FROM ME TO YOU AN INTRODUCTION 107 THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #81 185 WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #185 Cover feel it is somehow incumbent upon December-January 1969 June 1969 me to explain, though I can’t really, “But Bork Can Hurt You” Pencils and inks: Neal Adams I how it is that you are holding in Story: Bob Haney Pencils: Neal Adams 186 THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #84 your hand a fifty-dollar reprint book of my Batman work. Inks: Dick Giordano and Vince Colletta June-July 1969 In fact, it is only the first of three “The Angel, The Rock, and the Cowl” such volumes. 132 WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #182 Cover Story: Bob Haney Who am I, for heaven’s sake, to be February 1969 Pencils and inks: Neal Adams worthy of such a high-ticket item? Pencils: Curt Swan (page 19 inked by Joe Kubert) Inks: Neal Adams I have to say I’m not worth it — no 211 DETECTIVE COMICS #389 Cover matter what anyone says, it just isn’t so. Yet here this volume sits, in your 133 WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #183 Cover July 1969 hand, joining two similar volumes of my March 1969 Pencils and inks: Neal Adams Layout: Carmine Infantino DEADMAN and my GREEN LANTERN/ Inks: Neal Adams 212 WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #186 Cover GREEN ARROW work, each selling for an outrageous price. Believe me, if it was August 1969 me selling a book at this price it would 134 THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #82 Layout: Carmine Infantino have to tell you how the whole Universe February-March 1969 Inks: Neal Adams “The Sleepwalker from the Sea” works. Still, if you bought this, I humbly Story: Bob Haney 213 THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #85 thank you. Pencils: Neal Adams August-September 1969 First off, let me say that without the Inks: Dick Giordano “The Senator’s Been Shot” incredible Denny O’Neil, the GL/GA Story: Bob Haney volume would not have seen the light of 158 BATMAN #210 Cover Pencils: Neal Adams day. Denny somehow saw a void in the March 1969 Inks: Dick Giordano history of comics that no one had filled Pencils and inks: Neal Adams or probably could fill, and at exactly 237 DETECTIVE COMICS #391 Cover the right moment he stepped in with 159 DETECTIVE COMICS #385 Cover September 1969 the right stuff. March 1969 Pencils and inks: Neal Adams People often overlook Pencils and inks: Neal Adams Denny’s sensitivity 238 DETECTIVE COMICS #392 and com- 160 THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #83 October 1969 mitment to April-May 1969 Pencils and inks: Neal Adams collaboration “Punish Not My Evil Son” on the Batman Story: Bob Haney 239 Biographies stories we did Pencils: Neal Adams together, and I will Inks: Dick Giordano always be grateful for his contributions, ideas, concepts, and intelligent presentation in usable story form. BATMAN: ILLUSTRATED BY NEAL ADAMS 5.