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Best of Batman
From graphic novels to non-fiction to paperbacks to childrens books, Batman is everywhere, and deserves his own "Best of" list. Just try and avoid books where he only makes a cameo.
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Batman: The Killing Joke
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 237,658 ratings
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
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4.26 avg rating — 196,048 ratings
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Batman: The Long Halloween
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4.34 avg rating — 108,694 ratings
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Batman: Year One
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Frank Miller (Writer)
4.25 avg rating — 268,779 ratings
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Batman: Hush
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Jeph Loeb (Writer)
4.27 avg rating — 55,644 ratings
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Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
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4.11 avg rating — 75,764 ratings
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Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls
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Scott Snyder (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 64,361 ratings
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Batman: Dark Victory
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4.18 avg rating — 36,020 ratings
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Batman: The Black Mirror
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4.28 avg rating — 25,565 ratings
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Batman: A Death in the Family
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4.08 avg rating — 38,475 ratings
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Batman: The Man Who Laughs
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4.08 avg rating — 27,127 ratings
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Batman, Volume 3: Death of the Family
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4.32 avg rating — 21,680 ratings
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Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 19,812 ratings
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Kingdom Come
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4.27 avg rating — 67,071 ratings
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The Batman Adventures: Mad Love
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Paul Dini (Writer)
4.29 avg rating — 10,228 ratings
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Batman, Volume 2: The City of Owls
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4.26 avg rating — 30,138 ratings
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Batman: Earth One, Volume 1
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Geoff Johns (Writer)
4.10 avg rating — 20,462 ratings
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Batman: Under the Red Hood
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Judd Winick (Writer)
4.38 avg rating — 11,418 ratings
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Batman: R.I.P.
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3.80 avg rating — 14,831 ratings
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Joker
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4.02 avg rating — 36,082 ratings
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Batman: Knightfall, Part One: Broken Bat
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4.11 avg rating — 21,349 ratings
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Batman: Hush, Vol. 1
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4.12 avg rating — 46,632 ratings
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Batman & Robin, Vol. 1: Batman Reborn
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Grant Morrison (Writer)
4.08 avg rating — 21,209 ratings
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Gotham Central, Vol. 1: In the Line of Duty
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4.20 avg rating — 4,999 ratings
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Batman: Haunted Knight
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3.90 avg rating — 11,406 ratings
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Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
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Frank Miller (Writer/Illustrator)
3.20 avg rating — 16,153 ratings
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JLA: Tower of Babel
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4.09 avg rating — 7,294 ratings
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Batman and Son
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3.81 avg rating — 13,310 ratings
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Batman: Black and White, Vol. 1
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Mark Chiarello (Editor)
4.05 avg rating — 7,425 ratings
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Batman: Hush, Vol. 2
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4.27 avg rating — 15,938 ratings
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Batman, Volume 4: Zero Year – Secret City
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4.09 avg rating — 13,618 ratings
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All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder
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3.10 avg rating — 6,180 ratings
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Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
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3.87 avg rating — 14,054 ratings
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Batgirl: Year One
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4.10 avg rating — 8,873 ratings
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Batman & Robin, Vol. 2: Batman vs. Robin
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Grant Morrison (Writer)
4.12 avg rating — 11,230 ratings
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Batman: The Cult
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3.90 avg rating — 6,375 ratings
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Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 1
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4.13 avg rating — 10,647 ratings
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Batman and Robin, Volume 1: Born to Kill
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Patrick Gleason (Penciler)
4.17 avg rating — 11,625 ratings
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Batman & Robin, Vol. 3: Batman & Robin Must Die!
by
Grant Morrison (Writer)
4.07 avg rating — 8,254 ratings
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Batman: Noël
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4.03 avg rating — 9,024 ratings
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Batman: Knightfall
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4.05 avg rating — 4,415 ratings
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Batman: White Knight
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Sean Gordon Murphy (Writer/Illustrator)
4.30 avg rating — 16,077 ratings
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Superman/Batman, Vol. 1: Public Enemies
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Batman, Volume 5: Zero Year – Dark City
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4.17 avg rating — 10,264 ratings
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Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
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Grant Morrison (Writer)
3.51 avg rating — 4,767 ratings
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Batman: Under the Hood, Volume 1
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4.19 avg rating — 8,614 ratings
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Batman: Heart of Hush
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4.04 avg rating — 8,783 ratings
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Batman: The Black Glove
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3.87 avg rating — 5,269 ratings
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Batman & Dracula: Red Rain
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3.66 avg rating — 3,233 ratings
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The Complete Frank Miller Batman
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4.59 avg rating — 1,316 ratings
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Batman Incorporated: The Deluxe Edition
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Grant Morrison (Writer)
3.65 avg rating — 5,112 ratings
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Batman: War on Crime
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4.18 avg rating — 4,500 ratings
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Batman: Earth One, Volume 2
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Geoff Johns (Writer)
4.24 avg rating — 5,948 ratings
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JLA, Vol. 1: New World Order
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3.97 avg rating — 4,276 ratings
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Batman: Cacophony
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3.46 avg rating — 3,044 ratings
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Batman: Venom
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3.85 avg rating — 5,580 ratings
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Gotham Central, Book Two: Jokers and Madmen
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4.43 avg rating — 4,279 ratings
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Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying
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4.01 avg rating — 5,592 ratings
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Batman: Son of the Demon
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3.91 avg rating — 5,435 ratings
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The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told
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Mike Gold (Editor)
4.17 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
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Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 1
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Chuck Dixon (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 7,165 ratings
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Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 2
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3.93 avg rating — 3,939 ratings
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Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1
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4.32 avg rating — 6,810 ratings
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Gotham City Sirens, Vol. 1: Union
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Paul Dini (Writer)
4.02 avg rating — 2,780 ratings
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Batman: The Night of the Owls
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4.05 avg rating — 8,453 ratings
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Batman: Bruce Wayne, Murderer?
