Title Birds of Prey: Black Canary / Batgirl
Format one-shot
Binding standard comic
Date February 1998
Writer(s) Chuck Dixon
Artist(s) Greg Land, Drew Geraci
Collects n/a
Storyline Black Canary and Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) took down some of Mad Hatter's gang. After questioning one of them, they learned he was a judge. They headed for the last place he remembered being. Tetch held Jeremiah Arkham hostage there with plans of controlling him and making him release his patients. Batgirl and Canary were found and they did battle against their hatted opponents. They took off for Arkham Asylum in hopes of getting there before Hatter arrived. Batgirl was captured. When Canary found her, she insisted to know where to find Batman's hideout. After learning, Canary morphed into Spellbinder, and the reality of the situation kicked in - Barbara had been captured and was under hypnosis by Spellbinder. She and her men went to find the Batcave, but came up empty (Barbara gave them bad information). Spellbinder returned to her "crippled" hostage, but was taken down by the well prepared Barbara. Sheriff "Shotgun" Smith arrived and took Spellbinder in. Oracle contacted Black Canary; Roland Desmond (Blockbuster) continued his search for Oracle (he'd hired Spellbinder).