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What You Should Read Before Batman #900 (Spoilers)

Batman #900 (or #135 if you prefer) is out this week. As is an invitation to do a bit more Batman reading - and watching. Spoilers ahead.

Batman #900 (or #135 if you prefer) is out this week. As is an invitation to do a bit more Batman reading – and watching. Spoilers ahead. Well, the big one is going to be Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland. Fairly obviously. The Red Mask is a Joker without a Batman, and is still sane. Evil, but not insanely so. And he is looking to try and create his One Bad Day to flip him, as portrayed in The Killing Joke.

But it also looks to Batman: The Three Jokers by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok, which surprisingly worked as a sequel to The Killing Joke, or at least retconning what happened to the Joker's pregnant wife in the story.

But also, you know, having Batman: Three Jokers. Remember this dream of Batman's recently?

Maybe, like in the MCU, when he dreams, he dreams of parallel universes… because from Batman #900 courtesy of pre-sale-date bought copies…

But there are other universes to ponder.

Such as Gotham By Gaslight, made the first DC Comics Elseworlds title, from Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola.

And then Kingdom Come, a far future version of the DC Universe by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, which bore passing similarity to the unpublished Twilight Of The Gods pitch by Alan Moore…

Batman & Dracula: Red Rain, asking what if Batman was a vampire by Doeg Moench and Kelley Jones. And giving him a new Joker to play with.

And the daddy of them all, The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson. But it's not just the comics, there's the cartoons as well.

But also the live-action movies, such as one from 1989 by Tim Burton, with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. Or a live-action movie before even that, from 1966.

This is Every Batman, Every Batchannel, All At Once. Coming to a comic store on Tuesday. Apart from, you know, the ones that are already selling it.

BATMAN #135/#900
Written by CHIP ZDARSKY
Art by JORGE JIMENEZ, MIKE HAWTHORNE, and ADRIANO DI BENEDETTO
Cover by JORGE JIMENEZ
$6.99 US | 56 pages | Variant $7.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 5/2/23
It's Batman versus Red Mask in a brutal Gotham that's never known hope! Can the Dark Knight overcome the terrifying infection that Red Mask has unleashed? Only one thing is certain: he won't be able to do it alone. The conclusion to the bestselling "The Bat-Man of Gotham" is so big it could only be contained in an oversize #900 anniversary issue featuring the return of fan-favorite artist Jorge Jiménez and a wild collection of guest stars! Full of wild revelations and a new path for Batman, this is one issue you won't want to miss!

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