Title Batman: Child of Dreams Format graphic novel Binding hardcover Date 2000 (Japanese version), 2003 (English translation) Writer(s) Kia Asamiya, English adaptation by Max Allan Collins Artist(s) Kia Asamiya, lettering and art modifications by Dan Nakrosis Collects n/a Storyline A Japanese news crew traveled to Gotham City in attempt to get an interview with the Batman. When they arrived, the signal was on - Batman was being called in to a hostage situation. Two-Face executed a hostage. When the reporters got too close, Dent took them in as well. Batman burst in as Two-Face flipped his coin a second time. Dent was defeated and the remaining hostages were saved. The camera crew did get some pictures of Batman. "Two-Face" decomposed and became mummified while being held by the police. Batman knew all along it wasn't the real Harvey Dent. Bruce Wayne and Alfred decided to go for a drive. They picked up Yuko Yagi, the Japanese reporter, before she could fall victim to a gang pursuing her. Penguin blew up his alleged hideout as the Riddler also struck. Batman took down both pretenders who also decomposed while in captivity. Bruce asked Yuko over for dinner. Their date was interrupted by her work - she left to chase the Batsignal. Batman appeared on Joker's scene - he was disbursing a new designer drug dubbed "fanatic." Joker detonated a bomb and escaped. Batman got a sample of the drug for analysis. He visited Arkham Asylum to insure the real Joker was still in captivity, which he was. Later that night, the fake Joker kidnapped Yuko. Batman came to her rescue as her assailant died. Yuko awakened in the Batcave. Batman was returning her to her hotel when another Batman emerged. The Batmen faced off as another man watched from tracking devices inside the fake's costume. Batman defeated the wannabe. Yuko removed his mask to reveal her producer, Nagai. An ambulance arrived for Nagai; it was later found with his dead body (minus his left hand) dumped into the river. Nagai had been pumped full of drugs that normally would not be present on an ambulance.  Yuko and her crew were ordered back to Japan, their Batman expose cancelled. Knowing her uncle was head of a major pharmaceutical corporation and a sponsor of the trip, Bruce Wayne made business with Tomioka Pharmaceuticals. During his meeting with Tomioka, much of the discussion was on the Batman, not on business. After the deal was approved, Bruce had dinner with Yuko. She told him she'd been rescued by Batman as a child while visiting relatives in Gotham City. Yuko was unhappy that Bruce spent most of the conversation on her uncle, thinking he used her to get to him. Batman/Bruce began researching Nagai, the dead TV producer.  Yuko's uncle drugged her; Catwoman attacked Batman while in Japan. During the fight, Batman placed a tracking device on the phony Catwoman and disappeared. When she left, he tracked her back to Yuko's apartment; Yuko was the Catwoman phony. Tomioka lured Batman to his extensive private Batman museum; he planned to enshrine the actual Batman there. Tomioka, declaring himself the new Batman, attacked the real Batman. He explained that he'd perfected his DNA altering drug. Batman tried to reason with his "biggest fan," but ended up having to fight. The "new" Batman fell into the display case which housed the DNA of Batman's enemies. Injected with multiple strains and feeling immense pain and immanent death, Tomioka detonated his facility. Batman escaped in the shielded Batmobile.  Bruce stayed with Yuko until she was back to 100% from her uncle's drugging. When she was healthy, he arranged her an interview with Batman, then returned home. While he watched a broadcast from her resurrected career, Alfred asked Bruce if he'd ever be returning to Japan.