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Dialoguer Denny O'Neil summarized that, 'he was a charming anti-hero, or as close to a charming anti-hero as comics ever came-at least as we did him. It featured a devil-may-care character, a peaceful, violence hating man who attracts trouble wherever he goes. The character's first published story appeared in Showcase #76.

It featured a gangly figure, in silhouette, stalking toward the reader, with the tagline: 'Bat Lash. Publication history īat Lash first appeared in 1968, in a house ad running in Superman DC Comics. First, Aragonés would create a plot in thumbnail sketch form, then O'Neil would write the dialog, and last came Cardy's finished art.

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Issues were produced in a variation of the full script method. The assignment was then handed to Aragonés, with Denny O'Neil doing the dialog over Aragonés' plots, and Nick Cardy providing the art. Infantino claimed to have greatly rewritten it. Mayer wrote the first appearance ( Showcase #76, August 1968). In 1968, Carmine Infantino, newly installed editorial director of DC Comics, and his editor, Joe Orlando, came up with the name and basic premise of the loner whose family had been wiped out by murderous thugs, and then brought in Sheldon Mayer (former DC editor and creator of Sugar and Spike) and Sergio Aragonés (an artist best known for his comedic illustrations for Mad magazine) to further flesh out the concept. A self-professed pacifist, ladies' man, and gambler, Bat Lash's adventures have been published by DC Comics since 1968. 1969), art by Nick Cardy.īartholomew 'Bat' Aloysius Lash is a fictional Western superhero character in the DC Universe.

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