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- 3 days ago32 min
The Detective Phase - Episode 13: Elegy 4 - Rubato
Join Mike Garvey for an all new episode of The Detective Phase, covering the finale of the Batwoman ‘Elegy’ story in Detective Comics #857, released September 2009! Historical Background: 0:00 - 3:05 Intro and Background: 3:58 - 7:23 Synopsis: 7:24 - 13:31 Analysis: 13:44 - 22:24 What Else Was In the Book: 22:36 - 29:01 Mailbag and Sign-off: 29:13 - 32:11 Sources: Information sourced from Grand Comics Database on this issue can be found here
- 3 weeks ago44 min
The Detective Phase - Episode 12: Elegy 3 - Affettuoso
Join Mike Garvey for an all new episode of The Detective Phase, covering the penultimate chapter of the Batwoman ‘Elegy’ story in Detective Comics #856, released August 2009! Historical Background: 0:00 - 2:32 Intro and Background: 3:25 - 8:56 Synopsis: 8:57 - 17:44 Promo Break: Magazines and Monsters Analysis: 19:31 - 32:09 What Else Was In the Book: 32:20 - 38:25 Mailbag and Sign-off: 38:37 - 44:52 Related story links from DCOCD: 52 Sources: Information sourced from Mike’s Amazing World of Comics on this issue can be found here Information sourced from Grand Comics Database on this issue can be found here
- Sep 27, 202633 min
The Detective Phase - Episode 11: Elegy 2 - Misterioso
Join Mike Garvey for an all new episode of The Detective Phase, continuing the Batwoman ‘Elegy’ story in Detective Comics #855, released July 2009! Historical Background: 0:00 - 2:46 Intro and Background: 3:39 - 7:49 Synopsis: 7:50 - 12:16 Promo Break: Coffee and Comics Podcast Analysis: 13:47 - 19:40 What Else Was In the Book: 19:52 - 24:48 Mailbag and Sign-off: 24:59 - 33:45 Related story links from DCOCD: Blackest Night Sources: Information sourced from Mike’s Amazing World of Comics on this issue can be found here Information sourced from Grand Comics Database on this issue can be found here
- Sep 13, 202637 min
The Detective Phase - Episode 10: Elegy 1 - Agitato
Join Mike Garvey for an all new episode of The Detective Phase, covering the introduction of Batwoman as the lead for the series in Detective Comics #854, released June 2009! Historical Background: 0:00 - 2:03 Intro and Background: 2:51 - 9:14 Story Synopsis: 9:15 - 13:27 Promo Break: Infinite Earths: A Guide to the DC Multiverse Analysis: 14:50 - 26:56 What Else Was In the Book: 27:09 - 31:05 Mailbag and Sign-off: 31:17 - 37:06 Related story links from DCOCD: 52 and Final Crisis Sources: Information sourced from Mike’s Amazing World of Comics on this issue can be found here Information sourced from Grand Comics Database on this issue can be found here
- Aug 30, 202638 min
The Detective Phase - Episode 9: The Honored Dead
Join Mike Garvey for an all new episode of The Detective Phase. This episode we’re entering a new millennium and a new era for Gotham, as we look at Detective Comics #742, released January 2000! Historical Background: 0:00 - 3:15 Intro and Background: 4:09 - 8:01 Synopsis: 8:02 - 13:15 Promo Break: Campus Comics Cast Analysis: 14:36 - 24:52 What Else Was In The Book? 25:04 - 31:05 Mailbag and Sign-off: 31:17 - 38:47 Sources: Information sourced from Mike’s Amazing World of Comics on this issue can be found here Information sourced from Grand Comics Database on this issue can be found here
- Jul 12, 202635 min
The Detective Phase - Episode 8: Snow and Ice 2 - Bird of Ill Omen
Join Mike Garvey for an all new episode of The Detective Phase, covering the finale of the ‘Snow and Ice' story in Detective Comics #611, released December 1989! Historical Background: 0:00 - 3:16 Intro and Background: 4:04 - 8:56 Story Synopsis: 8:57 - 15:19 Promo Break: Marvel Star Wars - From Empire to Jedi Analysis: 16:53 - 30:39 Mailbag and Sign-off: 30:51 - 35:38 Sources: Information sourced from Mike’s Amazing World of Comics on this issue can be found here Information sourced from Grand Comics Database on this issue can be found here
- Jun 28, 202630 min
The Detective Phase - Episode 7: Snow and Ice 1 - Ode to a Penguin
