When Batman Met Sherlock Holmes

[@ShakespeareApproves]

Great video! I was TODAY years old when I realized that “DC” stands for “Detective Comics.” And this was a fitting video to give me that revelation: to the detectives!

[@vincentimbesi3947]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Sodaholic6502]

Which incidentally means that "DC Comics" is "Detective Comics Comics" much the same way that "ATM Machine" is "Automatic Teller Machine Machine."

[@tempusavatar]

Fun fact: in the 30s the comic publishing company originally had the name National Comics, however due to the popularity of their big two characters, they started branding themselves as 'Superman-DC,' and only officially changed their company name in the 70s.

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

For some reason I had never put together that detective comics used to make comics about detectives.

[@joearnold6881]

Actually they were crime fighting stand-ups.

[@artisan002]

Well, it didn't help that they then had the product line of the same name. So, Detective Comics presents Detective Comics.

[@LanternMoth]

Detective Chimp is very disappointed

[@Frolmaster]

If they'd called it Dick Comics, it would have been perceived in a totally different way...

[@GSBarlev]

​@@LanternMothWait, was he the inspiration for Genndy Tartakovsky's _Dial M for Monkey?!_

[@sinswhisper9588]

To this day I still think that Jeremy Brett was the best visual media representation of Sherlock Holmes (and as a child of the 80s who had read the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes compendium in its original script format by the time I had finished 3rd grade) Holmes - and Jeremy Brett’s portrayal of him - made me appreciate Batman and got me interested in the character

[@hughcaldwell1034]

I just started the Jeremy Brett adaptation the other day. Very much enjoying it so far.

[@bonniebrush94]

I will definitely agree on Jeremy Brett! He was fantastic!

[@spikeoramathon]

I read in an interview that in the first couple seasons they would try to replicate the original illustrations from the Strand magazine in at least one shot in an episode - if you're familiar with the Illios, you can catch them. David Burke was also great as an actually intelligent Watson, undoing all the damage Nigel Bruce did to the good doctor's reputation in the Basil Rathbone days. But Ed Hardwicke is far and away the best Watson to Brett's Sherlock. Have you read "Bending the Willow"? great bio of Jeremy Brett.

[@bonniebrush94]

@spikeoramathon Agreed on both Watson's in the series. Thanks for the tip on the bio!

[@TheSpiderbridge]

Absolutely. Totally agree. There’s also a fantastic companion podcast to the Granada series just called “the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes podcast” made by two brothers. They have interviews with nearly every surviving cast and crew member, production details I had never heard and they even put on a convention last year for the 40th anniversary!

[@benwasserman8223]

This story made for one of my favorite Batman: The Brave and the Bold episodes. And a surprisingly dark one too.

[@basara7]

I got to meet Mike W Barr at a convention several years ago, and the one comic that I got him to sign for me was that issue of Detective Comics. It's a treasure of my collection and I have a second copy I got that I take out to re-read now and then.

[@williamlydon2554]

These are the stories that make comics great. Some classic pulp adventure with a wink and nod to the past

[@davidgradwell8830]

Steve, thank you so much for posting this! Thank you, especially, for posting this on January 6th, which is a date celebrated by Sherlock Holmes fans around the world as Sherlock Holmes' Birthday! I also want to add that in the original stories in the Canon of Sherlock Holmes--those written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle---there is an offhand reference by Dr. Watson to Holmes' involvement in the terrible affair of the Red Leech and Crosby the Banker. So, this comic fills in a gap by revealing a previously untold Sherlock Holmes story that Dr. Watson never sat down to record for us! Thank you again.

[@GSBarlev]

What people don't appreciate about Holmes (and what the Robert Downey Junior films got right) is that Holmes was every bit a man of action, not just a cerebral thinker, so I really love everything about this crossover.

[@davidgradwell8830]

Right you are! Sherlock Holmes once took down ( in "The Solitary Cyclist") a slogging villain in a pub because he is a master boxer. He also defeated Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls with his mastery of the art of baritsu. In the movies, Holmes has proven himself a master swordsman ("A Study in Terror," "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution," "Young Sherlock Holmes," "Without a Clue.") I have always been disappointed that both 20th Century Fox and Universal Studios never showed Basil Rathbone's Holmes engaging Professor Moriarty in a sword fight. In "The Woman in Green" you even had the ideal swashbuckler Holmes actor right there--and pitted against Henry Daniell ("The Sea Wolf") as Moriarty--and no one thought to write that duel into the script. A loss to posterity! :(

[@cha5]

Holmes was certainly a man of action, although I never liked Downey’s portrayal of him as something of a wannabe Indiana Jones action figure who was a complete stranger to bathing and shaving and wearing a getup that would stick out like a sore thumb unlike Conan Doyle’s Holmes who would go out of his way to avoid drawing attention to himself.

