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DC Comics · 1986
4 · Vol. Batman: The Dark Knight
The World's Greatest Detective. The Man of Steel. The World's Finest. Fight of the Century. The Dark Knights greatest tale reaches its finale. Notes: The cover is homage by future comics.
DC Comics · 1986
3 · Vol. Batman: The Dark Knight
The Greatest Batman story of all time continues as Batman faces the GCPD, as well as his final battle with the Joker.
DC Comics · 1986
50 · Vol. Swamp Thing
While John Constantine and the mystical heroes of the DC Universe wage a last-ditch effort to hold back the evil of the Brujeria, Swamp Thing, the Demon and others descend into hell itself to battle a horde of demons. 1st appearance of the Justice League Dark .
DC Comics · 1986
2 · Vol. Batman: The Dark Knight
The greatest Batman story of all time continues as the Dark knight faces down the mutant gang.
DC Comics · 1986
49 · Vol. Swamp Thing
The Brujeria has been destroyed, but their plan to unleash evil into the world continues in a story that guest stars The Demon, Deadman and other DC mystics. This is the first Cameo Appearance of the Justice League Dark .
DC Comics · 1986
48 · Vol. Swamp Thing
John Constantine's assembled cohort of mystics lead Swamp Thing to a cave where a group called the Brujeria are concocting a scheme to infect the world with evil--but when Swamp Thing tries to save Constantine from their clutches, he allows one of the mystics, now transformed into a evil, bird-like being, to escape.
DC Comics · 1986
47 · Vol. Swamp Thing
Swamp Thing follows John Constantine to South America to see "The Parliament of Trees." Learning that he is not a unique being after all, Swamp Thing attempts to make sense of their wisdom, while a sleazy photographer hopes to make a fast buck with some sleazy pictures of Abigail Arcane with Swamp Thing.
DC Comics · 1986
46 · Vol. Swamp Thing
Cover by Steve Bissette and John Totleben. " Revelations " written by Alan Moore, penciled by Steve Bissette, inked by John Totleben, colored by Tatjana Wood and lettered by John Costanza. In an issue that crosses over with Crisis on Infinite Earths, Swamp Thing and John Constantine take a detour on their spiritual journey to observe the unfolding chaos on Earth. But Constantine has greater concerns: a cabal of evil beings determined to destroy all existence. Notes: First issue under the title Swamp Thing . Series continues from the title The Saga of Swamp Thing . Previous issue The Saga of Swamp Thing #45 . This issue takes place before issue #5 of Crisis on Infinite Earths and happens before issue #4 . There is a key death in this issue as well the answer to the question of balancing good and evil in the universe.
DC Comics · 1986
45 · Vol. The Saga of Swamp Thing
In " Ghost Dance " a story about a young woman trying to drown out the sounds of her ancestors' violent act comes back to haunt a young couple. Swamp Thing might be able to help them--but he's about to take the next step in his spirit quest with John Constantine. Inspired by the story of Sarah Winchester, daughter in law of the owner of Winchester Repeating Arms Company. The firm invented the Winchester rifle, and Sarah was always horrified by the number of lives lost to the firearm. As a result, after the death of her husband, she decided to continue to expand the Winchester mansion, randomly instructing builders to add doors, floors, and stairways, some of which led to dead ends, others leading to huge drops. She believed this would help to confuse and evade the spirits of the victims of the Winchester rifle. The Swamp Thing issue refers to the Cambridge Repeater instead, though there is mention of it being a cheap imitation of the Winchester. Notes: Last issue under the title The Saga of the Swamp Thing . Series continues under the title Swamp Thing . Next issue Swamp Thing #46 .
DC Comics · 1986
1 · Vol. Batman: The Dark Knight
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is set 20 years in the future. In the absence of superheroes, criminals run amok, and a gang called the Mutants terrorize Gotham City. Bruce Wayne has been retired from crime fighting for ten years following the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin. Despite Wayne's funding of the rehabilitation of Harvey Dent (Two-Face), Dent returns to crime. Bruce, overcome with the grief of what Gotham has become, as well as being unable to resist his true identity as Batman, dons the costume again and apprehends Dent, and the populace debates whether Batman is a savior or a threat to society. Notes: The cover is homage by future comics.