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3.83 avg rating — 3,748 ratings
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Batman: No Man's Land
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4.18 avg rating — 3,841 ratings
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Batman: Year 100
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3.77 avg rating — 5,614 ratings
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Batman: Ego and Other Tails
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3.94 avg rating — 4,233 ratings
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Gotham Central, Vol. 2: Half a Life
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4.33 avg rating — 2,095 ratings
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Batman: Detective
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Paul Dini (Writer)
4.10 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
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Batman: Battle for the Cowl
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Tony S. Daniel (Writer/Illustrator)
3.72 avg rating — 7,612 ratings
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Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgment on Gotham (Batman / Judge Dredd, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
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Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 3
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4.06 avg rating — 4,241 ratings
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Gotham Central, Vol. 3: Unresolved Targets
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4.32 avg rating — 1,514 ratings
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Batman: Crimson Mist
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3.57 avg rating — 712 ratings
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The Batman Chronicles, Vol. 1
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4.13 avg rating — 18,310 ratings
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Batman, Volume 7: Endgame
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4.16 avg rating — 7,628 ratings
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Batman: Tales of the Demon
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3.88 avg rating — 1,760 ratings
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Batman: Gates of Gotham
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3.90 avg rating — 5,792 ratings
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Batman: Knightfall, Part Two: Who Rules the Night
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4.01 avg rating — 5,000 ratings
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The Longer You Stay
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4.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Bloodstorm: The Chilling Sequel to Batman
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3.68 avg rating — 1,155 ratings
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Batman: Strange Apparitions
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Steve Englehart (Writer)
3.96 avg rating — 1,381 ratings
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Batman: Face the Face
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4.04 avg rating — 4,972 ratings
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Batman vs. Predator
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3.77 avg rating — 1,509 ratings
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Batman: Joker's Asylum
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3.89 avg rating — 1,573 ratings
score: 816,
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Arkham Asylum: Living Hell
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3.78 avg rating — 2,293 ratings
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Batman: Prey
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3.95 avg rating — 1,978 ratings
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Batman: Lovers & Madmen (Batman Confidential, #2)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
score: 781,
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Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 4
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4.06 avg rating — 3,818 ratings
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Batman: Cataclysm
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Chuck Dixon (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 4,230 ratings
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Batman: Gothic
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3.77 avg rating — 6,559 ratings
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Superman/Batman, Vol. 2: Supergirl
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4.04 avg rating — 9,053 ratings
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Batman: Shaman
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3.67 avg rating — 1,801 ratings
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Batman: Blind Justice
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4.01 avg rating — 1,833 ratings
score: 642,
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Batman: Bruce Wayne, Fugitive, Vol. 1
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3.98 avg rating — 3,702 ratings
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Robin: Year One
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Chuck Dixon (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 6,344 ratings
score: 629,
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Batman/Hellboy/Starman
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3.59 avg rating — 299 ratings
score: 558,
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Batman Beyond: Hush Beyond
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3.76 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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May 05, 2013 07:41AM
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My favourite batman graphics are Dark knight returns
Dark knight strikes back
Batman odyssey
Death by design
The cult
Long Halloween
Fear the reaper
Court of the owls
Black mirror
Not in any order. I know that a few of them are highly criticised but I love them, is there anyone else who really loved batman odyssey. Yes it does make sense.
Shane wrote: "My favourite batman graphics are Dark knight returns
Dark knight strikes back
Batman odyssey
Death by design
The cult
Long Halloween
Fear the reaper
Court of the owls
Black mirror
Not in any or..."
Shane, if you really love Death By Design, Fear The Reaper and The Cult, why you're not vote The Cult (#51), Year Two Fear The Reaper (#105) and Death By Design (#194)? Just curious. :-)
Good point, only recently joined good reads and haven't been through whole list yet. Thank you.
Ah Shane, you have voted for those 3 books and add Batman Odyssey. Good! so we can get more and more choices of Batman graphic novels. :-)OOT, i see that many voters have their vote with lower ratings (ie: he/she rated it 2 stars) above the higher one (ie: he/she rated it 5 stars). Are their opinion change?
Or they don't know that if you vote for a book, that book will come up at the bottom of "My Votes" section (on the right side of you computer). but you can change that by changing the number position.
For my case, if I read another Batman comics, i will vote those comics, and it will be at no. 55. From my read, i think it should stay at no. 35. So I can change the number to 35, and the book will be at no. 35.
Really curious. :-)
#i apologize for my poor english ;-)
Birth of the Demon that consist of full trilogy: Son of the Demon, Bride of the Demon & Birth of the Demon is on No. 238.
But the "real" Birth of the Demon
is not in this list yet. :-)
Why the hell is Percy Jackson #205 on this list?
Yeah hahahaOne of the voters: Ekta, chose Generation V (American Vampire #1) and Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson #1) on no.1 and 5 of his/her list, that makes the books on no. 189 and 205 on this list.
I think i can delete those books from this list, because those books are not about Batman.
A few of these titles seem like filler titles. How does the TV series notes qualify as a best of???
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