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The 2000s · 2010–2011

Batman: The Black Mirror

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Dick Grayson wears the cowl and digs into an auction of villains' relics while Gordon's son returns to Gotham; collects 11 issues of Detective Comics

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Not required. It's left out of the main story but is part of the full chronological order.

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Quick recap

With Bruce Wayne busy with Batman Incorporated, Dick Grayson patrols Gotham as Batman. A case about a boy turned into a monster leads him to the Mirror House, a black-market auction of supervillain gear, where he's nearly poisoned. Meanwhile, James Gordon Jr., the commissioner's son, returns to town claiming he wants to make amends. Gordon and his daughter Barbara suspect him, and rightly so: James made a version of a drug that turns people into psychopaths, and he mutilated his mother. The jailed Joker helps bring out the truth. In the end, James kidnaps Barbara and cuts an artery, but Dick saves her thanks to a tracker. Gordon arrests his own son and talks with Dick about what they can still hope for.

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Trivia

  1. Behind the scenesThe end of an era

    It was the last Batman story of the old continuity before The New 52 reboot in 2011.

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  2. Behind the scenesSnyder's springboard

    Praise for The Black Mirror led DC to hand Scott Snyder the main Batman title in The New 52.

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  3. Behind the scenesTwo artists, two threads

    The art is split between Jock and Francesco Francavilla across Detective Comics #871–881.

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  4. Behind the scenesHigh marks

    On Comicbook Roundup it averages 8.7 out of 10, and IGN called it a must-own piece of Dark Knight history.

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