The Return of Bruce Wayne
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Cover of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne deluxe edition. Art by Andy Kubert.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | May – November 2010 |
| No. of issues | 6 |
| Main character(s) | Bruce Wayne/Batman |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Grant Morrison |
| Penciller(s) |
Chris Sprouse Frazer Irving Yanick Paquette Georges Jeanty Ryan Sook Lee Garbett |
| Inker(s) | Karl Story |
| Letterer(s) | Jared Fletcher |
| Colorist(s) | Guy Major |
| Editor(s) |
Mike Marts Janelle Siegel |
| Collected editions | |
| Deluxe edition | ISBN |
| Paperback | ISBN |
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne is a 6-issue American comic book limited series published by DC Comics beginning in May 2010 to November 2010, written by Grant Morrison and featuring a team of rotating artists starting with Chris Sprouse and Frazer Irving.
The series picks up from Batman and Robin #12. The series detailed the journey Bruce Wayne takes through the timestream of the DC Universe after being deposited in the distant past by Darkseid in Final Crisis. Wayne has to overcome amnesia and "history itself" in order to make his way back to present-day Gotham City and retake his rightful place as Batman. The series ran for six issues, each covering a different time period. The time periods are the prehistory, the witch hunts, pirates at sea, the wild west, the noir era (just a few months after Batman was orphaned), and present day, and usually depict the Batcave or the Wayne Manor. Bruce Wayne also visits "The End Of Time".
In an interview announcing the series in USA Today, writer Grant Morrison describes The Return of Bruce Wayne as, "...the latest chapter in the long-running, 'definitive' Batman epic I've been trying to pull off since 2005." Branching out of Batman and Son, The Black Glove, and Batman R.I.P., as well as Final Crisis, with connections to Batman and Robin, Morrison purports that the return of Bruce Wayne to Gotham City and the DC Universe will, "[have] a mystery and an apocalyptic countdown going on, there are some major twists and reveals, and it sets up big changes to the Batman universe status quo." Morrison also goes on to say that readers can expect work mostly related to the Dark Knight for the majority of 2010, describing, "I'm doing at least another year of stories with Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne in the Batman and Robin book before that book starts to dovetail with Return and we rush headlong and screaming into the next big, earth-shattering, game-changing twist in the life of Batman."
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