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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780441016136
ISBN: 0441016138
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
Publisher: Ace
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Sales Rank: 588265
Studio: Ace
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Ushering in a summer of Batman...
The Caped Crusader returns in this prequel to the Warner Bros. blockbuster film—The Dark Knight.After Wayne Manor is burned to the ground, Bruce Wayne establishes a new base of operations, and— as Batman—refines his personal vigilante mission, encountering foes both old and new.
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After seeing the great Batman movie this summer I found this book at a used bookstore and decided to give it a try. The author is a solid writer and the plot moves along fairly well. I have not seen the DVD release of "Gotham Knight" so I do not know how close it is to that particular cartoon movie.
Batman has to deal with "The Croc" and a sniper near the end of the book along with the Mafia and the Russian mob. I was hoping for the Joker or one of the other classic villains to come ... Read More
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This book was a totally unknown quantity upon first reading. My initial impression, with no basis in fact, was that it would not be vastly related to the recently released DVD. Having not seen it but reading accounts of its' contents, their mutual use of similar characters is alike. The book, actually a collection of interrelated storylines, is somewhat analogous to the vignettes in the DVD. They are set in Batman Begins continuity, with many facets, especially the spotlighting on Batman's tech, coming ... Read More
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When I first saw this book in the bookstore, I couldn't believe that Warner Books had published a movie tie-in to a direct-to-DVD film--surely a first in the publishing world. I was even more surprised to find out that, once I started reading the first page, I couldn't stop. Is the writing perfect? No, but it's more than serviceable as light reading and better than expected for a tie-in book. Louise Simonson paints a fairly realistic picture of Chris Nolan's "Batman Begins" Batman universe. The book provides ... Read More
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