Join Mike Garvey for a new episode of The Detective Phase, this time looking at Detective Comics #610, released November 1989! It’s part 1 of the Snow and Ice story, focusing on Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin! Historical Context: 0:00 - 3:04 Intro and Background: 3:55 - 14:35 Story Synopsis: 9:12 - 14:34 Promo Break - <a href='https://goose-elk-5449.squarespace.com/the-detective-phase-episodes/2026/06/28/EPISODE%207:%20Snow%20and%20Ice%201:%20Ode%20to%20a%20Penguin%20%20Detective%20Comics%20#610%20(cover%20dated%20January%201990;%20released%20November%201989)%20%20Target%20length:%20~40%E2%80%9345%20minutes%20Era:%20Early%201990s%20Rotation%20slot:%201990s%20%20%E2%B8%BB%20%201.%20Historical%20World%20Context%20Intro%20%20November,%201989.%20%20The%20decade%20is%20drawing%20to%20a%20close%20as%20one%20of%20the%20defining%20symbols%20of%20the%20twentieth%20century%20suddenly%20starts%20to%20fall.%20%20On%20November%209th,%20crowds%20gather%20at%20checkpoints%20across%20Berlin%20after%20confusion%20surrounding%20new%20travel%20regulations%20in%20East%20Germany%20spirals%20into%20history.%20Border%20guards,%20overwhelmed%20and%20uncertain,%20begin%20opening%20the%20gates.%20%20And%20almost%20overnight,%20the%20Berlin%20Wall%20%E2%80%94%20the%20physical%20dividing%20line%20between%20East%20and%20West%20for%20nearly%20thirty%20years%20%E2%80%94%20stops%20functioning%20as%20a%20barrier.%20%20Television%20broadcasts%20around%20the%20world%20show%20people%20climbing%20the%20wall,%20celebrating%20on%20top%20of%20it,%20chipping%20pieces%20away%20with%20hammers%20and%20picks.%20%20For%20many,%20it%20feels%20impossible.%20%20Not%20because%20the%20Wall%20fell%20violently%E2%80%A6%20%20%E2%80%A6but%20because%20it%20fell%20at%20all.%20%20The%20Cold%20War%20isn%E2%80%99t%20officially%20over%20yet,%20but%20suddenly%20the%20world%20looks%20very%20different%20from%20the%20one%20that%20existed%20at%20the%20start%20of%20the%201980s.%20%20Elsewhere,%20change%20is%20happening%20just%20as%20rapidly.%20%20In%20Czechoslovakia,%20the%20Velvet%20Revolution%20is%20underway,%20with%20mass%20protests%20building%20against%20Communist%20rule.%20In%20Romania,%20tensions%20are%20escalating%20toward%20the%20violent%20uprising%20that%20will%20erupt%20just%20weeks%20later.%20%20There%E2%80%99s%20a%20strange%20atmosphere%20hanging%20over%20late%201989:%20part%20celebration,%20part%20uncertainty,%20part%20exhaustion.%20%20The%20old%20structures%20don%E2%80%99t%20seem%20stable%20anymore%E2%80%A6%20but%20nobody%20quite%20knows%20what%20comes%20next.%20%20And%20culturally,%20the%20mood%20feels%20just%20as%20transitional.%20%20At%20cinemas,%20Tim%20Burton%E2%80%99s%20Batman%20continues%20to%20dominate%20popular%20culture%20five%20months%20after%20its%20release.%20The%20film%20hasn%E2%80%99t%20just%20succeeded%20financially%20%E2%80%94%20it%20has%20completely%20reshaped%20Batman%E2%80%99s%20public%20image.%20%20The%20bright%20pop-art%20hero%20remembered%20from%201960s%20television%20has%20been%20replaced%20in%20the%20mainstream%20imagination%20by%20something%20darker:%20a%20Gothic%20avenger%20wrapped%20in%20black%20armour%20and%20shadow.%20%20Bat-symbol%20merchandise%20is%20everywhere.%20So%20is%20Prince%E2%80%99s%20soundtrack.%20So%20is%20the%20phrase:%20%E2%80%9CHave%20you%20ever%20danced%20with%20the%20devil%20in%20the%20pale%20moonlight?%E2%80%9D%20%20Batmania%20is%20in%20full%20swing.%20%20And%20comics%20are%20already%20beginning%20to%20absorb%20the%20impact.%20%20Gotham%20City%20in%20late-1989%20Batman%20comics%20feels%20harsher,%20stranger,%20and%20more%20psychologically%20unstable%20than%20it%20did%20even%20a%20few%20years%20earlier.%20%20Less%20like%20a%20city%20in%20crisis%E2%80%A6%20and%20more%20like%20a%20city%20actively%20coming%20apart.%20%20Crime%20is%20becoming%20more%20ritualistic.%20Villains%20more%20obsessive.%20The%20city%20itself%20more%20oppressive.%20%20At%20the%20same%20time,%20a%20new%20generation%20of%20creators%20is%20beginning%20to%20push%20Batman%20stories%20into%20increasingly%20political%20territory%20%E2%80%94%20stories%20concerned%20not%20just%20with%20crime,%20but%20with%20systems,%20inequality,%20corruption,%20media,%20and%20social%20collapse.%20%20Even%20technology%20feels%20like%20it%E2%80%99s%20accelerating.%20%20Nintendo%E2%80%99s%20Game%20Boy%20has%20become%20a%20runaway%20success.%20Home%20computers%20are%20increasingly%20common.%20Cable%20television%20continues%20to%20fragment%20audiences%20into%20niche%20fandoms%20and%20subcultures.%20%20The%20twentieth%20century%20suddenly%20feels%20unstable%20in%20ways%20it%20hadn%E2%80%99t%20before.%20%20And%20into%20that%20atmosphere%20arrives%20Detective%20Comics%20%23610:%20a%20story%20of%20fear,%20spectacle,%20and%20the%20Penguin%20reinventing%20himself%20for%20a%20darker%20decade.%20%20
- May 24, 202630 min
The Detective Phase - Episode 6: Creatures of the Night
Join Mike Garvey for a new episode of The Detective Phase, this time looking at Detective Comics #489, released January 1980! Intro and Background: 3:20 - 7:55 Story Synopsis: 7:56 - 10:36 Analysis: 12:20 - 27:33 Mailbag and Sign-off: 27:45 - 30:18 Sources: Information sourced from Mike’s Amazing World of Comics on this issue can be found here . Information sourced from Grand Comics Database on this issue can be found here
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