Comic Title: Legends of the Dark Knight #1 [Variant A]
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1989
On Sale Date: October 10, 1989
Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Andrew Helfer

Notes:
This issue has a second cover wrap;
The outer cover has 4 color variations

Title: "Shaman Book One"
Pages: 26

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Dennis J. O'Neil
Penciller: Ed Hannigan
Inker: John R. Beatty
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Richmond Lewis

Reprinted From:
Legends of the Dark Knight #1 (1989)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #404; next appearance in Batman Annual #13)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #404; next appearance in Batman Annual #13)
• Leslie Thompkins (last appearance in Detective Comics #574; next appearance in Detective Comics #579)

Villain(s)

• Thomas Woodley (a killer; first appearance; next appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #3)
• Several small-time criminals (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Willy Doggett (a bounty hunter; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Tina Wilson (a pregnant woman; name not revealed in this story; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• An Inuit shaman and his granddaughter (next appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #3)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Bruce Wayne (before returning to Gotham City; last appearance in Detective Comics #600; next appearance in Batman #404)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Selina Kyle (in flashback)

Comments:
This story continues in part in Legends of the Dark Knight #2.

Pages 1-13 of this story take place just prior to the events depicted in Batman #404. Pages 14-17 recap the events of that story including, Bruce Wayne's return to Gotham after years training abroad, his first attempt at being a vigilante, and his encounter with the bat. The remainder of this story takes place immediately following Bruce becoming Batman.

Synopsis:
Bruce Wayne hires bounty hunter and expert tracker Willy Doggett to train with him during the pursuit of killer Thomas Woodley near the Arctic Circle. Doggett is shot while following Woodley up a snow covered mountain. Bruce knows he is the next target. He is able to trick the killer. The two men fight. Woodley slips and falls to his death, but Bruce is left alone on the mountain with no supplies.

Bruce continues his climb hoping to find shelter before freezing to death. He is found near-death by an Inuit tribe. The tribe shaman, who wears a bat-shaped mask, performs a ritual which includes a story about a bat who helps a raven recover from illness. After Bruce is healed, he returns to Gotham City after many travels abroad.

Shortly after his return, Bruce has his first excursion as a vigilante, which does not go well. He makes it home where he witnesses a bat crash through his window. The bat, along with a passage from a book concerning superstitious criminals, inspires Bruce to become Batman.

During his first outing, he aids Leslie Tompkins, whose clinic is being robbed. He saves Leslie and a pregnant woman. However, when the fight is over, the pregnant woman kills herself while screaming the name Chubala.