June 1992
"The Last Arkham: Part 1"
By Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle
How do you debut a new Batman series and ensure it has a lasting impact on the audience? You make it feature one of the most powerful moments in Batman's career as he is imprisoned in the bowels of Arkham Asylum with apparently no way out.
The moment kicked off one of the most powerful arcs the Dark Knight endured in the 1990s, and solidified Shadow of the Bat as a resounding success. As readers were left to ponder whether or not their hero had indeed lost his mind, the mystery of Batman's investigation and his apparent defection from the Gotham City Police Department's code meant that this was a darker Batman for a new kind of audience.
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