(not really) exponential growth...

[ratcreature]

When putting away some Batman back issues I bought, I looked at the ever growing number of comic boxes, and I wondered how many Batman comics I might have bought in the span of a year.

You see, last year around this time I was the owner of only five Batman comics. I owned: The Dark Knight Returns, Year One, Arkham Asylum, The Killing Joke and Gotham by Gaslight.

Right now, not counting the five above, I own 517 single issue comics and 13 trades related to Batman or other Batverse characters. (Yeah, I was channeling The Count briefly, and couldn't resist to actually count them to find out. *g*)


the trades are:
Long Halloween, Dark Victory, Haunted Knight Halloween collection, A Death in the Family, A Lonely Place of Dying, Prodigal, Officer Down, and six Nightwing TPBs

the single issues:
7 Azrael
12 Batgirl one shots, mini-series and specials
40 Batgirl
86 Batman
4 Batman/Superman
10 Batman Chronicles
30 Birds of Prey
18 Catwoman
66 Detective Comics
14 Gotham Central
48 Gotham Knights
15 LotDK
46 Nightwing
7 Nightwing one shots, mini-series and specials
25 Robin
4 Robin Year One
25 Shadow of the Bat
2 Green Arrow (from that Batman/Green Arrow/Nightwing/Robin post-Cataclysm xover)
8 Secret Files & Origins
42 Batman one shots, mini-series and specials
8 Elseworlds


I didn't count the other DC titles I bought, but I guess those are about 70 issues or so.