ILLUSIONS: Part 1 of 3. The Harder They Fall - Written by Alan Grant. Art by Norm Breyfogle & Joe Rubinstein. Painted Cover by Chris Moeller.
Something strange is going on in Gotham City and Batman has no idea what it is. A murder is committed on live television; the president of the banking association kills himself; gunfire erupts at the Penguin's birthday party; Commissioner Gordon is arrested for embezzlement; and a young man seems to have proof that he's Bruce Wayne's son!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
ILLUSIONS: Part 2 of 3. The Bigger They Come -- - Written by Alan Grant. Art by Norm Breyfogle & Stan Woch. Painted Cover by Chris Moeller.
Batman and Oracle struggle to learn who's behind the ever-increasing chaos in Gotham City. The answer? Thinker and the Cheat -- two of the strangest wrongdoers anyone's ever met!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
ILLUSIONS: Part 3 of 3. Thinker and the Cheat - Written by Alan Grant. Art by Norm Breyfogle & Stan Woch. Painted Cover by Chris Moeller.
Oracle guest-stars! Any chance Commissioner Gordon and Bruce Wayne have of proving their innocence depends on Batman's escaping the onslaught of a very eager S.W.A.T. team!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
Batman targets a serial killer who only kills once a year, always on Hallowe'en, in "A Contract With Death!"
Written by Alan Grant. Pencils by Jim Aparo. Inks by Stan Woch. Cover by Chris Moeller.
Cover price $1.95.
THE SPIRIT OF 2000: Part 1 of 2. The Apocalypse Club - Written by Alan Grant. Art by Mark Buckingham & Wayne Faucher. Painted Cover by Chris Moeller.
Batman teams up with Fate to battle four supernatural menaces that are among the most feared beings in the world!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
THE SPIRIT OF 2000: Part 2 of 2. Gothamageddon? - Written by Alan Grant. Art by Mark Buckingham & Wayne Faucher. Painted Cover by Chris Moeller.
Batman and guest star Fate journey to an eerie place not of this Earth to battle with the Spirits of 2000, who have seized Malochia's soul. At stake is nothing less than the fate of humanity!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
Anatomy of a Murder - Written by Alan Grant. Art by Mark Buckingham & Wayne Faucher. Painted Cover by Chris Moeller.
A self-contained story highlighting the Dark Knight's detective skills! Batman is hard-pressed to solve a rooftop murder with a host of potential suspects.
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
The Meaning of Life - Written by Alan Grant. Art by Eduardo Barreto & Wayne Faucher. Painted Cover by Chris Moeller.
A self-contained story introducing a new foe for the Dark Knight! Batman must battle an army of killers hired by mob boss Grizzle to save the life of a criminal. Then he faces a deadly new opponent, Drakken!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
CATACLYSM: Part 9 of 17. The Naked City - Written by Alan Grant. Art by Mark Buckingham & Wayne Faucher. Painted Cover by Glen Orbik.
Batman enlists the Penguin's help in rescuing the citizens of quake-ravaged Gotham. A mysterious new villain calling himself the Quakemaster demands 10 mil -- or he promises to unleash an even deadlier earthquake on the city!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
AFTERSHOCK. The Gauntlet - Written by Alan Grant. Art by Mark Buckingham & Wayne Faucher. Painted Cover by Glen Orbik.
The AFTERSHOCK leads to the most shocking Batman story of the year! Batman must run through a gauntlet of dangers on his way to rescuing a bunch of socialites who have been trapped by the earthquake for a week. When he arrives, he discovers just how thin the veneer of civilization can be.
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
AFTERSHOCK. Arwin's Theory of Devolution - Written by Alan Grant. Art by Mark Buckingham & Wayne Faucher. Painted Cover by Glen Orbik.
In quake-torn Gotham, Batman is captured by someone he was trying to help -- a university professor driven mad after being trapped for two weeks with a classroom full of dead students. The professor tries to prove his theory of 'devolution' by forcing Batman to perform a series of tasks no one could possibly survive!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
Cover art by Ted McKeever. No Man's Land: Bread and Circuses: Conclusion, script by Ian Edginton (erroneously spelled as Ian Edgington), art by D'Israeli
Batman battles a succession of particularly nasty heavies in Penguin's Roman-style arena; The prize: Penguin's supply-line to the world outside of "No Man's Land"
Meanwhile, Gordon, suffering increasing GCPD losses, reaps dividends from his "deal with the devil." Story continued from Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #117. The 6th comic to arrive in the Batman No Man's Land year-log epoch. With excellent writing, these books continue to be top sellers!
36 pgs. $1.99. Cover price $1.99.
Cover art by Guy Davis. No Man's Land: Home Sweet Home, script by Lisa Klink, art by Guy Davis
A moving, self-contained tale of a courageous, stubborn old man caught between rival gangs and his determination to protect the only home he's ever known...a home in the heart of No Man's Land. Part 16 of Batman No Man's Land.
36 pgs. $1.99. Cover price $1.99.
Cover art by Brian Bolland. No Man's Land: Claim Jumping Part Two, script by Greg Rucka, pencils by Mike Deodato, inks by Wayne Faucher;
"Claim Jumping" concludes as the first major-stakes turf war in Gotham City is fought, with Two-Face trouncing Batman while Gordon and his "Blue Boys" advance into Penguin territory
Meanwhile, the new Batgirl--charged with protecting Batman's territory--faces an agonizing choice; What she decides will dramatically change her relationship with Batman. Story continued from Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #119. Part 2 of 2,
Batman No Mans Land 21. 36 pgs. $1.99. Cover price $1.99.
