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 ...

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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 ...

Written by Alan Moore & Brian Bolland Art & cover by Brian Bolland Presented for the first time with stark stunning new ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Titles Comprise Batman After a young boy witnesses his parents& murder on the streets of Gotham City he grows up to become Batman a mysterious figure in the eyes of Gotham&s citizens who takes crime-fighting into his own hands He first emerges out of the shadows when the Joker appears
- a horribly disfigured individual who is out for revenge on his former employer & generally likes to have a good time but the identity of the "bat" is unknown Perhaps millionaire Bruce Wayne & photographer Vicki Vale have a good chance of finding out? Batman Returns Gotham City faces two monstrous criminal menaces the bizarre sinister Penguin & the slinky mysterious Catwoman Can Batman battle two formidable foes at once? Like the Academy Award winning 1989 original Batman Returns is directed by movie-making wizard Tim Burton & like the first blockbuster it&s a dazzling adventure that leaves you breathless Batman Forever Riddle me this; riddle me that you&ll find adventure on the wings of a bat! Brace for excitement as Val Kilmer (Batman) Tommy Lee Jones (Two-Face) Jim Carrey (The Riddler) Nicole Kidman (Dr Chase Meridian) & Chris O& Donnell (Robin) star in the third spectacular film Joel Schumacher directs & Tim Burton co-produces this thrill-ride of a movie that thunders along on Batmobile Batwing Batboat Batsub & bold heroics Hang on! Batman & Robin Chills & thrills will Gotham City be put on ice? George Clooney is Batman as the dark knight battles his greatest threat yet Cold-hearted Mr Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) & venomous Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman) New very special effects include a wild sky-surfing sequence & Freeze&s outrageous ice-blasting arsenal It&s state-of-the-art excitement from our Batfamily to yours! Actors Jack Nicholson Michael Keaton Kim Basinger Billy Dee Williams Michael Gough Danny Devito Michelle Pfeiffer Christopher Walken Val Kilmer Tommy Lee Jones Jim Carrey Nicole Kidman Chris O& Donnell & Arnold Schwarzenegger Director Tim Burton & Joel Schumacher Certificate 15 years & over Year 1989 ; 1992 ; 1995 ; 1997 Screen 169 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Arabic Duration 7 hours & 57 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & requires a region B or region Free blu-ray player in order to play Boxed set including the first four Batman movies Batman Inspired by Frank Miller&s graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns this gothic Wagnerian treatment of the Batman mythos explains the origins of Batman & his nemesis the maniacal Joker (a ripe Jack Nicholson) who has sinister plans for the citizens of Gotham City Batman Returns As the pitiful orphaned psychopathic freak the Penguin & the power-hungry capitalist villain Max Schreck (named after the actor who played Nosferatu) plot to gain domination over Gotham City the Caped Crusader battles an equally fatal distraction Cat Woman Batman Forever Gotham City is once again under siege this time by the mind-controlling Riddler & the diabolical Harvey Two-Face The Caped Crusader cleans up with the help of his new side-kick Robin in this effects-laden thrill ride Batman & Robin The Caped Crusader returns to battle the abominable Mr Freeze & green-thumbed Poison Ivy To save his ailing wife Dr Victor Fries turns to a life of crime after a hideous accident makes him unable to tolerate even moderate temperatures while Dr Pamela Isley falls victim to mutated plant DNA when things go awry in a jungle laboratory funded by Wayne Industries Of course though their interests are diametrically opposed (Freeze wants another Ice Age; Ivy wants to make the world safe for plants) the two villains team up to defeat Gotham&s dynamic duo of Batman & Robin who are joined by butler Alfred&s motorcycle-obsessed niece as Batgirl & when Alfred is diagnosed as having the same terminal disease as Freeze&s wife the trio find themselves not only fighting an altruistic battle but a personal one as well A frenetic colourful & often overwhelming sequel to the films that precede it Actors Jack Nicholson Michael Keaton Kim Basinger Billy Dee Williams Michael Gough Danny Devito Michelle Pfeiffer Christopher Walken Val Kilmer Tommy Lee Jones Jim Carrey Nicole Kidman Chris O& Donnell & Arnold Schwarzenegger Director Tim Burton & Joel Schumacher Certificate 15 years & over Screen Widescreen Languages English
