Bruce Canwell

It's a tale from Batman and Robin's past! Before Dick Grayson can don the Robin costume as Batman's partner, he must pass a final challenge: elude Batman for an entire night within the confines of Gotham City. But his game of hide-and-seek becomes deadly when Robin stops what appears to be a simple mugging and inadvertently intercepts key information. Now he's the target of a ruthless mob boss, his deadly gang of thugs, the GCPD and, of course, Batman himself, who races to find his young ward before it's too late.

Batman Chronicles: The Gauntlet (1997-) #1

Chuck Dixon

"After suffering a cataclysmic earthquake, the U.S. government has deemed Gotham City as uninhabitable and ordered all citizens to leave. It is now months later and those that have refused to vacate "No Man's Land" live amidst a citywide turf war in which the strongest prey on the weak. As gangs terrorize the ravaged populace, the Scarecrow uses a church relief project as a real life lab to test his experiments in fear. But with the return of the vigilante, Batman, and the appearance of an enigmatic new Batgirl, justice returns to Gotham"--

Road to No Man's Land

Matt Hollingsworth

Scott Peterson

Lee Weeks

The Gauntlet

Batman Chronicles

Alex Toth

Dean Mullaney

Presents a biography of the artist's life and explores his career as a cartoonist and comic book illustrator with such publishing houses as Western, Dell, and National Periodicals, along with a compilation of some of his work.

The Life and Art of Alex Toth

Genius, Isolated

Looks at the life of the artist from the 1960s through to his death in 2006, with sketches, illustrations, complete comic stories, and examples of his animation work from this period.

Genius, Illustrated

Noel Sickles

Presents a detailed biography of the artist, examples of his different types of work, and the complete run of his newspaper comic strip "Scorchy."

Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles

This lavishly illustrated biography documents the life and art of one of the most significant comics and animation artists of all time. In comic books, Alex Toth was the foremost proponent of modern design and composition. Starting in 1950, his work influenced almost every one of his contemporaries and has continued to work its magic on the generations that followed. In animation, his 1960s model sheets for Hanna-Barbera are still passed around as swipe sources from animator to young animator in the 21st Century. Now in paperback, this biography was compiled with complete access to the family archives and with the full cooperation of Toth's children, this biography features many rare comics pages, photographs, and drawings. It also reproduces 20 complete stories, including a previously unknown and unfinished story from 1950, most printed from the original artwork. Updates include clarification on Toth's early married life in the 1950s and the first appearance of the recently disovered final page that completes the special section collecting Jon Fury, the comic strip Toth created in the army, a prize long sought by even the most ardent Toth collectors. Winner of the Harvey Award for Best Biographical Book.

Genius, Isolated: the Life and Art of Alex Toth

Scott Beatty

Jeune acrobate de cirque, Dick Grayson a vu ses parents abattus lors d'une représentation à Gotham City. Recueilli par le milliardaire Bruce Wayne, Dick perce le secret de sa double identité et devient Robin, le jeune prodige. Mais ses premiers pas en tant qu'assistant de Batman ne seront pas de tout repos. (contient : Batman Chronicles: The Gauntlet, Robin Year One #1-4)

Robin - Année Un

Presents a collection of the artist's cartoon artwork, including sketches from such television shows as "Space Ghost," "Jonny Quest," and "Thundarr the Barbarian," complemented with biographical and trade information.

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