26 episodes
Bat Lessons: Batman History Phantasm FM
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4.9 • 22 Ratings
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Covering characters, stories, writers, artists, movie directors, business, politics and more. Everything in and around Batman. We start at the very begining, and work our way chronoligcally through 80 years of Batman.
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Two First Appearances ft CasuallyComics!
Very special guest Sasha from Casually comics comes along for a chat about the malevolent Mad Hatter and crack photographer Vicki Vale!
75 Years of Batman (Kindle)
Mad as a Hatter (Wikipedia)
Mad Gasser of Mattoon (Wikipedia)
Creators of the Super Heroes (Amazon)
Torchy Blane (Wikipedia)
Casually Comics (Youtube)
Head on over to https://batlessons.com for all things Bat Lessons. Send us a letter or voice recording, find us on threads, read full transcripts and find show notes.
Podcast Artwork by Sergio R . M. Duarte
Podcast Music by Renzo Calma
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How Two-Face Began
We’re joined by special guest Jameson from A Comic Book A Day to go over the first appearance of the duke of duplicity, Two Face!!
Geroge Russous (Blog Post)
Detective #66 (DC Universe Infinite)
Batman: The Complete History (Amazon)
Creators of the Super Heroes (Amazon)
History of Comics (Amazon)
The Shadow: Face of Doom (Amazon)
The Bat Strikes Again (Amazon)
Head on over to https://batlessons.com for all things Bat Lessons. Send us a letter or voice recording, find us on mastodon or youtube, read full transcripts and find show notes.
Podcast Artwork by Sergio R . M. Duarte
Podcast Music by Renzo Calma
Motion Graphics by r2ktalha -
Penguin
We’re joined by special guest Sal from ComicPOP to go over the first appearance of the pompous waddling master of foul play, the Penguin!
Detective Comics #58 (DCU Infinite)
Creators of the Super Heroes (Amazon)
Steranko History of Comics (Amazon)
Jerry Robinsion: Ambassador Of Comics (Amazon)
ComicPOP (YouTube)
Head on over to https://batlessons.com for all things Bat Lessons. Send us a letter or voice recording, find us on mastodon or youtube, read full transcripts and find show notes.
Podcast Artwork by Sergio R . M. Duarte
Podcast Music by Renzo Calma
Motion Graphics by r2ktalha
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Clayface
Brian and Alex Discuss Clayface in person! A brief overview of various iterations of clayface, and a read of the very first appearance of Clayface. A fun episode!
Silver Age Origin: Detective Comics #304 (DCU Infinite)
Clayface Hero: Detective Comics Rebirth (Amazon)
Batman Beyond: Disappearing Inque (wiki)
Lon Chaney: The Phantom of the Opera (wiki)
Lon Chaney: The Wolf Man (IMDB)
New 52 Origin: Dark Knight #24 (DCU Infinite)
First Appearance: Detective Comics #40 (DCU Infinite)
Head on over to https://batlessons.com for all things Bat Lessons. Send us a letter or voice recording, find us on mastodon or youtube, read full transcripts and find show notes.
Podcast Artwork by Sergio R. M. Duarte
Podcast Music by Renzo Calma
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Bonus: Dickens, Genre Fiction, and Batman With Dr. Jennifer Conary
On This Bonus Episode, we're thrilled to have Dr. Jennifer Conary joining us! We discuss Dickens (to contextualize episode 20 and Batman: Noel) and victorian genre fiction in the vein of Batman. You don't want to miss it!
Dr. Jennifer Conary Reynolds Reimagned A Christmas Carol
Head on over to https://batlessons.com for all things Bat Lessons. Send us a letter or voice recording, find us on mastodon or youtube, read full transcripts and find show notes.
Podcast Artwork by Sergio R. M. Duarte
Podcast Music by Renzo Calma -
Scrooge in Gotham: Batman Noel
On this very special Christmas episode, we cover a retelling of “A Christmas Carol” that has become a modern classic in its own right: Batman Noel. In standard Bat Lessons fashion we go way too deep, and cover the history of the original novella and bring in a Charles Dickens expert to school us.
Dr. Jennifer Conary
Reynolds Reimagned
A Christmas Carol
Lee Bermejo Interview
Batman Noel
Head on over to https://batlessons.com for all things Bat Lessons. Send us a letter or voice recording, find us on mastodon or youtube, read full transcripts and find show notes.
Podcast Artwork by Sergio R. M. Duarte
Podcast Music by Renzo Calma
Customer Reviews
I Found My Favorite Podcast
About a year ago, I was writing an essay about Batman and Robin for a literature class and wanted to know the history of the creation of Robin. I searched Batman and Robin History in podcast and found this show. I absolutely loved the Robin episodes and how in depth the research was. I’m still a listener today and it makes my day when I see Bat Lessons released a new episode. I’m a big Scarecrow fan, so I’m hoping an episode about him comes out soon!
Riddle me this, riddle me that…who’s afraid of the big black bat?
Thoroughly interesting content, even when you batarang far off topic. There’s so much to learn I think it requires (and is worth) more than one listen…just like there’s more than one Robin 😉. I’ll keep suggesting your podcast to others as long as you keep the Bat Signal lit! Best wishes to you two caped crusaders. 🦇
Great job
Love it, great history and passion.