Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy
While I know he won't have the same appeal to a modern audience, Irv Novick will always be among my favorite Batman artists. Novick's first issue
was BATMAN 204, and for the first year inked by Joe Geilla. The post-camp creature-of-the-night Batman began officially with BATMAN 217 (and
Giordano inks with issue 216), and most issues up through 266. Mostly scripted by either Frank Robbins, and beginning with issue 224, by Dennis O'Neil.
(1970-1975)

Novick later came back for another run from roughly issues 310-342. (1979-1981).

Plus Novick's run on DETECTIVE on more scattered issues.


BATMAN 217:
http://www.12comic.com/issue.jsp?id=1902270627123uv3&cu=499


BATMAN 224:
http://www.12comic.com/issue.jsp?id=1902270626590yfm&cu=492


BATMAN 227:
http://www.12comic.com/issue.jsp?id=19022706265791dv&cu=489


BATMAN 239:
http://www.12comic.com/issue.jsp?id=19022706265082d3&cu=477




I obviously agree as I listed him in my top five. By the end of his run his work suffered. I suspect in no small part because, like so many good artists of the 70s, DC saddled him with poor inkers. But from the early to mid-70s, especially when he was being inked by Dick Giordano, he was top notch.