The Batman is on Fire! (Batman Strikes!)

by Christopher Jones, Terry Beatty (Ink)

Gotham City's never been hotter, which can only mean one thing: Firefly is back. BATMAN must stop this pyromaniac before Gotham is reduced to ash!

32 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2014

About the author

Chris has been working in comics professionally since 1989, penciling, inking and sometimes writing for publishers including DC, Image, Malibu, Caliber, and Sundragon Comics.

He currently holds the title as artist of the most circulated Batman and Superman comics of all time. Chris won this trivia-worthy title when he provided pencil art for installments of the mini-comics distributed with the Justice League toys in Burger King kids meals in 2003. The comics had print runs of 35 million copies.

--from the artist's website

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Reviews

[James Calefato · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a hardcover reprint of one issue of the Batman Strikes comic books. They republished them for libraries and schools with some discussion questions at the back of the book. They didn’t do many of these but it is a good format for it. They are also very very hard to find so quite glad my library had it. The art is amazing of course. The story like this reads like a mini Batman episode so it’s released really well. DC should publish more single comics like this that way if they never collect it into a GN at least you have a nice collection to look at and keep.