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| "Inside Job" | #1–3 | Hugo Strange's Tyger guards have succeeded in apprehending every "outlaw" inGotham City, except forCatwoman,Two-Face, andBatman. Thanks to a tip-off from Two-Face, a Tyger strike team locates Catwoman's apartment and breaks in to arrest her. She evades them, but thecommandos crack her wall safe and steal her most prized valuables.[1] Furious, she confronts Two-Face while he is examining stolen blueprints of the Arkham City security facilities. Despite Batman's attempts to help her, both she and Two-Face are arrested and dragged to Arkham City, Catwoman furiously trying to grab a digital memory card from Two-Face with photos of the blueprints.[2] |
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| "Observations" | #4–6 | Batman confers withCommissioner Gordon, sharing what little he knows of Strange's murky past.[3][4] Gordon admits that theGCPD is largely impotent sinceQuincy Sharp declaredmartial law, and Strange's Tyger guards have become the ruling authority in Gotham City. They are interrupted by Tyger guards, sent to arrest both of them, but Batman has already disappeared, and Gordon appears politely baffled at the accusation that he has been consorting with a known outlaw.[5] |
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| "Ruffled Feathers" | #7–8 | In his lair within Arkham City, thePenguin mulls over the origins of his bitter feud with theJoker, and vows to have revenge once his gang is powerful enough.[6] |
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| "Surgeon's General" | #9–10 | In his private clinic,Hugo Strange interviews several people battered by Batman, including Arkham City inmates, and his own Tyger guards. The normally implacable Strange is inwardly troubled at how effectively Batman is inspiring fear in his otherwise rational victims, becoming less a man than aphantasm.[7] |
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| "Separation Anxiety" | #11–13 | An origin story of the Abramovici twins who appear inBatman: Arkham City. BornSiamese twins in the formerSoviet Union, the twins were discarded by their father and adopted by a travelingfreak show, where they grew into strong and brutalanimal wranglers.[8] News of their abilities spread, and they were "liberated" by the Joker, who hired a corrupt surgeon namedThomas Elliot to separate them. The Joker kept the twin known as "Hammer," while the other, "Sickle," was thrown out into the street, and later recruited by the Penguin.[9] While researching this history,Nightwing comments that it is odd for twin brothers to be working for opposing sides. Batman says the brothers' conjoinment forced them to get along, but that is no guarantee that they will do so after being separated.[10] |
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| "Theatre of Violence" | #14–16 | Robin enters Arkham City to investigate rumors of an underground fight club, and finds it being run out of the Penguin's hideout in the city's old natural history museum.Bane intrudes and finds himself matched againstSolomon Grundy.[11][12][13] |
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| "Arkham City Sirens" | #17–19 | A brief team-up betweenCatwoman,Poison Ivy andHarley Quinn ends poorly, and later Ivy convinces Harley to help her get revenge by setting a trap for Catwoman, using a kidnapped Batman as bait.[14][15][16] |
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| "Crocodile Tears" | #20–22 | Killer Croc reflects on his origins while roaming the sewers in search of food. A group of the Joker's henchmen searching for the Penguin's men stumble upon him, but Croc takes an unexpected liking to "Hammer", the Abramovici twin in the Joker's employ, and agrees, for the time being, to focus on devouring the Penguin's men.[17][18][19] |
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| "Vicki in Wonderland" | #23–25 | TheMad Hatter "invites"Vicki Vale to his tea party withCatwoman,Poison Ivy and other entranced criminals.[20][21][22] |
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| "Operation: Kill Joker" | #26–28 | Deadshot is hired by the Penguin to kill the Joker, but later returns to the Joker with a cache of weapons from the Penguin's private arsenal, revealing himself to beClayface in disguise.[23][24][25] |
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| "Clown Court" | #29–31 | Two-Face puts theJoker on trial with almost the entire inmate population of Arkham City as witnesses.[26][27][28] |
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| "Repentance" | #32–34 | Quincy Sharp, former warden of Arkham Asylum and former mayor of Gotham City, has become Arkham City's newest inmate, and the entire population wants revenge. He takes refuge in the church, expressing remorse for allowing himself to be manipulated byHugo Strange. WhenBane appears to help in breaking down the church's fortified doors, Sharp volunteers to give himself up to save the other refugees in the church. This proves to be unnecessary whenAzrael arrives to save the day.[29][30][31] |
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| "Eviction Notice" | #35–37 | Black Mask is evicted by the Joker from his factory; he plans to kill him with the Penguin's help but is recaptured and re-sent to Arkham City.[32][33][34] |
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| "Beloved" | #38–40 | Five years before the events ofBatman: Arkham City, Bruce Wayne is reunited withTalia al Ghul, when she saves his life. In the present, they meet again and seem to rekindle their romance, but part company again when Bruce realizes she is testing his willingness to becomeRa's al Ghul's heir. She returns to her father in disappointment, and he comforts her that he has found a new potential heir inHugo Strange.[35][36][37] |
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| "Uninvited Guests" | #41–43 | Hugo Strange sends his Tyger guards to attackWayne Manor, where they confront Robin, Nightwing and Alfred.[38][39][40] |
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| "Welcome to the Slough of Despond" | #44–58 | A new vigilante calling himself "the Bookbinder" attacks well-known people in Gotham, who he blames for contributing to the city's decline in education, health standards, and basic courtesy. Batman tries to figure out who he is and how to catch him, while Commissioner Gordon faces increasing pressure from Mayor Sharp to do the same.[41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55] |
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