The Caped Crusader continues to battle crime in Gotham in the late 1980s, this time squaring off against villains such as Two-Face, the Ratcatcher, and KGBeast in BATMAN #413-422 and DETECTIVE COMICS #580-589. This volume also contains two celebrated graphic novels--BATMAN: SON OF THE DEMON #1 by Mike W. Barr and Jerry Bingham and BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE #1 by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland, the comics masterpiece that explored the complex dynamic between Batman and his archnemesis, The Joker.