Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

grant morrison dave mckean

In this groundbreaking, painted graphic novel, the inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over Gotham's detention center for the criminally insane on April Fools' Day, demanding Batman in exchange for their hostages. Accepting their demented challenge, Batman is forced to live and endure the personal hells of the Joker, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Two-Face, and many other sworn enemies in order to save the innocents and retake the prison. During his run through this absurd gauntlet, the Dark Knight's own sanity is placed in jeopardy. This special anniversary edition trade paperback also reproduces the original script with annotations by Morrison and editor Karen Berger.

Genres comicsgraphic novelsbatmandc comicshorrorfictiongraphic novels comicscomic booksuperheroesfantasy

216 pages, Paperback

First published October 1,1989

Series

Batman

Literary awards

harvey awards,

Places

gotham city,

This edition

Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Published: January 11, 2005 by DC Comics
ISBN: 9781401204259
ASIN: 1401204252
Language: English

Characters More characters

Harvey Dent

Known as Harvey Kent in Golden Age stories. Kent brings the Batman to testify that "Boss" Moroni killed "Bookie" Benson. Kent demonstrates proof with Moronis luck double-headed silver dollar. Moroni then throws a concentrated solution of vitriol at ...
Waylon Jones

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Amadeus Arkham

A fictional character in the DC Comics universe. First appearance: Whos Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #1 (1984).Founder of the Arkham Asylum, an institution for the criminally insane.more...
Jonathan Crane

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Clayface (preston Payne)

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Roman Sionis

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About the author

grant morrison

Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning their American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. Since then they have written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, they have also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS.

In their secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. They are also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. They divide their time between their homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.