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ALAN MOORE BATMAN ANNUAL #11 COMIC BOOK!
RARE and OUT OF PRINT.
HARD TO FIND COLLECTORS ITEM WHICH INCLUDES A STORY WRITTEN BY ALAN MOORE (THE ACCLAIMED WRITER OF THE WATCHMEN).
Alan Moore, writer of the top-selling graphic novels V FOR VENDETTA and WATCHMEN, writes a Tale of the GREEN LANTERN CORPS.
Alan Moore's Mortal Clay: Batman Annual No. 11 is similar to the The Killing Joke in that it gives similar treatment of Batman and his relationship to the villain. The stories focus on the psychology of the villain and their motivations and psychosis. Mortal Clay is the story of Clayface III.
Clayface suffers from what psychologists might term an object relations disorder. He loves a manikin that he thinks is his wife (who died in the fire that turned him into Clayface), and apparently has the same relationship with the manikin that he had with his deceased wife. The story does a good job displaying the obsessive psychology of Batman’s villains.
Annual 11 featured two stories with a "Villains In Love" theme. The first was by Alan Moore and George Freeman and featured Clayface's insane obsession with a mannequin. Alan Moore's Batman wants to both stop the bad guy and then help him reform.
The second story is a Max Collins and Norm Breyfogle Penguin story wherein he tries to reform for his love, but fouls up trying to do something good.
Published by DC COMICS in 1997.
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About the Author
Alan Moore is one of the most respected and admired writers in comics today. His credits include The Ballad of Halo Jones, Watchmen, V For Vendetta and Swamp Thing. His own line of ABC Comics, including Tom Strong, Top Ten, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has been a massive success.