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| A group of people pray for the dead and injured |
The Dark Knight cinema massacre may have been inspired by a Batman comic book strip, it emerged on Friday.
The bloodbath is a chilling copycat of a 25-year-old
Batman comic strip which features a deranged gunman opening fire in a cinema.
In the second issue of The Dark Knight Returns, written by
Frank Miller - the creative mind behind Sin City and 300 - gunman Arnold Crimp
opens fire in a pornographic theatre, killing three people, after listening to
Led Zepplin's classic track 'Stairway to Heaven.'
Text from the page reads: 'Arnold Crimp fingers the
cold steel thing in his pocket and stares at the movie marquee and does not
throw up.
'He thinks about Led Zeppelin and how they are trying
to kill him.
'He had not known about Led Zeppelin until Father Don
on TV had explained it last night.
'Father Don said that Led Zeppelin hid a prayer to
Satan in their song Stairway to Heaven.
'They hid it very well. They recorded it backwards.
'Arnold Crimp took the album from the record store
where he worked until they fired him this afternoon and transferred Stairway to Heaven to tape.
'Then he played the tape backwards. He played it
forty-seven times until he was absolutely certain that Father Don was
right.'
Crimp then walks into a cinema, which is screening a
pornographic film called My Sweet Satan, and opens fire.
Holmes motives behind the massacre are unknown, but if he
was a fan of the Batman comics, then he may well have read the issue featuring
Crimp's killing-spree.
The comic itself is still in print, and on Friday it
was available in several Waterstones' book shops, priced £12.99.
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