Marvel has wanted its own Batman: Dark Knight Returns for almost a decade, and now they have one
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns changed Batman, DC Comics, and arguably comics as a whole. 38 years later, the comic is either #1 or #2 in the best-selling DC collections - and it has been for decades. It was created by Frank Miller, coming to DC after making his name with his seminal work on Daredevil. An obvious question has been 'Why hasn't Marvel done something like Dark Knight Returns?' Well actually, they have - and its taken eight years of work.In 2016 - during the release of the second sequel to Dark Knight Returns - then Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso, the company's executive editor Tom Brevoort, and its senior VP of business affairs & talent management David Bogart realized amongst themselves that Marvel should have something like what Frank Miller had made for DC and Batman. "We were talking about why it was that Marvel didn’t have a future storyline along those Dark Knight lines, and I went away overnight and came back the next day with the bare bones of the plot for Avengers: Twilight," Brevoort said recently on his Substack. "But Axel and David both commented on it, making suggestions and giving ideas and input that went into the final product." Read more
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