Description
In the final chapter of this series, Bruce Wayne completes his improbable recovery from his broken back and is ready to resume his role as Gotham's protector. But Jean Paul Valley, the man who now patrols the night as a vicious and violent Batman, is not willing to give up his new identity. Driven to the brink of madness by inner demons, the new Batman seeks to destroy Bruce as they meet in mortal combat. But in the end, Bruce defeats Jean Paul both mentally and physically and reclaims his legendary cape and cowl. This new edition includes many chapters of Knightfall never before collected. This volume collects Batman #509-510, #512-514, Batman: Shadow of the Bat #29-30, 32-34, Detective Comics #676-677, #679-681, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #62-63, Robin #88-9, #11-13 and Catwoman #12-13.
About the Author
Charles "Chuck" Dixon is an American comic book writer, perhaps best-known for long runs onBatmantitles in the 1990s.His earliest comics work was writingEvangelinefirst for Comico Comics in 1984 (then later for First Comics, who published the on-going series), on which he worked with his then-wife, the artist Judith Hunt. His big break came one year later, when editor Larry Hama hired him to write back-up stories for Marvel Comics'The Savage Sword of Conan.In 1986, he began working for Eclipse Comics, writingAirboywith artist Tim Truman. Continuing to write for both Marvel and (mainly) Eclipse on these titles, as well as launchingStrike!with artist Tom Lyle in August 1987 andValkyriewith artist Paul Gulacy in October 1987, he began work on Carl Potts'Alien Legionseries for Marvel's Epic Comics imprint, under editor Archie Goodwin. He also produced a three-issue adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien'sThe Hobbitfor Eclipse with artist David Wenzel between 1989 and 1990, and began writingMarc Spector: Moon Knightin June 1989.HisPunisher OGN Kingdom Gone(August, 1990) led to him working on the monthlyThe Punisher War Journal(and later, more monthly and occasionalPunishertitles), and also brought him to the attention of DC Comics editor Denny O'Neil, who asked him to produce aRobinmini-series. The mini proved popular enough to spawn two sequels -The Joker's Wild(1991) andCry of the Huntress(1992) - which led to both an ongoing monthly series (which Dixon wrote for 100 issues before leaving to work with CrossGen Comics), and to Dixon working onDetective Comicsfrom #644-738 through the major Batman storiesKnightFall&KnightsEnd(for which he helped create the key character of Bane),DC One Million,Contagion,Legacy,CataclysmandNo Man's Land. Much of his run was illustrated by Graham Nolan.He was DC's most prolific Batman-writer in the mid-1990s (rivalled perhaps in history by Bill Finger and Dennis O'Neil) - in addition to writingDetective Comics he pioneered the individual series forRobin,Nightwing(which he wrote for 70 issues, and returned to briefly with 2005's #101) andBatgirl, as well as creating the team and bookBirds of Prey.While writing multiplePunisherandBatmancomics (and October 1994'sPunisher/Batmancrossover), he also found time to launchTeam 7for Jim Lee's WildStorm/Image andProphetfor Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios. He also wrote many issues ofCatwomanandGreen Arrow, regularly having about seven titles out each and every month between the years 1993 and 1998.In March, 2002, Dixon turned his attention to CrossGen's output, salthough he co-wrote with Scott Beatty the origin of Barbara Gordon's Batgirl in 2003's Batgirl: Year One. For CrossGen he took over some of the comics of the out-going Mark Waid, taking over Sigil from #21, and Crux with #13. He launched Way of the Rat in June 2002, Brath (March '03), The Silken Ghost (June '03) and the pirate comic El Cazador (Oct '03), as well as editing Robert Rodi's non-Sigilverse The Crossovers. He also wrote the Ruse spin-off Archard's Agents one-shots in January and November '03 and April '04, the last released shortly before CrossGen's complete collapse forced the cancellation of all of its comics, before which Dixon wrote a single issue of Sojourn (May '04). Dixon's Way of the Rat #24, Brath #14 and El Cazador #6 were among the last comics released from the then-bankrupt publisher.On June 10, 2008, Dixon announced on his forum that he was no longer "employed by DC Comics in any capacity."
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