Superhero 8 min read
Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 1
Written by Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon & Alan Grant · 1993
4.6
Bane frees every inmate in Arkham Asylum to exhaust Batman, then delivers the blow that breaks his back in this landmark 1993 saga.
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Superhero 8 min read
Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 2: Knightquest
Written by Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, Alan Grant & Dennis O'Neil · 1993
4.2
With Bruce Wayne broken, Jean-Paul Valley becomes a darker, more violent Batman — and starts losing control of who he's become.
Superhero 8 min read
Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 3: KnightsEnd
Written by Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, Alan Grant & Jo Duffy · 1994
4.4
A healed Bruce Wayne returns to reclaim the cowl from an increasingly unstable Jean-Paul Valley in the trilogy's climactic final act.
Indie & Literary 7 min read
Maus
Written by Art Spiegelman · 1986
4.8
Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir tells his father's Holocaust survival story with Jews drawn as mice, Nazis as cats.
Indie & Literary 6 min read
The Complete Persepolis
Written by Marjane Satrapi · 2000
4.5
Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic memoir follows her childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and her years of exile abroad.
Indie & Literary 6 min read
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
Written by Neil Gaiman · 1989
4.3
Neil Gaiman's Dream escapes 70 years of imprisonment and sets off to reclaim his stolen power in the volume that launched a legend.
Indie & Literary 7 min read
V for Vendetta
Written by Alan Moore · 1982
4.5
A masked anarchist wages a one-man war against fascist Britain in Alan Moore and David Lloyd's founding text of modern political comics.
Superhero 6 min read
Watchmen
Written by Alan Moore · 1987
4.8
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons deconstruct the superhero myth in the only graphic novel on TIME's list of the 100 best novels ever written.