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English
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In the final volume of the Dark Knight Detective series, Batman and Robin hunt a murderer with electricity-based powers, encounter a fledgling vigilante called the Spoiler, and team up with Huntress to take down a terrorist group. Plus, appearances from Scarface and The Joker! Collects Detective Comics #644-653 and Detective Comics Annual #5, plus a corrected printing of Detective Comics Annual #4.
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Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1997, the superhero movie was all but dead. The last Superman flick had been released a decade earlier to disastrous reviews and ticket sales, the most recent Batman film was a franchise-killing bomb, and an oft-promised Spider-Man feature was grounded. Yet a mere five years later this once-derided genre would be well on its way to world domination at the box office and even critical respectability. How did this happen? And why, two decades later,...