Batman Poster #27 FRAMED The Dark Knight Returns #1 (1986) by Frank Miller Movie

You are purchasing the item pictured, framed.  Item will be bagged to protect from dust, packed in packing peanuts and boxed.  Just open box and hang it on the wall...makes a perfect gift!
The era of "grim and gritty" comics began with the publication of Frank Miller's landmark limited series Batman: The Dark Knight in 1986 - a sea change for an industry in which super-hero adventures were typically bathed in garish primary colors.  The simple, almost minimalist composition Miller chose for the cover of the first issue - perhaps the greatest application of the "less is more" principal in comics history - barely hinted at the cluttered complexity of the interior art and story.  Set in a dystopian near future where Batman is an aged, out-of-shape combination of Dirty Harry and the Samurai hero of Akira Kirosawa's Yojimbo, Batman: The Dark Knight offered a hardcore revisionist take on Bob Kane's hero.  Most readers found the series revelatory, believing that Miller had returned Batman to