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DC Comics · 1986
Story arc · 5 issues
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a Batman comic book mini-series written and drawn by Frank Miller and published by DC Comics from February to June 1986. This story arc is set 20 years into the future, where Bruce Wayne is an elderly man still guilt-ridden over Jason Todd's death. Plot Summary The Dark Knight Returns is set ten years in an alternate future, with a worn and weary, aged Bruce Wayne. He numbs his conscience with alcohol to soothe the guilt he feels for his responsibility for the death of Jason Todd . Gotham City is under siege by a vicious criminal gang who call themselves the Mutants. Wayne unleashes his demons to confront the new threats to Gotham, and Batman is born again. Wayne finds himself struggling with the decline of his physique as he patrols and defends Gotham City. An inexperienced but courageous young girl named Carrie Kelly saves Batman´s life, and Wayne takes her in as a new Robin . Batman is seen now as a menace to Gotham´s society and an anti-vigilantism wave is carried on from the government. Even Commissioner Gordon became a victim of both, criminals and government as well after he killed a teenager in self-defense. He is replaced by Ellen Yindel, a well known anti-vigilante cop. Batman found out how the mutants gained their power and their high-tech weaponry - discovering a net of corruption inside the U.S. Army. Defeating most of the mutants, Batman faces the leader, however his advanced age became a disadvantage for him as is eventually incapacitated by the mutant leader. Fortunately, Carrie Kelly appears and rescues Batman, getting him the Batmobile. After initially mistaking him for Dick Grayson , Batman confirms Kelly as the third Robin. After his recovery, Batman and Robin lure the Mutants to a sewer dump ("the pipe), where Batman defeats the Mutant leader (released from prison by Commissioner Gordon) in hand-to-hand combat, effectively breaking the gang. During the time Batman was gone, the Joker entered a state of catatonia, being unable to find something to live for. After Batman´s reappearance, the Joker woke up and convinced Dr. Wolper that he has been rehabilitated. When Wolper takes the Joker to a talk show, he begins a killing spree releasing his joker venom to the audience and kills Wolper as well. Batman appears to stop him, however the Joker escapes due to the fact that Batman had to struggle with the police. Batman and Robin began to search for the Joker, after he killed a group of boy scouts and Robin avoids more deaths after the Joker planted a bomb in a roller coaster. Batman paralyzes the Joker and faces a dilemma on whether if he should kill him or not. The Joker laughs and calls Batman a coward, he then snaps his own neck to blame Batman for his death. Superman is called by the U.S. government to stop Batman after he returns from a mission in South America. A lethal group known as the Sons of Batman have been using deadly methods against criminals. Batman and Robin decides to train them to use non-lethal methods. During this time, Oliver Queen , formerly known as the Green Arrow, warns Bruce about Superman and the government plans. Batman eventually faces off Superman in crime alley. After a rough battle, Bruce seemingly gains the upper hand thanks to his prior preparation and Oliver's kryptonite arrow. With Superman knocked out by the effect of the kryptonite, Wayne lays down a final monologue on Superman regarding how he is "the one man who beat him". After that, he tricks Superman into believing he suffered a heart attack in order to be able to escape the government. Clark goes to Bruce's funeral where he hears a heart beat inside the coffin, and winks at Carrie. He then realizes that Wayne faked his own death. After this event, Wayne begins a new life with his "army": Robin and Green Arrow. The Dark Knight Returns helped to re-define Batman and portray the character as he was originally conceived during the 1930's. Collected Editions Absolute Dark Knight Batman: The Dark Knight Returns The Complete Frank Miller Batman Related Items Millennium Edition: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Non-U.S. Editions Batman: Die Rückkehr Des Dunklen Ritters (German) Batman: Die Rückkehr Des Dunklen Ritters (German) Batman: Die Rückkehr Des Dunklen Ritters (German) Läderlappen #198701 Läderlappen #198702 Läderlappen #198703 Läderlappen #198704
DC Comics · 1986
44 · Vol. The Saga of Swamp Thing
Cover by Steve Bissette. " Bogeymen " written by Alan Moore, penciled by Steve Bissette, inked by Ron Randall and John Totleben, colored by Tatjana Wood and lettered by John Costanza. This story marks more of Alan Moore’s exploration of the darker side of Americana, this time exploring the myth of the serial killer. Told partly as it is from the perspective of a man who has a particular infatuation with numbers, eye colour and the bogeyman. He tracks one of his victims to the Louisiana swamps, where he ruthlessly deposes of the bodies in the quagmire. Of course while he’s there he happens upon a certain nature elemental... This story also features Swampy paying Abby a visit via the plughole of her bathroom sink and a side story with Constantine having a chance encounter with a certain caped crusader. Notes: Not marked as a Crisis crossover issue, but the events of this issue take place between issue 2-4 of Crisis on Infinite Earths .
