Title Batman: Night Cries Format graphic novel Binding hardcover Date 1992 Writer(s) Archie Goodwin Artist(s) Scott Hampton Collects n/a Storyline Gordon worked the scene of a murdered family. He was having a difficult time adjusting to the politics of his new job as commissioner. Bruce Wayne attended a Wayne Foundation function - a center for abused children was being opened. Long hours and short tempers continued to put a strain on Barbara and James Gordon's marriage. The Commissioner went to the scene of another family murder. Batman learned both families, one poor, the other rich, were linked by a new designer drug called Boost. Gordon found another link - child abuse. The parents were killed in the way they abused their children. Batman investigated that angle and found that two of the men Bruce Wayne met at the new child abuse center had special-ops training in Central America. They were the killers. Batman took them down; James Gordon said his goodbyes to his wife and son - they were moving back to Chicago.