Episode 100 of The Overlooked Dark Knight three weeks away! To celebrate this milestone, Andy and Mike thought it might be fun to re-present some older audio that is, sadly, no longer available. It seemed like a fun idea that kills two birds with one stone. Older conversations that can't be found anywhere else can find a new home and you get some extra content.

It's a win-win. For everyone.

For this first Bat Flashback Mike dusted off an episode of Bailey's Batman Podcast that was originally released in October of 2012. This episode was the first time Andy and Mike got together to talk about Batman and they chose a big issue to talk about. Batman #400, which came out in July of 1986, was not only an anniversary issue that had Batman fighting a bunch of his villains with an all-star roster of artists, it was also the final issue before Denny O'Neil took over as editor. The guys go over the book from cover to cover...literally. They talk about the era and the story and how the idea of a villain breaking out all of Batman's foes from Arkham would come back again in the nineties.

Andy and Mike would like to apologize, in advance, that this thing was three hours long. They were much chattier back in the old days.

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

This time out Andy and Mike go back to the Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight well to talk about a story that came out in 1991 and was very much a done and one tale that later turned out to be one of the building blocks of the Knightfall Saga.

(To be fair, they've talked about Legends of the Dark Knight stories before, but that doesn't stop Mike from giving you a history of the title.)

Venom was a story that ran from Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #16 to issue #20. Written by Denny O'Neil with art by the unlikely trio of Russell Braun, Trevor Von Eden, and Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, this story is about a time in Batman's history when he become addicted to performance enhancing drugs. That's actually an oversimplification. There's a lot of moving parts to this story and it not only takes place in Gotham City but also on the island of Santa Prisca. It's part examination of addiction and part James Bond type story that includes a fun reference to shark repellent.

Andy and Mike talk about a variety of things during the course of the episode. From a brief synopsis from Mike to Batman becoming an addict to addiction in general to the two bad guys and how much the guys hated them to how wonky the last act of the story is. They also have a brief conversation about how this story ties in Knightfall, which leads them to talking about the Bat Crossovers in general. They even go through the house ads that were in the book as well and Mike reads two of the letters from later issues, one of which seems to presage Knightfall.

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Next Time: In the lead up to episode 100, we are going to represent some audio from the past. First up will be the first time Andy and Mike talked about Batman in a podcast! From the archives of Bailey's Batman Podcast, the guys do a deep dive into Batman #400!

Andy and Mike are back and this time they are looking at stories from two different decades but written by the same writer. Doug Moench had two distinct runs on Batman. In the eighties he followed Gerry Conway on Dark Knight writing duties and continued the "Triangle Era before the Triangle Era and without triangles" storytelling style by working on both Batman and Detective Comics. He left the book after Batman #400, but came back to the Batman title in the early nineties just before Knightfall. He would stay on that title until No Mans Land and is one of the rare Bat writers to leave the character and then return.

First up on the docket is Batman #367 and Detective Comics #534, which has a pre-Crisis and even pre-Robin Jason Todd dressed in a fancy costume helping the Batman as he battles Poison Ivy. It's a standard Ivy plot for the time, but this doesn't stop these issues from being entertaining. The guys talk about how skimpy Poison Ivy's outfit is, the very seventies television/Hammer Horror feel to the story, the subplots, and the differences between Don Newton and Gene Colan's art.

Then they jump forward to 1995 and talk about Batman #525, which was an Underworld Unleased crossover issue. Not that you would be able to tell that as it has nearly nothing to do with the larger event going on. The story focuses on Mister Freeze and his Underworld Unleashed upgrade, but the bulk of the commentary is about Kelly Jones's art. Mike was not the biggest fan of Kelly's style back in 1995, but that has changed in a big way over the past three decades.

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Next Time: Andy and Mike jump back to the early nineties and talk about Venom. Not the Spider-Man villain, but a storyline fromBatman: Legends of the Dark Knight that would later become important to the Knightfall storyline.