 | Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $8.05 Frank Miller (Writer) and David Mazzucchelli (Artist) re-tell the origin of Batman for the modern Batman timeline.
Year One is the story of Bruce Wayne training and his trial and errors that occur during his execution of his vow to fight crime upon the death of his parents.
Meanwhile, the Lt. James Gordon arrives in Gotham from Chicago to find the police department rife with corruption.
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 | Batman and the Monster Men by Matt Wagner
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.94 Matt Wagner wrote and did the art for this story that takes place between the climax and the epilogue of Year One. As Bruce begins to grow into the role of Batman, he faces a team of large, superhuman giants who terrorize the father of his girlfriend, Julie Madison.
This story also introduced Dr. Hugo Strange and Salvatore Maroni, another major crime boss of Gotham City.
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 | Batman and the Mad Monk by Matt Wagner
Buy new: $11.24 / Used from: $5.50 The sequel to 'Batman and the Monster Men,' Matt Wagner tells the story of Batman's first 'supernatural' case. As corpses with their throats torn out are being found all over Gotham, one begins to wonder if a Warewolf has come to Gotham?
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 | Batman: The Man Who Laughs by Ed Brubaker
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.43 With art by Doug Mahnke, Ed Brubaker weaves the first confrontation between the Joker and the Dark Knight.
Here we are introduced to the Joker's modus operandi and his characteristic sociopathic flair. Batman sets out to foil Joker's plans, but things are never easy with the Joker as Batman discovers that the Joker always has a hidden ace up his sleeve.
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 | Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $7.99 Writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale give us the de facto Batman detective story.
Mob bosses Sal Maroni and Carmine Falcone are fighting over the last bit of scraps of Gotham City's underside. Standing in their way are 'the freaks.' In an effort to quash the mob for good, Batman, Captain Jim Gordon, and District Attorney Harvey Dent team up to bring down crime in Gotham one and for all.
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 | Batman: Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $9.00 Loeb and Sale return in this sequel to 'The Long Halloween.'
Following the events of TLH, the cops, led by newly appointed Commissioner Gordon, are being hunted by new villain 'The Hangman.' Meanwhile, the Falcone family and Harvey 'Two-Face' Dent are engaged in a revenge/turf war that wrecks havoc above and below the streets of Gotham City.
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 | Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $8.94 Alan Moore and Brian Bolland bring the quintessential Joker story.
In an effort to prove that all it takes is 'one bad day' to drive a person insane, the Joker unleashes his most sadistic, yet rational, plan. Shooting Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon's daughter, in the spine and paralyzes her and then kidnapping Jim, the Joker attempts to drive Gordon insane.
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 | Batman: A Death in the Family by Jim Starlin
Buy used from: $13.69 In 1988, DC held a vote where readers could call in a 900 number and vote. Will the current Robin, Jason Todd, die in his run in with the Joker? The vote was 5343-5271 in favor of Robin's demise. This is the story of the events that continue to represent Batman's biggest failure that haunts him to this very day: The Death of Robin.
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 | The Joker by Brian Azzarello
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $10.71 Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo tell "The Joker" through the eyes of eager and anxious Johnny Frost, who picks up the Joker upon his release from Arkham.
The city has forgotten him. So the Joker and Johnny engage in a crime spree to remind Gotham. The Joker, however, begins exhibiting a mental instability, suspecting that he is constantly being watched by Batman.
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 | Batman: Arkham Asylum (15th Anniversary Edition) by Grant Morrison
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $10.49 Written by Grant Morrison with art by Dave McKean. The Joker has taken over Arkham Asylum and all it's innocents are held ransom. His demands are simple: Batman meets with all the people he's imprisoned in Arkham or the innocents die.
Interspersed within the main story is the story of Amadeus Arkham, who founded the Asylum before Batman began his war on crime. How is Batman tied to Amadeus?
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 | Batman: Hush by Jeph Loeb
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $12.98 Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee tell the story of Batman's ultimate sin. As the Dark Knight finds himself the victim of a saboteur, he sets out to find out the identity of his torturer. As he gets closer and closer to the truth, he finds himself face to face with the past that still haunts him.
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 | Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $5.99 Frank Miller returns to 'bookend' the storyline of Batman. Bruce Wayne has retired from Batman and rests at home. Commissioner Gordon faces forced retirement. Harvey Dent is well on his way to recovery and the Joker has been catatonic in Arkham. But all is not well with Gotham...and Bruce doesn't like any of it.
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