[@SeanTBarrett]

Watson? Mary Watson? Mary Jane Watson? hey, wait a minute

[@vincentimbesi3947]

🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏼

[@barneynedward]

Marvel really dropped the ball by having Sherlock Holmes only being inspired by a disguised Mystique rather than being real DC did. if they had made him a real historical figure in the marvel universe, it could be explained that Mary Jane is a distant niece of Dr Watson. Distant.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

Youre burying the lead ELONGATED MAN meets Sherlock Holmes!

[@elvwood]

Heh, I didn't used to follow the Batman, but I picked this issue up because a crossover with Sherlock Holmes was irresistible! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@Sp33gan]

I remember reading the name of the Nigel Brewster character and instantly recalling those wonderful Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Watson. I'll add that I also loved this story because it additionally hearkened back to those often preposterous Batman stories from so many earlier stories. It's a little goofy, but it's fun and highly entertaining, and isn't that what comics are supposed to be? My last comment is that I've always wished the Batman movies had remembered the Dark Knight's greatest asset in his battle on crime - his intelligence and deductive abilities as the world's greatest detective. Making Batman think in the movies would also make the audience think, far more enjoyable than just watching him in whatever version of an armored tank he happens to be driving this time.

[@RUSSELLCOPP-qs8bk]

There I was, Monday morning, grey skies, and I'm honing my misanthropic nature to a sharp point, all ready to face the outside world as my alter--ego Captain Curmudgeon when I fire up the trusty Difference Engine and head to youtube to just top up the old bile tanks. Then I catch your show and all my work goes to waste, and now I'm sitting here with a smile on my face, a smile I ask you, what am I supposed to do with that?

[@calebleland8390]

Nigel Brewster. I love it. (And no, I won't explain it to anybody that doesn't get it, Google is free) This is a cool story. I've been trying to find a copy of this comic in the wild, but I've not been successful. Great video, Steve.

[@silentotto5099]

I caught that too. I was expecting a shout out to Basil, but I guess it wasn't to be.

[@alandimes579]

@@silentotto5099 There's also Inspector Foxborough, which is a reference to a character in Murder by Decree, played by David Hemmings.

[@calebleland8390]

@@alandimes579 ooh, I missed that one. Good catch.

[@auntiewewe972]

In a case of Serendipity. Foxborough is also home to the NE Patriots. Their stadium is Gillette Stadium . William Gillette was a well known , popular stage actor, best known for playing..........Sherlock Holmes.

[@rory_pond1701]

If I'm not mistaken, Mike W. Barr was an editor at DC when he tried to get them to acknowledge Bill Finger's contribution to the creation of Batman. He lost that staff position, but won my eternal admiration. (And I believe it was executive editor Dick Giordano who shot Barr's request down and also, presumably, fired him.)

[@jaywise1956]

I always appreciate it when someone uses "supposition" correctly. LoL

[@qwertyuiop1st]

"Batman's naturalistic view of the world" - however, Batman lives in a comics continuity in which magic is real. Since Batman is always prepared for everything I would expect him to have made some precautions once he knew that 'magic is real'.

[@Rincenso]

He always have his "bat wand" with him. :P

[@pettespizzaparlor3245]

Zatanana and Constantine ARE in his speed dial. Plus, he has studied under Zatana's father, so he knows enough not to mess with magic.

[@GSBarlev]

Clarke's Third Law-"Any sufficiently advanced technology"-and Agatha's First-"Any sufficiently analyzed magic"-apply here. Neither Batman nor Holmes has any problem living in a world whose fundamental principles are beyond their comprehension, so long as consequences flowed from those foundations logically.

[@armphidiic2609]

Love seeing Ralph in a detective story. He's overlooked a lot these days but I've got a soft spot for him. Also just cool that the issue was kind of a love letter to Detective Comics by including Slam Bradley.

