Bat Lash

This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.

Bat Lash is the title of a series of comic books published by the US publisher DC-Comics since 1968.

Batlash is about the adventures of a mischievously charming dandy cowboy who experienced historically more or less plausible adventures in the frontier areas of the United States at the end of the Wild West era. The Bat Lash stories are naturally located in the genre of the Wild West comics, but also have picaresque features.

Publications under the Bat Lash title

The basics of the concept for the Bat Lash stories were drawn up in 1967/1968 by the former draftsman and then senior editor at DC Carmine Infantino and his editorial colleague Joe Orlando. Infantino and Orlando handed their rough draft for the new series to the author and draftsman Sergio Aragonés and the author Sheldon Mayer with the task of developing it into a complete series concept. After Aragonés and Mayer refined Infantino and Orlando's concept, the first Bat Lash story was published in issue # 76 of the Showcase anthology series in 1968 . This first story was written by Mayer and drawn by Aragonés. Aragonés was hired as plot writer for the bimonthly independent Bat Lash series, which was launched soon afterwards, while Dennis O'Neil wrote the dialogues based on Aragonés plots, which ultimately appeared in the finished booklet. The artist Nick Cardy finally got the drawings for the series, which was discontinued after only 8 issues.

In later years, other Bat Lash stories were published as back-up stories in series such as Action Comics or Weird Western Tales .

Main character and plot

The hero of the Bat Lash stories, Bartholomew Alouysius Lash, or Bat Lash for short, is a jovial man in the late twenties / early thirties who, after the murder of his parents and siblings, was aimlessly and aimlessly - but without inner bitterness - Travels through the sparsely populated outposts of civilization in the border areas of the American Midwest , where the "Law of the Colts" still applies.

Bat Lash hates all kinds of conflict and especially physical violence of all kinds, but he is adept at defending himself with the revolver and his fists, which is essential because he has an uncomfortable habit of almost all kinds of problems to attract magnetically. The result is that the charming uselessness between countless non-binding romances and his second passion, playing cards, is repeatedly caught in the crossfire of evil machinations. So Bat Lash repeatedly has to deal with desperados, bounty hunters and husbands who are horned by him, with sheriffs, Indians, trappers, with cattle thieves and quacks, which he can cover up thanks to his quick fists and his clever shrewdness.

Adaptations

The episode The Once and Future Thing Part 1: Weird Western Tales of the cartoon Justice League Unlimited tells a western story in which Bat Lash (dubbed Ben Browder) and Jonah Hex, another DC western hero, appear.

Prices

Bat Lash won the Alley Award for Best Western Comic in 1968 and 1969.