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A New York Times Best SellerOne of the most important and critically acclaimed Batman adventures ever -- written by Frank Miller BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS with art by David Mazzuchelli Daredevil -- returns as a deluxe hardcoverA 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 Batmans 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 GothamThis collection includes new introductions by Miller and Mazzucchelli loads of reproductions of original pencils promotional art unseen Mazzucchelli Batman art Richmond Lewiss color samples script pages and other surprises This will be the musthave hardcover of the season.
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Frank Miller is one of the seminal creative talents who sparked the current gigantic sub-industry of motion pictures featuring comic book- initiated product. A sub-industry which had become a super-industry. This most profitable aspect of this millennium's film production, now producing an annual flow of box office profits in the Billions of dollars, was launched when Frank Miller's graphic novel re-take on the classic comic book hero, Batman, resulted in an entertainment industry-wide reconsideration of the genre in the deeper and darker vision Miller brought to it. Miller re-defined the presentation of comic book characters and heroic fiction with his grand-daddy of graphic novels, "The Dark Knight." This revolutionary worknot only kicked off the series of Batman films based on his redefinition, but a craze for such material that has thrown dozens of such heroes into multiple film franchise heaven. Certainly chief among these has been Miller's uniquely classical take on superheroic narrative, "300," and his "Sin City" books, each of which entered motion pictures with historic successes, and each now in Miller's creative phase of achieving its highly-anticipated sequel. Miller's co-direction of "Sin City" has made him one of the hottestdirectors ... as well as a guiding creative force ... for the new genre. Or one might say "super genre."Miller's latest graphic novel, Holy Terror, is his first original graphic novel in ten years. Join The Fixer, a brand new, hard-edged hero as he battles terror in the inaugural release from Legendary Comics.
