Thread:SforHope/@comment-27892537-20181117162947/@comment-18172179-20181118000040

The "crossover trend", as I like to call it, started in late 1981-early 1982. The first instance of this being as the continuity of the story is further developed in  and then it goes back to.

This storytelling device was used until the very end of the Bronze Age (or Earth-One continuity) in 1986 and 90% of the time, it is mandatory that you read those stories alternating between Batman and Detective. Otherwise, it simply wouldn't make any sense.

That's probably the biggest hurdle people find when going back to that era. Readers must alternate between series and for current lazy readership, it's too much of a hassle to make sense of the reading order. Which is a shame because the creative team of the time is phenomenal. Dick Giordano and Len Wein (editors); Gerry Conway and Doug Moench (writers); Don Newton and Gene Colan (artists)!! I mean, come on!