Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #4
Cover Date
August 1986
Price
$2.95
Publisher
Place of Publication
New York City, New York
Cover Artist
52 p. ; 6.75 x 10.25 "
Editor
In the final issue of Frank Miller's paradigm shifting Batman series, The Dark Knight, nuclear bombs are launched and Batman & Superman have their final confrontation. Harlan Ellison appears off-panel on pages 13-14 as an on-air guest during television coverage of the nuclear attack on Gotham.
Notes
Batman: The Dark Knight has become a perennial title for DC Comics, and as such this issue has been printed in numerous volumes. An incomplete listing of the American editions include:
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, softcover, November 1986, Warner Books/DC Comics ($12.95, ISBN: 0-446-38505-0)
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, softcover, 1986, DC Comics ($19.95, ISBN: 0-930289-15-3)
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, signed/numbered hardcover (4,000 copies), 1986, DC Comics ($40.00, ISBN: 0-930289-11-0)
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns: Tenth Anniversary Edition, hardcover, 1996, DC Comics ($45.00, ISBN: 1-56389-341-X) ; also available in a Slipcase edition
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns: Tenth Anniversary Edition, softcover, 1997, DC Comics ($14:95, ISBN: 1-56389-342-8)
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, hardcover, 2002, DC Comics ($24.95, ISBN: 1-56389-341-X)
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, softcover, 2002, DC Comics ($14.95, ISBN: 1-56389-342-8)
- Absolute Dark Knight, oversize hardcover with slipcase (8.5" x 13"), 2006, DC Comics ($99.99, ISBN: 1-4012-1079-1)
- Batman Noir: The Dark Knight Returns, hardcover, 2015, DC Comics ($34.99, ISBN: 978-1-4012-5514-5)
- Batman: The Dark Knight Saga Deluxe Edition, hardcover, 2015, DC Comics ($49.99, ISBN: 978-1-4012-5691-3)
- Batman vs. Superman: The Greatest Battles, softcover, 2015, DC Comics ($9.99, ISBN: 978-1-4012-5698-2)
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns: 30th Anniversary Edition, softcover, 2016, DC Comics ($19.99, ISBN: 978-1-4012-6311-9)
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns: Frank Miller Gallery Edition, oversize hardcover (13" x 20"), 2016, Graphitti Designs ($175, ISBN: 978-1-4012-6443-7)
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