TIMELESS TALES OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST HEROES—FROM THE LEGENDARY CREATOR OF THE SANDMAN & AMERICAN GODS What evil is so powerful that it can melt the Man of Steel—and extinguish the Green Lantern’s light? How did Poison Ivy’s power first take root—and where did the Riddler find his calling? Who killed the Batman—and will the legend of the Dark Knight ever really end? The answers to all these questions & more are revealed in THE DC UNIVERSE BY NEIL GAIMAN THE DELUXE EDITION collecting for the first time in a single volume eight of the award-winning author’s celebrated stories of super-heroics! Illustrated by a host of comics’ top talents—including Andy Kubert Mark Buckingham Simon Bisley Michael Allred John Totleben Matt Wagner Kevin Nowlan & Jim Aparo—THE DC UNIVERSE BY NEIL GAIMAN features all-star adventures from the pages of SECRET ORIGINS BATMAN BLACK & WHITE SOLO & WEDNESDAY COMICS as well as the never-before-reprinted graphic novel GREEN LANTERNSUPERMAN LEGEND OF THE GREEN FLAME & the complete saga of BATMAN WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CAPED CRUSADER? with afterwords from the author & a special sketchbook section from Andy Kubert Meet the Author Neil Gaiman is the New York Times best-selling author of the Newbery Medal-winning The Graveyard Book & Coraline the basis for the hit movie His other books include Anansi Boys Neverwhere American Gods & Stardust (winner of the American Library Association&s Alex Award as one of 2000&s top novels for young adults) & the short story collections M Is for Magic & Smoke & Mirrors He is also the author of The Wolves in the Walls & The Day I Traded My Dad for Two Goldfish both written for children as well as the creator of the most critically acclaimed comic series of all-time The Sandman Among his many awards are the Eisner the Hugo the Nebula the World Fantasy & the Bram Stoker Originally from England he now lives in the United States