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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 741.5973 EAN: 9781401215491 ISBN: 1401215491 Label: DC Comics Manufacturer: DC Comics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: September 05, 2007 Publisher: DC Comics Release Date: September 05, 2007 Studio: DC Comics Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Batman must face his own greatest fears when the man behind the mask, Bruce Wayne, begins to have nightmares about his boyhood schoolmaster, the cruel Mr. Winchester. Now Winchester has come to Gotham City, this time with supernatural powers. And unless the Caped Crusader can stop him, he will convert the city into his own cathedral--of death. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Graphic SF ReaderA collection from early on in the Legends of the Dark Knight series. A bunch of mob bosses realise someone is murdering them one by one. The person who is doing it is someone they killed 20 years before. Calling Batman for help, he basically says sit on it and rotate, until he realises who the killer is, and it gets personal. It also gets a bit horror movie. 3.5 out of 5 Rating:  - worst everno question, the worst batman ever. He throws one punch and one kick. the former misses the latter is blocked. He falls off a roof in an absurdly stupid misstep. The story itself is simply far beyond any believability, the villian has no depth and the ending is predictable from page 5. Rating: - Gotham goes to hellComic visionary Grant Morrison (The Filth, JLA, New X-Men; c'mon already, you know the list) came up with this Batman tale, taking place in Bruce Wayne's early part of his career as Batman. Gothic follows Batman investigating just who is picking off mobsters in Gotham City, one of which claims that it's a man who won't stay dead. What this spells for Batman is locked in his own past, as he has nightmares about his father with his lips sewn shut, trying to warn him of something purely evil. While ... Read More Rating:  - I expected something... moreI've been reading a lot of the Legends of the Dark Knight collected trades as it's cool to read about Batman pre-sidekicks. This was the second story from that series. A lot of Batman books have reputations and you sort of know what you're getting into it before you crack it open but I didn't know anything about Gothic before going into it which is usually how I prefer it. Well, like I said, this is an early tale, so no familiar villain here. It starts out reminding me of Year 2/MOTP as mobster ... Read More Rating: - Long live Klaus Janson!!!And long live Grant Morrisson....Although this is not his best- there's something old fashioned about this story , a detective story which takes the hero to an exotic location...Nice and old school 
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