COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns 3 Signature
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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4655068011
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Owner:
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The Captain
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
August, 1986
"Hunt the Dark Knight"
Frank Miller - Writer
Frank Miller - Penciler
Klaus Janson - Inker
Frank Miller & Lynn Varley - Cover Artists
Lynn Varley - Colorist
John Costanza - Letterer
Dennis O'Neil - Editor
Dick Giordano - Executive Editor
Synopsis:
The Joker, newly awakened from catatonia, manipulates his fame-hungry psychiatrist, Dr. Wolper, into presenting him on live TV as a supposed victim of Batman, but instead, he murders the audience with smile gas and escapes. Batman pursues him to Selina Kyle—now a broken, alcoholic madame—whom the Joker humiliates and uses in a political suicide scheme, leaving Batman a trail to follow. After narrowly escaping the police with Robin, Batman confronts the Joker at a county fair, where Robin saves a rollercoaster full of people from a bombing while Batman engages in a brutal showdown with his nemesis. Though prepared to kill the Joker, Batman stops short, leaving him paralyzed, at which point the Joker commits suicide to frame him for murder. Meanwhile, Superman works covertly for the U.S. government amid rising tensions with the Soviet Union, and the Sons of Batman emerge as violent vigilantes, escalating public and political hostility toward the Dark Knight.
Notes:
- Signed by Frank Miller on: 10/12/2025
- Signed by Klaus Janson on: 10/10/2025
- This series takes place in an alternate continuity from that of the mainstream DC Universe. It has been retroactively classified as an Elseworlds story.
- This issue is reprinted in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: The Dark Knight Saga Deluxe Edition, Absolute Dark Knight, and in black and white in Batman Noir: The Dark Knight Returns.
- Todd McFarlane inked at least one page of this issue.
Trivia:
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer appears as one of the guests on the talk show whom the Joker kills.
- The "David Endochrine Show" is a parody of Late Night with David Letterman.
Quotes:
"A gun is a coward's weapon. A liar's weapon. We kill too often because we've made it easy... too easy... sparing ourselves the mess and the work." —Batman
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