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    Batman: Year One Deluxe by Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli, David Mazzucchelli (Illustrator)

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    • Publisher: DC Comics
    • Pub. Date: January 2007
    • ISBN-13: 9781401207526
    • Sales Rank: 3,011
    • 144pp
    • Series: Batman Series
    • Edition Description: REV
     
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    A young Bruce Wayne has spent his adolescence and early adulthood, traveling the world so he could hone his body and mind into the perfect fighting and investigative machine. But now as he returns to Gotham City, he must find a way to focus his passion and bring justice to his city. Retracing Batman's first attempts to fight injustice as a costumed vigilante, we watch as he chooses a guise of a giant bat, creates an early bond with a young Lieutenant James Gordon, inadvertently plays a role in the birth of Catwoman, and helps to bring down a corrupt political system that infests Gotham.

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    An exciting new volume recounting the early beginnings of Bruce Wayne, and how he came to be one of the greatest superheroes of all time---Batman.

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    Gr 4 & Up - In the late 1980s, DC Comics revamped many superheroes but realized that Batman should remain true to his 1939 history. According to the introduction, the editors also decided that the public needed to know more about Batman's early life as a vigilante, and Miller and Mazzucchelli came together to produce Batman: Year One. Originally released in 1988 in four parts, the stories have been combined into one book. Opening with the arrival of Lieutenant James Gordon in Gotham's police force, the story goes on to inform readers about the level of corruption permeating the force. They also witness Bruce Wayne's first encounter with the prostitute named Selina, who will become Catwoman. Wayne speaks to his dead father, asking for guidance, and is answered with a bat on the windowsill, and Batman is born. The remaining chapters highlight Gordon's continuing difficulties with the corrupt police force, Batman's early difficulties in protecting and using his arsenal of weapons, and the first villains he chooses to pursue. At the end of the book, readers are treated to some background on Mazzucchelli's art, the production of Year One, and details on Richmond Lewis's coloring techniques. Both beginning and devoted Batman fans will enjoy this edition.-Sarah Krygier, Solano County Library, Fairfield, CA

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    The only written version of The Dark Knight's Origin worth reading...by Anonymous

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    August 18, 2008: Like many other comic characters, Batman's origin has been retold many times. This is the single attempt that actually IS worth it.

    A mans journeyby Anonymous

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    February 10, 2007: The first thing people think of when batman is said, is a man in a garish neon outfit making him look like a transvestite bat. They categorize him as a needless distraction in any media, especially in comics. But this comic transcends all opinions and delivers a story that is undeniably realistic and exciting. Gone is the neon jump suit, replaced by a emotionally wounded man trying to make sense of his in an urban jungle eating itself alive. Where the only wasy to make change is to become fear itself and make all that inflict evil on innocents pay. This book in a nutshell makes the Untouchables look like barney miller.


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