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Batman: Detective Comics - Archivos secretos

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Hay historias en las que Batman hace honor a uno de sus célebres apodos, “el Mejor Detective del Mundo”, pero seguramente ninguna etapa de toda su trayectoria es tan rica en ellas como la que comprende este volumen. Las tramas policíacas que la conforman ―inicialmente a razón de una por episodio, aunque progresivamente más imbricadas en el argumento general de la serie― plantean enigmas frente a los que el lector dispone de la misma información que el propio Hombre Murciélago, de modo que la resolución de cada caso supone un reto no solo para Bruce Wayne, sino para cualquiera que lo observe todo desde más allá de las páginas del cómic. Y lo cierto es que el cierre de las pesquisas nunca decepciona... aunque quienes se impliquen sean aliados curtidos ―como Zatanna, Catwoman y Robin―, nuevos villanos ideados expresamente ―por ejemplo, Fachada, Vox y la Ventrílocua― o viejos conocidos de la galería clásica de Batman, entre ellos el Pingüino, Hiedra Venenosa, el Acertijo... y el Joker. Paul Dini (Nueva York, 1957) es uno de los guionistas más ingeniosos y brillantes que ha tenido Batman en su historia, y no únicamente en el ámbito del cómic. Creador de Harley Quinn junto a Bruce Timm, su afecto por ella sale a relucir en los memorables episodios de este tomo en los que aparece, pero cada página destila también su profundo respeto y conocimiento de la batmitología en pleno. Su aportación a Detective Comics se completa con los volúmenes La resurrección de Ra’s al Ghul y Corazón de Silencio. Y aquí se le suman talentos de la talla de los escritores Peter Milligan, Stuart Moore y John Rozum, aparte de dibujantes como J.H. Williams III, Don Kramer, Dustin Nguyen y Andy Clarke.

528 pages, Hardcover

Published October 27, 2020

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Paul Dini

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Paul Dini is an American television producer of animated cartoons. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./DC Comics series, including Star Wars: Ewoks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond and Duck Dodgers. He also developed and scripted Krypto the Superdog and contributed scripts to Animaniacs (he created Minerva Mink), Freakazoid, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. After leaving Warner Bros. In early 2004, Dini went on to write and story edit the popular ABC adventure series Lost.

Paul Dini was born in New York City. He attended the Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California on an art scholarship. He attended Emerson College in Boston, where he earned a BFA degree in creative writing. (He also took zoology classes at Harvard University.)

During college, he began doing freelance animation scripts for Filmation, and a number of other studios. In 1984, he was hired to work for George Lucas on several of his animation projects.

The episodes of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon that were written by Dini have become favorites amongst the show's fans over the internet, although despite this as well as contributing to interviews on the released box sets of the series, Dini has made no secret of his distaste for Filmation and the He-Man concept. He also wrote an episode of the Generation One Transformers cartoon series and contributed to various episodes of the Ewoks animated series, several of which included rare appearances from the Empire.

In 1989, he was hired at Warner Bros. Animation to work on Tiny Toon Adventures. Later, he moved onto Batman: The Animated Series, where he worked as a writer, producer and editor, later working on Batman Beyond. He continued working with WB animation, working on a number of internal projects, including Krypto the Superdog and Duck Dodgers, until 2004.

He has earned five Emmy awards for his animation work. In a related effort, Dini was also the co-author (with Chip Kidd) of Batman Animated, a 1998 non-fiction coffee table book about the animated Batman franchise.

Dini has also written several comics stories for DC Comics, including an acclaimed oversized graphic novel series illustrated by painter Alex Ross. (A hardcover collection of the Dini and Ross stories was published in late summer 2005 under the title The World's Greatest Superheroes.) Other books written by Dini for DC have featured his Batman Animated creation Harley Quinn as well as classic characters Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel and Zatanna.

Best known among Dini's original creations is Jingle Belle, the rebellious teen-age daughter of Santa Claus. Dini also created Sheriff Ida Red, the super-powered cowgirl star of a series of books set in Dini's mythical town of Mutant, Texas. Perhaps his greatest character contribution is the introduction of Harley Quinn (along with designs by Bruce Timm) on Batman: The Animated Series.

In 2001 Dini made a cameo appearance in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back during the scene in which Jay and Silent Bob wear ridiculous looking costumes for a film being directed by Chris Rock, in which Dini says to them "you guys look pretty bad ass".

In 2006, Dini became the writer for DC Comics' Detective Comics. That same year, he announced that he was writing a hardcover graphic novel starring Zatanna and Black Canary. In 2007, he was announced as the head writer of that company's weekly series, Countdown. Paul Dini is currently co-writing the script for the upcoming Gatchaman movie. Dini is also currently writing a series for Top Cow Productions, based in a character he created, Madame Mirage.

Paul Dini is an active cryptozoologist, hunter and wildlife photographer. On a 1985 trip to Tasmania, he had a possible sighting of a Thylacine. He has also encountered a number of venomous snakes, a Komodo Dragon and a charging Sumatran Rhi

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