Title Batman: War Games act one: Outbreak Format TPB Binding TPB Date 2005 Writer(s) Ed Brubaker, Andersen Gabrych, Devin Grayson, Dylan Horrocks, AJ Lieberman, Bill Willingham Artist(s) Ramon Bachs, Al Barrionuevo, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Paul Gulacy, Kinsun, Mike Lilly, Sean Phillips, Brad Walker, Pete Woods, Raul Fernandez, Nathan Massengill, Troy Nixey, Andy Owens, Jimmy Palmiotti, Francis Portella, Rodney Ramos, Lorenzo Ruggiero, Aaron Sowd. Collects Batgirl 55, Batman 631, Gotham Knights 56, Legends of the Dark Knight 182, The 12 Cent Adventure, Catwoman 34, Detective 797, Nightwing 96, Robin 129. Storyline Spoiler, after being fired as Robin, watched Pasquale Galante Junior - the top mob boss in Gotham City. Orpheus and Onyx approached him. Other rival gang lords arrived including Penguin with Deadshot and Lew Moxon with Hellhound. When Scarface entered the picture, so did Catwoman. She approached Spoiler. The meeting became a shootout. Catwoman split and Spoiler was close behind her. An event Bruce Wayne was attending was crashed by Kobra terrorists. He quickly changed clothes. By the way they headed straight for their loot, Batman knew it was an inside job. Alfred contacted Nightwing after not hearing from him in a while. After the firefight, Orpheus called Batman. He and Batgirl arrived quickly. Of the 21 gang lords who attended, only 8 walked away. Batman clued in Oracle. Batgirl went in to the Chinatown mob, where a coup was attempted within their ranks to gain power. Batman went after Escabedo's family on the North End - it was attacked by the Odessa Mob. Orpheus went to Penguin, who denied calling the hits. Chaos touched all the gangs. Batman got to Orpheus and gave him orders of which gangs he needed to take over. Matches Malone set some things up to help Orpheus with the task. A ship was destroyed at sea before the help could get to it - its crew took over the would-be rescuing ship. Penguin's men took the bounty. Orpheus met with complications on his first take-over attempt. Onyx was shot. Nightwing returned to Gotham City and met up with Batman. He was sent to the Thompson Clinic to help Leslie. Tarantula showed up in Gotham City, too. She stopped a brawl between a gang and the police and later boasted that she'd killed Blockbuster. Nightwing spoke with Onyx who was also being treated at the clinic. Tim assured his father that he had no plans of going out to help. Nightwing reported to Batman that Tarantula had the Latino Unified gang under control. Batman told Oracle she would be working with the team for the duration of the uprising. Hush surveyed the mob situation overlooking Gotham City. Penguin attempted to auction off some arms and people to rivals, but his asking price was too high for them. Batman sent Batgirl to order Tarantula to merge with Orpheus' gang. She refused. The Russian mob proposed a merger with another, only to double-cross them and join Scarface. Hush turned down an offer from Penguin. While walking to school, Tim witnessed a mob team try to kidnap his classmate, Darla Aquista - the daughter of one of the few remaining mob bosses. He was able to take down some of the gunmen and save Darla, though the gun battle took care of a few of the combatants. Scarface's gang joined in the hunt. One of Tim's friends caught a bullet in the leg. Tim captured Scarface after wrecking their car. Other gangs began hitting family members of those in charge of their rivals. Darla was shot; Tim gave her CPR. Batgirl stopped two assassins from hitting a four-year-old boy. Oracle continued to point her toward her next assignments. Oracle got word to Batman about the shootout at Tim's school. Batgirl encountered Spoiler and told her to go home. Batgirl took leave and headed to help Batman at the school. The media was already on site. Gunshots were heard. Catwoman stopped a shootout from getting too close to a group of children. She got the victim to the Thompson Clinic. Holly called - Mr. Freeze attacked a group attending what they thought was a peace conference. Catwoman took him down, though when she arrived he'd already killed everyone involved. She spied Spoiler and talked to her. Stephanie believed she was the cause of the war. Catwoman took her to her home so they could talk. She admitted that she'd stolen plans from Batman's computer and had invited all the mob bosses together that first night. One major player didn't show up - Matches Malone - which set the whole thing in motion. Stephanie had no idea Malone was one of Batman's aliases. Batman, Batgirl, and Nightwing readied to enter the school. Once in, Nightwing got to Tim and was briefed on the current situation. Batman got to a set of hostages, took down their captors, and released them. Batman walked Darla Aquista out to the paramedics. He, Batgirl, and Nightwing were all captured on film by the media - some of which believing they were behind the incident.