I'm trying to wrap my head around the Batman books needed to understand many of Batman's storylines. When I say " the Batman books needed to understand many of Batman's storylines", I mean something like this:
In the late 80s, Superman Vol. 1 was retitled to Adventures of Superman, and Superman Vol. 2 was launched. So by the 90s, there were three monthly Superman titles (none on the same week), which were Superman, Action Comics and Adventures of Superman. To make four Superman titles per month (one per week), they added another monthly series, Superman: Man of Steel. However, there were still four weeks each year without a Superman issue, prompting DC to launch a quarterly series, entitled Superman: The Man of Tomorrow. Storylines would span across the four monthly Superman comics for years (not sure how involved the quarterly was). There was even a number on the cover of each issue to determine which part of the current story arc they were.
So to restate my question: did Batman have an equivalent set of books, and if so, what were they?
I have done some research, but I wasn't able to confirm some things. My guess is that the set of Batman books published in order to have one Batman issue each week was: Batman, Detective Comics, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight and Batman: Shadow of the Bat and Batman Chronicles. The first four were monthly titles and the last was quarterly.
However, I do not believe that storylines spanned across these series. I think the story arcs spread through the Bat-family books: Nightwing, Robin, Azrael, etc. So I'd like to narrow my query to only Batman books. No Bat-family books.
Thanks in advance.
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