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Apotheosis of the Batman? Symbolism and Allegory in Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne

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At the end of Grant Morrison’s Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne, the eponymous character spends two minutes frozen and clinically dead. At the start of the book, his friends had only just learned that he was still alive. Bruce emerges from this ordeal on the final page of the comic, grimly determined to resume his lifelong war on crime and corruption. He’s been brainwashed, killed a » god, « been catapulted into pre-history and then all the way to the end of the universe before returning to the present and spending two minutes on ice.

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  1. University of Florida, Florida, USA

    Danielle Reid M. A.

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  1. Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany

    Jörn Ahrens

  2. Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany

    Frank T. Brinkmann

  3. Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Nathanael Riemer

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Reid, D. (2015). Apotheosis of the Batman? Symbolism and Allegory in Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne . In: Ahrens, J., Brinkmann, F., Riemer, N. (eds) Comics - Bilder, Stories und Sequenzen in religiösen Deutungskulturen. Kulturelle Figurationen: Artefakte, Praktiken, Fiktionen. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-01428-5_6

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