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DC Comics   ·   Released Jan 3rd, 2001

Batman #585

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Batman continues his anti-Penguin campaign - this time by stopping the beating of a down on his luck numbers man named Pat Dyerson at the hands of two of the Penguin's bookies. Members of the GCPD like Detective Renee Montoya are concerned that the Dark Knight is just following a personal vendetta against Cobblepot.  The following day, the Penguin is in court trying to stop the sale of his headquarter building to Bruce Wayne. The Penguin's lawyer states that Wayne is buying the building simply to evict Cobblepot. The attorney declares Wayne blames the Penguin for the death of Jeremy Samuels, a former Wayne employee, and states that Wayne views the Penguin as a symbol of the thing that brought down Bruce's parents all those years ago. But Wayne puts on his usual vacant playboy routine, successfully fooling the judge who rules in favor of the sale in the end.  Later, the furious Penguin responds by targeting Bruce's attorney outside a restaurant, but Bruce's new bodyguard Sasha Bordeaux saves both the attorney and Bruce himself. Batman deducts the next target to be Judge Bach who is booked on the 8:50 train upstate. At the station, Batman notices Pat Dyerson boarding the same train that is carrying the judge as well as two of Penguin's men. Realizing the thugs were a diversion, Batman boards the train and prevents Dyerson from unwittingly delivering a bomb, nestled inside a briefcase, to the judge. Later, after admitting to Commissioner Gordon that his vendetta against the Penguin was more vengeance than justice and that he'll ease up on it. Despite this, Batman interferes in Penguin's numbers game by delivering the winning numbers to Dyerson and 49 other people, practically bankrupting the Penguin ...

Format
Comic
Page Count
40 pages
Cover Price
$2.25
UPC
76194120005758511
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Creators

Ed Brubaker
Writer
Ed Brubaker
Scott McDaniel
Penciller, Cover Artist
Scott McDaniel
Karl Story
Inker
Karl Story
Colorist
Wildstorm FX
Colorist
Roberta Tewes
John Costanza
Letterer
John Costanza
Michael Wright
Associate Editor
Michael Wright
Editor
Terri Cunningham
Bob Schreck
Editor, Group Editor
Bob Schreck
Mike Carlin
Executive Editor
Mike Carlin
Jenette Kahn
Editor-in-Chief
Jenette Kahn

Characters

Batman
Bruce Wayne
Batman
Prime Earth
Crispus Allen
Crispus Allen
Prime Earth
James Gordon
James Gordon
Prime Earth
Lucius Fox
Lucius Fox
Prime Earth
Penguin
Oswald Cobblepot
Penguin
Prime Earth
Renee Montoya
Renee Montoya
Prime Earth
Sasha Bordeaux
Sasha Bordeaux
Prime Earth

Collected In

  • Batman by Ed Brubaker Vol. 1 TP
    Batman by Ed Brubaker Vol. 1 TP
    Batman Vol. 1 (1940 - 2011)
  • DC Comics Presents: Batman #1
    DC Comics Presents: Batman #1
    DC Comics Presents: Batman (2010)

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