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THE SECRET OF THE LAUGHING FISH is considered a late 70's Batman classic. I believe it's reprinted in the softcover BATMAN IN THE SEVENTIES.
It's also included in the GREATEST JOKER STORIES EVER TOLD, which I also have.
I loved Batman in the '70s...early '80s--up to '84 wasn't bad, either.
I started reading BATMAN in mid 1963 as a first grader when he was on the verge of cancellation; I saw the 1964 NEW LOOK appear (and I loved it) in second grade, and was there when the 1966 TV series turned the character into a buffoon in fourth grade. I was a stout fan, though, followed the character through the Neal Adams rebirth well into the late 70's.
My Batman artist of choice is Jim Aparo, but there have been so many great ones...
In the 1964-1966 early NEW LOOK I was crazy about Carmine Infantino's take on the character. I had always loved his work on THE FLASH and ADAM STRANGE. By the early 70's, Adams and Aparo were the best.
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Sep 6, 2010 - 4:12 PM
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Jim Phelps
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To me Batman never was better than the 70s and the first half 80s.
So true, Disco Stu! 
It's amazing the quality of artists that made their mark on Batman in the 1970s-early '80s. I've already gone on record as saying that Jim Aparo is my all-time favorite, but Dick Giordano, Marshall Rogers, Newton & Alcala and though a bit before my time, Neal Adams, have all been tremendous. You could even say that Batman has as many great artists in his history as he does notable members of his rogues gallery.
Didn't know that Don Newton died in 1984. 
As for Batman scribes, Doug Moench, who also spent ten glorious years writing Master of Kung-Fu (which I've been posting about at length), is another Batman talent whose work was an inspiration to me.
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Sep 19, 2010 - 7:29 PM
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Jim Phelps
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In 1995, Batman got ghoulish.
1985: I quit buying comics.
1997: I come back, albeit briefly, amid the wonderfully bizarre and downright ghoulish run (#515-552) of Doug Moench--there's that man again--and Kelley Jones, whose twisted vision of The Dark Knight and Gotham got me interested in contemporary comics--briefly--once more. By mid 1998, there were too many crossover storylines and I bowed out of new comics...for good but not before collecting the entirety of this period of Batman history.
Yet I still enjoy the Moench-Jones run on BATMAN. It's as dark a vision of the legend as we ever got this side of Frank Miller. Issue #539 is my favorite, where Batman's case of a graverobber who constructs works of "art" from the remains he steals. It manages to be creepy and in the tradition of great horror tales, yet it all comes down to Bruce Wayne's origin and it's my favorite Batman story.
"It is a mark of DC’s criminally insane policy of collecting series that none of these issues are in a trade paperback. That will probably never change, but the issues shouldn’t be that hard to find nor too expensive. This is the kind of comic that looks like it will be too bizarre for the average superhero fan but because it’s Batman, the fans of “cooler” books won’t pick it up. That’s unfortunate, because even though it stars one of the pillars of the DC Universe, it gets under your skin and takes you places most superhero books won’t go. Jones’ utterly unique vision of Batman and his world, along with Moench’s twisted take on reality and what it means to have power and abuse it, make this a series of comic books that makes you think and makes you ponder and stays with you long after you have read them."
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/04/20/comics-you-should-own-flashback-batman-515-552/
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Sep 26, 2010 - 1:07 PM
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Will-EL
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Great to see some comic book fans here!.
Some of my favourites Batman: Bloodstorm, The Watchmen, The Death Of Superman, World Without A Superman, The Return Of Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman Year One, The Knightfall books havent read them in years, V For Vendetta also a great read.
I have always wanted to read Hellblazer and Swampthing.
Superman Godfall one of my favourites, Superman In The Name Of Gog and Superman Wrath Of Gog also awsome reads.
Frank Millers 300 also a must for any Miller fans!.
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