Title Brotherhood of the Bat Format graphic novel Binding prestige Date 1995 Writer(s) Doug Moench Artist(s) Jim Aparo, Jim Balent, Bret Blevins, Norm Breyfogle. Vince Giarrano, Tom Grummett, Mike Manley, Graham Nolan, Josef Rubinstein Collects n/a Storyline Ra's Al Ghul has unleashed a virus that has killed billions. Batman is dead, but his wife (the Demon's daughter, Talia) and son, Tallant have survived. Talia shows her son that he is the son of Bruce Wayne; the son of the bat becomes the bat. He infiltrates his grandfather's "league of batmen," assassins in various bat costumes, and disables them one-by-one. Al Ghul's league defeated, he concedes Gotham to his grandson, the true Batman.