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Coming in with classics from daredevil, smashing open the barriers of supherodome with the dark knight returns, and challenging everyone with works like 300, ronin, and the sin city epic. Frank miller born january 27, 1957 is an american comic book writer, penciller and inker, novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer best known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as ronin, daredevil. The series title, the dark knight returns, is a pun. Bruce wayne has been retired from superheroing for 10 years following the death of. Whats included, how is it presented, and why its so cool. Read batman pdf the dark knight returns 30th anniversary edition by frank miller dc comics celebrate 30 years of one of the most. The dark knight returns by frank miller home facebook. Download batman the dark knight returns 30th anniversary. The dark knight returns motion comic chapter 1 w peter. Set 20 years in the future, this story finds that in the absence of superheroes, criminals have run amok, and a gang called the mutants are terrorizing gotham city. The dark knight returns collections 3 book series by frank miller doc. The anniversary celebration of frank miller s epic interpretation of the dark knight s future continues with this new slipcase edition that reprints each issue of the original dark knight returns miniseries in its own hardcover volume, all in a beautifully designed slipcase. The dark knight returns, is a 1986 fourissue comic book miniseries starring batman, written by frank miller, illustrated by miller and klaus janson, and published by dc comics. For most contemporary comic readers, frank miller is an image of a rise and fall from the distant past.
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