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| Issue |
Detective 625 |
| Subtitle |
Abattoir! |
| Date |
January 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Jim Aparo, Mike
DeCarlo |
| storyline |
Abattoir was
broken out of Arkham. He attacked a political rally, then went
after Vicki Vale when he caught her taking pictures of him.
Batman saved the photographer and uncovered that the politician
had sprung Abattoir; they were blood related. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 626 |
| Subtitle |
Return to the
Electrocutioner |
| Date |
February 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Jim Aparo, Mike
DeCarlo |
| storyline |
A new
Electrocutioner was in town. Batman went after him while GCPD
was in turmoil without Gordon (who was in the hospital after his
recent heart attack). He figured out the Electrocutioner was
going after gangsters who'd ripped off gangsters and stopped
him. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 627 |
| Subtitle |
The Case of the
Chemical Syndicate (4 takes on the first ever Batman story: the
original, the thirtieth anniversary edition, and two new
versions) |
| Date |
March 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
version
1: Rob't Kane
version 2: Mike
Friedrich version
3: Marv
Wolfman version
4: Alan Grant |
| Artist(s) |
version
1: Rob't Kane
version 2: Bob
Brown, Joe Giella version
3: Jim Aparo,
Mike DeCarlo version
4: Norm Breyfogle, Steve
Mitchell |
| storyline |
version
1: Batman
stopped a killer who was attempting to take over a chemical
company by killing off his partners / co-owners.
version 2: Batman
and Robin tracked down a killer who took down two chemists
working on war technologies. It turned out to be a member of the
team trying to get sole ownership of their discovery.
version 3: Batman
showed up on the scene after a chemical plant big-shot was
killed. The man was melted into his taxi by someone spraying
toxic waste. A second was killed along with his wife and some
innocents by this new villain, Pesticyde. Batman found out the
third of the four owners was crippled from an accident at the
plant. He stopped the man's daughter before she could kill her
father's last living partner.
version 4:
Batman and Gordon investigated when a top chemist was found
dead. Batman witnessed a second one die and caught the killers.
They'd been hired by the partner of the two dead men. Gordon
found the third hanged with a note. Batman knew it was no
suicide - the real killer attacked and fell into a vat of
chemicals and died. |
|
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| Issue |
Detective 628 |
| Subtitle |
Hearts |
| Date |
April 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Jim Aparo, Mike
DeCarlo |
| storyline |
Abattoir broke
into an aviary, killed the keeper and all the doves, and cut out
their hearts. He then attacked a dairy farm, doing the same to
the cows. Batman researched any similarities and stopped a train
wreck the madman had planned. He captured Aboittor. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 629 |
| Subtitle |
The Hungry Grass |
| Date |
May 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Peter Milligan |
| Artist(s) |
Jim Aparo, Steve
Leialoha |
| storyline |
Strange, unseen
forces produced reenactments of past crimes in Gotham City. A
man wrongly imprisoned was spreading cursed grass throughout the
city. The grass brought forth any injustice that had happened
upon where people tread on it. Batman tracked the man spreading
it and destroyed the remaining grass. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 630 |
| Subtitle |
And the
Executioner Wore Stiletto Heels |
| Date |
June 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Peter Milligan |
| Artist(s) |
Jim Aparo, Mike
DeCarlo |
| storyline |
Batman tracked an
escaped hitman who was scheduled to be executed and returned the
man to police custody. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 631 |
| Subtitle |
The Golem of
Gotham part one |
| Date |
early July 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Peter Milligan |
| Artist(s) |
Jim Aparo, Mike
DeCarlo |
| storyline |
Batman patrolled a
neighborhood that had been recently plagued with hate crimes.
One of the residents, remembering 1937 Germany, tried to create
a demon to save him. He succeeded and the beast of clay began
attacking the attackers. Batman came face-to-face with the
beast. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 632 |
| Subtitle |
The Golem of
Gotham part two |
| Date |
late July 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Peter Milligan |
| Artist(s) |
Jim Aparo, Mike
DeCarlo |
| storyline |
Batman realized
what it was and went after its creator. After a battle with the
beast, Batman convinced the man to down the golem. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 633 |
| Subtitle |
Identity Crisis |
| Date |
early August 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Peter Milligan |
| Artist(s) |
Tom Mandrake |
| storyline |
Bruce Wayne washed
ashore with no idea how he'd gotten there. He went home to find
there was no batcave. Alfred and Tim had no idea what he was
talking about when he mentioned it or being Batman. He bought
some hiking gear and went out in search of the fake Batman that
had been impersonating him. Batman defeated him and showed him
that he wasn't Bruce Wayne, but the Synaptic Kid - a psychic
who'd tried to get into Batman's mind. He snapped trying to do
so. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 634 |
| Subtitle |
The Third Man |
| Date |
late August 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Kelley Puckett |
| Artist(s) |
Luke McDonnell |
| storyline |
Batman
investigated the killings of two Swiss ambassadors who'd been
killed by what appeared to be axe cuts to the chest. Upon
further checking, they were hit with bare hands. He checked on
the whereabouts of the other three people who could perform that
maneuver and confronted the killer. The heartbroken assassin
gave up without a fight. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 635 |
| Subtitle |
Mind Games |
| Date |
early September
1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Louise Simonson |
| Artist(s) |
Jim Fern, Steve
Mitchell |
| storyline |
Professor Powder
escaped Arkham and begged for the help of (and warned) Batman
and Gordon. They experienced strange digitized hallucinations as
they saw Powder killed by a car. Parts of Gotham City were
transformed into a video game for short periods of time. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 636 |
| Subtitle |
Mind Control |
| Date |
late September
1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Louise Simonson |
| Artist(s) |
Jim Fern, Steve
Mitchell |
| storyline |
Another video game
attacked occurred in the Batcave. Batman and Robin survived due
to Robin's knowledge of the specific game. They dug up a file on
one of Arkham's newest inmates - a young boy who was a champion
video game player who could reconstruct video games. They went
after him; he was being tortured and controlled by a doctor who
he'd defeated in one of the contests. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 637 |
| Subtitle |
Control Freak |
| Date |
October 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Louise Simonson |
| Artist(s) |
Jim Fern, Steve
Mitchell |
| storyline |
Batman and Robin
used the games elements to destroy the doctor's equipment,
ending the broadcast mass hallucinations. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 638 |
| Subtitle |
The Bomb |
| Date |
November 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Peter Milligan |
| Artist(s) |
Jim Aparo, Mike
DeCarlo |
| storyline |
A military
deserter stole a top secret device - a human who could create
explosions, possibly catastrophic. The first incident occurred
in a bus station - 30 were killed. Batman found the bomb and got
her out of the suit she was confined to. She was not a sadistic
killer like the army told Batman (they'd actually set off the
explosion at the bus station to show Batman how dangerous she
was). She told Batman about herself, and how the military had
kept her hostage and drugged up. Batman kept her hidden from
them not knowing she'd die without her medication. |
|
 |
| Issue |
Detective 639 |
| Subtitle |
The Idiot part
two: The Queen of Hearts |
| Date |
December 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
Peter Milligan |
| Artist(s) |
Jim Aparo, Mike
DeCarlo |
| storyline |
(continued
from Batman 472)
Batman only ingested a bit of the drug when some of the stock
went airborne. He worked through the effects and gave chase to
the manufacturers / dealers. He caught one and forced him to
take him to the source of the drug. They were attacked by
children under control of the drug.
(continued in Batman 473) |
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