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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 1 |
| Subtitle |
Constants
B&W backup story: To Become the Bat
by Warren Ellis (w) and Jim Lee (a) |
| Date |
March 2000 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin K. Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Dale Eaglesham,
John Floyd |
| storyline |
The Batsquad
investigated the murder of Senator Jack Myles and his wife
Eileen. Myles had left Gotham City after the quake and voted for
it to be removed from the nation. Due to the circumstances
(their child was the only witness to the shooting), Nightwing
requested the case solo. Batman refused him. After the
investigation, Batman got the child to confess killing his
parents. Bruce, Dick, Tim, and Alfred continued working on
rebuilding Wayne Manor. |
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 2 |
| Subtitle |
Down with the Ship
B&W backup story: by John Byrne |
| Date |
April 2000 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Dale Eaglesham,
John Floyd |
| storyline |
Batman and Batgirl
checked on an alleged bomb aboard an oil tanker leaving Gotham
City. People had been captured during NML (and there were no
records to say if they were alive or dead) were being shipped to
the Middle East as slaves. The would-be-slaves set off their
bomb. The crew abandoned ship and locked their captives in.
Batman and Batgirl saw the explosion and set off toward it. They
were able to rescue those left onboard; Batman had to convince
Batgirl not to go down with the ship. |
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 3 |
| Subtitle |
Samsara part 1:
Bad Karma
B&W backup story: Broken Nose by
Paul Pope |
| Date |
May 2000 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Paul Ryan |
| storyline |
Batman took down
Killer Croc atop a convenience store. In doing so, he heard
gunshots and found the clerk below dead. After apprehending the
shooter, the dead body caused its ambulance to wreck. It
attacked Batman, calling itself Sam. Later that night, Batman
went to the morgue. "Sam" awakened in another body,
this of a woman, and attacked Batman again for not saving his
life. Batman heard gunshots outside. A woman shot a guard and
made off with some pills. Batman caught her and was again
attacked by Sam. Sam killed the robber. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 4 |
| Subtitle |
Samsara part 2:
Letting Go
B&W backup story: Greetings
From...Gotham City by John Arcudi (w) and Tony Salmons (a) |
| Date |
June 2000 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Paul Ryan |
| storyline |
After Batman took
down Sam in the guard's body, he jumped into the woman he'd just
killed. Days later, Batman found out that Sam was an eight year
old boy who'd been killed in a car accident. He got a host body
for the boy to find what he wanted, which was his mother. Bruce
visited the boy's parents. Later that night, Sam found his
mother and scared her into on-coming traffic. Batman saved her.
The boy left after realizing that Batman gave it everything he
had. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 5 |
| Subtitle |
Locked
B&W backup story: Hide and Seek by
Paul Levitz (w) and Paul Rivoche (a) |
| Date |
July 2000 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Dale Eaglesham,
John Floyd |
| storyline |
The Key attacked
Arkham Asylum by locking all the doors, both inside and out.
Batman beat him brutally. Batgirl chased Batman off while Azrael
got the Key to some medical attention. Later that night, Batman
tossed a drug dealer off a rooftop, but Batgirl was able to
catch the man. The Key woke up in Arkham being guarded by Robin.
After injecting the Boy Wonder with neural anti-inhibitors, he
told him he'd done the same to his mentor. Batman went through
Azrael to get back to the Key. He gave Robin the antidote and
had the key locked away. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 6 |
| Subtitle |
Personal Effects
B&W backup story: The Riddle by
Walter Simonson (w) and John Paul Leon (a) |
| Date |
August 2000 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Paul Ryan, John
Floyd |
| storyline |
Bruce Wayne had
dinner with Councilman Waldemar and Stuart Bentley. The
councilman boasted that during the last plague, he'd auctioned
off the antidote after stealing it en route to a hospital. The
only records were in a safety deposit box in a bank vault buried
in the cataclysm. Oracle got Batman to the vault, but it had
been completely looted. Babs also had a box there. Batman
followed a lead to the Penguin, who sent him another lead: the
third man at the dinner, Stuart Bentley. Batman got to him
before Penguin's men could and recovered his loot. Barbara told
Batman what was in the letter he'd recovered - it was from her
mother to James Gordon explaining that he could be her birth
father. She'd taken it from her mother before James could read
it. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 7 |
| Subtitle |
Oblation
B&W backup story: by John Arcudi
(w) and John Buscema (a) |
| Date |
September 2000 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Paul Ryan, John
Floyd |
| storyline |
After a rough
night in the sewers, Bruce got medical attention from Dr. Leslie
Thompkins and Alfred. Disregarding their warnings, he went back
out that night. He stopped a planned arson at a night club while
Alfred and Leslie thought back on the past. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 8 |
| Subtitle |
Transference part
1
B&W backup story: Brian Azzarello
(w) and Eduardo Risso (a) |
| Date |
October 2000 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd |
| storyline |
Dick and Tim
showed up at Wayne Enterprises to meet Bruce. While he finished
up a psychological screening requirement for his insurance, they
discussed secret identities. Bruce's psychiatrist showed himself
as Dr. Hugo Strange, a nemesis of Batman's, thought to be dead.
Strange had captured Catwoman months before hoping to get
information from her. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 9 |
| Subtitle |
Transference part
2
B&W backup story: Blackout by
Howard Chaykin (w) and Jordi Bernet (a) |
| Date |
November 2000 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd |
| storyline |
Dr. Strange told
Bruce he knew he was Batman and locked them in the room. Bruce
was able to get a fire started and escaped. Strange was met by
Batman on the roof. Dick and Tim got some popcorn and watched
the fight from street level. Batman defeated Strange and left
him tied up for the police. While leaving the scene, the
Batmobile exploded. Dick went into a rage and sought out
Strange, who'd already made his escape. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 10 |
| Subtitle |
Transference part
3
B&W backup story: Guardian by Alan
Brennert (w) and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (a) |
| Date |
December 2000 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd |
| storyline |
Tim got Dick to
Wayne Manor and notified Alfred. Tim and Alfred checked the
computer for leads on Strange - they refused to believe that
Bruce was dead. Nightwing went back to the scene of the crime
and found Catwoman on a rooftop. He asked her if she knew
anything, and she mentioned that he wasn't the first to ask her
about Batman recently. As Tim reported to Nightwing from the
cave, someone set off an intruder alert upstairs. When Nightwing
got there, Robin had Hugo Strange (dressed as Batman) cornered.
Strange fled; Alfred received a call from Bruce. |
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