Denny O'Neil: Crafting Grounded Heroes

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  @loganwendigo937 · 6 years ago

  The Batman franchise would not be nearly as popular as it is today without O’Neil’s work. R.I.P to a comic book legend

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• CA

  @caligulapontifex5759 · 6 years ago

  Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams saved Batman. Period! Without them there would be no Frank Miller Dark Knight and by extension no Christopher Nolan Dark Knight movies. RIP Sir!

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  @SalazarKnight · 6 years ago

  I've said before and I'll say it again: Denny's work changed comics. His presence changed lives. Thank you, Chris for an excellent video that summarizes the great career of Denny O'Neil.

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• OM

  @omniframe8612 · 6 years ago

  It's also important to note that Denny O'Neils Batman run heavily influenced Batman the animated series. Several episodes are directly adapted from his run such as The Demons Quest and I think "A Bullet for Bullock. RIP Denny O'Neil

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• RO

  @rojaws1183 · 6 years ago

  A man walk down the street in a hat like that you know he is not afraid of anything.

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  @Thierrothierro · 6 years ago

  "There is no hope in Crime Alley" was one of the first Batman stories I read and defined the character for me: Tragic, driven, yet very compassionate. Thank you for the wonderful stories, Denny O'Neil - and thank you, Chris, for this great look at his work!

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  @cort0_maltes876 · 6 years ago

  O&apos;Neil is said to have told the behind-the-counter guy who accused him of a myth-killer: <br><br>&quot;Only birth can conquer death—the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. Within the soul, within the body social, there must be—if we are to experience long survival—a continuous &quot;recurrence of birth&quot; (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death. For it is by means of our own victories, if we are not regenerated, that the work of Nemesis is wrought: doom breaks from the shell of our very virtue. Peace then is a snare; war is a snare; change is a snare; permanence a snare. When our day is come for the victory of death, death closes in; there is nothing we can do, except be crucified—and resurrected; dismembered totally, and then reborn.&quot;<br><br>Then he vanished, leaving the guy in mid-sentence like in the Nolan movies.

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  @OwenLikesComics · 6 years ago

  Fantastic video, Chris. Your love and respect for Denny O&apos;Neil really shines through and I found your perspective as someone that grew up reading a lot of his best works to be fascinating.

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• MC

  @mcurran6505 · 6 years ago

  RIP Denny O&apos;Neil, the man who brought Batman back into the darkness.

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• OL

  @Olympics2048 · 6 years ago

  So ingrained in the Batman mythos. You can really see his influence on BTAS

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  @traviswrigg5158 · 6 years ago

  &quot;Stan Lee couldn&apos;t write them all&quot;<br>I feel like Stan Lee had to be told this several times before accepting it

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• KJ

  @kj6446 · 6 years ago

  Denny&apos;s name should be mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

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