Batman: Detective, No. 27 - Hardcover

Uslan, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401201857 ISBN 13: 9781401201852

Publisher: DC Comics, 2003

Synopsis

Bruce Wayne becomes a member of a secret society of detectives to battle the decades old criminal conspiracy that left him an orphan in this stunning original hardcover graphic novel! Babe Ruth, Teddy Roosevelt, Selina Kyle and others are just a few of the players in a Batman story unlike any before.

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Gr. 7-up. About the only thing left to do with the story of Batman's origins seems to be to set it to music, Beverly Hillbillies style ("Lemme tell ya all a story 'bout a kid named Bruce"), or locate its "real" beginning in the assassination of President Lincoln, which is what this wild and woolly yarn does. The assassination, you see, kicked off a plot to punish the North for the Civil War. The work of a secret society of die-hard Dixie-philes, the scheme would culminate in 1939 with the poisoning of a major northern city--D.C., N.Y.C., or Gotham City. Bouncing from 1865 to 1884 to 1929 (when Bruce Wayne's folks get iced, according to the familiar script) to 1939, and sometimes back again; incorporating a supporting cast of historical figures; and inserting up-to-date humor and patois with cheeky aplomb, this is a terrific suspense comedy, whose sharply drawn figures clash in scenes that unfurl in shades of single hues and radical changes in point of view. Ray Olson
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Edition details

• Publisher: DC Comics
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1401201857
• ISBN 13: 9781401201852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96