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Batman: Knightfall Vol. 1 Kindle & comiXology
The villainous Bane breaks the Bat in one of the most popular and well-known Batman tales! The inmates of Arkham Asylum have broken free and Batman must push himself to the limits to re-apprehend the Joker, Poison Ivy, the Riddler, Killer Croc and more. Pushed to the limits, he comes face-to-face against the monstrosity known as Bane, who delivers a crippling blow destined to change the Caped Crusader forever! Collects Batman vol. 1 #491-500, Detective Comics vol. 1 #659-666, Batman: Shadow of the Bat #16-18, stories from Showcase '93 #7-8, and Vengeance of Bane
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDC
- Publication dateOctober 8, 2013
- Reading age13 - 17 years
- Grade level8 - 12
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Known for his fast-paced, action-oriented plotting, Chuck Dixon is the prolific and acclaimed writer of long runs on Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Birds of Prey, Green Arrow and, for Marvel Comics, The Punisher and Conan.
Doug Moench has written novels, short stories, newspaper feature articles, weekly newspaper comic strips, film screenplays and teleplays. His first published work was My Dog Sandy, a comic strip printed in his elementary school newspaper. Moench has worked for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics and many other smaller companies; he has written hundreds of issues of many different comics, and created dozens of characters, such as Moon Knight.
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Douglas Moench (born February 23, 1948) better known as Doug Moench, is an American comic book writer notable for his Batman work and as the creator of Black Mask, Moon Knight, Deathlok and Bane.
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CHUCK DIXON
Born in Philadelphia, Pa.
Chuck Dixon has more than twenty-five years of experience in the graphic novel field as an editor, writer and publisher. He has contributed well over a thousand scripts to publishers like DC Comics, Marvel, Dark Horse, Hyperion and others featuring a range of characters from Batman to the Simpsons. His comic book adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit continues to be an international bestseller. Considered to be one of the most prolific writers in his field, this award-winning storyteller Has scripted G.I. Joe for IDW, along with many creator-owned projects including Winterworld and Joe Frankenstein which re-unites him with Bane co-creator Graham Nolan. He is also the co-creator of an ambitious line of graphic novels based on the American Civil War available now through Dover books.
In addition to his work in graphic novels, Chuck is currently writing two different series of action novels. Bad Times is a series about a team of former Army Rangers who travel back in time in search of treasure and adventure. His Kindle-sensation Levon Cade books are dark tales of vigilante justice. Both are available now in paperback and through Kindle!
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We learn in Showcase '93 #7-8 of Batman's attempt at bringing Harvey Dent back into the Asylum prior to his encounter with Bane, and in Batman: Shadow of the Bat #16-18, we learns of Scarecrow's origins and his grand scheme that puts the new Batman, formerly Azrael, in charge of cleaning up the mess that Bane has created. However, Jean-Paul's Batman doesn't have time for sidekicks and he surely doesn't have time to hold back on the murderers and thugs of Gotham.
One of Batman's greatest stories ever told is reprinted here in a more complete volume that spans over 600 pages! Although you get a whole mess of content to read through, you're still left wondering who in the world this Azrael guy is and why Bruce is messed up already as you're barely into the first issue. Also, you get no introduction to Azrael's partners nor an origin to Bane's venom toxin. However, you do get a lot of content that makes the story fairly easy to follow despite the few missing links. The art's consistently nice aside from perhaps the Two-Face and Scarecrow story arcs. The writing is superb with every page making you want to keep it turning and the eventual breaking of the Batman as powerful an image as ever. This is definitely a story to read even if you just jumped into the New 52 era of Batman. Seeing Jean-Paul become Batman makes you start to hate him as he turns more and more into a villain instead of a Batman-clone. His desire to take over what Bruce has becomes a scary reality to what Tim Drake has to face while Bruce is confined to a wheelchair. However, the entire book really makes you think about what Gotham would be if Batman were to suddenly cease to exist and how easily a maniac like Bane could take over.
The book comes with all the comic covers as well as the Batman #500 variant and the Knightfall TPB covers as well. So, there isn't a whole lot of extras but they're there. Overall, definitely a book to get for a classic story!
