An original cover of The Dark Knight Returns, made by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, will be auctioned on a digital platform, with bids opening in the last days of May
One of the works that redefined the Batman mythology in the 1980s is Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, by Frank Miller, who wrote and drew the story, alongside artist Lynn Varley who inked the pages.
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The cover of the first issue of The Dark Knight Returns is one of the most iconic in the DC Universe, marking the beginning of a work in a dystopian future where the Dark Knight steps out of the shadows to save Gotham from chaos.
The auction house Heritage Auctions will put up for auction an original cover for The Dark Knight Returns, which was in the possession of a collector who bought it from Lynn Varley.
“I was finding my identity as an artist, and for me, silhouette is the most important language of that… What you can convey in silhouette is going to impact minds and emotions more intensely than anything else.…” Frank Miller stated for a video shared by Heritage Auctions.
Bids for this original work will be opened on May 27, and the auction will take place from June 16 to 19.
“I look at Dark Knight now and think about what I said when I first saw the lightning bolt cover, which is: ‘it works’. That’s a comment not just on the cover, but on the celebration of the heroic and how there’s something to this comic book fare. And we have to keep it up”.
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This masterpiece of modern comic storytelling brings a dark world and a darker man to life. Alongside inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvented the Batman legend in his saga of a Gotham City gone bad in the near future, 10 years after the Dark Knight has retired. .
Crime runs rampant on the streets, and the man who was Batman continues to be tortured by the memory of his dead parents. As civil society crumbles around him, the long-suppressed vigilante aspect of Bruce Wayne finally breaks free of his self-imposed shackles.
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