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| Batman and the Monster Men |
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| Publisher |
DC Comics |
| Schedule |
Monthly |
| Format |
Miniseries |
| Publication dates |
November 2005-April 2006 |
| Number of issues |
Six |
| Creative team |
| Writer(s) |
Matt Wagner |
| Artist(s) |
Matt Wagner |
| Penciller(s) |
Matt Wagner |
| Colourist(s) |
Dave Stewart |
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Batman and the Monster Men is a Batman comic book, set during Batman: Year One and before the events of Batman: The Man Who Laughs. It is the first part of Matt Wagner's two part Dark Moon Rising series, which are expanded and modernized versions of early Batman stories. It was followed by Batman and the Mad Monk.
Batman and the Moster Men is developed from an early Hugo Strange story from Batman #1. In Wagner's version, this is Batman's first encounter with Strange. The story depicts a young, optimistic Batman shortly after the events of Batman: Year One. Julie Madison, historically Bruce Wayne's love interest in early comics, is reintroduced in this series. Madison had not been seen as a regular supporting cast member since 1941, in Detective Comics #49. Batman and the Monster Men also gives a retroactive role to Sal Maroni, a character closely tied to the character Two-Face, as a crime-boss funding Hugo Strange's experiments on Arkham patients. This story is intended to depict the first time Hugo Strange is involved in creating violent giants out of human patients.
