Another Bat-Flashback...Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk!

About this episode

The episode revisits the original team-up between Batman and the Incredible Hulk, discussing the story and its characters.

The Overlooked Dark Knight presents another Bat-Flashback! Recently Andy and Mike have been looking at the original team-ups between Superman and Spider-Man because there are new team-ups between those heroes. Because of this, Mike thought it might be a good idea to re-release the time the guys talked about Batman meeting and, improbably, fighting the Incredible Hulk. Originally presented as episode 61 of the show (released on January 18, 2022) Andy and Mike talked about "The Monster and the Madman". Written by Len Wein with art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and Dick Giordano, the story was initially presented in DC Special Series #27 and was released (according to Mike's Amazing World of Comics) on September 24, 1981. The story has Batman and the Hulk joining forces to deal with their most well known and arch foes. In Batman's case this meant The Joker. For Hulk, this meant...the Shaper of Worlds? Yeah, Andy and Mike were confused about that as well. It's one of the things they talk about. They also discuss the art, the fact that the Bruce Banner in the story was played somewhat like his live action television counterpart, wha the term "donkey work" means, what other Hulk villains…

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrew Leyland, Michael Bailey

Topics covered

• Batman
• Incredible Hulk
• comic book team-ups
• art discussion
• character analysis
• nostalgia

Keywords

• Batman
• Incredible Hulk
• Len Wein
• comic book
• team-up
• The Joker
• Bruce Banner
• Shaper of Worlds

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk, DC Special Series #27

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