WRITTEN BY GREG RUCKA; ART BY DAN JURGENS AND BILL SIENKIEWICZ; PAINTED COVER BY GLEN ORBIK AND LAUREL BLECHMAN.
The aftermath of the "Assembly" begins to take effect in Part 1 of the 3-part "Fruit of the Earth"! Since Gotham became a No Man's Land, Poison Ivy has maintained control of Robinson Park, turning it into a botanical Eden.
But now Clayface has invaded the park and threatens to destroy Ivy's paradise. And unbeknownst to either villain, Batman and Robin need to retrieve something hidden deep beneath the park that could be the key to ending Gotham's time as a "No Man's Land."
FC, 32 PG.$1.99*" Cover price $1.99.
WRITTEN BY IAN EDGINTON; ART BY JASON MINOR AND SAL BUSCEMA; COVER BY MATT BROOME AND SEAN PARSONS
Batman searches "No Man's Land" for the mythical "King of Gotham"! The mysterious man known as the King of Gotham has disappeared and the lives of dozens of needy children hang in the balance! How can the Dark Knight find someone who may not even exist?
FC, 32 PG.$1.99" Cover price $1.99.
Pulp Heroes, the DCU Annuals event, continues in this tribute to the romance magazines of the 1930s. Joe Potato, Gotham's grungiest private eye, falls in love with a beautiful woman who just happens to be Poison Ivy. Batman doesn't want to interfere with the P.I.'s love life, but if he doesn't, Joe is dead.
Written by Alan Grant, with art by Stefano Raffaele, Ray McCarthy, Stan Woch and Drew Geraci. Painted cover by Glen Orbik.
68 pages. Cover price $3.95.
Discover the secret origin of the Dark Knight of the 853rd century! As the virus from the future wreaks havoc on the sanity of present-day Gothamites, the Batman of the distant future must stay out of the grasp of the 20th century's Jim Gordon and the GCPD.
Written by Alan Grant. Art by Mark Buckingham and Wayne Faucher. Cover by Glen Orbik. FC, 32 pg. Miraweb Format.
NOTE: The DC One Million series consists of 31 issues including a 4-issue mini-series and 27 one-shots.
Cover price $1.99.
Written by Todd McFarlane. Art by Greg Capullo. Cover by Greg Capullo, Todd McFarlane.
Two dark heroes, cursed by tragedy, find their paths again crossing...but not by choice! What sinister foe is at work, pitting the Dark Knight against the Hellspawn? From the shadows of Gotham City to New York City, this epic event is the blockbuster you've been waiting almost two decades for!
48 pages, full color. Rated Teen Cover price $7.99.
This is the team-up fans everywhere have been demanding. Batman enters a deadly web of violence and horror when he encounters the mysterious Spawn, an enemy of evil as grim and menacing as the Dark Knight himself. Driven by strange visions, Spawn has come to Gotham City in search of clues to his lost life. Worlds collide as Batman and Spawn clash in a ferocious battle. But a puzzling rash of disappearing bodies and the sudden arrival of the living dead draw the cowled crusaders into a madman's sinister scheme. Someone in Gotham City is working to hasten the Devil's War - a conflagration that Spawn must avoid at all costs. And if Batman and Spawn can't join forces against their common enemy, Spawn's soul is lost...and Gotham City is doomed!
Written by Alan Grant, Doug Moench and Chuck Dixon, with art and wraparound cover by Klaus Janson.
Prestige Format. Cover price $4.95.
The Kingpin's wife lies deathly ill, and Ra's al Ghul offers a solution: the ailing Mrs. Fisk can bathe in the Lazarus Pit and be restored, but only if the Kingpin helps Ra's kill off 99.5% of the world's population. Only the Dark Knight and the Wall-crawler have any hope of thwarting the uneasy alliance in this globe-spanning adventure.
Written by J.M. DeMatteis. Art and cover by Graham Nolan and Karl Kesel.
FC, 48 pg. Prestige Format. Cover price $4.95.
More than 60 full-color stickers featuring Batman, Robin, and a gallery of Gotham's most notorious rogues. Create your own action-packed Batman scenes. Easy-peel stickers can be used more than once.
DC Edition - Volume1 - 1st Printing.
Collects Detective Comics #469-479. "Strange Apparitions!" Story by Steve Englehart and Len Wein. Art by Marshall Rogers, Walt Simonson, Terry Austin, Al Milgrom, and Dick Giordano. This handsome trade paperback features the first appearances of Bruce Wayne's girlfriend Silver St. Cloud. Featuring the villainy of Rupert Thorne, the Penguin, Hugo Strange, Dr. Phosphorus, Deadshot, Clayface, and the Joker.
Softcover, 176 pages, full color.
Written by Paul Dini and Marc Andreyko. Art by Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs and Georges Jeanty and Karl Story. Cover by Dustin Nguyen
A Batman series by the DETECTIVE COMICS creative team of Paul Dini and Dustin Nguyen! As a new Batman rises on the streets of Gotham City, the heroes, villains and citizens take notice. How will the police feel about this new Batman, and can he control the crime in Gotham the way the old Batman did? This new series also features a regular ongoing co-feature starring Manhunter written by Marc Andreyko and illustrated by Georges Jeanty (Buffy Season 8)! Kate Spencer lost a friend during the chaos of BATTLE FOR THE COWL, and now she wants payback. As usual, she'll use any means necessary to get it.
Complete set of 21
