The Dark Knight III: The Master Race

The Dark Knight III: The Master Race
Cover art by Klaus Janson and Andy Kubert
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Superhero
Publication date(s)	November 2015 – May 2017
No. of issues	9
Creative team
Created by	Frank Miller Bob Kane Bill Finger
Written by	Frank Miller Brian Azzarello
Artist(s)	Frank Miller Andy Kubert Klaus Janson

The Dark Knight III: The Master Race, also stylized as DK3 and DK III: The Master Race, is an nine-issue DC Comics limited series co-written by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Miller, Andy Kubert, and Klaus Janson.

The series is a sequel to Miller's 1986 Batman miniseries The Dark Knight Returns and the 2001 miniseries The Dark Knight Strikes Again, continuing the story of an aged Bruce Wayne resuming his identity as a crimefighter, aided by his sidekick Carrie Kelley (Robin) and featuring an ensemble of DC Universe characters including Superman and Wonder Woman. In DK III, Ray Palmer restores the inhabitants of Kandor to full-size, but they immediately begin to terrorize the Earth. Batman sets out to assemble his former allies against the invaders.

The series is accompanied by a series of one-shots which fill in events between issues. They are written and drawn by Frank Miller, which continues his experimentation with noir-style writing and divisive art style.

On April 24, 2015, DC Comics announced that Frank Miller was co-writing a sequel to The Dark Knight Strikes Again with Brian Azzarello titled The Dark Knight III: The Master Race and that it would be an eight-issue limited series and will be the third installment in a trilogy that began with The Dark Knight Returns. However, DC Comics has announced a ninth issue, which will be on sale by May 31, 2017.

The series features a rotating cast of artists, including Andy Kubert and Klaus Janson.