CATALOG RECORD
Batman: The Dark Knight #1
first appearance of Carrie Kelley
WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Carrie Kelley (DC) — introduction
Dates
- Cover date
- 1986
- In stores
- March 20, 1986
- Pages
- 52
Values
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Editions and covers (4)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
This edition’s page - 2nd printing
Second Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 07098939801601
This edition’s page - 4th printing
Fourth Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page
The Dark Knight Returns Book One (Facsimile Edition) (2026). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.
Publisher’s description
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is set 20 years in the future. In the absence of superheroes, criminals run amok, and a gang called the Mutants terrorize Gotham City. Bruce Wayne has been retired from crime fighting for ten years following the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin. Despite Wayne's funding of the rehabilitation of Harvey Dent (Two-Face), Dent returns to crime. Bruce, overcome with the grief of what Gotham has become, as well as being unable to resist his true identity as Batman, dons the costume again and apprehends Dent, and the populace debates whether Batman is a savior or a threat to society.
Reprinted in
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986), Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986), Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986), The Complete Frank Miller Batman (1989), Batman: The Dark Knight Returns -- Tenth Anniversary Edition (1997), Batman: The Dark Knight Returns -- Tenth Anniversary Edition (1997), Millennium Edition: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Book One (2000), Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2002), Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2002), The New Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Stories: From Crumb to Clowes (2004), Absolute Dark Knight (2006), Batman Essentials - Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Special Edition (2014), Batman: The Dark Knight Saga Deluxe Edition (2015), Batman Noir: The Dark Knight Returns (2015), Batman: The Dark Knight Returns 30th Anniversary Edition (2016), DC Comics - The Legend of Batman (2017), DC Through the '80s: The Experiments (2021), The Dark Knight Returns Book One (Facsimile Edition) (2026)