Detective Comics #506, September 1981
Last Saturday (September 18) was DC’s annual “Batman Day.” Although not exactly a national holiday, DC and Warner have used the occasion to commemorate the caped crusader and launch and market new products around the event.
So, as in the past two years, we continue to honor the celebration with the rest of the month’s posts devoted to The Dark Knight….
Here’s a terrific page by the late, great Don Newton, who drew some of my favorite Batman stories of the era.
Newton made turned complex stories into smooth storytelling, and he always accomplished it with quality draftsmanship and artistic flair.
This was yet another early find for me when I came back to original art collecting about 15 years ago.
Newton passed away much too young just shy of fifty, felled by a heart attack in 1984.
