CBR Community Census: Batman's Ten Best Stories.

[Batman Begins 2005]

I thought it would be good to survey posters ten best Batman stories seeing where we agree and differ. It's a catch all thread for that and might help new Batman readers as well!

Mine:

1. Batman: Year One.
2. Batman: The Long Halloween.
3. Batman and Robin Reborn. Batman and Robin #1-3.
4. Batman and Robin Must Die. Batman and Robin #13-16.
5. Batman: The Black Mirror.
6. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
7. Batwoman: Elegy.
8. Batman: The Killing Joke.
9. Space Medicine. Batman #672-674.
10. Kingdom Come.

[jb681131]

1. Batman: Ego
2. Batman & Robin New52 annual #1: Batman Impossible
3. New Gotham + Turning Point
4. Batman: Strange Apparition + Dark Detective
5. Vengeance of Bane #1
6. Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I, II, III
7. Tales of the Multivers: Batman-Vampire
8. Joker: Going Sane
9. Batman: White Knight + Curse of the White Knight
10. Joker's Asylum: Penguin

honorable mentions

• Joker by Brian Azzarello
• Batman: Univers
• Gotham by Gaslight
• The Devil's Advocate
• Under the Red Hood + Red Hood: Lost Days
• Batman, the dark knight: Cycle of Violence
• Challenge of the Man-Bat!
• Mad Love
• Arkham Asylum: A serious house on a serious earth
• Detective Comics + Streets of Gotham by Paul Dini
• Arkham Asylum: Living Hell
• Batman & Son + The Black Glove
• Detective Comics by James Tynion IV
• Batman: Icarus + Anarky
• Batman Adventures: Shadows & Masks
• Batman: Snow
• Batman Prey + Terror
• Batman Shaman + Venom
• Gates of Gotham

[Restingvoice]

To Kill a Legend
There is No Hope in Crime Alley
Five Ways of Joker's Revenge
The Autobiography of Bruce Wayne
Year One
The Gauntlet
Mad Love
Batman RIP - What The Butler Saw & The Butler Did It
Requiem for Damian
Cold Days

[kevink31593]

Chronological order. The original post says “ten best Batman stories” (interpreting as not limited to only comics), so I am throwing in some other media. I am counting the Dark Knight trilogy as a three-part story, and I am counting Grant Morrison‘s run as a seven-year long mega story.

Strange Apparitions (Detective Comics 469-476)
Dark Knight Returns (comic)
Year One (comic)
The Killing Joke (comic)
The Mask of the Phantasm (movie)
Knightfall (novelization)
The Long Halloween (comic)
No Man’s Land (novelization)
The Dark Knight trilogy (movies)
Grant Morrison run (2006-2013 comics)

Recent honorable mention: White Knight (comic)