If it wasn’t for Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns, there would not have been Tim Burton Batman films, or Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy (We unfortunately still might have gotten Joel Schumacher’s campy Batman & Robin without Frank Miller’s reinvigoration to the Bat mythos and continued the Adam West legacy). Joe comics at the time (a glorious time when they had actual animated television commercials for specific issues that aired during after school syndictated cartoons of usually the same property), if it wasn’t for Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns, I would not have become a “Comic Book Guy”. So while in the first half of 80’s I was getting some Transformers and G.I. That book and that moment is not unique to just me, in fact the answer is almost cliche amongst the post silver age comic fandom (The young-uns of today would probably point to some manga or some bloated 90’s comic that is more flash than substance, so let’s not ask them). While it seems like I’ve been reading, collecting (or “hoarding” if you ask my wife) and been a general fanboy of comics all of my 40+ years of life, there really is one book, one definitive moment when it became official. Or Simply the History of Why I Became a Comic Book Geek Guest Post by j3h aka Jim
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