Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, DC Comics, Klaus Janson (Illustrator)

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(Paperback - 10TH ANNIVERSARY)

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  • Publisher: DC Comics
  • Pub. Date: May 1997
  • ISBN-13: 9781563893421
  • Sales Rank: 1,716
  • 224pp
  • Series: Batman Series
  • Edition Description: 10TH ANNIVERSARY
  • Edition Number: 10
 
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This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight's retirement.

Crime runs rampant in the streets, and the man who was Batman is still tortured by the memories of his parents' murders. As civil society crumbles around him, Bruce Wayne's long-suppressed vigilante side finally breaks free of its self-imposed shackles.

The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by this generation's Robin — a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors,

But can Batman and Robin deal with the threat posed by their deadliest enemies, after years of incarceration have made them into perfect psychopaths? And more important, can anyone survive the coming fallout of an undeclared war between the superpowers — or a clash of what were once the world's greatest superheroes?

Over fifteen years after its debut, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns remains an undisputed classic and one of the most influential stories ever told in the comics medium.

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"There's never been storytelling quite like this. It took someone who views comics as an art to create it."---Washington Post

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There's never been storytelling quite like this. It took someone who views comics as an art to create it. — Washington Post

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July 27, 2008: Being a Batman fan for as long as i can remember from very early on in my childhood ive enjoyed all the comics ive read of him but this book was incredible, it was a different take on The Dark Knight that we've never seen before and a introduction of characters we haven't met previously, just incredible and a must buy for any Batman fan, besides, this book was used by Tim Burton as inspiration to make the first Batman movie with Jack Nicholson and the Joker and that turned out incredible as well

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November 05, 2007: let me start off by saying, That I dont just read comics, I also enjoy a novel, or a fine piece of literature. but Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is literature. I believe that along with 'The Catcher In The Rye', this comic should be taught in high schools.


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