It's time to ring the bell again. The Black Casebook returns with a suitably epic analysis of perhaps the single most influential story in Batman's history. The Dark Knight Returns is many things: a snapshot of '80s New York; a meditation on a society in crisis; a revolutionary moment in the history of American comics; and an endlessly compelling pulp romance. Frank Miller and his collaborators called down the lightning to make this book; four decades later, we're still interpreting the thunder.

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