BATMAN: PREY TRADE PAPERBACK
Set
during the Batman: Year One timeframe however presented
during the early 1990s, the story is a foundation for the upcoming 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises. The film also
incorporates events from Batman:
Knightfall where the villain Bane breaks Batman. The movie takes place
eight years after the events of The Dark
Knight towards the end of Batman’s career.
Batman: Prey begins as Batman ruins a drug
sting set up by Gotham P.D. As psychiatrist Dr. Hugo Strange analyzes Batman on live
television, the Mayor of Gotham announces the formation of a vigilante task
force headed by Captain James Gordon to take down Batman. Batman battles both
criminals and the police without the Batmobile.
Bruce gets an invitation to Mayor’s dinner party with Dr.
Hugo Strange. Gordon creates the Bat-Signal who attracts the attention of Sgt.
Max Cort the second-in-command of the vigilante taskforce. Cort goes to Strange
who has plans to bring both Gordon and Batman down. Strange hypnotizes him to be
the Night-Scourge.
Batman defeats the Night-Scourge however Strange dresses
Max Cort up in a fake Batman costume and kidnaps the Mayor’s daughter
Catherine. The Gotham PD have shoot to kill orders on Batman while Strange
taunts the kidnapped Catherine wearing the fake Batman suit.
Batman goes to Strange’s apartment who is ready for him
with a hallucinogen. Strange discovers it was Batman’s parents that were lost
which irreverently created him and wants the Gotham
police files going back twenty years. The following morning Bruce heads back
home to Wayne Manor to find Alfred unconscious on the floor. Strange taunts
Bruce with false recorded voices of his parents.
Batman finishes the Batmobile and heads back to Strange’s
apartment to confront him once and for all. Gordon arrives and rescues the
Mayor’s daughter while Strange escapes. Batman takes on Night-Scourge who dies
in a hail of gunfire by Gotham PD.
Batman: Terror is by the same writing and art
team of writer Doug Moench and artist Paul Gulacy (Batman: Prey). After Batman
stops an arms deal from completing, he meets with Gordon at a murder scene
where the criminal wanted to frame him. Dr. Hugo Strange disguises himself to
infiltrate Arkham Asylum as a psychiatrist to visit Jonathan Crane AKA the Scarecrow.
Strange seduces Crane to become the master of fear against Batman who walks him
out of Arkham Asylum.
Batman chases after Catwoman while the Scarecrow betrays
Strange who falls through the wooden hole on the floor and impaled by a weather
vane. Scarecrow kidnaps Catwoman and takes pictures of her a Selina Kyle to
blackmail her.
Scarecrow goes after the bullies who tormented him as
Jonathan Crane. Captain James Gordon and Batman lure Catwoman who gives them a
homing device to locate the Scarecrow. When Batman arrives the Scarecrow is
ready and waiting however fights back, rescues the victims, and finally defeats
the Scarecrow with a little help from Catwoman.
This
trade paperback collects
Legends
of the Dark Knight #11 – 15
Legends of the Dark Knight #137 - 141
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