The iconic cover of the 1986 Batman comic 'The Dark Knight Returns' is headed to auction.
Batman fans will be able to bid on a piece of comic book history. Heritage Auctions has announced that the original cover for Book One of writer/artist Frank Miller's iconic 1986 series The Dark Knight Returns will be for sale in Heritage Auctions' June 16-19 Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY The Dark Knight Returns is celebrated as a turning point in Batman's history. After the 1960s Batman television series left pop culture thinking of him as a campy comedic character, comic book writers and artists worked on bringing the character back to his original darker roots. The Dark Knight Returns showed an even darker future for the character.
The Dark Knight Returns, along with Alan Moore and David Gibbons' Watchmen, is considered to be what kicked-off the modern age of comic books. "What Dark Knight did to superhero comics and the superhero genre itself, it was a big, fat Dope Slap," said Miller. "It just slapped the genre awake." Decades after the series was originally released, the cover of the first issue continues to remain iconic.
The Dark Knight Returns has influenced many of the different adaptations of the character. In 2012 and 2013, a two-part animated film adaptation was released, which starred Peter Weller as Batman. Christopher Nolan's 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises told the story of a retired Bruce Wayne returning to the role of Batman.
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