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The Greatest Batman Comic Of All Time Is A Parody That Time Forgot

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The Dark Knight Returns. Batman: Year One. Arkham Asylum. All of them pale in comparison to this classic comic…


What’s the greatest Batman comic of all time? It’s a question that will never be definitively answered, but one serious contender is a comic parody that most fans likely haven’t read, let alone heard of…


Fanboy was a six-issue series from 1999, created by the Groo The Wanderer team of writer Mark Evanier and artist Sergio Aragonés. The series focuses on Finster, a young comic fan who gets so caught up in his own imagination, he sometimes has difficulty separating his imaginary life from the real one. As the title suggests, it’s a skewering satire of comics and the fans who love them, although the series also acts as a love letter to comics history. While Aragonés is the primary artist, each issue also features a host of guest artists from DC Comics past and present, an impressive list of legends including Gil Kane, Russ Heath, Jerry Ordway, Dave Gibbons and over a dozen others. It’s precisely because of this reason that Fanboy #5 should be in serious contention for one of the best Batman comics of all time.

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Neal Adams Leaves His Mark On Batman in Fanboy #5

Fanboy #5 - Neal Adams' Batman

A tribute to all things Dark Knight, Fanboy #5 sees the comic store that Finster works at purchasing a highly-valued copy of Batman #1, which contains the first appearance of the Joker. At a party celebrating the purchase, all the lights go out in a power outage. Once the power returns, everyone’s shocked to find the newly-purchased Batman #1 now missing. Wishing he could find a way to help, Finster sees a Batman poster on the store’s wall, and immediately imagines a scenario where he becomes Robin and joins Batman in pursuit of the comic book thief. As he and Batman run down different leads, Finster finds himself taken through a journey of Batman’s history, conveyed through a jaw-dropping collection of Batman artists including Dick Sprang, Jim Mooney, Joe Giella, Neal Adams, Frank Miller and Bruce Timm.

Any Batman story would be lucky to have just one of these artists contributing, but having them all collected beneath the same cover is a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence – primarily because each artist provided a template for the character in their time that others would seek to emulate for years thereafter. Dick Sprang was amongst the earliest artists to leave his unmistakable mark on the character in the Golden Age of Comics, noted for his depictions of Batman battling villains on over-sized props and co-creating the Riddler. Neal Adams completely redefined Batman in the late sixties and seventies, taking the character away from the campy direction established in the ’66 TV series and bringing him in a darker, more serious direction. Frank Miller did a similar reinvention of Batman with 1986’s The Dark Knight Returns, a radical reinterpretation that laid the groundwork for where the character would go for the next generation of comics. Bruce Timm of course provided what many to be the greatest adaptation of the character with Batman: The Animated Series, which many consider to be the definitive interpretation of the Dark Knight across all media.

Frank Miller Brings Batman Into the Eighties in Fanboy #5

Fanboy #5 - Frank Miller's Batman

It may be a work of parody, but Fanboy #5 still captures the essence of Batman by showing all the changes the character has gone through over the years. For that reason, Fanboy #5 should be in serious contention for the greatest Batman comic of all time.

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