Batman's Definitive History Is on Sale for $35 Right Now

Here's a bully woody for fans of the Caped Crusader. The massive, profoundly researched publication Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight successful Comics, Film, and Beyond is 53% disconnected astatine Amazon. This is the astir precocious updated variation of the book. The MSRP connected this happening is $75. But it's conscionable went on merchantability for $34.97. There's nary telling however agelong the woody volition last, truthful drawback it if you privation it.

Batman: The Definitive History is simply a full-color doorstopper of a publication that clocks successful astatine 440 pages. It offers a profoundly researched, definitive past of Bruce Wayne's change ego from his 1939 debut successful Detective Comics each the mode to the present.

Written by Cartoon Art Museum curator Andrew Farago and media newsman Gina McIntyre, this hefty tome (it weighs 7.5 pounds) dives into beauteous overmuch everything you'd privation to cognize astir Batman done the years.

It includes interviews with writers, artists, directors, and actors from the Batman universe, including Frank Miller, Grant Morrison, Tim Burton, Mark Hamill, and Christopher Nolan. It illuminates behind-the-scenes stories surrounding large moments from the comics. It goes into the live-action Batman TV amusement from the 1960s, arsenic good arsenic Batman: The Animated Series, the Nolan films, and the Arkham video games. This variation is updated to see accusation connected The Batman arsenic well.

In summation to its credentialed authors, the publication features a guardant by Michael Keaton, an instauration by Kevin Conroy, and a preface by longtime Batman exertion Dennis O'Neil.

Also included successful the publication are antecedently unpublished photographs from Batman movie sets, animation cels, and comic publication art, positive a 40-page movie attraction from Bob Kane.

Basically, it's a full batch of accusation astir Batman implicit the 80 years he's been a popular taste icon. And it's displayed beautifully successful a full-color, gorgeously illustrated book. It would marque a large contiguous for the Batman instrumentality successful your life, adjacent if that instrumentality happens to beryllium you.

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