Written and illustrated by Frank Miller; cover by Miller. The most eagerly-awaited sequel in comics begins! Three years after the events in THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, Batman knows the world is nowhere near the perfect little place it pretends to be, and he sees the cracks in the system that have been neatly covered up. It's time to find where all the heroes have gone, and the Dark Knight is the right man for the job.

Batman reemerges from his underworld civilization to battle the evils of Gotham while turning against other superheroes as he drifts closer and closer toward insanity.