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A couple Halloween story offerings by Mike Grell:

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The first is in BATMAN FAMILY 1, Oct 1975, an 18-page story set in Washington DC, that pairs Robin and Batgirl, against a resurrected Benedict Arnold, and... Satan himself. With nationalist and bicentennial themes, where Benedict Arnold is brought back in the present, to re-fight the War of Independence, and this time defeat the United States continental army. And Satan gets pissed off !
At once silly and creepy, a fun story.
https://viewcomiconline.com/the-batman-family-issue-1/

And from DETECTIVE COMICS 455, Jan 1976, an 18-page story by Elliot Maggin, with art by Mile Grell. Where Bruce Wayne and Alfred are driving through a rural area, and when their car breaks down they look for help in what appears to be an old long abandoned home, and inadvertantly awaken a long-dormant vampire, ending up in a fight for their lives.
https://viewcomiconline.com/detective-comics-1937-issue-455/

Both these stories give a satisfying sample of what Grell might have done in a long Batman run. But these two issues at least give a partially realized sample of what more was possible in an atmospheric creature-of-the-night Grell run on the series. Both published about the same time as the first 3 issues of Grell's THE WARLORD run.


A less satisfying sample is Grell's 4 issues in BATMAN 287-290, scripted by David V. Reed, that present no similar atmosphere, not The Batman, but just a guy in a bat-suit fighting standard costumed supervillains. Far more Adam West, than in the O'Neil/ Adams vein.
While David V. Reed's scripts arguably had a playful and whimsical detective element, they were completely devoid of the shadows and mystery essential to writing Batman. Reed's scripts would have been perfect for Elongated Man backup stories, but they made for terrible Batman stories. Particularly when compared to the absolutely perfect Batman stories done in that decade by O'Neil, Adams, Giordano, Novick, Robbins, Wein, Aparo, Englehart, Amendola, Golden, and Rogers/Austin. As high above, so far below.

Reed did a handful of enjoyable stories in
BATMAN 296 (Scarecrow, Amendola art),
297 (the Mad Hatter, with Buckler/Colletta art)
300 ("The last Batman story", with Walt Simonson art),
and DC SPECIAL SERIES 15 (with Mike Nasser art)

But mostly Reed's Batman stories were pretty off the mark. Reed did BATMAN issues from 267-304 (Sept 1975-Oct 1978), and all 4 of these stories were at the very end of his run, DC SPECIAL SERIES 15 being the very last Baman story he wrote.