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Batman: The Smile Killer         Oversized One-shot Comic & Variant
Features/Includes the Main Cover edition by Andrea Sorrentino & Variant Cover edition by Kaare Andrews.
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Artist: Andrea Sorrentino
Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
Letterer: Steve Wands
Editors: Chris Conroy & Maggie Howell
Main Cover #1A by: Andrea Sorrentino
Variant Cover #1B by: Kaare Andrews

Featuring the One-Shot epilogue to the Joker: Killer Smile series.   

Young Bruce Wayne grew up watching The Mr. Smiles Show – and the show might have been watching him back. Not only was young Bruce watching, he was listening… listening as Mr. Smiles spoke across the airwaves only to him… The Eisner Award-winning creative team of writer Jeff Lemire and artist Andrea Sorrentino land one last gut-punch – turning the mythos of the Batman on its head in the most devastating trick The Joker has ever devised.

Story/Spoilers:
The show, Mr. Smile’s Playhouse, was apparently hypnotizing kids into committing violent acts with Bruce once trying to dig his eye out. His mom, Martha, stopped him and slapped him, but there’s something telling about the show’s long-lasting effects. In the present, Batman is tracking down the Joker, who is on a murder spree. The Joker ambushes Batman with a pair of scissors, successfully stabbing him. Batman strikes him, but the Joker just laughs it off as Batman begins tripping out. All of a sudden Bruce Wayne comes to in a cell, next to Ben. Bruce is being treated, and we see how the Joker influenced him as a child. Bruce seems to resist the impulses because he’s fighting as Batman or Mr. Pouts in his mind. He’s creating scenarios of brawls and cases where he keeps missing the Joker, realizing there are childhood drawings he made watching the show in what he thinks are lost memories. At this point, Jim Gordon, child psychiatrist, enters the fray since he’s been treating Bruce for decades. Bruce is adamant that he’s Batman, and Joker tricked everyone into keeping him here. As Bruce waxes on about his parents’ death in Crime Alley, the older Gordon brings Martha in. Bruce is stunned, and it gets worse when she reveals the show got him to paint his face up and shoot his dad, Thomas. After this, Bruce bursts out of the building and runs off into the night, following a hallucination of the bat signal.

Features/Includes the Main Cover edition by Andrea Sorrentino & Variant Cover edition by Kaare Andrews.  Awesome!!

Oversized One-Shot Comic & Variant are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printings
Publisher: DC Comics
Publication Date: August 2020
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Oversized Comic, 10.80″ x 8.5″
UPC: 761941365640

Collectible Entertainment note: Oversized One-shot Comic & Variant are in Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful Lot!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Batman collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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