One-time journalist Spider Jerusalem, secluded in his house in the mountains, is called back to his natural, and hated habitat: the City. Filled with noise, filth, energy, and stories, the City throbs and convulses with life. For anyone who can maintain his sanity, it's a writer's paradise. For Spider, it's also the inferno.

"Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight's retirement. This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling, BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals...