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What it's all about...
Succeeding where countless other rogues failed, the pumped-up super-villain known as Bane was the man who quite literally broke the bat when, following a protracted campaign of crime, he paralyzed Bruce Wayne. Over the course of a year, during which time the saga was told across the entire Batman comic canon, Knightfall found the mantle of the bat being assumed by a psychologically damaged pretender and Wayne fighting to regain both control of his body and his city.

Why you should read it...
For the first time, readers were given the chance to see a beaten Batman play the underdog. Forced to retrain and re-evaluate, his subsequent fight for survival heralded the return of a more determined and dangerous Dark Knight.