Comic Title: Batman #420
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: June 1988
On Sale Date: February 16, 1988 Shipping Date February 16, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #2

Shipping Date February 16, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #136

Newsstand Date March 10, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #136

Copyright Date February 16, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date February 23, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #1
Listing dates were out of sequence

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

Title: "Ten Nights of the Beast Part 4"
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 #419; next appearance in Detective Comics #585)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #419; next appearance in Batgirl Special #1)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #419; next appearance in Detective Comics #586)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #418; next appearance in Batman:The Killing Joke #1)

Villain(s)

• KGBeast (last appearance in Batman #419; no further appearances)
• Nabih Salari (dies in this story; last appearance in Batman #419; no further appearances)
• Ambrose Dearling (dies in this story; last appearance in Batman #419; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Ronald Reagan (last appearance in Peacemaker #4; next appearance in Doom Patrol and Suicide Squad #1)

Other Character(s)

• Andrei Yevtushenko (last appearance in Batman #419; no further appearances)
• Keith Parker (last appearance in Batman #419; no further appearances)
• Ralph Bundy (last appearance in Batman #419; next appearance in Batman #429)
• Several FBI agents (MacDonald revealed as a traitor; last appearance in Batman #419; no further appearances)

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

This story is continued from Batman #419.

Synopsis:
Batman tracks the KGBeast to weapons manufacturer Ambrose Dearling. However, Dearling has already been killed after creating a weapon to take the place of the Beast's severed hand. Batman, Gordon, and CIA agent Bundy then take President Reagan to his hotel and get him to agree to Batman's plan.

Gordon poses as the president to lure the Beast's assistant out of hiding. Robin protects Gordon, and Salari is killed by his own suicide bomb. Batman and Bundy then encounter the KGBeast and a traitorous FBI agent while doing their own presidential escort. The traitor is killed, and Batman pursues the Beast into the sewers.

Batman and the Beast fight and wound one another. The Beast kills several CIA agents. Batman eventually traps the Beast in the sewers and seals him in a room with no exits. Batman then returns to the surface. Bundy explains that the decoy standing in for the president has disappeared. Batman meets the decoy, Alfred, outside, and they return home.