batman (fictitious character)

The shape shifting Clayface ignites a feud between Superman and Batman.

In Eternal Enemies, the ruthless leader of the League of Assassins is searching for a new way to sustain his immortality. Only Batman, Nightwing, and Batwoman can put an end to this criminal mastermind's unending reign.

A history of the comic book character Batman, from his first appearance in Detective Comics in 1939 to the present, describing his significant adventures, battles, loves, allies, enemies, equipment, and vehicles. Includes how Batman was created and a timeline of the key events in the character's life, and features full-color comic book art.

Bane, a new villain to Gotham City battles Batman.

Batman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us? Batman and Psychology explores these and other intriguing questions about the masked vigilante, including: Does Batman have PTSD? Why does he fight crime? Why as a vigilante? Why the mask, the bat, and the underage partner? Why are his most intimate relationships with ?bad girls? he ought to lock up? And why won't he kill that homicidal, green-haired clown?.

Collects issues one through four of "Batman Year 100" comics in which the murder of a federal agent in Gotham City in 2039 prompts a large-scale investigation and puts Detective Gordon, grandson of the former commissioner, on the trail of Batman--a person Gordon thought was an urban legend.

Batman, just beginning his crimefighting career, recruits allies to help him in his quest to keep Gotham City secure, but he realizes his mistake when super-powered villain, Mr. Freeze, makes an appearance, and the Caped Crusader must subdue the menace, protect the citizenry, and save his team.

Gotham's underworld figures meet for a summit and suspicion and paranoia result in a shootout in which several of them are killed, causing chaos to break out in the city, and Oracle, Batgirl, Nightwing, Orpheus, Onyx, and Tarantula try to keep order while Batman determines who caused these events.