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Dr.
Kirk Langstrom poured himself into his study of
bats, even though the University refused to give
him more funding. His bride-to-be, Francine Lee,
endured. Langstrom used himself as a test subject
and it worked - his deafness was cured by using
the genetics of a bat. Langstrom's transformation
was not complete. Day by day, he became more and
more like a bat - even physically.
Batman, while after a gang called the RidgeRunners,
encountered a man in a bestial flying suit. Batman
was not the bat which took the gang down. Weeks
later, Alfred went to investigate an alarm in the
cave. He was attacked by a huge bat creature. The
Batmobile returned, placing Batman face-to-face
with the Man-Bat. He was able to tranquilize the
creature and strap it down to a table. There, he
found the creature was once a man named Kirk Langstrom.
He returned the Man-Bat to its fiancé, Francine
Lee. She been working with a man on Kirk's experiments
and was able to dose him with a possible antidote.
After nine months outside of humanity, Langstrom
was cured.
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