Comic Title: Batman #419
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: May 1988
On Sale Date: January 19, 1988 Shipping Date January 19, 1988
Source: DC Releases, #48

Shipping Date January 19, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #134

Newsstand Date February 11, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #134

Copyright Date January 19, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Circulation: 193980
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Ten Nights of the Beast Part III"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Jim Starlin
Penciller: Jim Aparo
Inker: Mike DeCarlo
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Batman:Ten Nights of the Beast TPB (1994)
Batman:The Caped Crusader Vol. 1 TPB (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #418; next appearance in Batman #420)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #418; next appearance in Batman #420)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #418; next appearance in Batman #420)

Villain(s)

• KGBeast (last appearance in Batman #418; next appearance in Batman #420)
• Nabih Salari (last appearance in Batman #418; next appearance in Batman #420)
• Ambrose Dearling (a weapons manufacturer; next appearance in Batman #420)

Other Character(s)

• Andrei Yevtushenko (last appearance in Batman #418; next appearance in Batman #420)
• Keith Parker (last appearance in Batman #418; next appearance in Batman #420)
• Ralph Bundy (last appearance in Batman #418; next appearance in Batman #420)
• Several FBI agents (MacDonald, Leonard, Perry, Stout, and Greely named; last appearance in Batman #418; next appearance in Batman #420)
• Brian Ridwell (the military head of the SDI program; behind-the-scenes; no further appearances)
• Burns (a U.S. Congressman; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Senator Dayle (last appearance in Batman #418; no further appearances)

Comments:
Ten Nights of the Beast Part 3 of 4.

This story is continued from Batman #418 and continues in Batman #420.

Synopsis:
The KGBeast strikes again by shooting down a plane carrying General Ridwell and CIA agent Bundy. Batman goes undercover at a hotel where the police have hidden the Beast's next two targets. Batman notices that the door to the room of Congressman Burns has been rigged to explode, but he is too late to stop it. He then helps the other target Senator Dayle escape.

Batman goes after the KGBeast. The Beast tries to escape via the rooftops. Batman snares the Beast's arm with a rope and thinks he has caught him. However, the Beast uses an axe to cut off his own wrist. He then escapes.

Batman rejoins the police and FBI. He learns that Bundy and Ridwell have survived. The plane that was shot down was only a diversionary drone. Batman then plans to protect the Beast's final target, Ronald Reagan.