In a dark dystopian future Gotham City has descended into lawlessness in the ten years since the Dark Knight retired When his city cries out for help Batman returns to save the city he had dedicated his life to protecting Joined by Carrie Kelly a teenaged female Robin Batman takes to the streets to end the threat of the mutant gangs that have overrun the city & after facing off against his two greatest enemies the Joker & Two-Face for the final time Batman finds himself in mortal combat with his former ally Superman in a battle that only one of them will survive Frank Miller&s THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS & THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN are considered two of the most influential superhero graphic novels of all time cementing Miller&s status as one of his generation&s greatest graphic storytellers Collected here are both parts of Miller&s DARK KNIGHT saga including THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS 1-4 THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN 1-3 with additional character sketch & script pages ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free blu-ray player in order to play Another night falls over Gotham City & with the darkness out crawls the crime & villainy from the shadows The days of The Batman & other noble super heroes are but faded memories; violence & despair are now the harbingers of our time But one event will set a change into motion when Harvey " Two Face" Dent shuns a former rehabilitated life for a descent into corruption an aged & weathered Bruce Wayne dons the mask & cape once more With a stellar voice cast headed by Peter Weller Ariel Winter & David Selby this gritty DC Comics legend comes to life with unforgettable battles thrilling chases & the promise of a better tomorrow for humanity because there is nowhere for criminals to hide when The Dark Knight Returns Actors Peter Weller Ariel Winter David Selby Wade Williams Carlos Alazraqui & Dee Bradley Baker Director Jay Oliva Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages French ; German ; Latin Spanish ; Castilian Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; English ; German for the hearing impaired ; German ; Castilian Spanish ; French Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 16 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Please note the UV copy is only compatible in participating regions please visit the UV website for full details It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night turning in that instant from hero to fugitive Assuming the blame for the death of DA Harvey Dent the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he & Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good For a time the lie worked as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda Far more dangerous however is the emergence of Bane a masked terrorist whose ruthless plans for Gotham drive Bruce out of his self-imposed exile But even if he dons the cape & cowl again Batman may be no match for Bane Special Features The Batmobile The Prologue High-Altitude Hijacking Return to the Batcave Beneath Gotham The Bat Pod Batman vs Bane Armory Accepted Gameday Destruction Demolishing a City Street The Pit The Chant The War on Wall Street Race to the Reactor The Journey of The Dark Knight Gotham&s Reckoning A Girls Gotta Eat Shadows & Light in Large Format The End of A Legend Trailer Archive Ultraviolet Digital Copy Expiry Date 2nd December 2014 Actors Tom Hardy Anne Hathaway Christian Bale Joseph Gordon-Levitt Marion Cotillard Gary Oldman Morgan Freeman Josh Pence Michael Caine Juno Temple Matthew Modine Nestor Carbonell Alon Aboutboul Diego Klattenhoff & Tom Conti Director Christopher Nolan Year 2011 Screen Widescreen Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages Thai ; Castilian Spanish ; Japanese ; Italian ; German ; French ; English Audio Description Subtitles German ; French ; Dutch ; Chinese complex ; Cantonese ; Bahasa
- Indonesia ; German ; Italian ; Japanese ; Korean ; Castilian Spanish ; Thai ; Dannish ; Finnish ; Norwegian ; Swedish ; Icelandic ; French ; English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours & 44 minutes (approx)

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Please note the UV copy is only compatible in participating regions please visit the UV website for full details It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night turning in that instant from hero to fugitive Assuming the blame for the death of DA Harvey Dent the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he & Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good For a time the lie worked as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda Far more dangerous however is the emergence of Bane a masked terrorist whose ruthless plans for Gotham drive Bruce out of his self-imposed exile But even if he dons the cape & cowl again Batman may be no match for Bane Actors Tom Hardy Anne Hathaway Christian Bale Joseph Gordon-Levitt Marion Cotillard Gary Oldman Morgan Freeman Josh Pence Michael Caine Juno Temple Matthew Modine Nestor Carbonell Alon Aboutboul Diego Klattenhoff & Tom Conti Director Christopher Nolan Year 2011 Screen 2401 Widescreen Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages English Audio Description Subtitles Swedish ; Norwegian ; Icelandic ; Finnish ; Danish ; English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours & 40 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
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It&s been three years since the events of The Dark Knight Returns & everything is just fine At least on the surface What the world at large doesn&t know is that it&s a total sham A perfectly choreographed pretty little world where everything that&s ugly or even potentially disturbing is all nicely wrapped up with neat little ribbons & swept under the carpet Only he knows better He&s watched it fester to near-breaking point & it&s time for the only free man left who can effect any real change to bring it all down around their ears once & for all The Dark Knight returns once again with a vitality unseen since the first years of his war on crime Together with his army of Bat-soldiers including Carrie Kelley—formerly Robin & now the new Catgirl—the Dark Knight wages a new war on a diseased world that&s become completely lost The Dark Knight Strikes Again features appearances by such DC icons as Superman Wonder Woman Green Arrow Martian Manhunter the Atom the Question & more But are they still the World&s Greatest Heroes or part of the conspiracy? This incredible volume designed by multiple award-winner Chipp Kidd features a new introduction by Miller commenting on returning to the world he created fifteen years ago The book