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

This sounds like a case of fanservice done right. It has a cool adventure and says something new and interesting about all the characters involved. It's not gratuitous. It advances the characters.

[@EddieSlabb]

If ever I should become an adult entertainer, Slam Bradley would be fine stage name.

[@PrincessOzaline]

This is a pretty fun story. Sherlock Holmes appeared multitple times in the silver age, and had his own DC title. It's kinda neat in Marvel he is a mostly fictional character (though isnspired by the adventures of Mystique who is older than she looks), but I've always just loved that he's just real in DC. And time travel and what not are fine ways for him and Batman to work together but using Watson's logs as the bridge is just *chef's kiss*

[@ARCWuLF]

There was a collaboration between Batman and Sherlock Holmes that preceded this one in 1976 by Cary Bates and Elliot Maggin in the "Power Records" sub-brand of Peter Pan Records called "The Mystery of the Scarecrow Corpse." It gave me chills when I was a kid. Is it canon? Is any DC book, really? Thanks for posting!

[@mccallosone4903]

i just said the same thing, i loved that record as a kid, spooky. gorilla city was awesome too, you can find them on youtube

[@K3M15A]

ahhhh the good old days when comics weren't up their own asses, trying to be all "realistic" & "gritty" and "dark"... just entertain me with fantastical stories, man. i'm one of those grown ass men who was giddy when krypto showed up in the Superman trailer...

[@BillStrait]

I got back into comics a few years ago. One thing that did it was trying a comic that wasn't Batman, Spider-Man, or X-Men. There's about 60 titles released every week from DC, Marvel, Image, and Boom. One of them is probably closer to your taste.

[@K3M15A]

@@BillStrait i am aware of all that. The Wrong Earth at Ahoy is a joy.

[@esean1]

Mike W. Barr wrote some of my favorite Batman stories of the 80s! His CAMELOT 3000 (w Brian Bolland) and MAZE AGENCY (w a young Adam Hughes and various other artists) are also very enjoyable reads that I can't recommend enough!

[@docweidner]

Always enjoy a comic with Ralph Dibny. Only thing better is when Sue shows up amd the Nick amd Nora routine starts.

[@DonWeaselYeehawEdition]

I'm more of a Poirot guy myself-- but I cannot deny that this is a Detective crossover to top all detective crossovers! If only Detective Chimp and the Question could have made an appearance...

[@jessewilley531]

I think this story is better than what DC originally wanted... which was a team up of almost every major feature ever to be a main series in Detective Comics. (Slam Bradley, Speed Saunders, Crimson Avenger, Roy Raymond, Batman, Robin, Elongated Man, Martian Manhunter all up Ching Lung... the totally not Fu Manchu character from Detective Comics #1.) Basically, DC wanted that 70s anniversary/final issue of Showcase all over again.

[@scotttheil7824]

There was a story in Detective Comics #500 by Len Wein and Jim Aparo that feature many the backup detectives called "The Too Many Cooks Caper". I found it delightful.

[@robertsouth6971]

In fact, the Wayne's were murdered in 1940, when Sherlock Holmes was 80, so (though invited to participate in the investigation) Holmes declined on account of age. He did send a note of apology to young Master Bruce, hand carried to him by one Alfred Pennyworth.

[@vdkotecha]

Why hasn't anyone done a Gotham by Gaslight, Sherlock Holmes crossover

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

17:14 ok when someone is described as a controversial figure my first assumption is that they did some truely heinous things so ignoring canon is fine.

[@docweidner]

Ignoring canon is the great depravity. If you can commit that kind of transgression, which destroys chilhoods I hear, you are clearly capable of crimes against humanity.

[@MrHGaudet]

And not for nuthin', but I absolutely adore Alan Davis' art.

[@PhilipGipson-m9q]

This was absolutely entertaining all the way, Steve. I never noticed in the past that there was a Batman/Sherlock Holmes teamup story by DC Comics.

[@reignfire85]

I'm kind of proud of myself for recognizing Slam Bradley before seeing his name, given that I haven't read much material with him due to limited exposure. My god, this story is wild but it's so much fun and we get so many characters. Really have to hand it to DC for writing a classic caper for such a milestone anniversary. Great video again, Steve, and Happy New Year.