- Dolby True HD (51) Additional Languages Castilian Spanish ; French ; German ; Italian ; Brazilian Portugese ; Latin Spanish Subtitles English ; Dutch ; Spanish ; French ; German ; Italian ; Japanese ; Korean ; Portuguese ; Danish ; Norwegian ; Swedish ; Chinese Traditional ; Castilian Spanish Duration 8 hours (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 Philanthropic entrepreneur Bruce Wayne (Adam West) & his youthful ward Dick Grayson (Burt Ward) lead a double life they are the Caped Crusaders crime-fighting duo Batman & Robin A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave where Police Commissioner Gordon calls the fearless duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile Batman & Robin must (with the help of trusty Bat-Gadgets) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals The dastardly deeds begin when The Penguin (Burgess Meredith) uses his flipper-powered submarine to steal a super-dehydrator which extracts all moisture from humans & reduces them to particles of dust But the Antarctic Anarchist is not working alone gentle reader! No a plot this size requires the combined evil thinking caps of four costumed criminals The Penguin himself The Riddler (Frank Gorshin) The Joker (Cesar Romero) & Catwoman (Lee Meriwether) & as Commissioner Gordon (Neil Hamilton) puts it " The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!" Using the super dehydrator the United Underworld (as they dub themselves) suck the moisture out of the nine-member United Nations Security Council leaving nine multicolored piles of dust Can no one stop this blueprint of badness? This design of devilry? Two men can (well one man & one boy wonder) with the help of their trusty butler Alfred (Alan Napier) But first they&ll have to defeat a ticking time bomb an exploding octopus & a shark with a six-foot vertical leap Can the Dynamic Duo stop the fearsome foursome in time? Will Bruce Wayne fall under the spell of lovely Miss Kitka exotic correspondent for the Moscow Bugle who happens to be Catwoman in disguise? Can the man-eating shark be stopped with Batman&s Shark-Repellent Bat-Spray? Will Commissioner Gordon decipher the Riddler&s criminal conundrums? Actors Adam West Burt Ward Lee Meriwether Cesar Romero Frank Gorshin Burgess Meredith Alan napier Niel Hamilton & Gil Perkins Director Leslie H Martinson Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1966 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Duration 1 hour & 42 minutes (approx)
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Written by Peter Milligan Grant Morrison Fabian Nicieza Paul Dini & Keith Champagne Art by Don Kramer Jason Pearson Tony Daniel David Lopez Freddie Williams II Ryan Benjamin & others Cover by Adam Kubert The unforgettable epic is now in trade paperback! Batman's immortal foe Ra's al Ghul should be dead at last
- so how has he returned to haunt The Dark Knight? Find out in this intense tale originally presented in BATMAN ANNUAL 26 BATMAN 670-671 ROBIN 168-169 ROBIN ANNUAL 7 NIGHTWING 138-139 & DETECTIVE COMICS 838-839! Ra's al Ghul is back but what does his return have to do with Batman's teenaged son Damian
- whose mother is Ra's al Ghul's daughter Talia? It will take the combined skills of Batman Robin & Nightwing to get to the bottom of these mysteries & stop Ra's al Ghul's insidious plans Advance-solicited; on sale May 6 o 256 pg FC 1999 US

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Grant Morrison best-selling multipart Batman epic continues with this collection of the six-issue miniseries now in trade paperback! Witness Bruce Wayne adventures across time as he is swept through the time stream from the ancient days that predate history itself through epics set in the times of pirates & the Old West through his triumphant return to present day Gotham City! ...