Absolute Batman: Zero Year

Illustrated by Greg Capullo, Andy Clarke
Hardcover
$125.00 US
On sale Feb 04, 2025 | 520 Pages | 9781799500230
The early days of the Dark Knight as envisioned by the legendary Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo!

Gotham City has been destroyed in a devastating flood, and from the chaos and carnage a new leader has emerged: The Riddler! Now it is up to Batman to save the city, and the first step is clawing himself out of the jaws of death itself! In this bold reimagining of Batman’s earliest days as a superhero, all-star creative team Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo weave an epic story of both mystery and mayhem that has long since become a foundational text in Batman mythology! This hardcover Absolute edition includes every issue of the Zero Year story, as well as the Director’s Cut issue.
Collects Batman #0, #21-27, #29-33, and Batman: Zero Year Director’s Cut #1.
Scott Snyder is a #1 New York Times best-selling writer and one of the most critically acclaimed scribes in all of comics. His works include Batman, All-Star Batman, Batman: Eternal, Superman Unchained, American Vampire, and Swamp Thing. He has also been published in Zoetrope, Tin House, One Story, Epoch, Small Spiral Notebook, and other journals, and has a short story collection, Voodoo Heart, which was published by Dial Press. He teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence University and lives in New York with his wife, Jeanie, and his son, Jack Presley. View titles by Scott Snyder
Greg Capullo is a self-taught Illustrator and the current artist on the best-selling and highly acclaimed Batman series for DC Comics. Prior to that, he was best known for his 80 issue run on Image Comics' Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane. Other popular comics work includes Marvel Comics’ X-Force and Quasar (as well as a slew of one-shot titles). He is also the creator of The Creech, a Sci-Fi/Horror comic published by Image Comics. Greg has provided art for Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, contributed lead character designs for the award-winning HBO animated Spawn series, was the cover artist for many popular musical groups including Korn and Disturbed, and worked behind the scenes on many projects ranging from toy design to video games for TME. View titles by Greg Capullo

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The early days of the Dark Knight as envisioned by the legendary Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo!

Gotham City has been destroyed in a devastating flood, and from the chaos and carnage a new leader has emerged: The Riddler! Now it is up to Batman to save the city, and the first step is clawing himself out of the jaws of death itself! In this bold reimagining of Batman’s earliest days as a superhero, all-star creative team Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo weave an epic story of both mystery and mayhem that has long since become a foundational text in Batman mythology! This hardcover Absolute edition includes every issue of the Zero Year story, as well as the Director’s Cut issue.
Collects Batman #0, #21-27, #29-33, and Batman: Zero Year Director’s Cut #1.

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Scott Snyder is a #1 New York Times best-selling writer and one of the most critically acclaimed scribes in all of comics. His works include Batman, All-Star Batman, Batman: Eternal, Superman Unchained, American Vampire, and Swamp Thing. He has also been published in Zoetrope, Tin House, One Story, Epoch, Small Spiral Notebook, and other journals, and has a short story collection, Voodoo Heart, which was published by Dial Press. He teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence University and lives in New York with his wife, Jeanie, and his son, Jack Presley. View titles by Scott Snyder
Greg Capullo is a self-taught Illustrator and the current artist on the best-selling and highly acclaimed Batman series for DC Comics. Prior to that, he was best known for his 80 issue run on Image Comics' Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane. Other popular comics work includes Marvel Comics’ X-Force and Quasar (as well as a slew of one-shot titles). He is also the creator of The Creech, a Sci-Fi/Horror comic published by Image Comics. Greg has provided art for Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, contributed lead character designs for the award-winning HBO animated Spawn series, was the cover artist for many popular musical groups including Korn and Disturbed, and worked behind the scenes on many projects ranging from toy design to video games for TME. View titles by Greg Capullo