[@1dbanner]

The Seven Percent Batsolution

[@justinsheppherd1806]

Nigel Brewster?? I say, Holmes! Dashed clever! (huff, huff)

[@Surftheweb_1]

Great video to watch on my birthday! Love this channel.

[@eliroth9978]

Yay new comic video! Think you'll cover the Denny O'Neil Batman and Mike Carlin Superman eras in the near future?

[@russellstone6785]

Thanks for discussing this wonderful comic, Steve! This comic has adorned my wall for many years. As a Sherlock Holmes and Batman fan, I loved it and I loved your video analysis of it. There is another crossover team-up comic that adorns my wall, and that is the one where Batman meets The Shadow! (Another one of his biggest inspirations). He met him twice (including Batman # 253 on the cover), when The Shadow was part of DC continuity in the 1970s. I would LOVE to see a team-up between Batman, Sherlock Holmes, and The Shadow. If well-written, it could be really swell! Hell, I wouldn't object if the Phantom Stranger were thrown into the mix. Anyway, thanks for making this interesting video and posting it on Sherlock Holmes' birthday! 🖖

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

12:48 I love the dark lord thing batman has going on in this panel.

[@aabrrrr]

Found your channel this year and been binging all your superman videos Im interested in knowing the modern timeline for Superman. For Batman, its easy to point out key moments and story arcs that define and shape the character over the years (Bane breaking his back, Jason Todd's death, Killing Joke, Court of owls, etc). They all can fit into a single timeline. I want to know key moments/ story arcs for Superman. Most comics people mention are his early years or when he's dead or going to die. Even more so, Im curious about Wonder Woman and her main story arcs. Not a lot of comic channels seem to focus on her. Hope you can make videos discussing these topics!

[@leoperidot482]

Batman meets Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot meets Jessica Fletcher and Jane Marples.

[@jrbaskind]

Where? When?

[@barneynedward]

Personally, I would love to see Batman end up teaming up with Perry Mason. Imagine Hamilton Burger sending a task force to track down a fugitive Bruce Wayne, who has wrongly been accused of a crime because burger jumped the gun at misinterpret evidence yet again.

[@leoperidot482]

@@barneynedward Ha, could you ever see Perry Mason and Ben Matlock put Batman on the witness stand? There's a reason why you rarely ever see NCIS agents and SWAT in court. Come to think of it I don't think those guys ever stepped foot inside a court room.

[@Yeg-citycollectibles]

I’m really enjoying this Best Batman Ever series, thanks for all the content! Please keep it coming! 😊

[@bizarrebraincomics7819]

Oh, that was great. I never got that one. I'm gonna have to get that issue and do an episode myself. I love Holmes!

[@joshuasims5421]

My takeaway here is that Sherlock Holmes works really well in comic book form, by the look of it. It’s a good fit.

[@Joenah5]

I love this series of yours! It’s introduced me to some older stuff and the stuff I had read before isn’t the kind of stuff most people talk about (like this issue). It’s just spreading the love of comics for the love of comics. My favorite Batman ever is the Alan Grant/Norm Breyfogle stuff (which I don’t think you’ve covered?). Breyfogle’s expressionistic art fits Gotham’s character perfectly. I got into comics in the 2010s but even though Breyfogle’s art lacked the printing technology that allows for today’s more detailed colors (save for his paint work in Birth of the Demon), he’s my favorite Batman artist of all time. And I love so many of the villains the team created, with Mortimer Kadaver being my favorite out of all of Batman’s rogues and the Ventriloquist being among my favorites too.

[@Orgruk]

And of course Holmes is wearing that deerstalker hat, which he wore in only one story I think. Hound of the Baskervilles? It is his trademark hat.

[@davidgradwell8830]

