Batman: Year Two

"Year Two"
"Year Two"
	Cover of the 2002 re-issue of the collected edition, Batman: Year Two - Fear the Reaper.
Publisher	DC Comics
Publication date	June – September 1987
Genre	Superhero;
Title(s)	Detective Comics #575–578
Main character(s)	Batman; Reaper; Leslie Thompkins; Joe Chill
Creative team
Writer(s)	Mike W. Barr
Penciller(s)	Alan Davis; Todd McFarlane
Inker(s)	Paul Neary; Alfredo Alcala; Todd McFarlane
Letterer(s)	Richard Starkings; Agustin Mas; John Costanza; Todd Klein
Colorist(s)	Adrienne Roy
Editor(s)	Dennis O'Neil

"Year Two" is the title of an American four-part, 1987 comics story arc featuring Batman, written by Mike W. Barr and illustrated by Alan Davis, Paul Neary, Alfredo Alcala, Mark Farmer, and Todd McFarlane.^[1] It originally appeared in the American comic book Detective Comics #575–578, published by DC Comics.

The story was initially a treatment by Barr titled "Batman: 1980", but it was released as "Batman: Year Two" to coincide with the release of Frank Miller's "Batman: Year One". A similar "Batman: Year Three" would later be released.

This story was collected as a trade paperback in 1990. In 2002, DC Comics published a second printing of the trade paperback, this time with the addition of the 1991 one-shot sequel Batman: Full Circle included, with the new edition retitled as Batman: Year Two – Fear The Reaper (ISBN 1-5638-9967-1). Elements of the story were incorporated into the 1993 film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, including the concept of a masked vigilante waging war on criminals and having a personal connection to Bruce Wayne.

^ Manning, Matthew K.; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1980s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. In 'Year Two', a four-part sequel [to "Batman: Year One"] set in Batman's second year as a crime fighter, writer Mike W. Barr and artists Alan Davis and Todd McFarlane challenged the Caped Crusader with the threat of the Reaper. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[1] Manning, Matthew K.; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1980s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. In 'Year Two', a four-part sequel [to "Batman: Year One"] set in Batman's second year as a crime fighter, writer Mike W. Barr and artists Alan Davis and Todd McFarlane challenged the Caped Crusader with the threat of the Reaper. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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