The Killing Joke

Thanks for doing yours! But could you please split out the Morrison and Snyder runs into their trades collections,


So far Morrison there's the omnibus collections of;

Batman
Batman & Robin
Batman Inc

And Snyder there is;
The Court of Owls (1–11 omnibus)
Death of the Family
Zero Year
Graveyard Shift
Endgame
Superheavy
Bloom
Epilogue
Batman Eternal
Batman and Robin Eternal
All Star Batman My Own Worst Enemy
All Star Batman Ends of the Earth
All Star Batman The First Ally

If you're not fussed I will just default it to the first trade of their respective runs.

[LephistoNZ]

Here's my list:

1. The Dark Knight Returns
2. Year One
3. Black Mirror
4. Long Halloween
5. Dark Victory
6. Hush
7. Court of Owls
8. Zero Year
9. Batman: R.I.P
10. The Killing Joke
11. Knightfall
12. No Man's Land
13. Batman Incorporated Vol. 1
14. Death in the Family
15. Batman & Son
16: Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn
17. Under the Red Hood
18. Catalysm
19. Endgame
20. The Man Who Laughs

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Here's my list:

1. The Dark Knight Returns
2. Year One
3. Black Mirror
4. Long Halloween
5. Dark Victory
6. Hush
7. Court of Owls
8. Zero Year
9. Batman: R.I.P
10. The Killing Joke
11. Knightfall
12. No Man's Land
13. Batman Incorporated Vol. 1
14. Death in the Family
15. Batman & Son
16: Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn
17. Under the Red Hood
18. Catalysm
19. Endgame
20. The Man Who Laughs

If you want you could slap together Batman & Son and Batman R.I.P as well as The Long Halloween and Dark Victory for the Omnibus editions which had them both included so you can add another two titles in your list, but it's upto you.

[Batman Begins 2005]

Hope I've done this right:

1. Batman: Year One.
2. Batman: The Long Halloween.
3. The Killing Joke.
4. Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn (Grant Morrison Batman & Robin run).
5. The Dark Knight Returns.
6. The Black Glove (Grant Morrison BATMAN run).
7. The Black Mirror.
8. Batwoman: Elegy (JH Williams Batwoman run).
9. Gotham Central.
10. Batman (New 52) Vol.7: Endgame (ENDGAME).
11. JLA: Tower of Babel.
12. Knightfall.
13. Batman: A Death in the Family.
14. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth.
15. DCAU: Batman Adventures Vol.1 (Ty Templeton DCAU run).
16. Li'l Gotham Vol.1 (Lil Gotham).
17. Heart of Hush.
18. Batman Incorporated New 52 (Vol.1): The Demon Star (Batman Incorporated, all volumes).
19. Batman & Robin (New 52) Vol.4: Requiem for Damian (Peter Tomasi B&R run)
20. Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

[joybeans]

Thanks for doing yours! But could you please split out the Morrison and Snyder runs into their trades collections,


So far Morrison there's the omnibus collections of;

Batman
Batman & Robin
Batman Inc

And Snyder there is;
The Court of Owls (1–11 omnibus)
Death of the Family
Zero Year
Graveyard Shift
Endgame
Superheavy
Bloom
Epilogue
Batman Eternal
Batman and Robin Eternal
All Star Batman My Own Worst Enemy
All Star Batman Ends of the Earth
All Star Batman The First Ally

If you're not fussed I will just default it to the first trade of their respective runs.

In that case, make it Batman and Robin for Morrison and Court of Owls for Snyder.

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In that case, make it Batman and Robin for Morrison and Court of Owls for Snyder.

Cheers for that!

[Batman Begins 2005]

Love Grant Morrison's Batman run. Batman and Robin's the best of it.

[The I.A.D.C.]

1. Strange Apparitions (collects Steve Englehart & Marshall Rogers "Detective Comics" run from '78) (Out of print at the moment - WHY???)
2. Tales of the Batman - Len Wein
3. Tales of the Batman - Gerry Conway Vol. 1
4. Tales of the Batman - Gerry Conway Vol. 2
5. Dark Knight Detective Vol. 1 (collects Mike Barr's "Detective Comics" run just after "Crisis")
6. Year One
7. Long Halloween
8. Haunted Knight
9. Batman & The Monster Men / Batman & The Mad Monk (both excellent stories by Matt Wagner)
10. A Death In The Family
11. Dark Knight - Dark City
12. Knightfall
13. Hush
14. Batman and Son
15. RIP
16. Batman Inc.
17. The Black Mirror
18. Court of Owls
19. Rebirth Deluxe Edition Vol. 1
20. Dark Knight Returns

[oasis1313]

I'd love to see a Gerry Conway collection.