Jim Aparo (1932–2005)
Author of Batman: A Death in the Family [Original Release]
About the Author
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Works by Jim Aparo
Batman: A Death in the Family [with A Lonely Place of Dying] (2011) — Illustrator — 389 copies, 2 reviews
Associated Works
Detective Comics # 643 — Author — 4 copies
Detective Comics # 632 — Illustrator — 3 copies
The Phantom: Free Comic Book Day 2015 — Illustrator — 2 copies
House of Secrets #153 (DC Comics) — Cover artist — 1 copy
DC Sampler (1983) #2 — Illustrator — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Aparo, Jim
- Legal name
- James N. Aparo
- Birthdate
- 1932-08-24
- Date of death
- 2005-07-19
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Country (for map)
- USA
- Birthplace
- New Britain, Connecticut, USA
- Place of death
- Southington, Connecticut, USA
- Occupations
- artist
illustrator
Members
Reviews
Batman: Death in the Family by Jim Starlin
I've never been a big Batman reader, but this is one I own and go back to time and again. While it's not the best dialogue, the story is gripping, and still relatively contemporary. The art, on the other hand, has a throwback feel which I appreciate.
I love Batman, don't get me wrong. But this is an overrated comic and certainly a product of it's time. I also just don't care for the Joker in the age of Reganomics.
So at my review of Batman: Knightfall, Part One: Broken Bat* I summarized the Broken Bat storyline, and in this one I’ll summarize the Who Rules the Night storyline.
So after Batman’s back is broken, he is rushed to the Batcave where Alfred takes care of him. For some reason then there’s a story that takes place three weeks earlier about Batman and Robin capturing Two-Face, but it’s not necessary. So Robin gives the cape and cowl to no one other than the religious sect assassin who was trained from birth to be an avenging angel, A.K.A Jean-Paul Valley. I will be calling him AzBats. So he goes out and fights some people, and then Scarecrow who wants to be a god or something. Scarecrow’s fear gas makes the subliminal messaging from the Order of St. Dumas (known as The System) to start to take hold. So he gets the brilliant idea to banish Robin forever and create CLAWS for himself. So he goes out, fights some more, people, and then attempts to take on Bane. He fails, so he immediately makes a super crazy mecha-batsuit. He fights Bane, succeeds and bam. It’s over.
Continue reading my Knightfall summaries at my review of Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 2: Knightquest.
*I own Knightfall Part One, and I checked out Knightfall Vols. 1-3 at the library.… (more)
So after Batman’s back is broken, he is rushed to the Batcave where Alfred takes care of him. For some reason then there’s a story that takes place three weeks earlier about Batman and Robin capturing Two-Face, but it’s not necessary. So Robin gives the cape and cowl to no one other than the religious sect assassin who was trained from birth to be an avenging angel, A.K.A Jean-Paul Valley. I will be calling him AzBats. So he goes out and fights some people, and then Scarecrow who wants to be a god or something. Scarecrow’s fear gas makes the subliminal messaging from the Order of St. Dumas (known as The System) to start to take hold. So he gets the brilliant idea to banish Robin forever and create CLAWS for himself. So he goes out, fights some more, people, and then attempts to take on Bane. He fails, so he immediately makes a super crazy mecha-batsuit. He fights Bane, succeeds and bam. It’s over.
Continue reading my Knightfall summaries at my review of Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 2: Knightquest.
*I own Knightfall Part One, and I checked out Knightfall Vols. 1-3 at the library.… (more)
The Dennis O'Neil story that concludes the volume is a decent-but-nothing-special story about Gordon's brief career in Chicago before coming to Gotham, but the two Chuck Dixon stories forming the rest of this collection are excellent, gripping crime stories, and warmly recommended to anyone who enjoys the grounded end of the tales set in Gotham City, where Batman is at most a distant background figure and police, criminals and politicians take centre stage.
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