Issue Azrael 47
Subtitle ...A Man of Wealth and Taste...
Date December 1998
Writer(s) Dennis O'Neil
Artist(s) Roger Robinson, James Pascoe
storyline Batman asked Azrael to go to Washington DC to guard Senator Halivan - one of Gotham City's few supporters. Oracle updated Azrael on the senator's itinerary - he'd be speaking at a Nicholas Scratch concert. Scratch, arguably one of the biggest celebrities on the planet, planned to kill the senator. Azrael saved him from an ambush, but Scratch killed him in his dressing room after the show.