DC Comics · 1985
43 · Vol. The Saga of Swamp Thing
Swamp Thing wanders through his marsh territory, dropping growths from his anatomy as he goes. Chester comes along a little later and discovers these, believing them to be some kind of yam with possible psychedelic properties. He goes back to his apartment to fathom exactly what the substance is but is interrupted by a friend Dave whose wife Sandy is dying from cancer. Chester gives Dave a sample of the substance he’d just discovered, believing it may have a relieving antidote for her pain. Soon afterwards Chester is interrupted again this time by a violent dope-fiend: Milo. Knowing of Chester’s often rumoured drug use Milo decides to pay his ‘old buddy’ a visit and ends up stealing a large portion of the ‘fruit’ thus leaving our hero with very little of the substance left. Dave gives Sandy her portion of the fruit and she experiences beautiful psychedelic imagery, she walks out into the garden and feels at one with mother earth. They make love in the rain before she dies in Dave’s arms. While Dave’s wife experiences a portion of heaven, Milo on the other hand has quite a separate effect with the substance, experiencing more of the left handed path to the otherness of mortality. He has a violent and ghoulish bad trip before running out on a busy road and being hit by a passing truck, dying instantly. After learning of the two separate incidents Chester contemplates that the fruit is some kind of “psychedelic litmus paper...you eat it and it tells you whether you’re a good or bad person”. He considers that he should consume the tiny piece that Milo had left him, reflecting that it would tell him of his own moral compass, though he is divided because though he considers himself a good person there are number of stupid thing’s that he had done in his life. After contemplating for a good while he decides that there are certain thing’s he does not want to know about himself...
DC Comics · 1985
42 · Vol. The Saga of Swamp Thing
Comics Legend Alan Moore writes part two of this horrifying tale, as a voodoo ritual release ancient memories and violence on the set of a soap opera set on a real Southern plantation, set in the days of slavery. We are underground viewing a corpse in a coffin, the narrator explains that this person is trying to rest but ultimately can't; and so the body moves to get more comfortable but he still cannot sleep. At the plantation the dead slaves buried in the graveyard begin rising and walk to the manor. Alec and Abby are now at the plantation and he senses a pattern buried in the soil and goes to the manor to investigate. As the enter they discover the actors are in the basement dungeon. Abby walks in and finds them after Wesley has flayed William's skin. When she approaches them Wesley is outraged by her clothes and comments and he stabs at her with the knife in his hand. Back outside, Alec see Alice, an acquaintance of Abby's from work, meet her father as a corpse. Back in the house Abby finds out the knife is really a prop and neither she nor William have been hurt Upstairs Wesley goes to face the zombies and realize that all of this happened once before. He had shot a woman, and been beaten to death by the angry slaves. The zombies explain that they have risen to demand their freedom so they can rest. Alec intervenes, but Wesley shoots him through the chest, and he falls into a fire. He rises from the fire and runs through the house and it burn to ashes. He manages to jump into the Green and forms a new body. With the mansion burned to the ground, every one exits from their trance and in shock leave. Angela has woken from the possession but Billy still believes that he has been skinned. Abby and Alec leave noticing that some of the bodies are missing though they hope they have simply been put to rest. Elsewhere, it appears that some of the zombies didn't return to the earth. Alice's father steals a truck, a manages to get a job as a ticket-booth attendant at a movie theatre.
