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The mysterious Red Hood returns to Gotham with a vengence! Former Robin Jason Todd parted ways with the Batman over their vastly different approaches to crimefighting. Eventually, Jason trained himself to be a killer and a mercenary, and he took on a new identity and code name the Red Hood…

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1 author picked Batman as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As a lifelong Batman fan, this book appealed to me on many levels. It deals with the "lost years" of Jason Todd, Batman's second Robin.

An unpopular and ultimately tragic character, Todd was brutally murdered by The Joker in an infamous storyline from the 1980s called "A Death in the Family." But a quirk of fate resurrected him five years later.

This book deals with what happened from when Jason found himself six feet underground in a coffin to his work with a shadowy band of assassins to finally recasting himself as the vigilante Red Hood. Moreover, it deals…

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