Detective Comics #400
| Writer | Dennis O'Neil, Frank Robbins |
| Artist | Neal Adams, Gil Kane |
Zoologist Kirk Langstrom is working late at the Gotham Natural History Museum putting together a bat habitat; he aims to perfect a serum that can endow people with enhanced auditory abilities via a specialized bat gland extract. Pleased with his progress, he decides to test his new formula upon himself, mutating him into Man-Bat.
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7.5
(Cover Date: June, 1970)
Summary: Intending to enhance his night senses using glandular extractions from bats, Kirk Langstrom inadvertently turns himself into Man-Bat. He helps Batman bring down the Blackout Gang who are robbing the museum he works for.
Batgirl gets involved in a murder mystery at Hudson College, where Dick Grayson attends school, & may die a death out of Edgar Allan Poe due to it.+ Like • Comment -
7.0
first appearance of man-bat and i really like the spin they took with it. batgirl story was a nice extra but i am not reading the next issue lol
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7.0
Only read and scored the Frank Robbins main story
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Not at all what I was expecting. Fascinating to see Langstrom as an ambivalent figure in his first appearance, and I like that they play into the Dracula/Werewolf schtick with his Victorian dressing (similar to how he's dressed in Batman #655), but the Jekyll/Hyde trope is avoided by reducing the counter-persona. The Blackout gang is cool, fits the theme of criminals finding novel ways to operate effectively in the DC Universe. Also, a very charming sequence of Batman and Alfred testing out his new sonar earplugs.
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8.0
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