It was a stormy Dark Knight…

Coming out in December is a facsimile edition of Detective Comics issue 500, the big thick issue-versary release from 1981. Detective Comics is a series that began in 1937, although it really picked up steam in 1939, when issue 27 introduced a little character called “The Batman”. Reaching issue 500 is an achievement for any monthly, and a thick comic with seven short stories — including one written by the creator of The Shadow — seemed just what was called for. I bought this one off of the newsstand when it came out, so I hate hearing that it’s a 45 year old classic now (Detective Comics passed issue 1000 over 7 years ago and continues to roll on. But why am I mentioning it in this Peanuts blog? It’s because of one story, the shortest in the book, a mere 2 pages. The art is by a comics great and my pal, Walter Simonson. The writing is credited to Len Wein, who (with talented artists) created the Swamp Thing, and Wolverine. He described what would be in the pictures. But the text?…