TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN: 2025

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

My second Don Newton BATMAN spotlight !

Well, the bad news is that my faithful readers have to wait a bit longer for the Steve Englehart / Marshall Rogers / Terry Austin BATMAN post.

The good news is that it's because this post is all Don Newton BATMAN / DETECTIVE COMICS artwork so - everybody loses and everybody wins.

As I mentioned in Yesterday's Don Newton tribute I didn't have enough material for another Don Newton solo post so it looked like this would be a double feature with Marshall Rogers but Today I gave it one more go to the internet to see if I could find more original Don Newton artwork and not only did I find what I needed - I even had to leave a few pages out.

As for the Marshall Rogers spotlight at first it looked like it would be still a double feature - this time with Dick Giordano - but at the moment the prospects for a Marshall Rogers solo post are looking good. It seems that Dick Giordano will have to team up with Irv Novick or another BATMAN artist although there may be some surprises ahead and he may get a post of his own since he inked the post CRISIS ON INFINTE EARTHS Superman reboot MAN OF STEEL by John Byrne ( while Terry Austin did the inks for the regular SUPERMAN title which gave both books a distinctive look ).

But that is in our future. Today we have more BATMAN / DETECTIVE COMICS art by Don Newton ( with a page from BATMAN FAMILY issue 13 thrown in but I couldn't resist a page with the O G Batgirl ) and there are two things I have to add : first up it was almost impossible to find a cover done by Don Newton. I don't know if DC Comics didn't have faith in his capabilities as a cover artist or if they wanted to lighten his workload to keep the interior art coming out in time but fact is that during his tenure on the Batman books the covers are mostly done by other artists.

The second thing is that since I found a lot of the artwork in this post Today the pages of certain issues are sadly split up between Yesterday's post and this one. As longtime blog visitors know that is something I try to avoid but because it is too difficult to go back into Yesterday's post and reshuffle all the pages I hope my audience will give me a bit leeway with this post. And that's all for Today so let's get right to the good part.

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Monday, September 22, 2025

Still waiting for Jim Aparo's Artist's Edition !

So we still have to hold out for one more week until the anticipated Jim Aparo Artist's Edition comes out and since I have already added all of the videos I can - at least at this point - to my Jim Aparo tribute post from last week I decided to take a much deserved break and see if I can add more Batman content to the blog and make it into Batman month or so.

Now as longtime followers of the blog might have already guessed this is not the post I originally envisioned when I was thinking about what kind of a special Batman post I could write to surprise all my faithful readers.

Because my first idea was to do a post with all the original artwork from the Batman titles that never get a post of their own because I just don't have enough material for any of the artists and that way I can put them all into one post. Which sounds like a great idea. And it is. But nothing is ever easy on TALES FORM THE KRYPTONIAN - as regular blog visitors can attest - because as a perfectionist I am never contend with the content I currently have and so I went on the internet to see if I had the best of the best of original art. As it could not be any other way I found a lot.

More than I bargained for. The second phase of the post was that I found a lot of original artwork where Dick Giordano had done either the pencils or the inks and for a while it looked like this would end up being a Dick Giordano post. I also found more original artwork by Marshal Rogers and I don't have to tell any Batman fan worth his salt how groundbreaking his run on the Batman books was. Naturally I saved all the artwork by artists like Norm Breyfogle, Neal Adams or Mike Grell - and yes even Irv Novick - for later since they will get their own BATMAN spotlights at some point.

But as I went on it became clear that this would turn into a Don Newton appreciation post. For me Don Newton is one of the best and at the same time most underappreciated artists at DC Comics and while a lot of his work on the Batman books is available in hardcover very little of it is actually in the TALES OF THE BATMAN : DON NEWTON hardcover since DC Comics saved the biggest part for the Gerry Conway Batman collection.

In any case, he is one of my favourite artists so I jumped at the chance to do another post about him especially since it is also kind of a tribute post for Alfredo Alcala who did a lot of the inks for the Batman books during this time period. Now it was kind of hard to bring it down to only 23 pictures for this post but I got the ones with the best quality in here.

There is still a lot of Don Newton artwork left that I could not include in this post and while it is not enough for another full blown Don Newton post I might turn it into a double feature with Marshal Rogers since I also do not have enough material - not yet - for a full blown Marshal Rogers BATMAN tribute post. And yes, that BATMAN Dick Giordano post is just postponed not scrapped. So anyway, without any longer preambles here is what I selected for this post since it is time for me to wrap this up as it has been a very long day for me. But what a way to start the week.