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 The following is a DC Comics news release I received February 6.


         DARK KNIGHT RECEIVES INTENATIONAL MEDIA COVERAGE

 Frank Miller continues to break new ground in the comics industry.  
 He revolutionized the comic book when he wrote and illustrated the
 six issue mini-series RONIN, published in 1983-1984.  Now, Frank's
 treatment of Batman in the four issue DARK KNIGHT series will prove
 equally goundbreaking.

 "We're always talking about how important it is to expand the market
 for comics," explains DC Comics Vice President-Executive Editor Dick
 Giordano.  "WE know comics aren't just for kids anymore, but it's  
 difficult to convince people of that."

 Miller's treatment of the Capped Crusader will prove revolutionary 
 for both DC Comics and the comic industry overall.  In feature 
 stories scheduled to run in uppcoming isssues of ROLLING STONE and 
 SPIN, both available nationally and internationally through news-
 stands and subscripption, Frank will discuss DARK KNIGHT and the 
 comics industry.  DC Comics plans to advertise the series in both
 rock music publications.  Other national media coverage of the series
 is pending.

 Notes Richard Gehr, editor at SPIN, "I think comics and science fiction
 are once again on the cutting edge of popular culture.  They deserve
 their rightful place in magazines like SPIN."

 The DARK KNIGHT series of four 48 page issues depicts Batman's last 
 stand.  The story takes place ten years after Batman has retired, when
 he's pushing 50.  Circumstances in Gotham City combine with his per-
 sonal life to put Bruce Wayne back into action for one final time.
 The series introduces a new, female Robin; several classic Batman vil-
 lains; and Batman paraphrenalia updated and computerized.  Superman 
 will appear in two of the four issues.

 The series will be printed in a deluxe format comparable to the RONIN
 series.  Art Director Richard Brunning describes it as "the best of
 the traditional format with the advantages of new technologies.  DARK
 KNIGHT is more like a series of comic book-sized graphic novels than a
 comic book series."

 In adition to the national media coverage, DARK KNIGHT will be supported
 by a four-color retail poster that sells for $4.95 in comic book  
 specialty stores; and a unique three-dimensional 9" x 13" counter card.
 A recent innovation for the printing world, the three-dimensional point
 -of-purchase poster has never been used in the comics industry before.

 The DARK KNIGHT  series reunites for the first time the penciller/writer,
 inker, and editor of Marvel Comics Group's DAREDEVIL: Miller, Klaus
 Janson, and Denny O'Neil, respectively.  The series is colored by Lynn
 Varley.  Each contributor has done his/her best artistic work to date.

 DARK KNIGHT #1 ships on February 25, 1986, to comic book specialty 
 stores nationwide.  Each issue sells for $2.95.

                                     --Steve Richter

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