Issue Gotham Knights 33
Subtitle Tabula Rasa prologue: "The Devil You Know..."
+ The Monument (black and white)
Date November 2002
Writer(s) Scott Beatty
+ Darwyn Cooke
Artist(s) Mike Collins, Bill Sienkiewicz
+ Bill Wray
storyline Batman and Robin took down Signal Man, Corrosive Man, and Kite Man on a jewel heist. When Bruce returned home, Alfred was there waiting for him with a house guest: Bane. Nightwing, Robin, and Batgirl were called in by the butler. Bane requested information on the remaining Lazarus Pits - he was out to destroy them all. Batman and Bane visited Jason Blood. He helped the locate what was thought to be the final pit. After they destroyed it, Bane showed Batman a picture of Thomas Wayne with his mother.
+ When a statue in honor of Batman was unveiled, Dr. Hugo Strange took offense. He threatened to blow it up with Summer Gleason, a Gotham City reporter, tied to it. Batman took him down and saved Gleason, but the monument was destroyed.