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# Legends of the Dark Knight: Norm Breyfogle Vol. 1 (Detective Comics (1937-2011)) Kindle & comiXology

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Norm Breyfogle defined Batman for me as a young man.
  

*by T***O on Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2022*

These reprints bring back very good memories for me. It was my time to discover Batman and Norm’s cool artwork made my intro to Batman special.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Another Great Tome in this Batman Collection
  

*by E***Z on Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2016*

I am a Batman reader of the 70s and early 80s, so I never read these tales when they first came out. I was too busy learning to be an adult during this period. Now that I read them for the first time, I do so with relish, and I am not disappointed by it. This volume is among the best in this Legends series. Norman Broyfogle certainly deserves to be among the great Batman artists (Neal Adams, Jim Aparo, and Marshall Rogers). His style is very close to Rogers'. Batman on the rooftops, swinging between buildings, his shadow - all drawn in an impressionistic style. In addition, his panels are action-packed. I appreciate the various layouts he uses to energize the story. Adrianne Roy does the coloring for Broyfogle, and I think he matches well his artwork.I know this is an art-oriented tome, but I can't help mentioning the writing contributions of John Wagner and Allan Grant. If Broyfogle is a proper successor to Marshall Rogers, Wagner and Grant follow the tradition of Denny O'Neil and Steve Englehart. Their stories are as moody as those from the seventies, and even grittier and darker. They also create villains that rival the traditional villain lineup that readers often associate with the Batman: the Ventriloquist, the Ratcatcher, and Cornelius Stirk. In fact, these villains are bloodier than the League of Assassins, the Joker, etc. The stories are characterized by being action-packed, darker, and full of pulp. Batman's persona follows the footsteps of Englehart in the seventies and adds to it: "You!" I like it every time Batman says that in these stories. The writing is also high quality. The writers often use different techniques or points of view, switching from third person to first person, and also telling the story from the villain's point of view. My favorite story - I think it was outstanding - was the Night People where there are various stories taking place at the same time in different places, but at the end they are all connected. The voice of a disc jockey serves as a thread that keeps all the stories together. Clever technique. In addition to this, readers can see some social problems pervasive during the late eighties: the influence of cocaine and ecstasy in drug culture, and the growth of homelessness. There is even a cameo of Ronald Reagan in "Sole Survivor" (not a good story, in my opinion).In sum, this is another great volume for this series and a must-buy for a Batman fan.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Breyfogle is awesome!
  

*by G***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2016*

Norm Breyfogle has got to be one of the all time great Batman artists. Bruce Timm has even said that he was directly inspired by Breyfogle when he was creating Batman The Animated Series and you can really see the similarities in these pages.Storywise, Alan Grant's scripts aren't quite as strong as the art but still pretty damn good. They're definitely more offbeat and gritty and stripped down. Almost no Robin, Gordon, Alfred, or Bruce Wayne to speak of, although they all have memorable appearances. No classic villains except one appearance of Penguin and a Clayface 4-parter at the end. Etrigan also makes an appearance. They did however introduce the villains Scarface/Ventriloquist, Ratcatcher, and Cornelius Stirk in this volume.But mostly it's just Batman solving grisly murders and weird cases, several having some sort of supernatural or "psi-power" angle, or a fantastical element of some kind which isn't really my thing but they make it work. Some stories are more realistic and pulpy. It's almost as if Alan Grant was writing Detective Comics as a noir/horror series with action and superheroes thrown in.Grant and Breyfogle later transitioned over to the main Batman book and took a decidedly more straight-forward "classic Batman" approach, although still kinda fiixated on grisly murder. They also famously reintroduced the third Robin, Tim Drake, to great fanfare. He even got his own series for several years afterwards.As far as the presentation goes, it leaves a lot to be desired, much like almost all of DC's collected editions. There's no bonus material whatsoever, glued binding, non-oversize format, and worst of all- NOT ALL THE COVERS ARE REPRINTED! Only the ones Breyfogle did. I absolutely hate that practice, and it's one DC has been doing for decades. They only reprint the covers for certain books like Archives and Omnibus books but for some reason they will do it for the Tales/Legends books that focus only on the writer. The Len Wein book and Alan Brennert book both reprint all the covers. I see no reason why they can't show us the covers to every chapter like Marvel does with their collected editions, regardless of who drew it. That's extremely annoying and just really terrible production value.So aside from some frustrating production flaws and some occasionally weird stories, this is still a must own for die hard Batman fans.

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