[SPOILER ALERT]
The villain Bane has a very superficial reason for wanting to take over Gotham and hurt Batman, and once Batman's rogues gallery is released from Arkham, they all immediately assemble criminal gangs and begin committing crimes, with no other motivation given except that they're all crazy and that's just what they do. Bane always has a henchman who just happens to know the location where the next villain will strike, so that he's able to relay info on Batman back to villain HQ, and Bane figures out Batman's secret identity just by watching Bruce Wayne from afar and recognizing that he must be Batman.
[END SPOILERS]
If there's a strength to this volume, it's in the incredible length of the storyline, which stretches over a full 24 issues (one of which is a 63-page special), and that just sets up part 2 of the story in Knightquest. A sustained plotline that stretches that long is pretty impressive, even if the motivations of the villains are pretty poorly defined. This is fun, fun, fun to read, and it does cover a pretty pivotal and devastating event in the life of the Dark Knight. Also, even though the interior art is nothing to marvel at, the cover art looks fantastic, and it is all reprinted here as well. Most of the covers are done by Kelly Jones, and they all have an eerie, spooky, stylistic look to them. You also get 2 characteristically weird-looking covers by Sam Kieth, an alternative wraparound cover to Batman 500 by Joe Quesada, and the Mike Deodato covers to the original 2 trade paperbacks that are included in this one single volume, and they all look great.
The 3 storylines that I have always thought best exemplified the depths to which 1990's comics sunk to, were Spider-Man's Clone Saga, the Death of Superman, and Batman Knightfall. But now that I've actually read through it, I have to admit that Knightfall is an enjoyable read, as long as you know what to expect. There are no clever villain schemes or key insights into Batman's character, but you do get a fast-moving and epic-length (600+ pages!) account of one of the most traumatic events in the Batman's crimefighting career. Recommended, because even if you know where the story is going (with Batman breaking his back, renouncing the mantle of the Bat, and eventually taking it back again), the journey there is a good one.
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I bought the Knightfall trilogy books 10 years ago or more, but always felt it missed a lot...
I was frustrated on not having all the pieces that could tell/explain how things came to be and why (?).
How Bruce Wayne became ill?
How did he became this beat-up and weaked before the ill-fated Arkham break-out?
How Bruce Wayne got to know about Jean-Paul Valley aka Azrael?.
How did the Riddler get the Venom toxin before the breakout?
Why was not all pieces there to tell about Azrael-Batman's Knightquest time?
So when they many years re-published the Knightfall saga and I realized I had only read about the "basic" trilogy...I felt I MUST HAVE THE WHOLE STORY COLLECTED LIKE THIS!
I love Omnibus books and they look so niecly in my book-shelfs and all the stories I grew up with in comic books I so enjoy having them re-printed and collected instead of a ton of loose magazines and puzzle iy up -
(For those who are knew to the Knightfall saga or any other great story arc from DC or Marvel, there was a NO easy way to get all stories in the 90's due to that they spread out the storries in amny variants of comics, 10 variants of Batman, 10 varients of Spider-Man etc-etc it was insane)
So yeah, this was money well worth spent and I'm glad I now have them.
Now I can look for other great Omnibus books that collects stories from the 80's-90's and early 00's I missed out on from Marvel & DC.
Lo mejor de todo es que inicia con el origen de Bane, cómic que no viene incluido en las ediciones mexicanas de editorial vid.
Llegó en excelente estado a pesar de llegar en una bolsa con burbuja.
Si no tienen problemas con el idioma inglés, lo recomiendo ampliamente!
El precio también es una muy buena opción, yo lo conseguí con promoción de libros y me salió en $476! Y con el precio actual, sigue siendo un coleccionable digno de cualquier seguidor de Batman!
Reviewed in Mexico on February 3, 2021
Lo mejor de todo es que inicia con el origen de Bane, cómic que no viene incluido en las ediciones mexicanas de editorial vid.
Llegó en excelente estado a pesar de llegar en una bolsa con burbuja.
Si no tienen problemas con el idioma inglés, lo recomiendo ampliamente!
El precio también es una muy buena opción, yo lo conseguí con promoción de libros y me salió en $476! Y con el precio actual, sigue siendo un coleccionable digno de cualquier seguidor de Batman!