The fall of the dark knight

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The fall of the dark knight ( English Knightfall , a play on words from knight ("knight") and nightfall ("nightfall")) is a storyline in the Batman comics of the early 1990s. Knightfall is divided into three parts: Knightfall , Knightquest and Knightsend .

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The series begins with the villain Bane carrying out an attack on Arkham Asylum and freeing a large number of Batman's enemies. After Batman has succeeded in bringing down many of his old adversaries, he finds himself in poor health in a physically desperate state. So Batman is placed by Bane in his lair, the Bat Cave, and defeated in a duel, as Bane had planned. As a sign of his triumph, Bane breaks the defeated Batman's spine and leaves him paralyzed.

As a result, Bruce Wayne does not give his former student Robin, who meanwhile protects another city as Nightwing , but Azrael (Jean Paul Valley) the bat costume. Thanks to his self-made Batman armor, he can also defeat Bane. However, Azrael-Batman is waging a fateful war with himself, on the one hand because he was brought up from an early age as the avenging angel of the Order of St. Dumas, on the other hand because he realizes that he will never win the battle of Batman. In addition, as Azrael Batman, he also kills opponents and thus crosses a border.

In the further course of the plot, after his recovery and hard training, the real Batman has to recapture his cloak from the Azrael Batman, who is increasingly failing in his task and always going over the heap.

publication

The original Knightfall storyline was published in the US in the following 74 DC Comics, although the list is out of order:

  • Batman No. 491-510,
  • Detective Comics No. 659-677
  • Showcase '93 No. 7-8
  • Showcase '94 No. 7, 10
  • Batman: Shadow of the Bat No. 16-30
  • Robin (Volume 4) No. 1, 7-9
  • Catwoman (Volume 2) Nos. 4, 6-7, 12-13
  • Justice League Task Force No. 5-6
  • Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight No. 59-63

Other stories that tell the story of The Fall of the Dark Knight , appeared in Batman No. 484-490 and in the mini-series Batman: Sword of Azrael (four issues) and the single issue Batman: Vengeance of Bane . Continued The fall of the Dark Knight in the twelve-part Prodigal series. The storyline came to its final conclusion in the four-part Troika in autumn 1994.

The saga was published in German by Carlsen Verlag in ten volumes each comprising six US individual editions (volumes 18-27). The booklets Batman: Shadow of the Bat No. 19–22 and 25, Detective Comics No. 670, 674 and 675, and Robin (Volume 4) No. 7 were not included in these German editions .

The Dino Verlag provided each with a Batman Sonderband Figures Azrael (Band 2), and Bane before (Volume 3). The special volume 4 ( Bane II ) concludes with the future of Bane.

From June 2012, Panini Comics released a new, three-part publication of the story, entitled Batman: Knightfall - The Fall of the Dark Knight .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Batman: Knightfall in the Fandom DC Database. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Batman: Knightfall on comixolgy.eu. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .