I haven’t been reading enough lately, but now that summer is over it’s time to get going. It’s time for Vince Reads Books.

I love Batman. Sometimes I forget how much I love Batman, but every once in awhile it sneaks up on me and I remember how much I really do. As a kid I remember my parents taking me to the midnight show of the Tim Burton/Michael Keaton Batman and probably another 10-15 times after that. I had all the action figures, t-shirts, posters, some comic books, McDonalds cups and everything else. I loved Batman so much I even watched the stupid 60s show. (I recently tried to watch the movie based on this show on Netflix and it was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my life. Just awful.) If it had Batman on it, I wanted it. As a boy I was Batman-crazy.

The Boy Who Loved Batman: A Memoir is about another boy who was Batman-crazy, producer Michael Uslan. Michael grew up reading comic books in the golden age and fell in love. While someone like myself read comics for awhile and then stopped reading them for awhile, Michael never stopped reading them and has a collection worth millions. Michael stayed into comics so much so that in college he started the first accredit college course on comic books in the country and got a lot of publicity for it. That alone is a pretty great accomplishment, but Michael had a far bigger goal in mind. Ever since he was a little kid he wanted to make people forget the aforementioned 60′s TV show Batman and he wanted to bring a dark, mature vision of Batman to the big screen. Or THE Batman as he calls it throughout the book.  read more »