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Confession: This piece took three passes.

I did the pencil layouts, didn't like 'em, and erased them. Then I did a second batch of pencils, got about half done with the inking, didn't like it, tore it up. Third time's the charm. as they say.

Crazy thing is, there was very little different between the first two and the finished product. They just didn't "feel" right.

(Note to Byrne Bashers: your response to this is that I should have torn up this one, too!)

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"My" Batman, in the sense of my fan days, was the Dick Sprang Batman I read in my pre-teens. When I returned to reading comics in my twenties, I was, of course blown away by Neal's (and subsequently Jim's) version.

Thing was, tho, different as they looked, I had no trouble accepting that the Batman of the Seventies was the same guy whose adventures I'd read in the Fifties. Which is not something I can do with the psycho ninja Batman who has been the character for a few decades now.