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A devastating earthquake has left Gotham City in ruins, and the government is getting close to completely cutting it off from the rest of civilization. But theres one man whos vowed to save Gotham from whatever foe it comes up against, and now Bruce Wayne must put aside his life as Batman and put on his suit and tie as he takes his fight for the fate of Gotham to Washington, D.C. Lurking in the shadows is the mysterious Nicholas Scratch who will do everything in his power to ensure Gotham becomes a No Mans Land! . In this, the final act before the beginning of the classic event, "No Mans Land," Bruce Wayne, Robin, Nightwing and many others try to save their city from destruction once again-this time at the hands of the U.S. government. . BATMAN: ROAD TO NO MANS LAND VOL. 2 collects for the first time the complete "Road to No Mans Land" storyline that rocked the Bat family and leads into the hit crossover event No Mans Land, Reprinting DETECTIVE COMICS #727-729, BATMAN #560-562, BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT #80-82, THE BATMAN CHRONICLES #15, AZRAEL #47-50, and BATMAN: NO MANS LAND SECRET FILES AND ORIGINS #1.
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Charles "Chuck" Dixon is an American comic book writer, perhaps best-known for long runs on titles in the 1990s. His earliest comics work was writing first for Comico Comics in 1984 (then later for First Comics, who published the on-going series) , on which he worked with his then-wife, the artist Judith Hunt. His big break came one year later, when editor Larry Hama hired him to write back-up stories for Marvel Comics' In 1986, he began working for Eclipse Comics, writing with artist Tim Truman. Continuing to write for both Marvel and (mainly) Eclipse on these titles, as well as launching with artist Tom Lyle in August 1987 and with artist Paul Gulacy in October 1987, he began work on Carl Potts' series for Marvel's Epic Comics imprint, under editor Archie Goodwin. He also produced a three-issue adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's for Eclipse with artist David Wenzel between 1989 and 1990, and began writing in June 1989. His (August, 1990) led to him working on the monthly (and later, more monthly and occasional titles) , and also brought him to the attention of DC Comics editor Denny O'Neil, who asked him to produce a mini-series. The mini proved popular enough to spawn two sequels - (1991) and (1992) - which led to both an ongoing monthly series (which Dixon wrote for 100 issues before leaving to work with CrossGen Comics) , and to Dixon working on from #644-738 through the major Batman stories (for which he helped create the key character of Bane) , and . Much of his run was illustrated by Graham Nolan. He was DC's most prolific Batman-writer in the mid-1990s (rivalled perhaps in history by Bill Finger and Dennis O'Neil) - in addition to writing
