It was just a few months before he started on his DETECTIVE COMICS run that I started collecting all the Batman comics, and, to me, the Norm Breyfogle version of Batman stands alongside Neal Adams and Dick Sprang for quality. The cover featuring Batman swooping in behind the Crime Doctor in one of his early Detective issues still sticks in my mind. I am definitely a fan (though I still wonder why he did the Mr. T and the T-Force comic).
So I'd like to know how Norm Breyfogle landed the Batman gig. Did the DC editors (i.e. Denny O'Neil or others) like his work from elsewhere and approach him for the job? Or did he approach DC looking for work specifically with the Batman character?
Norm's work was completely new to me when I saw his artwork in Detective Comics for the first time -- what experience did he have in comics before then, and how much did it have to do with his getting the Batman gig?
