The most beautiful line of Panini Comics breaks into a work that tells us the origin of Batman: year and two

The arrival of DC Comics A Panini Comics He was very expected after a few months in which this editorial was not published in Spain. One of the first titles to arrive is on the one hand the beginning of a new editorial line and on the other the collection in a volume of the origin of the most important character of the Distinct competition. This volume is under the title of DC Finest. Batman: Year and two and brings together several stories set in the early years of Dark Knight.

After crises in infinite lands

It was the mid -eighties and the event that had changed everything was Infinite terrestrial crisis. The multiverse became a new universe and all the DC Comics series were restarted, although not all reborn. Batman started his new journey with the number 400 of his main regular series while the secondary series of this character, Detective comicshe did the same as 568.

In this volume we will find ourselves, before reaching fat, with the first number of these two series in parallel, following a rigorous order of publication that is above the chronological order of the character’s history.

These first numbers are not particularly remarkable for their quality, being probably the great covers that each accompany the most remarkable part of each of them. The most remarkable can be to see Batman face a sad imitator who, against the whole prognosis, ends up being a more complicated obstacle to overcome what anyone could have thought. Max Allan Collins It is those behind this idea.

But it will be the team formed by Mike W. Barr y Alan Davis In these beginnings what the newest air injects in the character, something that must be blamed mainly by the great and refreshing style of the British cartoonist.

First year

Batman: first year It is not just one of Batman’s big comics, it is the comic that redefined the character for a new era. This masterpiece of Frank Miller y David Mazzucchelli He gave a bath of reality and Rawness to the myth of the dark gentleman, removing the dust of the 60s and restoring the darkness that Gotham City He always deserved.

Miller writes with a scalpel, being here a direct, sober and flourishing screenwriters that tells the first steps of Bruce Wayne As justice with a perfect mixture of vulnerability, obsession and determination. But the great surprise is that this is not only the origin of Batman, but it is also the history of the lieutenant James GordonThat is presented here as a decent boy lost in a vipers’ nest, who gradually becomes the only real ally of Batman in the city.

And then it is Mazzucchelli, who is simply brilliant here, perhaps signing his best job. Its clean but expressive line, the cinematographic composition of the cartoons and the way in which it makes the city look live and march are the aspects that adapt to everything as a bat glove. It is sober, elegant and absolutely engaging.

Second year

Batman: second year It is that comic that came with the difficult (and perhaps unfair) task of following the titan who was the work of Miller and Mazzucchelli. With Mike W. Barr’s screenplay, this story wanted to continue to explore Batman’s first days, but the quality leap compared to the previous work is remarkable.

Here we have a still young, more violent and emotional Batman in front of a new villain: the Stronger. It is a kind of proto-vigilant that already imposed lethal justice on the city of Gotham in front of him. The premise raises what happens when the Masked crusader Faces a dark reflection of himself, a situation in which our hero will collaborate Joe ChillThe killer of his parents, in one of those shifts that seem a little stupid today.

The drawing crossed several hands (including those of a young man Todd McFarlane) And this shows: the visual tone is irregular, with powerful moments and other confused or recharged moments. There is Splash pages Much novelty that were made before the 90s, many layers in the wind and a lot of dramatic expression. The emotion is not lacking, but a little aesthetic and narrative consistency.

Is it a bad comic? No. He has interesting ideas and dares to enter uncomfortable land for the character. But it looks like a direct sequel to Batman’s video: the year one. Of course, this story triumphs when it comes to being a fundamental part of Batman’s growth. It represents that moment when the bats is still looking for vignettes both inside and outside. It is imperfect, yes, but it is also a curious piece of the character’s editorial history.

Jason Tood arrives

In the rest of the stories contained here, perhaps the most remarkable is the arrival of a new Robinthe hated Jason Todd who came to the life of our protagonist after stealing the wheels of the Battobile. That start has not presented anything new for the child.

As for romantic interests, Vicky Vale She is the girl who accompanies this attracted Bruce’s attention. But the most surprising relationship of Masked crusader that we will have in this volume will undoubtedly be what he maintains with the truth Sherlock Holmes In a number in which we will also see other great detectives of the Universe DC how they are Slam Bradley and the Elastic man.

Beyond these fun curiosities, the truth is that the volume stands out above all for the presence of a year and that the difference with the rest of the stories contained is unbalanced, but it can still be said that we are facing a volume in which we will find all the essence of the beginning of the character that has been Batman in the last four decades. And this to say a lot.

Him Volume Posted by Panini Comics In a soft lid it contains 640 color pages with a size of 17 x 26 cm. and includes the translation of the American edition of numbers from 401 to 412 of the normal Batman series with its 11 and annual and numbers from 568 to 579 of the regular detective comics of the series, as well as all the covers of the numbers included, an introduction written by Santiago García. The recommended sale price is € 49.95 and was offered for sale in April 2025.

DC Finest. Batman: Year and two

You loved her and you did it here! The best lines of line, with complete compilations of the phases and the most requested and famous characters in the history of DC, in offset in rustic with fins. We started with Batman: year and two, the adventures that the dark gentleman lived after the revolutionary crises in infinite lands, first in the hands of Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, already continuing with authors such as Mike W. Barr, Alan Davis, Todd McFarlane, Max Allan Collins, Norm Breyfogle and more.

AUTORAres: Frank Miller, Mike W. Barr, David Mazzucchelli, Alan Davis, Todd McFarlane, Max Allan Collins Y Norm Breyfogle