This volume of the Legends of the Dark Knight series focuses on the Detective Comics stories from acclaimed artist Norm Greyfogle and writer Alan Grant.

Batman Annual 11-12, Detective Comics 579, 582-594, 601-607

Reprints/Collects:
Batman #433
Batman #434
Batman #435

After Jason Todd’s death, Batman begins to go on a rampage. Taking unnecessary risks and actions. Only Dick Grayson or a very young boy named Tim Drake can calm him.

Collects BATMAN #440-442 and The NEW TITANS #60-61.

Book One of Three.

Never read but with very minor shelf wear - most notably a small crease on the upper right front cover corner, and a crease along left-hand side of front cover from cover being opened to view copyright/series info. Interior pages look like new. Binding tight with no creases to spine.

Book Three of Three.

With a deadly poison coursing through his system, the Batman is dying. But before he succumbs, he is determined to save a terrified little girl, though it costs him his last breath...

The descendant of holy warriors, Jean Paul is forced into using his ancestral super powers and abilities to become Azrael, the avenging angel of an ancient cult. But when the Order of St. Dumas targets Batman, Azrael begins to question his life and duty. After working alongside the Dark Knight to defeat the deadly demon that threatens the ancient cult, Azrael turns his back on the Order and leaves to train under the tutelage of Batman.

Collects the miniseries Batman: Sword of Azrael #1-4.

The Dark Knight's greatest enemies have all simultaneously escaped from Arkham Asylum and are preying on Gotham City. With his city under siege, Batman pushes his body to the limit as he takes on The Joker, the Mad Hatter, Poison Ivy, Killer Croc, The Riddler and the Scarecrow. But things get much worse when Bane, the man behind all the madness, confronts an exhausted Batman...

Riddler starts his own riddle show. That isn't good...
In this issue the Riddler has a new public access TV show where he humiliates and exposes the secrets of the rich, all the while giving his audience a chance to win money or experience pai, depending on wether they answer it correctly or not.
Batman and Gordon are on the case, especially when they find out that on his next show, the Riddler wants to expose the secrets of Billionare Bruce Wayne

In this gripping tale, Batman faces enemies that even he may be powerless to defeat. These enemies kill indiscriminately. It makes no difference whether the victims are adults or children, men or women. These enemies can’t be seen until it is too late. The enemies are land mines.

Bruce Wayne travels to Kravia, a war-torn country in Europe, to find the missing daughter of one of his employees. Her father was killed when his vehicle ran over a land mine. She escaped injury, but was lost afterwards. Batman must face the danger of being in the middle of a civil war, and the possibility that any step he takes could be his last…

This one-shot special was created to draw attention to the hazard of land mines, which can maim and kill innocents long after any war is over.

In these stories from BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #142- 145, Ra's Al Ghul teams up with the Clown Prince of Crime for the first time. Their mission: Destroy the Dark Knight and take over the world!

Batman is forced into an unholy alliance with Etrigan the Demon when a rash of ritual murders sweeps through Gotham, the work of another demon who has orchestrated these lethal black-magic slayings! Gothic terror and infernal schemes abound in a tale that takes the Dark Knight into the Abyss itself to fight for the lives of Gotham's people.

"...One must choose that victim who contains the greatest and purest force. the Holy Fool. the Hanged Man. the King of the Lonely. the Batman. Thus shall the demon Archon arise and bathe the Earth in blood." - The Book of Shadows

Comic

It is a foe Batman can see and hear...
...but cannot touch.

It will strike only once...
...yet will change his life forever.

Already weakened by a debilitating plague, Gotham City is struck by a devastating force of nature - an earthquake that registers over 7.5 on the Richter scale.

In A Single Instant...
...The Batcave And Wayne Manor Are Left In Ruins...
...Thousands Are Dead...
...And The Batman Is Among The Missing.

From the writers and artists of Batman: Contagion and Batman: Legacy comes one of the most tragic and powerful Batman stories ever, as the Dark Knight and his allies try to save what is left of Gotham in the wake of a disaster from which the city may never recover.

Collects:
- Detective Comics #719-#721
- Shadow of the Bat #73, #74
- Nightwing #19, #20
- Batman #553, #554
- Azrael #40
- Catwoman #56
- Robin #52, #53
- Batman: Blackgate - Isle of Men #1
- The Batman Chronicles #12
- Batman: Huntress/Spoiler - Blunt Trauma #1

GOTHAM CITY: a dark, twisted re ection of urban America. Overcrowded, overbuilt, and overshadowed by a continuous air of menace, this gothic nightmare is a breeding ground for the depraved, the indifferent, and the criminally insane. It's also the object of one man's obsession. Witness to the brutal murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne has dedicated his life to protecting this city, taking a form to inspire hope in the innocent...and fear in the guilty. He is the masked vigilante known as the Batman.
Now the battlefield has changed. Leveled by a massive earthquake that left thousands dead and millions more wounded, Gotham City has been transformed into a lawless wilderness � a No Man's Land � where the survivors are turning against one another, and where the city's protectors are torn by a crisis that may consume them all.

Collects:
- Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #117, #119
- Batman: Shadow of the Bat #85-87
- Batman #565
- Detective Comics #732-733
- Batman: Chronicles #16

GOTHAM CITY: a dark, twisted re ection of urban America. Overcrowded, overbuilt, and overshadowed by a continuous air of menace, this gothic nightmare is a breeding ground for the depraved, the indifferent, and the criminally insane. It's also the object of one man's obsession. Witness to the brutal murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne has dedicated his life to protecting this city, taking a form to inspire hope in the innocent...and fear in the guilty. He is the masked vigilante known as the Batman.
Now the battlefield has changed. Leveled by a massive earthquake that left thousands dead and millions more wounded, Gotham City has been transformed into a lawless wilderness � a No Man's Land � where the survivors are turning against one another, and where the city's protectors are torn by a crisis that may consume them all.

Collects:
- Batman #566-569
- Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #120-121
- Batman: Shadow of the Bat #88
- Detective Comics #734-735

GOTHAM CITY: a dark, twisted re ection of urban America. Overcrowded, overbuilt, and overshadowed by a continuous air of menace, this gothic nightmare is a breeding ground for the depraved, the indifferent, and the criminally insane. It's also the object of one man's obsession. Witness to the brutal murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne has dedicated his life to protecting this city, taking a form to inspire hope in the innocent...and fear in the guilty. He is the masked vigilante known as the Batman.
Now the battlefield has changed. Leveled by a massive earthquake that left thousands dead and millions more wounded, Gotham City has been transformed into a lawless wilderness � a No Man's Land � where the survivors are turning against one another, and where the city's protectors are torn by a crisis that may consume them all.

Collects:
- Batman #571-572
- Batman: Chronicles #18
- Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #125
- Batman: Shadow of the Bat #92-93
- Detective Comics #736, 738-739

Has someone finally pulled the ultimate joke on the Joker? That unlikely scenario plays out in BATMAN/JOKER: SWITCH, a Prestige Format Special written by Devin Grayson (NIGHTWING, BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS) with breathtaking painted art and cover by John Bolton (BATMAN: MAN-BAT, THE BOOKS OF MAGIC)! The Joker awakens drugged and confused on the streets of London and he's undergone a shocking transformation. Can Batman find his arch-nemesis before he carves up all of England looking for the source of his mutilation? And even if he can, does Batman have any chance at stopping the man who's finally turned the Joker into a victim of a sadistic joke?