Issue Year One: Batman Scarecrow #2 Subtitle Year One: Batman Scarecrow #2 Date 2005 Writer(s) Bruce Jones Artist(s) Sean Murphy storyline Batman and Robin returned to Gotham City after receiving a call from Captain Gordon. A professor had been found recently dead in his home. Batman found a straw, Robin found a book. They knew it was Scarecrow. As Bruce and Dick, they later attended a social gathering where the benefactor was attacked and killed by birds. Batman and Gordon checked the toxicology of both victims and found it very similar. Batman also found that there were no birds - the woman killed herself thinking she was attacked by them. The other partygoers hallucinated it, too - LSD was pumped in through fog machines. Using the novel found - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Batman and Robin found the killer's name - Jonathan Crane. Crane, at this time, was busy killing a man he believed to be his father. Batman and Robin intervened. Robin was hit with the fear gas and Scarecrow escaped. They were able to save Gerald Crane. Batman went after Crane on his own, knowing he'd be out to kill his mother next. By altering the fear gas to affect only Scarecrow, Batman saved his mother from doom. His fear chased him into a nearby river via a cliff. Robin found no trace of him.