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The final installment of Christopher Nolan’s epic Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, was an epic ride. And you might have seen this ad for classic Batman stories in many of your DC Comics titles recently. Well, we’re happy to offer up the story (featured in that ad) that rocked the Batman family of titles in the spring and summer of 1993, the legendary storyline known as KNIGHTFALL! Over the course of the story, Bruce Wayne suffers burnout and is systematically assaulted and crippled by a certain supervillain named… Bane. You might know him as the man who broke Batman’s back! And he is of course featured in The Dark Knight Rises. The series has recently been collected into new and larger trade paperback volumes, with the first two already on the shelves and the third coming out this Wednesday!
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BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL VOL. 3 TP The third and final volume of the epic 1990s tale that broke Batman’s back, collected in full for the first time. |
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BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL VOL. 1 TP In the first installment of this classic storyline, the Dark Knight’s greatest enemies have all simultaneously escaped from Arkham Asylum and are preying on Gotham City. With his city under siege, Batman pushes his body to the limit as he takes on The Joker, the Mad Hatter, Poison Ivy, Killer Croc, The Riddler and the Scarecrow. But things get much worse when Bane, the man behind all the madness, confronts an exhausted Batman – and breaks his back. This massive first KNIGHTFALL volume collects BATMAN: VENGEANCE OF BANE SPECIAL #1, BATMAN #491-500, DETECTIVE COMICS #659-660, SHOWCASE ’93 #7 and 8 and BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT #17-18, including chapters never previously reprinted. |
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BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL VOL. 2 TP Mentally defeated and physically broken, Bruce Wayne turns to Azrael to assume the identity of Batman during his absence. Accepting his new mission, Jean Paul begins to lose his grip on his sanity as he metes out justice with devastating levels of aggression and violence. Witnessing this dangerous behavior firsthand, Nightwing and Robin try to come to grips with Bruce’s highly controversial decision. This collection not only features the first appearance of the new Batman costume but also a titanic battle between Bane, the man who broke the original Batman’s back and the new Batman. |