In the short stories, which appeared monthly in "The Strand" Magazine, Dr. Watson referred to Holmes wearing a "fore-and-aft travelling hat." The first set of Strand Magazine short stories and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" were illustrated by Sidney Paget, who based Holmes' appearance on his own brother, fellow illustrator Walter Paget. Walter wore a deerstalker as his favorite head gear and brother Sidney made that hat Holmes' fashion trademark in the original Strand illustrations. Interestingly, the Strand publisher first assigned the task of illustrating the Sherlock Holmes stories to Walter, but through a clerical error, the assignment went to brother Sidney, instead. Sidney's many subsequent drawings of Holmes wearing a deerstalker were fated to be as closely linked to Holmes in the public imagination as Sir JohnTenniel's illustrations for the two "Alice'' books were to Lewis Carroll's heroine. The image of the deerstalker-wearing Sherlock Holmes became an instant Victorian icon! There is a story that one night Walter Paget went to the opera and sat in the front row of his box. A few audience members below him noticed him, began whispering to each other and pointing up at him, then began grabbing the arms of other people around them, whispering and pointing up at Walter--until, eventually, the whole audience sat staring starstruck and gob-smacked at poor Walter ("Look! Up in that box! It's Sherlock Holmes! Sherlock Holmes!!!") Paget in his opera box instead of paying attention to the show itself! Walter himself eventually illustrated a few of the later Holmes short stories in "The Strand." In a sense, they were almost self-portraits. The American actor/playwright William Gillette was the first actor to play Sherlock Holmes on the stage. He wore a deerstalker, too. Frederic Dorr Steele created the Holmes illustrations for the American "Collier's Weekly" Magazine when the stories started to appear stateside. Steele based his version of Holmes on William Gillette. So, even if you as an American never got to see Gillette as Holmes onstage, you would see him in "Collier's Weekly" Magazine every month in the Steele illustrations--wearing a deerstalker. This is also why we have the Paget version of Holmes (Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, Jeremy Brett) and the Gillette version of Holmes (Gillette himself, George C. Scott, Roger Moore.) The same character, separated by the Atlantic. From that point on, Sherlock Holmes and his famous deerstalker hat were inseparable on both sides of the Atlantic. To this day the instant cartoon image of a "detective" is that of a man wearing a deerstalker!

[@MrHGaudet]

Wow I forgot all about this one! Thanks!

[@michaelramon2411]

I guess DC Sherlock Holmes is just the Jimmy Carter of detectives.

[@Pencilman246]

I just read this issue as part of the Batman Year One and Two DC Finest collection and it was absolutely the highlight of the collection for me.

[@miragewizard]

Love those old Batman comics!

[@tonystark106422]

This series is perfection.

[@mattbart08]

There’s another Batman meeting Sherlock story.

[@reyperry2605]

"It's the cocaine, brother!" And I just came in from shoveling snow. Synchronicity? Probably not but sure put a smile on my face.

[@jrbaskind]

I remember this issue! I read it when it was new, and I had much the same reaction!

[@Naedlus]

Making a mild allusion rubbing up against Nanda Parbat from the DC universe is all the excuse I need for his longevity. Just because he spends time there doesn't mean that Boston Brand had any clue that Holmes had a vacation house there.

[@pettespizzaparlor3245]

Yeah. I was looking to see if anyone had made this comment. Anytime a comic book character mentions "i've been living in Tibet", the reader can just attribute ANY wild or crazy magic/time/continuity errors to the magic that is Tibet and the mystical Orient.

[@NC21082]

By the guano residue on your left loafer, Mr. Wayne. I can deduce by that doo doo... You are none other than the Batman! 🫵🧐

[@clairejeannette8454]

What a delightful lecture. I am mildly stoned so the presentation and the topic were just right. I have watched, and appreciated, your political commentaries for some time. I just recently stumbled (no, the algorithm sent me! Where is serendipity?) Anyway, I am new to your quirky artistic pieces. Keep it up!

[@wordmakersworkshop]

I once had designs to edit together a fan trailer of Batman teaming up with Holmes, using clips from the Nolan trilogy, The Prestige, and the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movies. I didn't realise DC had beaten me to it 😂

[@Wordfishtrombone]

Sometimes the stories we never asked for are the stories we need

[@moosevelt9148]

A little disappointed the video wasn't about the Epic Rap Battle ;P I also like how the story could very easily work as like a backdoor pilot for a DC Sherlock comic lol

[@ozziebattler6732]

"The sun will expand to envelope the earth any day now." Something I wish I'd said when I was a youngster, back when the Earth was still cooling.

[@hughcaldwell1034]

You're absolutely right about standard Holmes methodology, but are we just going to gloss right over the existence of a non-fictional man named Dick Sprang? Also, from how you summarise the plot, it might not rise to the heights of original ACD Holmes, but at least it's not a lazy re-skin of one or two of them, which is sadly all too common.