DC Comics · 1985
41 · Vol. The Saga of Swamp Thing
Comics Legend Alan Moore writes this horrifying tale, as a voodoo ritual release ancient memories and violence on the set of a soap opera set on a real Southern plantation, set in the days of slavery. Continued in issue #42! Opening this issue a narrator asks what the dead think about when they try to rest, and also if they talk. All the while the pages show an old dilapidated plantation mansion. Whispers and memories begin to arise from the house. The past comes alive from the wall and we hear the screams and pleas of those who used to live and suffer in the great house. We hear a woman, Charlotte, who after consorting with a man, a slave, is being taken to watch her lover be whipped by a Wesley, the plantation owner. Swamp Thing and Abigail Cable are in the swamp where they are discussing what John Constantine had mentioned about something evil and dark that will be happening in Louisiana soon. He asks whether she has seen anything strange. Abby responds that all seems well, and most people in town are excited because there is a television soap opera set in the Old South being filmed at the remains of a real plantation. Most of the black people in town have been cast as extras, playing slaves. Tensions on the set of the soap opera are high as the actors struggle with racism. Richard Deal and Angela Lamb wander around the set where she complains about everything she sees. Elsewhere on the plantation, another actor, Billy Carlton, is talking to his manager when he suddenly goes into a daze. Back in the swamp Abby tells Alec that she has gotten a part time job at the plantation, and tells him that the actors and extras at the film set are all stressed and anxious. Later at the plantation the actors are running through a scene when suddenly, Billy seems to be possessed by the spirit of a slave that used to work at the old plantation known as Robertaland. He refers to Angela as Charlotte, the white mistress of the Robertaland plantation. The director and other actors believe that Billy is improvising, and praise him. After Billy's performance, Angela seems to be warming up to him. During another rehearsal the director notices the extras acting strangely. Richard, despite not being comfortable playing a racist, becomes possessed by the spirit of Wesley Jackson, Charlotte's husband and the owner of Robertaland. He imagines himself whipping and Billy, but when he comes back to his senses, Billy has no idea what he's talking about. The director, assumes that he was also improvising. Later, Angela catches Billy doing cocaine, and he begs her to promise not to tell his manager about it. At night Alec comes by the set to investigate and feels a strange energy about it but leaves. After a couple of days Abby goes to the set and finds a co-worker named Alice, who seems confused and disoriented. When Abby goes back to Alec, she tells him something is wrong and they go investigate fearing this to be what Constantine warned of. When they arrive all the extras have been possessed and are performing voodoo rituals on the lawn. All of the cast members have also become possessed. Richard who is being possessed by Wesley Jackson discovers Angela, who is Charlotte, and Billy, who is William, kissing. Wesley becomes disgusted with his wife and drags William down to the basement and the dialogue from the beginning of the issue is spoken again by the actors. William is tied to a pole, and Wesley pulls out a knife. He forces Charlotte to watch as he flays William.
DC Comics · 1985
40 · Vol. The Saga of Swamp Thing
When an old, dark power terrorizes a small town, it's up to Swamp Thing to get to the bottom of the nightmarish situation. Meanwhile, Abby begins questioning John Constantine's relationship with Swamp Thing... This issue begins by following a woman through a store looking for feminine products. There is also secondary story talking about the things that Native American women of the Pennamaquot tribe go through during their menstrual cycles. After strolling through the store a little more the woman pays and heads home. In Louisiana Swamp Thing and Abby are together in the swamp. She asks him if he trusts Constantine and he says he doesn't and tells her that he plans to tell Constantine he will no longer be used. Back in Kennescook the woman now named Phoebe is entertaining guests at her house with her husband. She is angered by the way her husband Roy demeans her and leaves for the kitchen to hide and continue cooking. Alec arrives and feels an energy "…a dark beacon… it pulses to me…" which he follows. After the dinner Phoebe goes out for a walk where Roy calls to her to prepare him dinner. She says she doesn't feel well and he snarks at her that it's probably P.M.S. and she snaps. From her mouth a werewolf bursts out of her body. Roy runs into the house and Phoebe breaks down the door. He heads to the backyard before bumping into Alec. Roy faints and Phoebe comes bursting out of the house. She smacks Alec and sends him flying away. Phoebe raises her hand to kill Roy but her guilt stills her hand. She runs off destroying everything in her path. She runs back into the grocery store with Alec chasing her. She runs over to the knife section to end her pain and jump up onto them impaling herself. The werewolf turns back into Phoebe and Alec comes over and picks her body up to bring outside, where she dies. Alec leaves and finds Constantine who gives him a note for the next location. Alec refuses to go wherever the note tells him and surprisingly Constantine is fine with that, and he leaves. Alec looks at the note and sees the next location is Louisiana.
