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The Dark Knight Returns
The Dark Knight Returns (alternatively titled Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) is a 1986 four-issue comic book miniseries starring Batman, written by Frank Miller, illustrated by Miller and Klaus Janson, and published by DC Comics. When the series was collected into a single volume later that year, the story title for the first issue was applied to the entire series. "The Dark Knight Returns" tells an alternative story of Bruce Wayne, who at 55 years old returns from retirement to fight
's "The Dark Knight Strikes Again" (also known as "DK2"). "DK2," the long-awaited follow-up to "The Dark Knight Returns," contrasts the traditional superhero-crimefighter character with the politicized characters that evolved during the 1990s; this was, perhaps, epitomized by "The Authority" and "Planetary," both written by British author Warren Ellis. In "DK2," Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor is the power behind the throne, controlling a tyrannical American government,