

Collects ‘Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader?’ from Batman #686 and Detective Comics #853 ‘A Black and White World’ from Batman: Black and White #2 ‘Pavane’ from Secret Origins #36 Secret Origins Special #1 ‘Mortal Clay’ from Batman Annual #11. The editors of 1602, Nick Lowe and Joe Quesada, approached Gaiman after Quesada became Marvels Editor in Chief with the intent for Gaiman to work on a project for Marvel. If you don’t know Campbell by name, you’ll know his comics: most famously, he was Moore’s artistic collaborator on the.

With a bonus feature examining Gaiman and Moore’s relationships with Batman, plus an afterword by Gaiman, this volume brings together some of the best Batman stories from across three decades, written by two of comics’ modern masters. Neil Gaiman stated in an afterword to the series that he had always viewed the Marvel universe as 'magic'. Or perhaps Neil Gaiman’s: The man’s a genius, there’s an end to it. From the award-winning, elegiac ‘Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?’ to the warped but poignant ‘Mortal Clay’, Gaiman, Moore and their artistic collaborators – among them Andy Kubert (Flashpoint), Simon Bisley (Lobo), and Mark Buckingham (Fables) – explore themes as diverse as life, death, dreams, identity and obsession. WEDNESDAY COMICS 1-12, BATMAN 686, DETECTIVE COMICS 853 and GREEN LANTERN/SUPERMAN. Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore (A) Andy Kubert, Simon Bisley, Mark Buckinghamįrom the fertile imaginations of Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and Alan Moore (Watchmen) come four Batman stories that delve deep into the mythos of the Dark Knight. (W) Neil Gaiman (A) Andy Kubert & Various (CA) Brian Bolland. In the UK it looks like Hatchette and Eaglemoss will now be bringing us DC Graphic Novels – with Hatchette currently out the starting blocks for 2021 with DC Heroes and Villains Collection.
