Ah, my sweet summer children, let me tell you of a time called the early 90s. It was a time of hope. It was a time of questionable fashion. And it was a time when there were only three monthly Batman family titles, and one of them very rarely interacted with the others. This week, we're going back to those times long ago and reading three small inter-Bat title crossovers. We see Harold join the cast of the Bat titles while Penguin pines for a soap star and does his best Hitchcock impression, Batman trips balls to stop a brain stealing psychic entity, and the first crossover that had all three Bat titles and brought the architecture of Batman '89 to the comics

The Penguin Affair (Batman V.1 # 448-449, Detective Comics V.1 # 615)

The Idiot Root (Batman V.1 # 472-473, Detective Comics V.1 # 639-640)

Destroyer (Batman V.1 # 474, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight # 27, Detective Comics V.1 # 641)

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