Batman Poster #32 FRAMED Batman #608 (2002) by Jim Lee

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You are purchasing the item pictured, framed. Priority mail, tracking and $50 insurance is included with purchase. Item will be bagged to protect from dust, packed in packing peanuts and boxed. Just open box and hang it on the wall…makes a perfect gift!

The year-long storyline that came to be known as “Batman: Hush” signaled the eagerly awaited return of a superstart artist and injected a dose of steroids into the Dark Knights’s sales figures. Jim Lee had largely eschewed sequential work in the late 1990s to pursue his business interests as the CEO of Wildstorm. “Hush,” a collaboration with writer Jeph Loeb, put one of the most popular pencillers in comics back on the map and treated readers to an intriguing mystery plot centered around the identity of the titular villain. Was Hush the Joker, the Riddler, or perhaps the reanimated corpse of despised second Robin Jason Todd? Those questions kept Batman readers burning for the entirety of 2003, as the title secured the number-one sales slot for eleven of the twelve months it was in publication. The first issue alone sold 180,000 copies, while the arc inspired a merchandising bonanza of toys, posters and calendars. And yes, in the end, Jason Todd stayed dead. Or did he? “Nobody liked Jason. They thought it was the worst idea in the world to bring him back for the story. It was my feeling that he had been forgotten. I didn’t intend to bring Jason fully back…Dead is dead as far as I was concerned, but it was my idea to leave his body missing at the end of the story.”-Jeph Loeb. Hush is a 2002-2003 comic book story arc that ran through the Batman monthly series. It was written by Jeph Loeb, penciled by Jim Lee, inked by Scott Williams and colored by Alex Sinclair. The story depicts a mysterious stalker called Hush, who seems intent on sabotaging Batman from afar, and it includes a large number of guest appearances by Batman villains. It also emphasizes the romantic feelings between Batman and Catwoman. IGN Comics ranked Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 of Batman: Hush #17 on a list of the 25 greatest Batman graphic novels, saying that “there are some truly unforgettable moments” and “Jim Lee’s artwork is unbelievable.” Hush is the main antagonist in the side plot, ‘Identity Thief’ in the 2011 critically acclaimed video game “Batman Arkham City”. In the game, he kidnaps inmates throughout the city with facial structures resembling Bruce Wayne, and performs facial surgery by removing their faces and re-attaching them onto his face. After investigating three victims throughout the city and confronting two prisoners (both say they saw Bruce Wayne), Batman learns of Hush’s location and Hush himself tells Batman his plan to take revenge on Bruce Wayne. This version of Hush is apparently ignorant of Batman’s secret identity of Bruce Wayne, unlike in the comics. Hush’s side mission, left at a cliffhanger, is still evidence by fans that Hush will take part in a possible upcoming sequel to Batman Arkham City. Jim Lee (born August 11, 1964) is a Korean-American comic book artist, writer, editor and publisher. He first broke into the industry in 1987 as an artist for Marvel Comics, illustrating titles such as Alpha Flight and Punisher War Journal, before gaining a great deal of popularity on The Uncanny X-Men. X-Men #1, the 1991 spinoff series premiere that Lee penciled and co-wrote with Chris Claremont, remains the best-selling comic book of all time, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. In 1992 Lee and several other artists formed their own publishing company, Image Comics, to publish their creator-owned titles, with Lee publishing his titles through his studio, Wildstorm Productions, such as WildC.A.T.s and Gen13. Eschewing the role of publisher in order to return to illustration, Lee sold Wildstorm in 1998 to DC Comics, where he continued to run Wildstorm as a DC imprint until DC ended Wildstorm in 2010, as well as illustrating successful books set in DC’s main fictional universe, such as the year-long “Batman: Hush” and “Superman: For Tomorrow” storylines. On February 18, 2010, Jim Lee was announced as the new Co-Publisher of DC Comics with Dan DiDio, both replacing Paul Levitz. He has received a Harvey Award, Inkpot Award and three Wizard Fan Awards in recognition for his work. Because he felt his role as publisher interfered with his role as an artist, Lee left Image Comics and sold Wildstorm to DC Comics in late 1998, enabling him to focus once again on art. In 2003 he collaborated on a 12-issue run on Batman with writer Jeph Loeb. “Hush” became a runaway sales success. In February 2010 Lee was named alongside Dan DiDio as Co-Publisher of DC Comics.