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Title: BATMAN Nos. 619 to 661 * Lot of 50 Comics
Publisher:DC [Indicia: DC Comics]
Date Published: 2003-2007
Description: Batman #s 619-661 (including five copies of #619 and two copies of #650, #652 and #655), lot of 50 issues. Generally VF/NM or better.
 
Covers and interiors by Jim Lee, Scott Williams, Jeph Loeb, Dave Johnson, Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso, Matt Wagner, Judd Winick, Dustin Nguyen, Doug Mahnke, Paul Lee, Jock, Eric Battle, Andy Kubert, Grant Morrison, Greg Lauren, John Ostrander, and others. Batman Veers 'Right': "Since the nineties, in a trend that began with Grant Morrison's JLA, comics writers had begun to emphasize an idea of Batman as a long-term strategic thinker, a master planner whose elaborate preparation gave him an edge over the criminal underworld and his fellow heroes. The 'War Games' arc that ran through the Bat-books in 2004-05 turns on an elaborate contingency plan Batman had prepared in the event of a Gotham City gang war. The massive 2005-06 crossover event called Infinite Crisis involved the revelation that a distrustful Batman had built a spy satellite to collect information on all of Earth's villains and heroes.... The net result was a comic book Batman who'd ascended to a kind of untouchable narrative godhood.... a hero whose superpower was always being right." — Glen Weldon, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. Simon & Schuster: 2016, pp. 266-267.
 
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