Title Zero Hour: Crisis in Time Format comic series Binding standard comic Date September 1994 Writer(s) Dan Jurgens, Doug Moench, Alan Grant, Chuck Dixon, Jo Duffy Artist(s) Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Mike Manley, Josef Rubinstein, Bret Blevins, Graham Nolan, Bob McLeod, Jim Ballent, Bob Smith Collects [relevant titles only]: Zero Hour 4-0, Batman 511, Shadow of the Bat 31, Detective 678, Robin 10, Catwoman 14 Storyline A strange time wrinkle had Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) capturing the Joker. As Batman and Robin (Tim Drake) question her, another Robin (Dick Grayson) looked on. In the confusion, the Joker escaped. Barbara explained that when the Joker burst in on her and her father that night, Commissioner Gordon was killed instantly by the Joker's bullet, but she was merely kidnapped. Harvey Dent became police commissioner after her father was killed. Batman and Robin let her leave so that they might sort things out. Back in the cave, Batman contacted Oracle - also Barbara Gordon. Alfred (from another time) showed up in the Batcave, only to later disappear. Batman returned home to find his parents being questioned by the police (young Bruce Wayne was killed, his parents lived). Batman went out to find Joe Chill, to take him down. Chill did not kill anyone the night of the Wayne murder(s). When Batman returned to Wayne Manor, it was as though the night never happened. While chasing down a jewel thief, Robin (Tim) was rescued and helped out by Robin (Dick). Just after the capture, Dick Robin vanished. Catwoman awakened to find a prehistoric saber-toothed tiger in her apartment, along with a caveman. Hal Jordan, once a Green Lantern, showed himself as the one behind the destruction - he calls himself Parallax. Parallax was defeated and time was put back where it needed to be.