The Maze Agency, Volume 1 by Mike W. Barr

Barr is frequently overlooked in discussions of the character’s history, which is entirely understandable given that his most high-profile work overlapped with one of the greatest Batman stories ever told. In a larger sense, Barr’s willingness to reintroduce classic Silver Age concepts into continuity following Crisis on Infinite Earths paved the way for more flexible interpretations of the Dark Knight. Grant Morrison’s creation of Damian Wayne, for example, was heavily influenced by Barr’s work on Son of the Demon. He wrote Son of the Demon and Bride of the Demon.īarr had considerable influence on the evolution of the character Batman. He and Davis also collaborated on Full Circle. He enjoyed a sustained run on Detective Comics with artist Alan Davis that overlapped with Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s iconic Batman: Year One run. He wrote Batman as the headline character of Batman and the Outsiders for the first thirty-two issues of the title, collaborating with artists Jim Aparo and Alan Davis. However, Barr’s longest sustained work on the character came in the eighties. He would continue to work sporadically on the character into the nineties and the new millennium, contributing scripts to stories like In Darkest Knight into the nineties and beyond. Barr had written random stories in Detective Comics dating back to the seventies, and had provided occasional scripts to Batman since the start of the eighties. Mike Barr wrote Batman across a variety of different titles over a considerable stretch of time. Perhaps, as a result of this, there is more freedom for writers to craft their own unique take on Batman.

The Maze Agency, Volume 1 by Mike W. Barr