Source: comicvine.gamespot.com

6. Man-Bat Over Vegas

Detective Comics # 429 (1972)

I like Man-Bat. More than most people, I'd imagine because most people do not like Man-Bat.

In this story, a "vampire" has been striking and killing people all around Las Vegas and by coincidence Doctors Kirk and Francine Langstrom are in the area investigating a newly unearthed cave of bats. Batman goes to investigate but discovers that Kirk Langstrom isn't the Man-Bat this time"¦ it's his wife!!

This was very loosely adapted into an episode of Batman: The Animated Series which, like the comic, is pretty good. Frank Robbins is a great writer and artist and he knows how to work well with himself I really love his Man-Bat, who gets a couple real horror movie moments in here.

One of the Greatest Batman Stories of All Time?: not quite, but it's totally worth reading. It just doesn't have the kind of zing that I'm looking for. But as a Batman story, it's a fun time and one of the better Man-Bat tales.