“I got the goods that the bad guys left behind… after they got busted by the bat!” This guy has it all: “Goofy masks, giant hammers, elaborate death traps,” and it’s all yours if you can pay for it. “If it featured in a Gotham crime, and it’s not in the GSPD evidence room,” brags the shopkeeper, “You’ll find it here.” In “Manufacture For Use,” written by Smith, drawn by Lee, and inks, colors, and letters by Scott Williams, Alex Sinclair, and Todd Klein, Batman dons a disguise to visit an illegal pawn shop that sells wares left over from Batman’s battles with Gotham City’s villains. In a collection with talents like Warren Ellis, Becky Cloonan, Christopher Priest, Scott Snyder, Paul Dini, and Geoff Johns, Smith’s story stands out as a personal tale packed with eight decades worth of emotion and sentimentality. In Detective Comics #1000 - the landmark issue of DC’s namesake comic book series from 1939, out today -a murderer’s row of writers and artists spin their own takes on Batman in an anthology collection of new stories.īut in one story, written by Kevin Smith and illustrated by Jim Lee, the Dark Knight reclaims a relic that changed his life forever: The gun Joe Chill used to kill his parents. For being 80 years old, Batman has never looked better.
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