User blog:Tbuchalski/My Goals for Contributing to the DC Wiki

It is my goal to read, chronicle and catalog Batman's and the Batman Family's history in the DC Database wiki. I've gotten through May 1951 so far. I'm reading Detective Comics Vol 1, Batman Vol 1, World's Finest Comics Vol 1, and Star-Spangled Comics Vol 1 with issues of Superman Vol 1, New York's World's Fair Comics Vol 1, and All-Star Comics Vol 1 thrown in occasionally for Batman's random appearances in those volumes. At the moment I care less about the teleological appearances of Batman - that is his appearances as the correlate to one another on a DC Universe timeline - than I do about the publication history of Batman and the Batman Family as we would have experienced if we read every comic with an appearance from the Batman Family faithfully from Batman's first appearance in Detective Comics Vol 1 to the present.

It should be noted that I will try to order the chronology by newsstand date, not cover date or published date as best I can. For some issues I haven't been able to locate the newsstand date, and in those instances I will revert first to the volume's tenure then cover date. For example, Detective Comics Vol. 1 began before Batman Vol. 1, so in instances where newsstand dates cannot be found for issues for these volumes printed in the same month, I'll default to the Detective Comics Vol 1 issue as the earlier appearance of Batman and/or any of the Batman Family.

That being put forth, I'll expand on my views and theories of Batman and the Batman Family as I go along. Some of these will agree largely with what is widely accepted about the DC Universe as it applies to Batman and the Batman Family, but some will not. For example, I don't think some characters of the DC Universe belong in the Batman Family, because they didn't see their origin in a Batman title or in a story-line that is driven as Batman as a main character. For example, Superman, is not and would not be considered a member of the Batman Family because he saw his origin in his own stories and drives his own story-lines. This becomes more complicated as we try to apply similar logic to other characters in the universe and I'll do my best to establish clear rules regarding whose appearances should be considered for my project if for no other reason than to create a standard for myself.

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