Batman: The Caped Crusader is a series of trade paperbacks intended to collect the post-Crisis issues of Batman (Volume 1).
This volume continues writer Alan Grant's run on the title with artists Norm Breyfogle and Steve Mitchell, although Mitchell leaves during this volume and Breyfogle takes over inking too.
This volume also includes the special story arcs "Shadow Box" (by Chuck Dixon, Tom Lyle, Andy Mushynsky and Scott Hanna) in which King Snake returns to take vengeance, and "The Idiot Root" (by Peter Milligan, Breyfogle, Jim Aparo and Mike DeCarlo) featuring Batman going after the Queen of Hearts in Brazil.
"The Idiot Root" ran across both the Detective Comics and Batman titles, so the Detective Comics issues are also included in this collection.
Issues
- Batman #466 (No More Heroes)
- Batman #467 (Shadow Box: Part One)
- Batman #468 (Shadow Box: Part Two)
- Batman #469 (Shadow Box: Part Three)
- Batman #470 (Of Gods and Men)
- Batman #471 (Requiem for a Killer)
- Batman #472 (The Idiot Root Part One: The Queen of Hearts)
- Detective Comics #639 ( The Idiot Root Part Two: The Queen of Hearts)
- Batman #473 (The Idiot Root Part Three: Into the Idiot Zone)
- Detective Comics #640 (The Idiot Root Part Four: The Cook, The Bat and The Idiot.)
