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Batman Detective Comics: Faces of Death Volume 1 Free FREE :BATMAN DETECTIVE COMICS: FACES OF DEATH VOLUME 1 PDF Tony S. Daniel | 176 pages | 04 Sep 2013 | DC Comics | 9781401234676 | English | New York, United States Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 1: Faces of Death - Ebooks PDF Online No recent wiki edits to this page. Daniel, Bruce Wayne returns as Batman — and sets his sights on the Gotham Ripper, who in turn has his sights on Batman. But time is running out as Commissioner Gordon and Batman work to uncover the secret of the dread Dollmaker! Somewhere along the way, "Batman" became an excuse for "excessive violence," perhaps because DC was jealous of Punisher MAX or something. But that does not mean we need this much blood: removed faces, blown-out brains Night of the Owlsetc. As Daniel even proves himself by the end of this collection, he can tell decent Batman stories wi The Joker is loose again in Gotham after breaking out of Arkham, and there's a trail of brutal murders taking place. Batman is quickly on his trail naturally blaming him for it, until he sees the Joker himself being attacked. After Joker is captured and then later kidnapped, Batman learns this thing may :Batman Detective Comics: Faces of Death Volume 1 even bigger than him. The first volume of Tony S. Daniel's Batman Detective Comics is a story about a killer :Batman Detective Comics: Faces of Death Volume 1 as the Dollmaker who is asked by Joker to cut off his face. The Dollmaker then kidnaps Lt. Jim Gordon who Dollmaker plans to use him as bait to lure Batman,capture him then sell batman to none other than The Penguin which leads us to the second half of the comic. The second half starts as penguin is in the grand opening of his new iceberg casino where a guy named "snak This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Tweet Clean. Cancel Update. What size image should we insert? This will not affect the original upload Small Medium How do you want the image positioned around text? Float Left Float Right. Cancel Insert. Go to Link Unlink Change. Cancel Create Link. Disable this feature for this session. Rows: Columns:. Enter the URL for the tweet you want to embed. Combustible Mr. Mosaic Mr. Story Arcs. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Beware, you are proposing to add brand :Batman Detective Comics: Faces of Death Volume 1 pages to the wiki along with your edits. Make sure this is what you intended. This will likely increase the time it takes for your changes to go live. Comment and Save Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. Use your keyboard! Batman: Faces of Death | DC Database | Fandom Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Batman by Tony S. Daniel Writer, Penciler. Sandu Florea Inker. Ryan Winn Inker. Szymon Kudranski Artist. As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics—The New 52 event of SeptemberDetective Comics is relaunched for the first time ever with an all-new number 1! Bruce Wayne returns as Batman, and sets his sights on new villain the Gotham Ripper, who in turn has his sights on Batman. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne explores a budding romance with television journalist Charlotte Rivers, :Batman Detective Comics: Faces of Death Volume 1 As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics—The New 52 event of September :Batman Detective Comics: Faces of Death Volume 1, Detective Comics is relaunched for the first time ever with an all-new number 1! Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne explores a budding romance with television journalist Charlotte Rivers, who's visiting Gotham City to cover the gruesome slayings—while also trying to uncover Bruce's own mystery. But time is running out as both Commissioner Gordon and Batman work to uncover the true identity of this new serial killer. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Batmanplease sign up. I came across this first volume, I do not know if continuing with the Detective Comics volumes I want to read more about the Joker ripping his face off etc Vanarhost Read Death of the Family. See 1 question about Batman…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. View all 18 comments. Jan 16, Jeff rated it it was ok Shelves: comix. The Joker has green hair. Check out the cover. Two and a half stars. This makes the task, for current creators, of bringing something new to the table rather daunting. Take The New 52 please!?! Huge, unwieldy and a plot line that ran across a gazillion other books. A gazillion, I counted. The new? The GCPD has the face locked away where no one will ever be able to get their hands on it. In addition to the nasty Dollmaker, we get a Penguin story. About a casino opening. It seems that the Penguin has taken some money from a bunch of grade D DC villain mooks and stored it in is impenetrable safe, where nobody will be able to get to it. About the mooks: You have Gas Man — his head is red gas enclosed in glass. The Turban — he wears a :Batman Detective Comics: Faces of Death Volume 1. He wears a pair of those swirly specs that they used to advertise in the back of comics. This guy has the power to hypnotize. Batman punches him in the face and breaks his glasses. View all 13 comments. Jun 04, Anne rated it really liked it Shelves: comicsgraphic- novelsread-in I liked this title much better than Batman, Vol. I'm not sure why, though. The art was great and the story flowed really well. The only thing that was slightly annoying was that this new villain, Dollmaker, seemed a little too much like Professor Pyg my opinion. I like Daniel's stuff better. Neener, neener View all 20 comments. Jul 19, Sam Quixote rated it it was ok. It opens with Batman running across the Gotham skyline in pursuit of Joker. Ho hum. View 1 comment. I never tend to read comics in the order :Batman Detective Comics: Faces of Death Volume 1 are published. So sometimes there are entire story arcs that have happened that I am unaware of. At :Batman Detective Comics: Faces of Death Volume 1 point Joker decided the cut off his face or someone cut it off of him. Either way it was a big WTF moment. I am happy to say my confusion has passed-I came across the Joker Face volume! Of course that is not what it is called. It's called "Faces of Death" similar to a dark video of the same name showing various bloody deaths. But for me it was th I never tend to read comics in the order they are published. The Joker, captured after a run in with Bats, gets in touch with Dollmaker and decides to make a change-but having Dollmaker cut off his face. Now everybody thinks Batman killed the Joker. So while Batman avoids the cops and fights the Dollmaker's minions, all the while searching for the faceless Joker. Not to mention the Penguin gets in on the act. The artwork is good all throughout this story. But, more than anything, it was a good batman story. All in all-this is what batman is about. Also now I know how Joker lost his face. Oct 02, Lashaan Balasingam Bookidote rated it liked it. You can find my review on our blog by clicking here. The New 52 event hit DC Comics like a whirlwind and brought us brand new series and brand new creative teams working on our :Batman Detective Comics: Faces of Death Volume 1 superheroes like never before. As some series stand out compared to others, comic fans still find themselves in front of dozens of new worlds to jump into and new ways to entertain themselves with never before seen characters, artwork and stories. If anything, this major comic book event helps new readers plunge i You can find my review on our blog by clicking here. If anything, this major comic book event helps new readers plunge into the DC universe with more ease. Who doesn't like order and cleanliness anyways? Among the new series out there, Batman fans get to celebrate or not with a reboot of Batman : Detective Comics. Kicking it off with a 1 issue, the first volume titled Batman : Detective Comics Volume 1 - Faces of Death is written and penciled by the famous Tony S. Although the Detective Comics have been one of the longest running and highly praised series pre, the New 52 series sadly doesn't match up with its companion series Batman by Scott Snyder and Gregg Capullo. What can you do when you go up against a God like Scott Snyder, right? Batman: Detective Comics: Faces of Death (Volume) - Comic Vine As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics—The New 52 event of SeptemberDetective Comics is relaunched for the first time ever with an all-new number 1! Bruce Wayne returns as Batman, and sets his sights on new villain the Gotham Ripper, who in turn has his sights on Batman.
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