[@brendanreeves6785]

I love your comments on Barr. I remember he had an Earth shattering threat. An asteroid being aimed at the Earth by a subterannean people and got asked in the letter pages why the Justice League or Supes and Green Lantern weren't responding. He got snarky in the comments saying the book was Batman and the Outsiders, not Batman, the Outsiders and the rest of the DCU. Interestingly enough the next time that team got embroiled in world threatenting plot there was a 2 page spread showing the League and other heroes responding to the symptoms. In the first one a single line of, "Superman and the League are off planet." ( remind us to tell you about iater- the editor) would have gone a long way to just acknowledge this is a living world where all these heroes exist

[@spikeoramathon]

@Steve have you ever seen the 1980s Sherlock series put out by Soviet TV? I seriously recommend it. BTW fun fact: the iconic deerstalker and inverness cape combo came about back in the old black and white Basil Rathbone movies, when they needed a way to make Sherlock look different from the other guys on the screen. Anyone familiar with late Victorian fashion will tell you that no gentleman would think of wearing a deerstalker and inverness cape in London; that outfit would only be worn in the country. Sherlock's "ear-flapped travelling cap" (Doyle never used the word "deerstalker") only appeared in a couple of illustrations; in town, Sherlock wore a top hat and frock coat. The calabash pipe also came from Rathbone, as it was the one pipe he could deliver his lines through.

[@candidgamera]

Love love love this issue.

[@IanieriGiacomo]

Got my copy , along with Action 50th!

[@thomaspowers1375]

There was another character associated with Batman who met Sherlock Holmes. When the Joker had his own title, where he faced off against a different hero every month, there was one story called "Sherlock Stalks the Joker." Actually, an actor playing Sherlock Holmes was hit on the head and woke up thinking he was Holmes and teamed up with a stagehand named Watson to take on the Joker. Not actually sure I would argue that "The Joker" presented the best Joker ever, but it was fun.

[@feridradoncic2237]

Actually Sherlock Holmes met Batman in episode of Batman brave and the bold 😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@feridradoncic2237]

And Sherlock Holmes was in Batman brave and the bold ❤❤😂😂😂😂😂

[@mymthegreyful]

ohshit; this is epic !! Thanks a billionty.

[@SingularityOrbit]

This is a fantastic story. I wish I could remember the later issue (post-Crisis, but then so was this issue) which revealed that Bruce Wayne briefly trained in detective work under Sherlock Holmes during his years of traveling and studying. That doesn't invalidate this story, though, because there's no reason why Batman or Holmes would give each other's secrets away -- including having worked together before -- in a public place. Heck, that's probably why Batman stopped Ralph from interrogating Holmes in this story. When they say that Bruce trained with the best, they weren't kdding. It's not canon, but in the "Silent Night" series (Christmas 2023) Robin was flabbergasted to learn that that Batman knew Saint Nick. "We met during my years abroad," Batman explained. "He showed me a few things I still use." So every time Batman disappears when Jim Gordon's not looking, Jim can blame Santa Claus.

[@mccallosone4903]

Sherlock Holmes (ghost?) teamed up with Batman on a really awesome Power Record in the late 70s. it was spooky. it the Mystery of the Scarecrow Corpse, and you can find it on youtube.

[@WesleyPatterson-t9x]

"God help us, the sun will expand and consume the Earth any day now" IDK why but that really made me laugh. Maybe I should schedule an appoint with the ol shrink

[@Tolly7249]

Funnily enough, I've always enjoyed adaptations of Holmes more than ACD's originals. I've found a special soft spot in my heart for the genre of 'Holmes versus the Supernatural'. The better versions of the character absolutely lean into his addictive personality and aspec side IMHO.

[@cha5]

Have you ever read the Sherlock Holmes pastiche anthology book ‘Shadows over Baker Street’? It’s a fun read even though I’m a Holmes purist who loves the original Conan Doyle stories. It’s a combination of Sherlock Holmes and the Cthulhu Mythos and has some memorable stories by some respected writers, My favorite story in it would have to be ‘A Study in Emerald’ by Neil Gaiman.

[@Tolly7249]

@@cha5 I have! It's a fantastic anthology, and there's a couple more by the same group that I've found very satisfying.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

Sherlock holmes in the 22nd century!

[@tonystark106422]

If you haven't read the old issue of Eclipso where Irene Adler gets possessed and tries to assassinate Holmes? Get on it! It's a ridiculous blast!

