Issue Batman 419
Subtitle Ten Nights of the Beast part 3
Date May 1988
Writer(s) Jim Starlin
Artist(s) Jim Aparo, Mike DeCarlo
storyline The KGBeast shot down a passenger jet, but it turned out to be a decoy. He then attacked a pair of senators in a high-rise hotel. Batman again gave chase, but the Beast cut off his own hand to escape. They prepared for the President's arrival in Gotham.