Good Problem To Have

While becoming more familiar with The Black Bat, I was surprised to find out that much like a pulp version of David Hasselhoff, he became hugely popular in Germany after his popularity fizzled in North America. So after I was done with building the pages that would display covers and art from Dynamite Comics and Black Book Detective, I thought I would try to find as many cover images from Pabel Kriminalroman Fledermaus as I could.

And that has gone far better than I could have hoped.

I found about a dozen of them at first, from various sources, but later landed a bunch more while searching ebay listing from Austria and Germany.

Then earlier tonight, I came across a website which enabled me to search ended ebay listings. With that site's help, I scored about 40 more. Not taking into account the covers which do not display The Black Bat (and therefore are of no interst to me), my collection is becoming quite complete.

The collection has become so large, in fact, that it was becoming cumbersome to have all the covers on only one page. I have therefore broken it down over three pages. And as I continue to add images, then perhaps I'll expand from three to four to five pages, whatever. For now, that's where we're at.

I also came across something a little unexpected. Back in January, I bought one of these German mini-novels because it was cheap and had Canadian involvement. I'm Canadian and that the Black Bat would have anything to do with this country struck me as unusual, so I thought it would be a good issue to sample.

That was issue 498. Well, it turns out that issue 513 also involves Canada and it was also relatively inexpensive, especially for being shipped from Europe. So I bought earlier tonight and apparently I can expect to receive in about two weeks. Merry Christmas to me.

(Chase To Canada)

So while I wait for that to arrive, I'll embellish the cover images I found earlier tonight and start adding them to their respective pages.