Outside of the major crossover events, the Shadow of the Bat series can fit into three nice volumes. This series is nice because there are a lot of smaller arcs, and each of these three volumes can be completely standalone. Personally, I have a special place for the third book, which includes a lot of issues that I was able to get from the grocery stores back when that was a thing, and were among my first Batman comics.
Volume 1: Shadow of the Bat
-Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1-15
Volume 2: Shadows Over Gotham
-Batman: Shadow of the Bat #36-43
-Catwoman #26
-Batman: Shadow of the Bat #44-47
The Catwoman issue is a necessary crossover issue written by Alan Grant. There are also issues of Batman and Detective that take place about the same time as SOTB #46-47, dealing with the mayoral election. However, trying to get those three stories to all mesh up nicely is quite impossible. (Heck, I only have the SOTB and ‘Tec issues, and I can’t get them to match up. So I’m just going to stick with SOTB.)
Volume 3: Shadows of the Mind
-Batman: Shadow of the Bat #55-72
Shadow of the Bat Annual #4 (Pulp Heroes) could go in this volume.
Depending on how you are binding Cataclysm, the one-shot Arkham Asylum: Tales of Madness could go at the end of this volume. Although it’s labeled as part 16 of Cataclysm, it’s completely independent from the rest of the crossover. There are several places to place that one-shot (either at the end of Cataclysm or the beginning of Aftershock), but the end of this volume might actually make the most sense.
As for the rest of the series…(most of which I have mapped elsewhere)
#16-18: Knightfall
#19-28: KnightQuest
#29-30: Knightsend
#31: Zero Hour
#0, 32-35: The Prodigal/Troika
#48-49: Contagion
#50-52: a three issue arc that kind of flows out of Contagion and sort of into Legacy, so I bound it with Legacy
#53-54: Legacy
#73-74: Cataclysm
#75-79: Aftershock
#1000000: DC One Million
#80-82: Road to No Man’s Land
#83-94: No Man’s Land
I suppose that #16-28 could make a decent Az-Bat volume on it’s own.
As for the annuals:
#1 – Bloodlines (skipped, but could go in its own volume)
#2 – Elseworlds (put in an Elseworlds volume)
#3 – Year One (skipped, due to contradicting other Year One era stories)
#4 – Pulp Heroes (as mentioned above, could have included it, but I did a separate Pulp Heroes book)
Great idea on a series I always liked but was getting frustrated with mapping into volumes! I really like how you spaced everything out.