Batman: Arkham Asylum

<b>Grant Morrison and Dave McKean''s all-time classic Batman story is now available in a portable, 5.5" x 8.5" format!</b><br><br>Written by legendary comics creator Grant Morrison and beautifully drawn by artist Dave McKean, <i>Batman: Arkham Asylum</i> stands as one of the most perennially revered Batman comics of all time. Now, this celebrated graphic novel is more accessible than ever before, in a casual reader-friendly Compact Comics Edition!<br><br>In 1920, following the death of his disturbed mother, brilliant psychologist Amadeus Arkham began the conversion of his ancestral home into a hospital for the treatment of the mentally ill.<br><br>More than half a century later, the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a place of dismal corridors and oppressive shadows—a dark riddle in stone and timber, best left unsolved.<br><br>Within its claustrophobic walls, the demented and deformed enemies of the Batman brood in padded cells and unlit cellars, dreaming of a day when they might rise up and overthrow the world of reason.<br><br>That day has finally come.<br><br>It is April 1st, and the lunatics have taken over the asylum. Led by the Joker, Arkham’s inmates issue a terrible ultimatum to the man responsible for their imprisonment.<br><br>The Batman must descend into this heart of darkness, confront his greatest foes, and face the truth of his own divided identity — or condemn himself to share their fate.