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Superman has a year to live and does twelve impossible things; Morrison and Quitely.

The Marvel universe seen from a photographer on the pavement; Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross.

Retired vigilantes in a 1985 with Nixon still president; the graphic novel that made comics grow up.

A 55-year-old Batman comes out of retirement to fight Superman; Frank Miller's 1986 reinvention.

Bruce Wayne's first year and Jim Gordon's; Miller and Mazzucchelli's crime comic.

The Joker's possible origin and Barbara Gordon shot; one bad day.

A masked anarchist against a fascist Britain of the 1990s; the Guy Fawkes mask comes from here.

Morpheus, lord of dreams, escapes seventy years of captivity; Gaiman's ten volumes of myth.