While I wasn't a big fan of either of the sequels, like most I feel that Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a masterpiece. I remember the year it came out, even from the ads promoting it I knew that it was going to be something special. It was right before I got my drivers license, and there were no comic shops near me, so I had trouble tracking down a copy. I think I wound up having to borrow a copy of the first issue from a friend, and I was so blown away that I made a point of not missing the next three when they came out, not matter how I had to get them. It was years before I picked up my own copy of issue #1, but at least it was still a first edition!
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Great moody cover. How come Bats is on a horse? Is he getting into Zorro mode? Or maybe Bat Ranger?
Then, there are of those who are of the philosophy:
"Frank Miller has much to answer for."
;-)
Hmmmmm! The Red Skull obviously returned from space, alone. Could Captain America and Mary Marvel have gotten diverted by the need to help out Mar-Vell and the GL Corps against the Crimson Dyna-manhunter?
Wasn't a fan of Dark Knight Returns. Superman is not a boy scout. He does have a code that he lives by due to interactions with regular people so they don't just have a fear of him. And he does not give a blank check of using his powers to someone who has a badge or position of power- Kent and Lane have spent a lot of their careers doing exposures of power abusers.
The cover says the Lazarus pit was used, but is it the real Red Skull under the headgear? But yeah, he'd be right at home with the "mutants".
@Carycomic: I think it more likely that the red robot was a Kree Sentry modified to resemble the Crimson Dynamo. Perhaps using Qwardian tech stolen from the Russian branch of Intergang!
@D.T.---well, it could be the STFU version of the East German Red Skull (who was based in Algiers for much of the Cold War). Or maybe the Scarlet Skull (a Golden Age super-villain now in the public domain). Both of whom were supposedly killed off for good. But, then again; the same was supposed to be true of Bucky Barnes!
The Scarlet Skull was a one-shot enemy of the Golden Age Daredevil in SILVER STREAK COMICS from Lev Gleason.
boy, are we seeing red.
As in, "Retired: Extremely Dangerous?"
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