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| Issue |
Gotham Knights
35 |
| Subtitle |
Tabula Rasa part
2: Pain and Ink
+ Cornered (black and white) |
| Date |
January 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Scott Beatty
+ Brian Azzarello |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd
+ Jim Mahfood |
| storyline |
Cassandra and
Barbara researched the possible Bruce / Bane connection. Though
Nightwing tried to explain the situation to Huntress, she
refused to listen and fled. Robin investigated the body of the
tattoo victim. Bane and Batman had an altercation in the cave,
but were broken up by Robin and Alfred. Ariadne Pinxit activated
two more of her tattoos.
+ Batman arrived too late to a situation -
rival dealers shot and killed each other. |
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 36 |
| Subtitle |
Tabula Rasa part
3: Pix
+ The Gasworks (black and white and red) |
| Date |
February 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Scott Beatty
+ Mike Mignola |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd
+ Troy Nixey |
| storyline |
Dr. Thompkins
called Alfred - Bane and Bruce were not related. Batman got to
Pinxit - she told him her victims had raped her. When another
man entered the apartment, she activated her own tattoos, which
attacked the man and Batman. Bane arrived and helped Batman out
of the situation, but Pinxit got away. Bane left town.
+ A hallucinogenic chemical was used on Batman. It backfired and
caused the bad guys to kill themselves. |
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 37 |
| Subtitle |
Spoiler Space
+ Fear is the Key (black and white) |
| Date |
March 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Scott Beatty
+ Mike Carey |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd
+ Steve Mannion, Hillary Barta |
| storyline |
Spoiler tracked
Batman after seeing the signal. He told her to go home - she
didn't have what it took. He gave her a last chance: find the
10th member of Kobra, who was hiding out with a fission bomb.
She got some information from Penguin and began searching it
out. After Metamorpho captured the man, he called and informed
Batman. He told Stephanie what she'd missed. Alfred told Robin
what happened and he went to see Stephanie. Checkmate evaluated
Huntress.
+ Batman took down Scarecrow after he'd
gotten a massive dose of his own fear gas. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 38 |
| Subtitle |
Knight Moves part
1: The Queen is Dead
+ untitled (black and white) |
| Date |
April 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Scott Beatty
+ Ann Nocenti |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd
+ John Bolton |
| storyline |
Bruce decided to
stay in unless called out. He and Alfred played chess and
discussed the family. Huntress, who'd been captured by
Checkmate, was evaluated by Dr. Jonathan Crane and Jervis Tetch
(Scarecrow and the Mad Hatter). They offered her a job; she
refused it and leapt through their window. The Question searched
for her and told Nightwing what he knew. Social Services began
snooping in Jason Todd's records.
+ Batman and Catwoman escaped a deathtrap. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 39 |
| Subtitle |
Knight Moves part
2: Castling
+ Sunrise (black and white) |
| Date |
May 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Scott Beatty
+ Alex Garland |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd
+ Sean Phillips |
| storyline |
Huntress survived
the fall and got clear, though she did not know Checkmate
tracked her back to her apartment building. She spoke with the
Question, who said he'd done all he could to help her. After
discussing Alfred's illness, Batman and Robin found Huntress
with Checkmate still in tow.
+ Batman was found wounded on a rooftop by an elderly lady. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 40 |
| Subtitle |
Knight Moves part
3: Checkmate
+ Neighborhood (black and white) |
| Date |
June 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Scott Beatty
+ Robert Rodi |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd
+ Jon Proctor, John Floyd |
| storyline |
Batman questioned
Huntress; Robin got Dr. Thompkins to their location as Checkmate
moved in. Batman sent them instead to Alfred, who'd taken a turn
for the worse. Booby traps flushed Checkmate out and Batman
asked Huntress to accept their offer. Leslie and Tim found
Alfred unconscious and bleeding from the mouth and nose.
+ A man on the run believed Batman had
moved into the apartment next door to him. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 41 |
| Subtitle |
Rubber Soul
+ I'll be Watching (black and white) |
| Date |
July 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Scott Beatty
+ Ed Brubaker |
| Artist(s) |
Toby Cypress
+ Ryan Sook |
| storyline |
Matches Malone
bumped into Elongated Man and his wife at a book signing. Over
dinner, Malone told them about Elastix - the newest fad drug
among ravers. They found the source and stopped them. Back at
the manor, Tim told Bruce that Leslie had bad news about Alfred.