Includes:: the complete 3-part story plus numerous sketches & other never-before-seen material by Frank Miller Lynn Varley Meet the Author Frank Miller Frank Miller began his career in comics in the late 1970s & rose to fame while first drawing & then writing Daredevil for Marvel Comics He was also the creative force behind Batman The Dark Knight Returns Batman Year One & Batman The Dark Knight Strikes Again His many works have not only redefined classic characters but also on a few occasions revitalized the comics industry His creator-owned Sin City hit the page in 1991 & then the silver screen in 2005 — with Miller on board as co-director His multi-award-winning 300 graphic novel was brought to full-blooded life in the 2007 motion picture of the same name & in 2008 he directed the feature film of Will Eisner’s The Spirit

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A sketch edition of some of comics superstar David Finch&s greatest Batman stories from Batman The Dark Knight DC Comics The New 52 & more! This fantastic unwrapped collection features tales of the Dark Knight written & pencilled by David Finch Encompassing David&s work from Batman The Dark Knight to the re-launch in the New 52 this volume features the stunning artwork & compelling stories about the supernatural & the esoteric areas of Gotham City Collects Batman The Dark Knight 1-3 Batman The Return 1 & Batman The Dark Knight (Vol 2) 1-7 & 9 in black & white format ...

In this tale of horror in Gotham City co-written by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola Bruce Wayne unintentionally brings a dark evil back from a rescue mission

Includes:: appearances by The Penguin The Demon Man-Bat Ra&s al Ghul & many other Batman villains Collects BATMAN THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM 1-3

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The stories that catapulted Batman to legendary status are collected here in a single massive volume These original stories from DETECTIVE COMICS 27-56 BATMAN 1-7 NEW YORK WORLD&S FAIR COMICS 2 WORLD&S BEST COMICS 1 & WORLD&S FINEST COMICS 2-3 include the origin of the Dark Knight as well as the debuts of Robin Commissioner Gordon Professor Hugo Strange The Joker Catwoman & more! BATMAN THE GOLDEN AGE OMNIBUS VOL 1 features the work of such luminaries as Bob Kane Bill Finger Gardner Fox Jerry Robinson & more!by Various ...

This second BATMAN THE GOLDEN AGE OMNIBUS

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American popular culture has produced few heroic figures as famous & enduring as that of the Batman The dark mysterious hero who debuted in 1939’s DETECTIVE COMICS 27 as the lone “ Bat-man” quickly grew into the legend of the Caped Crusader After his landmark debut & origin story the Dark Knight was given many seminal elements including his partner in crime-fighting Robin the Boy Wonder & such adversaries as the Joker Hugo Strange & Catwoman BATMAN THE GOLDEN AGE VOLUME ONE collects all of the Dark Knight Detective’s first-ever adventures from DETECTIVE COMICS 27-45 BATMAN 1-3 & NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR COMICS 2 Meet the Author William Finger was born on February 8 1914 He met cartoonist Bob Kane at a party in 1938 & soon after they were collaborating on several adventure strips Within a year Batman appeared Finger&s fondness for pulp fiction & movies influenced his plots & writing style for comic books He worked on many other DC characters & titles scripted some of the 1940s daily & Sunday Batman & Robin newspaper strip continuities & wrote for Quality Fawcett & Timely Finger&s television credits include 77 Sunset Strip The Roaring Twenties & Hawaiian Eye during the late 1950s & early 1960s His efforts in the super-hero genre also appeared on TV in the 1960s including material for the animated New Adventures of Superman plus a two-part Clock King episode of the 1966 Batman series Finger died in New York City on January 24 1974 He was posthumously inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame in 1999 Robert Kahn was born on October 24 1916 in the Bronx & at age 18 legally changed his name to Kane In 1936 this self-proclaimed "compulsive doodleholic" pencilled & inked his first comic book work Hiram Hick By 1938 he was selling humorous filler stories to DC Comics including Professor Doolittle & Ginger Snap Kane met writer Bill Finger at a party in 1938 & they soon were collaborating on comic book submissions Their most famous effort Batman first appeared in DETECTIVE COMICS 27 (May 1939) As Batman&s popularity demanded additional output Kane kept up the pace by adding assistants & dropping non-Batman assignments He discontinued his comic book efforts in mid-1943 to pencil the daily Batman & Robin newspaper strip After the strip&s 1946 demise Kane returned to illustrating Batman&s comic book adventures & with the help of several ghosts remained involved with comics until his retirement in 1968 The success of the Batman television series brought Kane & his art back into the public eye in 1966 He was subsequently featured in various one-man art shows at galleries & museums nationwide & released a number of limited-edition lithographs He served as a consultant on the 1989 Batman feature film & its sequels His autobiography Batman & Me was published in 1989 & in 1996 he was inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame Kane died on November 3 1998 ...