DC Comics · 1985
39 · Vol. The Saga of Swamp Thing
Swamp Thing approaches the vampiric mer-people in the waters of Rosewood, Illinois and witnesses complete terror in its massive, bloated champion. Will Swamp Thing's alliance with John Constantine save the local townspeople? This issue opens with Swamp Thing underwater in Rosewood searching for an evil he was sent to stop. Back in town a boy named William who was swimming with friends near Rosewood is telling his father about what had occurred there. The parents convene and begin to head to Rosewood. Underwater the mer-vampires attack Alec. On the shore the boy Nicky who was bitten has another boy, Howard, tied up to a rock as a sacrifice. Back underwater the mer-vampires lure Alec to a football stadium. There the eggs that the "Mother" had laid begin hatching. One by one the young eat each other until only the largest and most powerful remains. Swamp Thing pushes to challenge the creature but it turns and runs into the murk. Suddenly it swims back and strikes ripping Alec to shreds. He leaves the body and enters the Green. Back on shore the parents of all the kids arrive and find Howard and Nicky. Nicky feigns weakness and fright and lure his mother close before biting and feeding on her. He drags her into the water where the creature rises and eats Nicky's father. The other parents release Howard and run away in a car. Swamp Thing realizes how he can beat the creature and destroy the town. He spreads his roots into the forest surrounding the stagnant water and rises. The water and town are washes away as Alec pushes all of it into a connecting river. Constantine approaches the town and calls out for Alec to appear. He tells him the next mission will bring him to Kennescook, Maine and Alec leaves to wait out the 2 weeks.
DC Comics · 1985
38 · Vol. The Saga of Swamp Thing
Something wrinkled and ancient lurks beneath the waters of Rosewood, Illinois--and it's hungry. Plus, John Constantine encounters Swamp Thing for the first time! Abby and Swamp Thing are saying their goodbyes as Alec prepares to leave for Rosewood. While this is happening, 5 boys are running and playing, going to a lake where a headstone reads Rosewood, Illinois. The boys realize the lake is full of leeches and exit in a hurry, all but one. He is floating in the water frozen, when we get a glimpse of events going on underwater. Four people with sharp teeth are feeding on him from below the murk. One of the boys says that he sees a shadow under the water, scared, they decide to go get help. The four people leave the boy and dive down. An underwater town comes into view as the people speed towards it. Meanwhile Alec is in the process of materializing in Rosewood. The name finally clicks in his mind and he know where he is going, he remembers The Saga of Swamp Thing #3 - A Town Has Turned to Blood . Constantine is shown in a nearby bar with a friend of his, Frank. Back by the lake the remaining 4 boys are arguing about who to tell about their friend, Nicky. Back under the water in Rosewood the 4 vampires swim into the chambers of their "Mother". They let her feed of the blood they drew from Nicky. The vampires carry the "Mother" out of her chambers to the town to prepare for something. On the shore Alec forms and Constantine is there waiting for him. They discuss what had happened here two years ago and what needs to be done. One of the kids, Howard, goes back for Nicky but when he arrives Nicky has been transformed and he pulls him into the lake to be eaten. Back underwater the "Mother" lets loose eggs and arms pierce out from within them. After an argument on the shore Alec walks into the lake and Constantine walks away hoping for the best.