While you are at it, check out my reviews of the first issue of Goshawk and Falconet and the final issue of BRZRKR. All in all, Batman: Dark Allegiances is an interesting experiment of merging a Batman story with the Pre-World War II era, which has Bruce Wayne as Batman trying to stop a plan that would force the world into another World War. I felt myself getting distracted and even yawning as I had to chore through conversation after conversation.

Shout-Out: The Klan stand-in the White Legion, besides being a reference to Klan splinter group the Black Legion, takes its name from the titular group of a 1938 episode of Batman inspiration The Shadow, with that group itself having been a loose-adaptation of the Black Legion. For the most part, Chaykin's penciling is perhaps one of the saving graces for this trade paperback. He grew up a poor orphan, and discovered a knack for industrial design, finally becoming a world-famous architect (as well as developer or special equipment for the military, which he first 'tests out' as Batman).This continuity's versions of The Penguin and Two-Face are respectively named Milton Biggsley and Caldecott Pewtie rather than Oswald Cobblepot and Harvey Dent, while the Joker is instead named Reverend Jones.

Mostly it was a strong sense of isolationism, letting the radicals and reactionaries of the world destroy each other while America lives in peace. Jones has the Joker's skin, hair and lip color and is prone to making jokes, but he's also a Sinister Minister who runs a knockoff version of the Ku Klux Klan. There's a beautiful dame who's being blackmailed, an old fashioned Batman scene at a theme park made up of giant props, and a nice sense of period throughout. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. For all that Hitler and the Nazis are obviously evil, it's a more important fact that those sorts of regimes don't arise in isolation.This story doesn't just kindle the idea of fascist infiltrators but lets it roar to life as Batman with a noirish feel, as many detective movies of the era were like, takes it to the ultra-right by suspecting corrupt politicians, and gangsters, some of them taking on the appearance of noted characters from his rogues' gallery in the form of an alternate Two-Face and Joker. Set in an imaginary nineteen thirtiea, Batman is reinvented as a self made millionaire liberal whose designs are coverted by Nazi sympathisers. Pewtie simply has a disfigured face, implied to be a physical ailment and most definitely not because he got scarred with acid, but lacks Two-Face's split personality. An Elseworlds story which reimagines the Batman as arising in the mid-1930s as a response to the growing threat of fascism in Europe and, more especially, at home in the USA.

Set during the late 1930s, daring industrialist Bruce Wayne masquerades as the Batman at night, fighting against crooked politicians and racist secret societies. This comic issue, event, or limited series takes place in its own separate continuity as an Elseworlds story; although it may exist within a larger Elseworlds continuity as part of its series.

Sinister Minister: Reverend Jones is the leader of the White Legion, a knockoff of the KKK complete with swastikas on their hoods, and is complicit in a scheme to assassinate the president and Adolf Hitler in the name of American Fascism. This includes both titles with the Elseworlds Logo, and titles retroactively declared as Elseworlds Stories.