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9. Bat-Mite’s New York Adventure

Detective Comics # 482 (1978)

This. Is not. A Batman story. AGAIN!

I cannot believe this happened again! This story has not one panel of Batman in it. It is pretty fun though.

In the story, Bat-Mite appears at the DC Comics offices and begins trying to coerce the DC staff into doing a story about him. And it is the actual staff at the time. Al Milgrom is in it! I very much enjoy seeing real seventies comics people drawn by their friends. If you want to read this one without tracking down a 30 year old collection or a 40 year old single issue, you can find this one collected in the World's Funnest trade paperback, which contains tons of Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite comics. This one is super great in itself but again, it is not a Batman story and therefore does not count for my experiment.

One of the Greatest Batman Stories of All Time?: Disqualified.