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A family outing to the cinema ended in tragedy for eight-year-old Bruce Wayne when Dr. Thomas
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Wayne and Martha were killed by a mugger on a street known today as Crime Alley. Bruce witnessed
his wife
the act and his life changed irrevocably. Bruce swore a solemn oath to avenge his parents' deaths and he
continued to live in Wayne Manor, tended to by the family valet Alfred Pennyworth. At age 14, Bruce
embarked on a journey that took him to every continent, crisscrossing the globe several times over as he
sought to learn every skill he would need to keep his vow. He audited courses at Cambridge and the
Sorbonne. He studied criminology, forensics, and the psychology of the criminal mind. Under assumed
names, Bruce apprenticed with manhunters and martial artists, learning the subtleties of detection and
deduction while mastering every known fighting style. Upon his return to Gotham City a decade later, Bruce
began to operate outside the law. In short order, he learned he needed a disguise to strike fear in criminal
hearts. One night, when a bat crashed through the Manor's window, he was inspired to create that disguise
and so the Batman was born. In the twelve years since that night, the Batman has become not only Gotham
City's protector but an inspiration for others ranging from the police force to Dick Grayson, who became the
first Robin and is now Nightwing; Barbara Gordon who became the first Batgirl; and Tim Drake, the current

Robin. Along the way he has encountered some of the most dangerous, grotesque and deadly foes
imaginable. He and Gotham have sun/ived much, starting with political corruption but even a plague, an
earthquake and a year-long exile from the United States. And both have endured. Bruce Wayne is now a shell,
a disguise to sen/ice the Batman's unending quest to see to it that no child ever again loses a parent to crime.

PFNGUIN
Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot hatched his criminal career as the murderous Penguin based on a
fascination with birds and ornithology. His fascination dates back to growing up with his widowed mother,
who ran a pet shop specializing in exotic birds. Short, paunchy, and burdened with a prominent aquiline
nose, his schoolmates nicknamed Oswald the Penguin. His mother insisted he carry an umbrella at all times,
even on sunny days, further adding to his ridicule and issues of self-esteem. Oswald later became a major
force in Gotham's undenworld, committing scores of thematic crimes that led him to run afoul of the Batman
and Robin time and again. Eventually, the Penguin met the deformed mute Harold and persuaded him to
create a device that could control birds, directing them to commit crimes and various acts of terror for him.
Batman stopped the threat and later brought Harold to live with him in the Batcave. On parole, the Penguin
tried to convince the public that he had gone "legit" playing the stock market. Though exposed for insider
trading, the Penguin remained attracted to the notion of concealing his criminal activities beneath a more
socially acceptable facade. Becoming the owner of Gotham's Iceberg Lounge and purportedly once more
reformed, Oswald Cobblepot formed an alliance with the Actuary, a number-cruncher who helped the
Penguin pull off a series of robberies and ultimately took the fall for his partner when Batman tracked them
down. When the Federal government abandoned it after a series of disastrous events, Gotham City became
a virtual No Man's Land. The Penguin was well equipped to make the most of the situation, bartering for what
was needed, thereby furthering his hold over the city's criminal element. After the city was back on its feet,
the local government tried to shut down the Iceberg Lounge. Instead, Bruce Wayne bought the building,
giving his alter ego the opportunity to keep closer tabs on the Penguin.

SCARFCROW
Gawky and uncoordinated as a child, Jonathan Crane was often the physical and emotional target
of neighborhood bullies. Initially frightened by their horrible taunts. Crane eventually decided he would turn
the tables on his attackers and began voraciously studying phobias and the nature of fear. As an adult. Crane
became an expert psychologist specializing in fear and its effects on the human mind. Crane became a
professor at Gotham City University, but was summarily dismissed for his unorthodox teaching methods and
his refusal to follow the school's safety codes. Crane snapped as a result of this dismissal and adopted the
guise of the Scarecrow, vowing to use his knowledge of fear and a specially designed gas to gain revenge.
Using his "fear gas," the Scarecrow killed several of Gotham University's regents by literally scaring them to
death. The Scarecrow was then confronted by the Batman, who ended the villain's reign of terror and
incarcerated him at Arkham Asylum for the criminally Insane. Escaping from custody over and over again, the
Scarecrow used stolen funds to constantly upgrade the potency of his fear gas, mixing powerful synthetic
adreno-cortical secretions with potent hallucinogens to create a pathogen strong enough to prompt terror-
induced heart attacks. A constant foe of the Dark Knight and his allies, and a constant threat to the citizens
of Gotham, the Scarecrow is obsessed with fear in all its manifestations, as well as mastering his only fear:
that of the Batman himself.
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DUSTIN NGUYEN'S SKETCHBOOK
Dustin wanted his DC Comics debut to be something special. While waiting
forJudd Winick's first script to arrive, he did a variety of sketches to get a feel for Batman,
Penguin and Scarecrow. Here are some of the sketches from his drawing table.
Dustin knew the original Batgirl wasn't being used in the story,
but he says he couldn't resist a chance to sketch her.
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Various writers and artists DiHon/McDaniel/Slory

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Barr/Davis/McFarlane/various ARCHIVES Vol. 1
BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE BATMAN: DARK VICTORY
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Darwyn Cooke CATWOMAN: THE DARK END
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Broken Bat THE GREATEST JOKER
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Gotham City's underworld is thrown into turmoil as its crimelords start slip-
ping into a rabid -- and murderous - frenzy. Is it just a coincidence or part of
an elaborate and sinister power play? One thing's for sure: the machinations
of the' Scarecrow and the Penguin will have Batman hard-pressed to restore
order.\Worse, Batman may have met his match in the vicious Scarebeast!
\
Written by award winning al\thor Judd Winick (OUTSIDERS, GREEN ARROW), this story is illus-

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