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Issue: Batman: Year One Deluxe Edition #[nn]
Publication Date: June 2005
 
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Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 04/13/2005
Volume: none
Pages: 152
ISBN: 1401206905
UPC/EAN: 76194124918600111
Price: $26.99 CAD
$19.99 USD
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Content Items: 14 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Dale Crain (senior editor collected edition); Chip Kidd (publication design)
Disclose Notes: New printing: March 14, 2012.
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
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Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman
Batman
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Miscellaneous
1
The Crime Blotter

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Slam Bradley]
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Denny O'Neil
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
typeset
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Miscellaneous
2
Written March 1988.
Year One Part 1

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
David Mazzucchelli (signed)
David Mazzucchelli (signed)
? (known to be David Mazzucchelli's girlfriend at this time)
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman
Bruce Wayne; Thomas Wayne (death); Martha Wayne (death)
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Miscellaneous
1
Batman: Year One Chapter One: Who I Am How I Came to Be

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Miller
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
Richmond Lewis
Todd Klein
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman
Bruce Wayne [Batman](does not appear in costume); Alfred Pennyworth; Lt. James Gordon; Lieutenant Flass; Commissioner Gill Loeb; Selina Kyle [Catwoman](does not appear in costume; 1st appearance in Modern Age continuity); Holly; Thomas Wayne (Death)(flashback); Martha Wayne (Death)(flashback)
Bruce and Gordon both arrive in Gotham on missions that are sure to put their paths on a collision course. Gordon joins the GCPD which is rife with corruption and he is taught a savage lesson when he tries to buck this new system. Bruce tries out his years of training in a simple street brawl that does not go as planned. Wounded and searching for inspiration, Bruce finds it as a bat flies through the window.
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Previous regular cast member Julia ReMarque (Pennyworth) disappears from storylines. Revamped origin of Batman. First post-Crisis Batman story?
Year One Part 2

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
? (known to be David Mazzucchelli's girlfriend at this time)
typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman
Batman [Bruce Wayne]
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Miscellaneous
1
Batman Year One Chapter Two: War Is Declared

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Miller
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
Richmond Lewis
Todd Klein
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Lieutenant James Gordon; Detective Sarah Essen (1st appearance); Commissioner Gill Loeb; Barbara Gordon (James' pregnant wife); Detective Flass; Harvey Dent (assistant district attorney)
Bruce dons his new guise as Batman and begins to clean up Gotham. When he starts to harass the corrupt officials of the city, the police are commanded to take him down.
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G-2899
Sarah Essen eventually becomes Commissioner Gordon's second wife. Revamped origin of Batman.
Year One Part 3

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
David Mazzucchelli (signed)
David Mazzucchelli (signed)
? (known to be David Mazzucchelli's girlfriend at this time)
typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman
Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Batman Year One Chapter Three: Black Dawn

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Miller
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
Richmond Lewis
Todd Klein
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Lieutenant James Gordon; Detective Sarah Essen; Catwoman [Selina Kyle] (1st in Modern Age costume); Holly; Commissioner Gill Loeb; Barbara Gordon (James' pregnant wife)
The police have Batman cornered and are intent on taking him in and it will take all of his training and cunning to escape from their grasp.
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Miscellaneous
22
G-2936
Revamped origin of Batman.
Year One Part 4

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
? (known to be David Mazzucchelli's girlfriend at this time)
typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Lieutenant James Gordon
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Batman Year One Chapter Four: Friend in Need

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Miller
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
Richmond Lewis
Todd Klein
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Lieutenant James Gordon; Detective Sarah Essen; Holly; The Roman (villain); Harvey Dent (assistant district attorney); Jefferson Skeevers; Detective Flass; Commissioner Gill Loeb; Barbara Gordon (James' pregnant wife)
Batman takes on the upper echelons of organized crime and becomes allies with Gordon. The Gordon's have a baby boy.
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Miscellaneous
24
G-3028
Joker mentioned at end of story, placing his first story in the first year. Revamped origin of Batman.
Afterword(s)

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
Richmond Lewis
typeset
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Miscellaneous
36
Includes a new 4 page story on the philosophy of the character of Batman, sketches for the series, original art reproductions and differences in the color between the newsprint and book versions.
A Shadow Fell Across Me...

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Miller
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Written in 1988.
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli
typeset
Subject Matter
Frank Miller lives and works...
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Miscellaneous
1
Brief biographies of Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli, and Richmond Lewis.

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