Detective Comics No. 400 Cover by Neal Adams
Certainly one of the more-interesting characters in the Batman Family is Kirk Langstrom as the Man-Bat.
But it would take a few years. He debuted in this issue, cover dated June 1970. While the interior art by Neal Adams & Dick Giordano is its usual good stuff, I never really liked Frank Robbins as a writer on Batman. This story comes off as unevenly paced and little more than a preamble. Later in the 70s, Langstrom would be shown as a younger man and his wife Francine would join the cast. Art by Michael Golden and Marshall Rogers is still memorable now.
Colour by me. No AI was used.
As published.
Original art scan from somewhere on the web.
Art made production ready.
New colour version.
Re-created trade dress added.
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