This is Bruce in his younger Batman days he's been off travelling to Alaska heard a Shaman tell him a bat story and he's like shit that reminds me i'm Batman gotta go. Back home he's like Alfred where's my fucking tights i got shit to solve. Young Bruce is so adorably optimistic he has no idea of the storm coming his way, and it's just a story that really focuses on Bruce doing some detective work about a Batmask and dragging Alfred into it. Since it's the early days there's no batcave, there's

3.5 stars.Some notes I made while reading Batman: Shaman:-Bruce Wayne is still a badass and killing inadvertently.-Bruce beat up prostitute, Selena Kyle.-Leave it to Bruce to take a woman home (to make his playboy image look legit) and then just drop her off. Poor girl thought she was gonna get laid. -The use of color and lighting was great. Faces, not so much. Everyone looked middle-aged.-The comics I’ve read from the 80s have been written pretty badly, but Dennis O’Neil did well here. Alfred’s...

I loved everything about this story. Plus the art and colors used were spot on. So cool how intertwined it is with the year one storyline.

Underrated Batman story, written by the legendary Denny O'Neill. The kind of down to earth, simple stories that made Batman as big as he is today. Events stories like RIP will come and go, stand alone stories like this one is what makes Batman interesting.

I have been collecting single issues of Legends of the Dark Knight for years not and realized that I will never be able to collect of them so picked up the first volume.The story is about a young and inexperienced Bruce Wayne who is given around town by Alfred looking for criminals. In comes Native American Shaman and an imposter who puts the Batman to the test.Liked the artwork which is iconic from the 80-90s.

Shaman collects the first five issues of Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. This series, which ran from 1989 to 2007, typically tells stories set in Batman’s formative years. Shaman occurs way back at the beginning, starting before Batman: Year One and concluding by the end of that year. Bruce Wayne takes a trip to Alaska, where he encounters a strange and remote Indian tribe. Later, back in Gotham City, his arctic experiences come back to haunt him in an unexpected fashion. Asses are duly kick...

If you are reading this; ignore all the other reviewers. They are complete shit. I am not sure if they are Grant Morrison enthusiasts or just read the book when it first came out, and are finally reviewing it, or what their deal is. They are wrong on just about everything that I've read from them.First, somebody said that this took place before Year One? Uh.. no. There's nothing that indicates that. In fact, quite the contrary. It even refers back to an event that happens in Year One (the night

Shaman is a five-issue storyline that could be found in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. The storyline takes place very early in the career of Batman around the first weeks after starting his vigilante career, but before he took up the name of Batman. Batman: Shaman collects all five issues (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #1–5) of the 1989 series.Bruce Wayne and a bounty hunter climb a mountain in Alaska as they try to capture a murderer named Thomas Woodley. Woodley quickly manages to ki...

Works really well in characterizing young to slightly older Batman and Bruce Wayne. Showing his connection to his mask and multiple persona's. Worth the read for that aspect.

Read this back when it came out. Re-reading it now, it's still pretty impressive. The story is original and believable as an addition to the origin story meshing in with Year One, and the art is good, fits the story well.

Published 1998 as the collected edition of Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #1–5. The story spans several years, beginning with Bruce Wayne studying criminology with a bounty hunter in wilds of Alaska. His encounter with a Native American shaman sets off a chain of events that extends into the early years of the Batman.The main mystery is well developed, although slightly masked by the sub-plot of mysticism -- I nearly forgot that Batman needed to discover the several issues. This is a good re...

Not at all what I expected, but turned out pretty damn good.

Batman: Shaman is a pretty decent graphic novel that follows on from Year One, it deals with Bruce becoming the batman and what it means to him. The story is a bit cheesy but it’s still a fun and enjoyable story.

if this is legends of the dark knight then i think i read it already and enjoyed it alot 4/5

I LOVED this five-issue arc when I was a kid. It’s dark and mystical. It’s got its gore along with mystery. Bruce Wayne is an ubermench in the making. Perfect intrigue for my adolescence.I picked it up again for some nostalgia during quarantine. It scratched that itch for sure.A lot of it holds up. Some of it doesn’t. A lot has changed since 1989.I’m not fully sure where I land on the representation of Indigenous spirituality, lore, and ritual. It’s a complicated thing to see that in a comic boo...

Batman: Shaman (1989)Modern Batman #2 ❝ Be the Mask ❞ *"Am I stll high?"*This is a very odd batman story that showcases all the crazy cheesiness of 80s adventure movies with a supernatural undertone. The first chapter of five-part story arc takes place even before Frank Miller's Year one and rest happens soon after Year one. Before Batman was kicking ass of super aliens and immortal villains.. Before he had a batmobile and utility belt full of gizmos.. Before he became the most dangero...

One of the earliest crime fighting adventures of Batman. Here he's young, inexperienced, and often feeling in self doubt, which he overcomes as the story progresses. Decent art and an interesting plot, with just the right blend of suspense and mysticism, makes this book an enjoyable read.

This gets 4 purely because it's 'Year One 2.0' and has some nice references to Catwoman #1.

This was a decent story. It's about batman going to Alaska and meeting a shaman and hearing some folk tale of Bats which in the end try to establish a new motive for Bruce to become Batman. This book is direct continuation of Batman : Year One by Frank Miller because there were many flashbacks of the events of year one in this book. Also the artwork is very similar to Year one too. This book also marks the first appearance of Batcave after crisis. The plot was fine but writing of O'Neil is is so...

So I actually read the single issues of this (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #1–5) because they never printed enough of the trade paperback, ergo it's hard to find and expensive. But I think this was a good thing because I found mint issues with amazing white pages, and man did that art pop! The story here was pretty okay, mostly a mystery with Batman playing detective, a little slower paced. Still, he did get to crack the skulls of a few punks and gangsters, but really no meaty action or ba...