Episode 89 - Happy Birthday, Robin (Insert Dick Joke Here)
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
Release Date: 09/30/2025
Episode 105 - Andy and Mike Look At The Dark Knight Strikes Again
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
Welcome back to The Overlooked Dark Knight, the show where Andrew Leyland and Michael Bailey shine a light on Batman stories people tend to…overlook. It’s right there in the name. Originally, this episode was going to be Andy and Mike's discussion about Batman: The Three Jokers. But for reasons explained in the show, and somewhat later in these notes, they went in a different direction. Back in December of 2001, DC Comics released the first issue of Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Written and drawn by Frank Miller with color by Lynn Varley, this three issue series is the...
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Episode 104 - Batman on the Ones
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
Welcome back to The Overlooked Dark Knight, the show where Andrew Leyland and Michael Bailey shine a light on Batman stories people tend to…overlook. It’s right there in the name. This time out Andy and Mike get together to do something similar to something they did separately. Some time back Mike had the idea to cover all of the various issue ones of Superman over on It All Comes Back to Superman and he told Andy he should do the same on Hey Kids Comics with Spider-Man. Well, they've both done that now, so they thought it might be fun to do the same with Batman. And that's where this...
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Episode 103 - Man-Bat 1, Fans 0
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
Welcome back to The Overlooked Dark Knight, the show where Andrew Leyland and Michael Bailey shine a light on Batman stories people tend to…overlook. It’s right there in the name. This time out Andy and Mike continue their look at one of Batman's weirder antagonists...Man-Bat! Sort of. To be fair, the guys do spend the first half of the episode talking about Man-Bat #1, which reads more like a Doctor Strange story, thanks in no small part because of the art of Steve Ditko. The problem is that the issue is kind of a mess. Actually it's a big mess. It's such an odd duck of a comic and...
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Episode 102 - The Challenge of the Man-Bat
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
Welcome back to The Overlooked Dark Knight, the show where Andrew Leyland and Michael Bailey shine a light on Batman stories people tend to...overlook. It's right there in the name. This time out Andy and Mike look at Detective Comics #400, which, in addition to being the 400th issue of Detective Comics, was also the first appearance of Man-Bat. See, Mike thought it would be a great idea to take a look at Man-Bat because he didn't have much experience with the character and Andy went along with this because that's how this show operates. What follows is a fun conversation looking at a...
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Another Bat-Flashback...Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk!
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
The Overlooked Dark Knight presents another Bat-Flashback! Recently Andy and Mike have been looking at the original team-ups between Superman and Spider-Man because there are new team-ups between those heroes. Because of this, Mike thought it might be a good idea to re-release the time the guys talked about Batman meeting and, improbably, fighting the Incredible Hulk. Originally presented as episode 61 of the show (released on January 18, 2022) Andy and Mike talked about "The Monster and the Madman". Written by Len Wein with art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and Dick Giordano, the story was...
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Episode 101 - Batman '66 at 60! Part 3 - The Zodiac Crimes Trilogy
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It is not hyperbole to say that without the 1966 Batman series starring Adam West and Burt Ward that this podcast wouldn’t be a thing. That series is foundational to both Andy and Mike in terms of them being Batman fans. This year, Batman ’66, as it has become more commonly known these days, is turning 60 and the guys thought that they should mark the occasion with an episode devoted to the show. Then they thought they could make the celebration a little bigger by re-releasing two of their older episodes that were about the show since they are no longer available on the...
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Batman '66 at 60! Part 2 - Bat Flashback - The Bookworm Turns While Gotham City Burns
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
It is not hyperbole to say that without the 1966 Batman series starring Adam West and Burt Ward that this podcast wouldn’t be a thing. That series is foundational to both Andy and Mike in terms of them being Batman fans. This year, Batman ’66, as it has become more commonly known these days, is turning 60 and the guys thought that they should mark the occasion with an episode devoted to the show. Then they thought they could make the celebration a little bigger by re-releasing two of their older episodes that were about the show since they are no longer available on the...
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Batman '66 at 60! Part 1 - Bat Flashback - Batman The Movie Commentary
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
It is not hyperbole to say that without the 1966 Batman series starring Adam West and Burt Ward that this podcast wouldn't be a thing. That series is foundational to both Andy and Mike in terms of them being Batman fans. This year, Batman '66, as it has become more commonly known these days, is turning 60 and the guys thought that they should mark the occasion with an episode devoted to the show. Then they thought they could make the celebration a little bigger by re-releasing two of their older episodes that were about the show since they are no longer available on the old feed. And thus...
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Episode 100 - The (Second) Origin of Batman & Other Stories!
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
The Road to Episode 100 ends with...EPISODE 100! (It's shocking. We know.) Anyway, Andy and Mike devote this landmark episode, which will no doubt go down in podcasting history as, "A show where two guys in their fifties talk about Batman!", to talking about the three stories from Batman #47 from 1948. First up is a Catwoman story titled, "Fashions in Crime!" Catwoman finds that her fashion is no longer in style after her most recent stay in prison, so she does what any rational person would do...start a fashion magazine! The guys talk about the giant props, the ludicrous plot, and how this...
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The Road to Episode 100 Part 3 - Bat-Flashack - Episode 2 - The "Untold" Legend of the Batman
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The road to episode 100 continues with another Bat Flashback! This particular flashback takes us back all the way to the second episode. Andy and Mike talked about issues 2 and 3 of The Untold Legend of the Batman. Topics include the origins of Robin, the Joker, Batgirl, and Two-Face. We also learn about how this version of Batman became friends with Jim Gordon and how Alfred came to live with Bruce and Dick. There's even some fun stuff about who was building the Batmobile back in the Bronze Age. For grins, Mike included some audio from the book-on-tape version of this story because,...
info_outlineWelcome back to The Overlooked Dark Knight, the podcast that shines a light on Batman stories hardly anyone talks about!
This time out Andy and Mike are throwing a birthday party for Robin! 85 years ago Dick Grayson was introduced in the pages of Detective Comics #38 and over the years there have been a number of Robins and the guys celebrate most of them by choosing eight and a half stories to discuss/gush over. To be fair, they were supposed to just talk about Dick Grayson and Tim Drake (who is turning 35 this year) but Mike didn't stick with that, so there are some Jason Todd stories in the mix as well. Andy was most amused by this. There are stories from the Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, the Post Crisis era, and even the Post Infinite Crisis era. There is also a lot of Chuck Dixon stories on the list. It was a fun conversation and the guys had a ball talking about the first superhero sidekick.
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Next Time: Andy and Mike present the first part of a classic conversation about the Year One annuals from 1995.