VOLUME 51 THE MAN WHO LAUGHS Originally published in February 2005 At the beginning of his crime-fighting career, the Batman has seen plenty of humanity's dark side, but it's nothing compared to what is about to emerge, giggling from the a grinning, chalked-faced figure whose madness threatens to overwhelm anyone who stands in his way. ARKHAM ASYLUM Originally published in October 1989 Led by the Joker, the inmates of Arkham - Two-Face, the Mad Hatter, Killer Croc, Clayface, Scarecrow and more - take over the asylum and seize control of the staff. They're only willing to release their hostages if Batman is turned over to them, to become one of their own. BATMAN #327 Originally published in September 1980 With inmates escaping from Arkham Asylum, Batman goes undercover as a patient to find out why. Before long, the Dark Knight is fighting for his very own sanity.
Authors
Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.
Ed Brubaker (born November 17, 1966) is an Eisner Award-winning American cartoonist and writer. He was born at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. Brubaker is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as Batman, Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Fist, Catwoman, Gotham Central and Uncanny X-Men. In more recent years, he has focused solely on creator-owned titles for Image Comics, such as Fatale, Criminal, Velvet and Kill or Be Killed. In 2016, Brubaker ventured into television, joining the writing staff of the HBO series Westworld.
