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| Title |
Batman: Blind
Justice |
| Format |
TPB |
| Binding |
TPB |
| Date |
1989 (original
issues), 1992 (collection) |
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Writer(s) |
Sam Hamm |
|
Artist(s) |
Denys Cowan,
Dick Giordano |
| Collects |
Detective 598-600 |
| Storyline |
Gordon called Batman in to
see a body - it had been completely pulverized - no bone in it still
intact. The body had no physical marks on it. Batman staked out a drug
shipment on a tip off. It was broken up by a man calling himself the
Bonecursher. He used a sonic device to destroy things. He killed himself
when cornered by Batman. Bruce Wayne was introduced to Jeannie Bowen, a
woman searching for her brother. She believed he'd worked for WayneTech,
so he gave her a tour. Dr. Kenneth Harbinger remembered Roy, her brother.
Gordon called Batman about another Bonecrusher attack. A homeless man in a
mission acted out with exact movement and speech as the Bonecrusher.
Cornered again, Bonecrusher killed himself. The bum turned out to be Roy,
Jeannie's brother. He had no memories of the last six months. Bruce began
researching what might have happened to Roy after a biochip was found
implanted in his head. Bonecrusher broke into Wayne Manor; Alfred saved
Bruce and his houseguests Jeannie and Roy by shooting him with a
tranquilizer dart. Bonecrusher, for a third time, self-destructed. Roy
remembered what the project was - they were creating remote controlled
soldiers. Bruce found Harbinger dead, but found his log file. In the file,
Bruce learned that Harbinger had been the controller of the Bonerushers
and that he'd permanently moved into another body. Bruce tried to stop the
project, but they set him up as a communist and he was arrested. Wayne was
questioned about the years he spent in Europe and Asia. Gordon offered him
what support he could, hinting that he knew more than Wayne realized.
Bruce and his two lawyers were shot by a homeless man. Bruce, the only
survivor, was in a coma. Since Batman had not been seen in weeks, Gordon
asked one of his men to say that they'd worked a case together. As Bruce
was released from the hospital, Roy stumbled into the cave. He offered to
let Bruce use his body while he was confined to a wheelchair. A witness
against Wayne, the man who taught him detective skills, told the cartel
that Wayne was indeed Batman. This theory was shot down when Batman made a
bust (Bruce was using Roy's body). Bruce and Alfred played with the
biochips until Bruce was in a body near Harbinger and Riordan (the
cartel's leaders). He got needed info, including a sketch, to Gordon.
Harbinger was force to take another body. Batman (again in Roy's body) was
after him. They were both killed in the fight; Gordon and his men
recovered the documents Harbinger was carrying and cleared Bruce Wayne.
Gordon visited Bruce as he recovered and confronted him about his
houseguest being in Batman's costume. The fiasco was finally over, though
Jeannie, Ducard (the detective), and possibly Gordon knew Bruce's secret. |
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