truly wonderful work.
The author has succeeded in making an encyclopedic work of all the Batman appearances up to the publishing date (barring his Justice League appearances). While I am sure he has missed some things, they are so minor that they are not noticeable. I am curious where he found copies of all of these comics to categorize like this, since this is before the trade paperbacks of collected issues.
The only reason that I give this 4 instead of 5 stars is two-fold. One, many of the entries do get a little repetitive. It is almost like he completely forgot what he said a paragraph or two before. Not too bad, but it does become annoying in some passages. And two, it is unfortunately dated. Not that the author had anything to do with this, but so much has happened to the character since this was written as to make this almost obsolete.
But it is still an incredibly impressive work. ( )