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Format:
Book
Title:
Batman : the Dark Knight archives
ISBN:
9781563890505

9781563891830

9781563896156

9781563899836

9781401207786

9781401225476

9781401228941

9781401237448
Publication:
New York, N.Y. : Archive Editions : DC Comics, 1992-
Physical Description:
volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Series title(s):
General Note:
Originally published in single magazine form. Volume 1: Batman #1-4 (1940-1941), Volume 2: Batman #5-8 (1941-1942), Volume 3: Batman #9-12 (1942), Volume 4: Batman #13-16 (1942-1943), Volume 5: Batman #17-20 (1943-1944), Volume 6: Batman #21-25 (1944), Volume 7: #26-31 (1944-1945), Volume 8: Batman #32-37 (1946).

Some stories were originally published without a distinctive title. For reader convenience, titles were added to the table of contents for these stories.
Contents:
Volume 1. Foreword / Patrick Leahy -- The legend of the Batman, who he is and how he came to be -- The Joker -- Professor Hugo Strange and the monsters -- The cat -- The Joker returns -- Joker meets Cat-Woman -- Wolf, the crime master -- The case of the clubfoot murderers -- The case of the missing link -- The strange case of the diabolical puppet master -- The ugliest man in the world -- The crime school for boys -- The Batman vs. the Cat-Woman -- The Batman says -- The case of the Joker's crime circus -- Blackbeard's crew and the yacht society -- Public enemy no. 1 -- Victory for the dynamic duo -- Volume 2. Foreword / George Roussos with Joe Desris -- The riddle of the missing card -- Book of enchantment -- The case of the honest crook -- Crime does not pay -- Murder on parole -- The clock maker -- The secret of the iron jungle -- Suicide beat -- Wanted: practical jokers -- The trouble trap -- The north woods mystery -- The people vs. The Batman -- Stone walls do not a prison make -- The strange case of Professor Radium -- The superstition murders -- The cross country crimes -- Volume 3. Foreword / Mike W. Barr -- The four fates -- The white whale -- The case of the lucky law-breakers -- Christmas -- The isle that time forgot -- Report card blues -- The princess of plunder -- The sheriff of ghost town -- The Joker's advertising campaign -- Payment in full -- Bandits in Toyland -- Four birds of a feather -- Brothers in crime -- The wizard of words -- The thrill to conquer -- Around the clock with The Batman -- Volume 4. Foreword / Bill Schelly -- The Batman plays a lone hand -- Comedy of tears -- The story of the seventeen stones -- Destination unknown -- The case Batman failed to solve -- Prescription to happiness -- Swastika over the White House -- Bargains in banditry -- Your face is your fortune -- The boy who wanted to be Robin -- The two futures -- The loneliest men in the world -- The Joker reforms -- The Grade A crimes -- The adventure of the branded tree -- Here comes Alfred.

Volume 5. Foreword / Michelle Nolan -- The Batman's biographer -- The Penguin goes a-hunting -- Rogues' pageant -- Adventure of the vitamin vandals -- The secret of Hunter's Inn -- Robin studies his lessons -- The good Samaritan cops -- The crime surgeon -- Batman makes a deadline -- Atlantis goes to war -- The case of the timid lion -- Collector of millionaires -- The centuries of crime -- The trial of Titus Keyes -- The lawmen of the sea -- Bruce Wayne loses the guardianship of Dick Grayson -- Volume 6. Foreword / Alvin Schwartz -- The streamlined rustlers -- Blitzkrieg bandits -- His lordship's double -- The three eccentrics -- The duped domestics -- Dick Grayson telegraph boy -- The adventures of Alfred: conversational clue -- The cavalier rides again -- The upside down crimes -- Damsel in distress -- The adventures of Alfred: borrowed butler -- pelt plunderers -- It happened in Rome -- Convict cargo -- The adventures of Alfred: police lineup -- The mayors on Yonville -- Knights of knavery -- The sheik of Gotham city -- The adventures of Alfred: the mesmerized manhunter -- The kilowatt cowboys -- Volume 7. Foreword / Gene Reed -- Twenty-ton robbery -- Recipe for revenge -- The year 3000 -- Crime comes to lost mesa -- The Penguin's apprentice -- The pearl of peril -- Voyage into villainy -- A Christmas peril -- Shadow city -- The great handcuff king -- Shirley Holmes, policewoman -- Batman goes to Washington -- Enemy no. 1 -- The butler's apprentice -- Heroes by proxy -- The mails go through -- Back to the big house -- While the city sleeps -- Alias the Baron -- Ally Babbles and the fourteen peeves -- Punch and Judy -- Alfred armchair detective -- Vanishing village -- Trade marks of crime -- Volume 8. Foreword / Roy Thomas -- Rackety-rax racket -- Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder -- The adventures of Alfred: in the soup -- All for one, one for all -- Crime on the wing -- The looters -- The search for Santa Claus -- The marathon of menace -- Ally Babble and the four tea leaves -- The adventures of Alfred: Tired tracks -- The master vs. the pupil -- Nine lives has the Catwoman -- Dinosaur island -- Dick Grayson, author -- The Penguin's nest -- Stand-in for danger -- The adventures of Alfred: elusive London Eddie -- Sir Batman at King Arthur's court -- Calling Dr. Batman -- Hollywood Hoax -- The Joker follows suit.
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