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Issue: Batman: A Death in the Family #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2011
 
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [swirl]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 11/16/2011
Volume:
Pages: 276
ISBN: 9781401232740
UPC/EAN: 978140123274052499
Price: $27.99 CAD
$24.99 USD
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Content Items: 29 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Third printing available September 26, 2012; fourth printing available June 12, 2013; fifth printing available December 4, 2013; sixth printing available November 19, 2014; eighth printing available June 1, 2016; and ninth printing available April 12, 2017 (per comiclist.com).
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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reprinted 21 times from Content Items in other Issues.
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The Ground-Breaking Classic

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Jason Todd]
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A Death in the Family

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The title page is illustrated with art taken from page 10 of Batman (DC, 1940 series) #428. This is followed by a two-page spread providing the credits, illustrated with art taken from panel 7 of page 35 of #427. The next two-page spread gives the copyright notice and editorial credits and a table of contents; the art on this spread is taken from the cover of #428.
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The art of this full page illustration is taken from the fifth panel of page 25 of The New Titans (DC, 1988 series) #60.
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A Death in the Family Book One of Four

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]
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A Death in the Family (Chapter 1 & 2)

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Jason Todd]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner Gordon; Joker (villain); Two-Face (flashback); Sharmin Rosen; Shiva Woosan [Lady Shiva] (cameo image on computer monitor); Dr. Sheila Haywood (cameo image on computer monitor)
Jason discovers that his "real" mother was really his step-mother, and his birth mother is still alive. Joker escapes from Arkham and Batman chases him to the Middle East where he runs across Jason looking for one of the women he thinks is his mom.
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A Death in the Family Book Two of Four

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A Death in the Family (Chapter 3 & 4)

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Jason Todd]; Sheila Haywood (introduction); Joker; Lady Shiva; Alfred Pennyworth (flashback)
Jason meets his real mother, Sheila Haywood, who is working for the Joker and allows her son to fall into his hands in a warehouse. The Joker beats Robin with a crowbar and leaves him for dead. A badly beaten Robin attempts to save his mother from the dynamite left behind by the Joker. Batman watches in horror as the warehouse containing Jason and Sheila blows up.
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Robin Will Die Because the Joker Wants Revenge, but You Can Prevent It with a Telephone Call.

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FlagBatman #427 [Direct Sales] published January 1988inside back cover
 
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This ad, originally printed in the direct sales edition of Batman (DC, 1940 series) #427, contains the phone numbers for readers to call and vote "The Joker fails and Robin lives" or "The Joker succeeds and Robin will not survive."
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A Death in the Family Book Three of Four

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Robin [Jason Todd]
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A Death in the Family Chapter 5

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Batman; Robin (death); Shiela Haywood (death); Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner Gordon; Barbara Gordon; Superman; Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran; Joker; Two-Face (flashback)
Batman finds Sheila Haywood dying and unearths Robin's corpse from the rubble. Following their burials, Batman and Superman discover that the Joker is the new the Iranian Ambassador and is protected by diplomatic immunity.
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A Death in the Family Book Four of Four

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Joker
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A Death in the Family! Chapter 6

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Batman and Superman manage to thwart the Joker's plan to poison the United Nations ambassadors, but Batman is unable to fully resolve the case because the badly shot Joker is aboard an exploding helicopter that crashes into the river and even Superman cannot find the body.
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The art of this full page illustration is taken from the fifth panel of page 25 of The New Titans (DC, 1988 series) #60.
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A Lonely Place of Dying Remembrances

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The article is illustrated by a selection of panels from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #426.
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The art of this full page illustration is taken from the fifth panel of page 25 of The New Titans (DC, 1988 series) #60.
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A Lonely Place of Dying Part 1 of 5

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A Lonely Place of Dying Chapter One: Suspects

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Commissioner Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; Two-Face; Tim Drake (unnamed); New Titans [Starfire [Koriand'r]; Cyborg [Victor Stone]; Jericho; Troia; Changeling [Gar Logan]]; Robin [Jason Todd] (flashback); Robin [Dick Grayson] (flashback); The Flying Graysons (flashback)
A young man who knows Batman and Nightwing's secret identities secretly takes pictures of Batman's battle with the Ravager and then tries to track down Nightwing.
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Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying Part 2 of 5

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New Titans [Cyborg [Victor Stone]; Jericho; Nightwing; Raven; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Starfire [Koriand'r]; Troia]; Changeling [Gar Logan]; Danny Chase; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Tim Drake
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A Lonely Place of Dying Chapter Two: Roots

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New Titans [Cyborg [Victor Stone]; Jericho; Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Starfire [Koriand'r]; Troia]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Harrison Haly; Tim Drake; Wilhelm (dies); Samson; Pedro
Dick goes back to the circus to try and find himself and encounters the mystery teenager following Batman and Nightwing.
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A Lonely Place of Dying Part 3 of 5

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Dick Grayson; Tim Drake; Alfred Pennyworth; Two-Face
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A Lonely Place of Dying Chapter Three: Parallel Lines!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Tim Drake; Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Two-Face; Robin [Dick Grayson] (flashback); The Flying Graysons (flashback); Penguin (flashback); Commissioner James Gordon
Tim Drake reveals how he deduced Batman was Bruce Wayne.
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Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying Part 4 of 5

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New Titans [Cyborg [Victor Stone]; Jericho; Nightwing; Raven; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Starfire [Koriand'r]; Troia]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]
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A Lonely Place of Dying: Part Four Going Home!

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New Titans [Cyborg [Victor Stone]; Jericho; Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Raven; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Starfire [Koriand'r]; Troia]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Tim Drake; Commissioner James Gordon; Terry Long; Two-Face
Batman and Nightwing track down Two-Face but are caught in his trap and buried beneath an crumbling building.
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A Lonely Place of Dying Part 5 of 5

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Robin [Tim Drake]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth
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FlagBatman #442 [Direct] published December 1989
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A Lonely Place of Dying Chapter Five: Rebirth

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Tim Drake]; Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Two-Face; Joker (cameo)
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FlagBatman #442 [Direct] published December 1989
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Tim Drake's first appearance as Robin.
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[untitled]

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Jason Todd]
He's alive!
Batman finds Robin alive beneath the rubble.
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was Daedalus and Icarus The Return of Jason Todd [Story on Interior Page(s)]page 8 only
 
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Biographies

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Both pages of creator biographies are illustrated by the image of Batman taken from the fifth panel of page 25 of The New Titans (DC, 1988 series) #60.
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[untitled]

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A Death in the Family

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The back cover features promotional copy about this volume and is illustrated with art taken from page 10 of Batman (DC, 1940 series) #428.

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