TV & Movies
The Dark Knight Reads: 15 Essential Batman Graphic Novels
If you want to know who he is, how he came to be and where he's headed in the future, these 15 Bat-books belong on your bookshelf
The Dark Knight Rises may mark the end of director Christopher Nolan’s preposterously successful movie trilogy but, in the comic book world, Batman’s battle never ends. Over the course of his 83-year history, the Dark Knight has racked up one of the strongest assortments of stories in all of supercomics and become the world’s most popular hero. The 15 titles below are essential to understanding why.
The list includes undisputed classics and offbeat personal visions, old-school adventures and state-of-the-art superheroics. Some are practically perfect, some are deeply flawed, but put them together and a complete picture of the Dark Knight emerges.
