Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a four-issue comic book limited series written and drawn by Frank Miller, originally published by DC Comics under the title Batman: The Dark Knight in 1986. When the issues were released in a collected edition later that year, the story title for the first issue was applied to the series as a whole. The Dark Knight Returns tells the story of a middle-aged Batman who comes out of retirement to fight crime, only to face opposition from the Gotham City police force and the United States government.
Though I don't like most of Millers work (His irritating way of bolding every other word and his matra that all women are whores and not to be trusted are rather off putting) but the Dark Knight Returns changed the face of comics and how modern comics in general are viewed.
DC published the issues of The Dark Knight Returns in packaging that included extra pages, square binding, and glossy paper to highlight the watercolor coloring by colorist Lynn Varley. The success of this work led to the establishment of the format, and it is now used generally to showcase works by big name creators or to spotlight significant story lines.
The cover is one of the iconic of the modern era and so I want to play homage to it with my own design context book. I would also include a piece about the cover inside-minus the bit about whores.
