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Title: BATMAN Nos. 662 to 684, 686 to 711, and 713 * Lot of 70 Comics
Publisher:DC [Indicia: DC Comics]
Date Published: 2007-2011
Description: Batman #s 662-684, 686-711, and 713 (including two copies of #670, #678, #679, #680, #682, #683, #684, #687, and #703, three copies of #677, #681, #686, and #700, and four copies of #676), lot of 70 issues. Generally VF/NM or better.
 
Covers and interiors by Greg Lauren, John Ostrander, Tom Mandrake, Andy Kubert, Grant Morrison, John Van Fleet, Tony S. Daniel, Jonathan Glapion, Ryan Benjamin, Alex Ross, Paul Dini, Dustin Nguyen, Neil Gaiman, Judd Winik, Mark Bagley, David Finch, Scott Williams, and others. The Caped Crusader Goes Totally PoMo: "In [Grant] Morrison's view... it was time to grow up. Batman the character may have been a chunk of intellectual property owned and fiercely protected by a corporation, but Batman the cultural idea transcended ownership and contained multitudes.... So Morrison built his massive, slowly unfolding meta-mega narrative around a simple core concept: it was all true. Every story that had ever been written about Batman since 1939, even — especially — those that O'Neil and Adams had swept under the rug in 1970, all the 'goofy' tales of spaceships and magic and interdimensional pests, even the sixties Batman show, had happened.
 
"It was, all of it, Batman.
 
"Kathy Kane, the glamorous Batwoman of 1956? She came back.... The trippy 1963 Batman story 'Robin Dies at Dawn,' which saw Batman subjecting himself to a scientific experiment designed to test the effects of isolation on the human mind, became the spine around which Morrison built his sprawling tale.... 'I had fun doing a vulnerable Batman,' Morrison said, 'stumbling homeless through the streets on heroin, deranged and betrayed."— Glen Weldon, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. Simon & Schuster: 2016, p. 268.
 
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