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four-issue comic book miniseries by Frank Miller

"Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" redirects here. For the film adaptation of the same name, see Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (film).

The Dark Knight Returns (alternatively titled Batman: The Dark Knight Returns but originally titled Batman: The Dark Knight) is a four-issue comic book miniseries starring Batman, written by Frank Miller, illustrated by Miller and Klaus Janson, with color by Lynn Varley, and published by DC Comics. It tells an alternative story of Bruce Wayne who, at 55 years old, returns from a decade of retirement to fight crime while facing opposition from the Gotham City police force and the United States government. The story also features the return of classic foes Two-Face and the Joker, and culminates in a confrontation with Superman, who is now a pawn of the government.

When originally published, the series was simply titled Batman: The Dark Knight, with a different title for each issue (The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Triumphant, Hunt the Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Falls), but when the series was collected into a single volume, the title of the first issue was applied to the entire series. Some of the earliest collected editions also bore the shorter series title. The story introduces Carrie Kelley as the new Robin and the hyper-violent street gang known as the Mutants. In the Pre-FlashpointDC Multiverse, the events of The Dark Knight Returns and its associated titles were designated to occur on Earth

The miniseries has since been followed by a number of sequels: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, The Dark Knight III: The Master Race, and Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child. A one-shot prequel, Dark Knight Returns: The Last Crusade, takes place ten years before the original series. Both Batman: Year One and All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder, are considered by Miller to be canon. Li

For the animated adaptation, see Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (film).

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a Batman comic book miniseries written and drawn by Frank Miller and published by DC Comics from February to June It reintroduced Batman to the general public as the psychologically dark character of his original s conception and helped to usher in an era of "grim and gritty" superheroes from the ss.

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• [his inner voice, the true Batman, taunting him] The time has come. You know it. In your mind. In your heart. In your soul. You tried to hold me back. But you can't, Bruce. You're weak. You're a shell. A rusty trap that cannot hold me. Let it go. Let me OUT.
• You don't get it, son. This isn't a mudhole It's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.
• Pull that trigger and I'll be back for you.
• There's just the sun, and the sky, and him, like he's the only reason it's all here. Then, he ruins everything by talking.
• It's a Caliber Bullet. Hollow point. It explodes in his chest. I feel the shock through his fingers. For the thousandth time My father dies.
• Clark, you bastard. You let them do it. I always knew you would. Maybe during breaks between police actions, one of your military friends told you what an electromagnetic pulse is. And maybe you listened, Clark. All you need to generate the pulse is the detonation of a few dozen nuclear warheads. That, or a special kind of nuke that both sides have been trying to develop Yes, Clark. Both sides. The American name for it is Coldbringer. It is designed to cause maximum damage to the environment -- all the while sparing the industrial sites your friends regard so highly. Since my own atoms aren't bouncing around the stratosphere -- since Gotham City squats like a great black graveyard -- since Wayne Manor's emergency generator hasn't kicked in -- and Robin's watch has stopped -- I'll assume Russia has taken the lead in the arms race. I keep tra

two-part animated film directed by Jay Oliva

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a two-part direct-to-videoadult animatedsuperhero film, an adaptation of the comic bookThe Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and is set in the same continuity as Batman: Year One. It was directed by Jay Oliva, who worked as a storyboard artist on Man of Steel, Under the Red Hood, Year One and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Several other Batman veterans were also involved in the film. Part 1 was released on September 25, , and Part 2 was released on January 29, A deluxe edition combining both films was released on October 8, Part 1 is the 15th film, and Part 2 is the 16th film, of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies.

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Part One

After the death of his protégé Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne retired his Batman persona. Ten years later, in mid, Gotham City is overrun with crime and terrorized by a gang known as the Mutants. The year-old Wayne maintains a friendship with year-old retiring Police Commissioner James Gordon (who knows Wayne was Batman), although he has lost touch with Dick Grayson. At the same time, the Joker has been catatonic in Arkham Asylum since Wayne's retirement. Arkham inmate and former district attorney Harvey Dent undergoes plastic surgery to repair his disfigured face. Although he is declared sane, he quickly goes into hiding following his release. Dent's disappearance, news stories of the crime epidemic, and the memory of his parents' deaths drive Wayne to become Batman once more. He combats crimes and rescues year-old Carrie Kelley, but struggles with the physical limitations of age.

Public reaction to his return is divided. Dent's psychologist Bartholomew Wolper blames Batman for creating his own rogues gallery. Dent resurfaces, threatening to blow up a building unless he is paid a ransom. Batman defeats Dent's henchmen, learning that the bombs

For the issues of subsequent Batman: The Dark Knight comic series, see: Batman: The Dark Knight (Volume 2) Issue 1 and Batman: The Dark Knight (Volume 3) Issue 1

The Dark Knight Returns

Batman: The Dark Knight #1, more commonly referred to as "The Dark Knight Returns", is the first issue of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight comic miniseries. The issue follows Batman's return after ten years retirement.

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• The issue's story title, The Dark Knight Returns, has often been used as the comic series' title in subsequent reprints. The series has often been referred to as this title.
• The story notably features the importance of Martha Wayne's pearl necklace, with prolonged imagery of it being damged in slow-motion with the pearls cattering about the bodies of the Waynes. This would become prominent in later retellings of Batman's origin in both comics and other media. Miller is also the first writer to identify the movie the Wayne family walks out of as The Mark of Zorro.