The Dark Knight Returns Batman Comic
The dark knight returns plot.
The dark knight returns batman comic. 2nd 3rd and 4th printings of 1 are labeled as such on the inside cover. In four groundbreaking issues in late 1986 miller s dark knight returns delighted and enraged comic book classicists by turning batman a beloved but gimmicky hero who seemed to have the keys of life forever tucked into his utility belt into a brooding vigilante bleak grim and full of rooftop psychosis. Phantom four s keith levine will also serve as an executive producer alongside goyer. The dark knight returns is set in a dystopian version of gotham city in 1986.
Set 20 years in the future this story finds that in the absence of superheroes criminals have run amok and a gang called the mutants are terrorizing gotham city. 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 knights retirement. The batman fan art calls back to 1986 s the dark knight returns comic cover with a caped crusader silhouetted against a lightning strike. Batman unburied will be the dark knight s first audio adventure of the 21 st century.
Bruce wayne has been retired. The dark knight returns is a batman story written by frank miller with illustrations by miller klaus janson and lynn varley in 1986. The dark knight returns comic online this masterpiece of comics storytelling brings to life a dark world and an even darker man. Bruce wayne is 55 years old and has been retired from his batman persona for a decade.
By fareid el gafy sep 19 2020 a stunning fanmade poster for the batman calls back to the cover of the dark knight returns comic book. Cover by frank miller. The story depicts bruce wayne as an old man coming out of retirement to be batman again. The dark knight returns is a batman comic book mini series written and drawn by frank miller and published by dc comics from february to june 1986.
Bruce wayne aged 55 has given up.