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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Vol 1 2

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John Costanza

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Klaus Janson

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Klaus Janson

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Frank Miller

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Frank Miller

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Lynn Varley

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Frank Miller

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Dark Knight Triumphant

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Dennis O'Neil Dick Giordano

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Frank Miller

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Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * * * * * Adversaries: * :* * :* , :* Other Characters: * Arnold Crimp * * Chuck Brick * * * Iron Man Vasquez * * Kevin Ridley * * Louis Gallagher * Margaret Corcoran * Nathan Briggs * Mayor * Peppi Spandeck * Reporters :* Bill, * * Locations: * :* ::* ::* ::* :* ::* Items: * s * * Vehicles: *

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Lynn Varley

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Dick Giordano Dennis O'Neil

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USA

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Dick Giordano

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

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April

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The second part chronicles Batman's struggle against Gotham's newest criminal threat, the vicious Mutant gang and their anonymous leader. As he walks to work, contemplating his upcoming retirement, Jim Gordon is almost killed by a 17-year old boy with an M60. In the course of rescuing a young child, Batman discovers that a cash-broke Army general and war hero has been arming the Mutants, in return for the money to help his sick wife. When Batman confronts him, the General commits suicide. Meanwhile, the Mayor has appointed a qualified woman as Gordon's successor, Ellen Yindel, who worships Gordon but despises vigilantes. And a young girl who owes her life to Batman, Carrie Kelly, decides to seek out her hero and takes on the role of Robin. Following his leads, the Caped Crusader succeeds in tracking down the Mutant lair and defeating them with the Batmobile . In a brutal hand-to-hand fight, Batman is defeated and almost killed by the Mutant Leader, as the aging Caped Crusader tries to prove to himself that he is a force at any age. Luckily, Carrie, in her new Robin costume, has been following Batman, and manages to save him. Batman returns to the Batcave where Alfred tends his wounds ; meanwhile, the Mutant Leader is brought into custody. The Leader's absolute animalistic nature is fully revealed when the Leader manages to tear out the Mayor's throat while in custody. Gordon and Batman conspire to defeat the Mutants psychologically by staging a fight between Batman and the Leader in front of the whole Mutant gang. Using his greater experience and his environment, Batman cripples the Mutant Leader in full view of his followers. While many of the Mutants are arrested, many more now latch on to Batman as their role model, dubbing themselves the "Sons of Batman." However, their interpretation of Batman's quest will leave much to be desired. The issue ends with James Gordon, looking forward to his retirement from the madness of Gotham and regretting the predicament that Batman will find himself in: caught between criminals and the police.

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* This series takes place in an alternate continuity from that of the mainstream DC Universe. It has been retroactively classified as an Elseworlds story. * This issue has been reprinted in both softcover and harcover versions of the Batman: The Dark Knight Returns trade paperback collection.

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You don't get it, boy... this isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

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DC Comics

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1986