[@jonathonriddle9922]

Between Detective Comics and Batman & the Outsiders, I think Mike Barr and Alan Davis is one of the best Batman writer/artist teams.

[@ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΑ-ε1ω]

can't wait to read it

[@paulgavin841]

Watson is known to pure of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and partner. Sherlock homes

[@frizzlewho91]

Bat-holmes.

[@BrodieVickers-tk9sd]

Not what I was expecting somehow, but this was interesting! There was a previous story where they teamed up too, some years before in *'Mystery of the Scarecrow Corpse'* . I think that was a Power Record exclusive, so who knows if it was canon?

[@VOLKHVORONOVICH]

I remember that issue. 133, huh? In "Fear Cay," Doc Savage meets a man who's 130 years old. Drank Silphium tea. Maybe Holmes had gotten into some of that?

[@shockwave75]

They both wear funny hats! (Yes, I know the deer stalker isn't original to Holmes)

[@markherron1407]

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[@barneynedward]

Thomas Morgan being born Thomas Moriarty is supposed to mean that he’s a descendent of Sherlock Holmes as arch nemesis Professor Moriarty

[@ruthtepin2130]

My only gauge for a good or bad comic (movie, tv show, etc.) is "Did I enjoy it?"

[@vincentimbesi3947]

Great overview of that classic comic! That issue is collected in the recently released DC Finest Batman: Year One & Two and I’m going to read it now. 👍🏼😊 Have you ever read the Batman: Nevermore miniseries from 2003? It’s a really great mash up of Batman and Edgar Allen Poe! Check it out!

[@brianstiles1701]

I assume Batman had a match because he's also Matches Mallone.

[@MoniqueDamphousse73]

Why does Moriarty look like Jack Nicholson? 😂😂😂

[@davidgradwell8830]

An interesting idea. I think Jack is pretty much retired these days, but should he ever make a comeback, he would probably make a good Moriarty. He's at the right age and he has the right credentials, having played both The Clown Prince of Crime and Satan himself, among other screen villains. He wouldn't need to affect a British accent, either; his own voice induces goosebumps. He gets a pass!

[@Bean-525]

As much as I enjoy this story for the sheer novelty, I’ll always rank the original Batman and Shadow team ups a bit higher. Considering the first Batman story essentially IS a Shadow story, I liked the idea of Batman teaming up with a direct inspiration.

[@Waffletigercat]

Batman and Holmes also team up in the Brave & the Bold episode “Trials of the Demon!”, which also includes Etrigan. EDIT: Oh, you mention it like 2 minutes after I made that post.

[@DavidCDrake]

Beautiful. 🦇

[@JoeJohnston-taskboy]

Pretty sure this is one of the few Detective Comics I own. Weird.

[@John-i2c]

Also you made a mention that they've been both adapted into just about every medium. And that's largely true, but I have to wonder has there ever been an excellent Sherlock holmes video game?

[@WolfRamAndHart]

Yeah, this is one of my favs too. For literary quality and not dumbing down things, to really hit it home that Detective comics has a history somewhat separated from 100% Batman. And its clear that they didn't do it for spectacle, like they could for Issue 500...let the writers have 572 for themselves! Was surprised it wasn't too costly to purchase still on Ebay and still have my original. The best shock, after Slam Bradley and Ralph Elongated Man (who was in many of the B stories in Detective Comics, forgetting that idiot Plastic Man with similar powers), was connecting it with Sherlock Holmes!

[@ed301]

First… love ya Steve!

[@ATADSP]

Why am I only now learning about Slam Bradley?

[@glamourweaver]

Slam Bradley has been hinted in more recent comics to have been the biological father of Thomas Wayne.

[@kyleguajardo]

Anyone who wants another comic with this kind of vobe may be intetested in Gotham by Gaslight. The original comic is pretty bare bones, though entertaining, but the movie is really cool.

[@WolfRamAndHart]

They made an animated movie of Gaslight...this could be a good animated movie as well...hell, get Cumberbatch on board too!

[@lorcannagle]

I know it's far beyond the point, but I'm shocked at how inconsistent the inking is on some of that Alan Davis art. Like at points early on his signature style is completely obscured, usually in close-up panels, but it's all there in the wider-angle shots.

[@spikeoramathon]

Nigel Brewster? as in a coy salute to Nigel Bruce, who played Watson opposite Basil Rathbone (and turned the character into a doddering old fool)?