Kinda lost count of how many times I covered Batman and his “deaths” but Scott Snyder’s Endgame was a historic double-kill with both Batman and the Joker been taken out. But given the nature of “American” comics, nothing ever stays dead for long, and you guess it, Bruce Wayne (and the Joker) came back but only in body, not in spirit (look Ma, no angst and crazy thirst to protect people).
Trust a crisis (featuring an all new villain, Mr. Bloom, who has beaten replacement Batman Jim Gordon to an inch of his life) to drive Bruce Wayne to be Batman again and this time it’s thanks to a device that backs-up Batman’s memories and proceeds to restore them! Yup, as of Batman #49, the second last chapter in the Superheavy story-arc, Batman is whole again.
