Meanwhile, Chris and his family are still living in a completely empty house, as the notion of having readers create their furniture appears to have been a total dud. Wish it had been drawn by someone other than Don Heck, but even he can make a circle look right. Which is a giant floating eyeball with a mortarboard hat, which I concede is kind of neat. Bet you couldn’t have figured that one out. Tzin Tzin has some degree of illusion casting powers, explored more fully in his next appearance, against Supergirl, in the pages of Adventure Comics the following year.Īdventure 484 – Dial “H” for Hero and the Master’s planĬhris and Vickie take on a couple of bounty hunters in Adventure 484 (Aug 81), a story by Marv Wolfman and Don Heck. This story also, at the end, implies that Dr. Killing Batman is his “initiation.” That’s a big step down for a criminal mastermind, as he was portrayed in his first appearance. In this story, Tzin Tzin is attempting to join the League of Assassins. Of course, Batman escapes and frees Robin. Robin was kidnapped, and used to draw Batman to the house, and the hallucinations were to distract him while Dr. The final hallucinatory scene has Robin and the Justice Leaguers at Batman’s funeral expressing their disdain for him, before all goes black. So in a way this story, although there are actual villains, can be seen as separation anxiety Batman is feeling now that his child has grown up and headed off to college.

71), with Neal Adams and Dick Giordano providing the art.īatman is lured to a house in which all manner of nightmarish things haunt him, most of which have to do with Robin. Len Wein and Marv Wolfman script the Batman story from Detective 408 (Feb.

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