#batman 55

[smbhax]

Batman #55, October-November 1949. Dick Sprang cover pencils, Charles Paris inks, Ira Schnapp letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database

[thatstheproblemwithnapkinman]

discord nitro lets you use your own emoji and stickers in any server so i can use my little blorbos everywhere

i love him

also this one

he's such a mood

(do you know how long it took me to find a website that will actually remove the backgrounds properly)

[gffa]

Do I know the Ric Grayson arc is going to be a slog to get through?  Sure, even with being able to binge it, it’s going to be A Long Read.  But you know what I will say for this overall moment in the timeline?  (Batman #55 + Nightwing Annual #2 + Nightwing #50) THEY KNOW HOW TO START ME OFF RIGHT.  I have never seen anyone that level of nuclear hot when getting shot, much less following it up with Caring Dad Bruce who just picks up his kid and protectively leans his head in against Bruce’s shoulder to haul ass to get him help because HE.  WILL.  BE.  FINE. like Bruce will fucking will him into being fine if he has to, like that’s some quality visual storytelling there, you can just take one glace at that page and know Batman loves that kid in his arms, and then!! AND THEN!! Ric Grayson may be kind of annoying but holy SHIT that dude is hot.  Do you SEE the way he’s drawn in those panels!? What I’m looking forward to with this arc is that it seems like it was an actual shakeup of the status quo, that the length of it means that it actually had some time for the impact, that Bruce actually has to not just freak out about Dick losing his memories, not just freak out at the distance Dick puts between them now that he doesn’t remember Bruce or Nightwing or the entire history that led him to being the heart of his family, but that Bruce actually is going to have to work at this for the first time in a long while. That it comes on the heels of Selina leaving him at the altar, so the entire reason Dick was in Gotham was because he was trying to cheer up Bruce, the entire reason KGBeast shot him was because Bane was trying to get to Batman, so there’s some really delicious underlying guilt that he can’t rely on Dick to forgive him for, because this Dick can’t and won’t do that for him. I am prepared to hunker down and dig out all the Batdad and Batson feelings that this arc will give me and, if nothing else, holy shit, that is some very stunningly gorgeous art in Nightwing #50 and those panels from the Annual where Bruce hauls him off are off the charts Batdad Feelings.  Maybe this arc will eventually reveal itself to be garbage, but for now HOLY SHIT THAT IS SOME PRIME QUALITY READING MATERIAL RIGHT THERE.

[viaov]

Denis Medri, Catwoman, Rockabilly

[hood-ex]

Do you remember your reaction when you were reading the issue Dick got shot in the head?

Well I already knew Dick was going to get shot in the head before I read the issue (or maybe I just knew he was going to have head trauma of some kind idr) because of comic previews/news and such, so that aspect wasn't shocking in any way. I also remember not being a fan of how King wrote Dick's excessive jokey demeanor in that issue. I know Dick was doing it to cheer Bruce up because Bruce got stood up at the altar and all but ehhh the way it was written annoyed me.

[foundenterprisefamily]

every time I see this panel of ric grayson

all i can think of is this

[thanksdick]

@ dc writers

[comical-dt]

Has this been done yet?