The Road to Episode 100 Part 2 - Bat-Flashack - Episode 1 - The "Untold" Legend of the Batman

About this episode

The episode revisits the first episode of the podcast, discussing the origins of Batman and the comic series 'The Untold Legend of the Batman'.

The road to Episode 100 continues by going ALL the way back to the very first episode of the show! Presented just as it was when it came out, without any cuts to make the guys look better! Way back in 2017, Andy and Mike started The Overlooked Dark Knight with a mandate of talking about Batman comics that hardly anyone talks about. They promptly side stepped that mandate by starting things with an exploration of Batman's history. The Untold Legend of the Batman was a three-issue mini-series written by Len Wein with art (initially) by John Byrne and then (eventually) Jim Aparo. The point of the series was to take all of various tellings and re-tellings of Batman's origin, as well as the origins of his friends and foes and and present them as one, clean history. Back when you could do such a thing. After telling you why they started the show and discuss the pros and cons of doing an index podcast, the guys talk about the first issue of the series. That's all Mike remembers of the episode, so hopefully neither he nor Andy said anything that has since become problematic. It may not seem like it, but Andy and Mike do like feedback even if they are crap at getting to it. The most…

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrew Leyland, Michael Bailey

Topics covered

• Batman comics
• podcast history
• comic book origins
• Untold Legend of the Batman
• index podcast

Keywords

• Batman
• comics
• podcast
• Untold Legend
• Len Wein
• John Byrne
• Jim Aparo

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Untold Legend of the Batman

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