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Jock
DC·Dark Knight III·The Master Race·#1·Independent·ID-3513941
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Frank Miller
Andy Kubert
Klaus Janson
Brad Anderson
No narrative synopsis recorded in GCD for this sequence.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1 — Frank Miller's Paradigm Shift
A forensic breakdown of Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley's 1986 masterpiece, examining its prestige format, widescreen 16-panel grids, and reinvention of Bruce Wayne as an aging sovereign vigilante.
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It has been 3 years since Batman was last active. In that time, most believe that he is gone or dead, rejecting the idea that he would ever come back. They were wrong. A photo of what appears to be Batman is taken, showing him mercilessly taking down cops who were going to shoot an unarmed boy. The media of course blows up, all that is talked about is the return of the Batman. Commissioner Ellen Yindel is asked for any comments on the return of the Dark Knight. The scene changes to Wonder Woman, who is battling a minotaur with Jonathan, her son, in a papoose. Wonder Woman returns to the new Paradise City where she learns that her daughter Lara has once again visited the Fortress of Solitude to meet with her father, Superman. Lara talks with her father who has frozen himself in ice. Upon closer inspection, Lara notices the bottle city of Kandor has given a distress signal. Once again back in Gotham, Ellen Yindel is alone on the roof of GCPD, pondering Batman's returns while viewing the neglected bat-signal. An officer reports that Batman is about to arrested, and she smiles. At the chase, Batman has veered off into an alley and ditched the motorcycle he was using. Cops quickly surround him and beat him with nightsticks. A cop notices unusual features of the Batman, but before he can say what, he's knocked unconscious. Yindel gets on the scene and unmasks the beaten Batman, who turns out to be Carrie Kelly. When asked where Bruce Wayne was, Kelley falls to the ground and claims Bruce Wayne is dead.
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— | StoryTitle1 = The Master Race, Book 1
It has been 3 years since Batman was last active. In that time, most believe that he is gone or dead, rejecting the idea that he would ever come back. They were wrong. A photo of what appears to be Batman is taken, showing him mercilessly taking down cops who were going to shoot an unarmed boy. The media of course blows up, all that is talked about is the return of the Batman. Commissioner Ellen Yindel is asked for any comments on the return of the Dark Knight.
The scene changes to Wonder Woman, who is battling a minotaur with Jonathan, her son, in a papoose. Wonder Woman returns to the new Paradise City where she learns that her daughter Lara has once again visited the Fortress of Solitude to meet with her father, Superman. Lara talks with her father who has frozen himself in ice. Upon closer inspection, Lara notices the bottle city of Kandor has given a distress signal.
Once again back in Gotham, Ellen Yindel is alone on the roof of GCPD, pondering Batman's returns while viewing the neglected bat-signal. An officer reports that Batman is about to arrested, and she smiles.
At the chase, Batman has veered off into an alley and ditched the motorcycle he was using. Cops quickly surround him and beat him with nightsticks. A cop notices unusual features of the Batman, but before he can say what, he's knocked unconscious. Yindel gets on the scene and unmasks the beaten Batman, who turns out to be . When asked where Bruce Wayne was, Kelley falls to the ground and claims Bruce Wayne is dead.
This issue is reprinted in Dark Knight III: The Master Race (Collected).