Batman Confidential
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Batman Confidential is a monthly comic book series from DC Comics which debuted its first issue on December 6, 2006. The series features the superhero Batman just after his first year as Gotham City's protector. It seems to take place after Batman: The Man Who Laughs, sometime during Batman: The Long Halloween, but before Batman: Dark Victory. Based upon the covers of issues 3 and 4, DC has possibly changed the format of the book from an ongoing title to an 8 part mini-series. No official statement has been made regarding the change, and the number does not refer to the current story arc which is still solicited as 6 parts.
Like Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Batman Confidential features stories by rotating creative teams and will continue to be set in the early years of Batman’s career. The similarities, however, stop there. Rather than feature early crime-fighting Batman tales, Batman Confidential will feature stories that illustrate key moments in the character’s past such as first meetings, critical decisions, alliances, confrontations and events that would shape him as the character he is today. [1]
The events of the DC Comics storyline Infinite Crisis helped in cleaning up the character’s history and open it up for further interpretations.
[edit] Rules of Engagement (#1-6)
The first story arc by Andy Diggle and Whilce Portacio is currently running and features Batman’s first encounter with Superman’s nemesis Lex Luthor. While interrogating a murderer he has just apprehended on patrol, Batman spots a laser sight focused on the man's head. Before he can protect him, the murderer is vaporized by a shot that was fired a very long distance from where he and Batman were standing. Batman begins investigating the type of weapon, and discovers the only thing that his company had created as far as energy weapons go could not be simply carried by one man.
The next day, Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor are competing for a military contract concerning a stealth interceptor robot and the O.G.R.E. disaster rescue robot. Afterwards they have a conversation and when they are interrupted by an O.G.R.E. machine who proceeds to attack them. Bruce Wayne is rescued by Alfred Pennyworth who drives him away so that he may change into his Batman costume and return to fight the machine. The O.G.R.E. machine continues to attack Lex Luthor until he escapes into the sewers. Upon realizing he has lost his quarry, the machine flies away.
At Wayne Enterprises Captain Jim Gordon examines a dead body that had been in the chamber to pilot the O.G.R.E. machine when he had died to a heart attack. Captain Gordon threatens Bruce Wayne with an arrest if the coroner's report doesn't conclude natural causes for the death. Afterwards Bruce Wayne learns that the pilot had died before the O.G.R.E. machine attacked Lex Luthor.
After the coroner exonerates Wayne Enterprises and judges the pilot's death as natural causes, Bruce Wayne steals the cadaver and examines it himself to learn a LexCorp device caused the pilot's death. Batman then discovers the O.G.R.E. machine's whereabouts and attempts to reason with it, however instead the machine attacks him. Unlike the earlier fight where Batman's weapons had been ineffective, this time he uses a remote control to deactivate the machine, feeling guilty as he believes the machine has some imprint of the dead pilot's mind inside it, and vows to bring the pilot back to life using the O.G.R.E. machine's memory if he ever gets the chance.
The story is still ongoing.
Important events: Alliance with Lucius Fox, the current CEO of Wayne Enterprises; introduction of the Batwing; and first encounter with Superman's arch enemy Lex Luthor.
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| Batman | |
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| Creators: | Bob Kane • Bill Finger • Other writers and artists |
| Supporting Characters: | Robin (Tim Drake) • Nightwing (Dick Grayson) • Batgirl • Batwoman • Alfred Pennyworth • Lucius Fox • Barbara Gordon • Commissioner Gordon • Harvey Bullock |
| Villains: | Bane • Catwoman • Clayface • Harley Quinn • Joker • Killer Croc • Mr. Freeze • Penguin • Poison Ivy • Ra's al Ghul • Red Hood (Jason Todd) • Riddler • Scarecrow • Two-Face • Other villains |
| Locations: | Arkham Asylum • Batcave • Gotham City • Wayne Enterprises • Wayne Manor |
| Miscellanea: | Batarang • Batmobile • Batsuit • Popular media • Publications • Storylines • Alternate versions of Batman |