+ A man went straight after Batman gave him a second chance. He
felt Batman was watching him constantly. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 42 |
| Subtitle |
20 Days Less One
+ Gargoyles of Gotham (black and white) |
| Date |
August 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Scott Beatty
+ Dean Motter |
| Artist(s) |
David Ross, John
Floyd
+ Dean Motter |
| storyline |
Dr. Thompkins
discovered Alfred had a variation of the Clench. She suspected
the bats in the cave had contracted it from Tim, and had passed
it on to Alfred. After seven days, Bruce ended the quarantine -
no one else was getting sick. A man from social services came to
Wayne Manor to speak with Bruce about Jason Todd, but got the
door slammed in his face. Superman helped steal an experimental
cure from Luthor, which cured Alfred. They dosed the bats,
evacuating them from the cave. The original Green Lantern and
the Atom helped out while Batman was unable to.
+ Bruce attended an art show highlighting gargoyles. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 43 |
| Subtitle |
Knights Passed
part 1: Batgirl and Robin
+ Snap (black and white) |
| Date |
September 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Scott Beatty
+ John Ostrander |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd
+ Philip Bond |
| storyline |
Barbara came for a
visit and was followed in by a man who served Bruce a court
order. In the cave, he thought back on Dick's departure from his
care and him asking Barbara to suit up once more and watch Jason
(Robin) while he went after the Joker. Batgirl and Robin went
after some smugglers in the bay. After the takedown, Batman
asked her what he thought of his new partner. She expressed
concern, but admitted one night with him couldn't make a final
analysis.
+ A photographer tried to get a picture of
Batman, but ended up snapping and landed himself in Arkham
Asylum. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 44 |
| Subtitle |
Knights Passed
part 2: Body of Evidence
+ The Best of Gotham (black and white) |
| Date |
October 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Scott Beatty
+ Jill Thompson |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd
+ Jill Thompson |
| storyline |
Nightwing found
Batman watching the social worker digging into his relationship
with Jason. Akins called him - Riddler's girls were trying to
get him freed from Blackgate. Bruce, Barbara, and Dick all
thought back on the aftermath of Jason's death. Aaron Langstrom,
the son of Man-Bat Kirk Langstrom, watched the goings-on in the
cave.
+ A Gotham periodical highlighted hotspots in the city. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 45 |
| Subtitle |
Knights Passed
part 3: Fathers and Sons
+ Sidekick (black and white) |
| Date |
November 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Scott Beatty
+ Kimo Temperance |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd
+ Nathan Fox |
| storyline |
Social services
arrived at Wayne Manor. Dick and Tim spoke with the man (Bruce
still hadn't made it in from the previous night). Batman
"rescued" a basketball prodigy who'd been kidnapped by
his father, who was trying to raise his value in the draft.
Man-Bat helped him out and realized his own missing son's sent
was on Batman's cape. Alfred told the social worker he was as
much responsible for the kids as Bruce was. Bruce got home and
spoke with the man, and broke down telling him about Jason. Dr.
Langstrom picked up Aaron, who was hiding out in the cave. Aaron
helped herd the bats back to their home who'd been run out by
the vaccine.
+ Batman helped find the family of an infant he'd found
abandoned. |
|
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| Issue |
Gotham Knights 46 |
| Subtitle |
Scared Straight
+ Urban Renewal (black and white) |
| Date |
December 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Scott Beatty
+ Will Pfeifer |
| Artist(s) |
Roger Robinson,
John Floyd
+ Brent Anderson |
| storyline |
Bruce, Dick,
Cassandra, and Tim discussed the Spook - a criminal Batman and
(the original) Robin had put in jail 8 years before. He was
being let out of prison and had been a model inmate. The
BatSquad followed him around to make sure he stayed clean. After
a run-in with Nightwing and Robin, he turned himself in for a
crime he'd not committed.
+ Wayne Enterprise's publishing company picked up the rights to
a photography book which chronicled the architecture of Gotham
City's past. |
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