![]() Max Allan Collins is probably most famous for writing the graphic novel on which the movie Road to Perdition is based. Cover Art to Scar of the Bat published by DC Comics Recognizable Work ![]() ![]() Instead, Max Allan Collins is famous for a much riskier comic book project that combined all of his strengths and knowledge to produce one of the greatest graphic novels of the late twentieth century. He portrays the excesses of violence, the nature of greed, and the need for vengeance, and he does so while keeping within the confines of a Batman-style template.īut Max Allan Collins isn’t known for writing Scar of the Bat or any superhero story. Collins takes the mythology surrounding the real people of 1930s Chicago and blends it with the mythology of the Batman franchise. The book is relatively short but a fascinating insight into the writer, more than an expansion of the character. It’s like a What if.? take on Batman, fixated on prohibition-era America with a historically real world application of the vigilante character. ![]() I recently picked up a copy of Scar of the Bat by Max Allan Collins and Eduardo Barreto. ![]()
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