TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN: Amazed by Aparo : Many Deaths Of Batman

Saturday, March 07, 2026

Amazed by Aparo : Many Deaths Of Batman

For the moment we wrap up SAL BUSCEMA MONTH because you can get too much of a good thing even if it's Sal Buscema art. And don't worry, we'll definitely get back to topic because there is still a lot of material.

In the meantime to even things out this month is all about DC Comics and we start with one of my favourite artists, the great late Jim Aparo.

Now some of my regular readers might wonder what happened to SWAMP THING ? Isn't there still a lot of SWAMP THING stuff I promised to post ?

And that is right. But I feel that with 8 SWAMP THING posts we have covered the subject extensively and so there is no urgency to continue this series so soon. Also there is plenty of other DC Comics material to post and as usual I like to switch things up. Now naturally my first idea was to post some Jim Aparo artwork and as my longtime followers may remember I did a post about the - back then - upcoming Artists Edition .

Which then was not so upcoming and then again and then nobody knew when it was going to come out and when it finally did come out it was way after Christmas which would have been a perfect time. Now I know that the delay was due to more pages being added and I'm not saying that I would have handled it different but it was a chain of unfortunate events. In any case, naturally I thought about doing another THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD spotlight but since the good fellas from COMIC POP have just recently covered John Byrne and Jim Aparo's The Many Deaths Of Batman storyline from which I just found the full original art for the first issue some time ago I couldn't pass up the chance for a Jim Aparo post.