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DC Comics has announced that Batman: Earth One will be released in 2012. Writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank's long-awaited original graphic novel will arrive later in the year, the publisher said on The Source. The book focuses on a young "flawed and fallible" Bruce Wayne who is yet to become "master of Gotham City's shadows". "Gary and I are tackling Batman from the beginning, before he knows what he's doing and with a very different ultimate goal in mind," said Johns. "He's never left Gotham. And our Gotham and the people in it are very grey. Our heroes unlikely. Our villains hidden. Our story is only beginning with volume one." "It's essentially the first piece of the jigsaw," said Frank. "He's not the Batman people know, but he might be one day. (more) »
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