After watching news reports about the Mutants' crimes, Wayne decides to return to his role as a vigilante. Crime is running rampant throughout the city and a gang calling themselves 'The Mutants' has begun terrorizing the people of Gotham. Bruce Wayne, aged 55, has given up the mantle of Batman after the death of Jason Todd ten years prior. The Dark Knight Returns is set in a dystopian version of Gotham City in 1986. Various elements of the series have since been incorporated into depictions of Batman in other media, while a direct animated adaptation of the story, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, was released as a two-part film across 20. The Dark Knight Returns is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential Batman stories ever made, as well as one of the greatest works of comic art in general, and has been noted for helping reintroduce a darker and more mature-oriented version of the character (and superheroes in general) to pop culture during the 1980s. Likewise, Superman: Year One takes place in the Dark Knight universe. Both Batman: Year One and All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder, are considered by Miller to be canon. A one-shot prequel, Dark Knight Returns: The Last Crusade, takes place ten years before the original series. The miniseries has since been followed by a number of sequels: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, The Dark Knight III: The Master Race, and Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child. In the Pre- Flashpoint DC Multiverse, the events of The Dark Knight Returns and its associated titles were designated to occur on Earth-31. The story introduces Carrie Kelley as the new Robin and the hyper-violent street gang known as the Mutants.

Some of the earliest collected editions also bore the shorter series title. When originally published, the series was simply titled Batman: The Dark Knight, with a different title for each issue ( The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Triumphant, Hunt the Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Falls), but when the series was collected into a single volume, the title of the first issue was applied to the entire series. The story also features the return of classic foes Two-Face and the Joker, and culminates with a confrontation with Superman, who is now a pawn of the government. It tells an alternative story of Bruce Wayne, who at 55 years old returns from retirement to fight crime while facing opposition from the Gotham City police force and the United States government. The Dark Knight Returns (alternatively titled Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) is a 1986 four-issue comic book miniseries starring Batman, written by Frank Miller, illustrated by Miller and Klaus Janson, with color by Lynn Varley, and published by DC Comics.

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