Comic Title: Detective Comics #578
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: September 1987
On Sale Date: June 23, 1987 Newsstand Date June 23, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #40

Newsstand Date June 23, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #119

Shipping Date June 2, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #119

Copyright Date June 2, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

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

Title: "...So Shall Ye Reap..."
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Mike W. Barr
Artist: Todd McFarlane
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Batman:Year Two TPB (1990)
Batman Year Two:Fear the Reaper TPB (2003)
Batman:Year Two – The 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #577; next appearance in Batman #436)

Supporting Character(s)

• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Detective Comics #577; next appearance in Batman #436)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Detective Comics #577; next appearance in Batman #439)
• Leslie Thompkins (last appearance in Detective Comics #577; next appearance in Detective Comics #574)

Villain(s)

• Reaper (dies in this story; last appearance in Detective Comics #577; no further appearances)
• Joe Chill (dies in this story; last appearance in Detective Comics #577; no further appearances)
• A group of Gotham City crime lords (Mr. Morritz and Charlie named; last appearance in Detective Comics #577; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Rachel Caspian (last appearance in Detective Comics #577; no further appearances)
• Blinky Morgan (a police informant; no further appearances)
• Bukowski (last appearance in Detective Comics #577; no further appearances)

Comments:
"Year Two" Part 4

The Wayne Foundation building is finished in this story and the Thomas Wayne Memorial Clinic run by Leslie Thompkins opens.

This story is continued from Detective Comics #577.

Synopsis:
While Bruce Wayne is proposing marriage to Rachel Caspian, her father, the Reaper, tips off the police to the locate of a Gotham crime lord meeting. The police raid the warehouse while the Reaper kills many of the crime bosses who are trying to escape. Batman arrives late and gets away with Joe Chill.

Bruce briefly stops to see Rachel before he meets with Chill again. He takes Joe to the alley in which his parents were murdered, then reveals his secret identity. Batman puts a gun to Chill's head, but the crook does not believe he will pull the trigger. Instead the Reaper shoots and kills Chill.

Batman follows the Reaper to the site of the new Wayne Foundation building. Atop the tower the two vigilantes fight. Batman learns that the Reaper is Judson Caspian who approves of him as his successor. The Reaper then falls to his death.

In the aftermath, Rachel calls off the engagement in order to enter the convent. Bruce then helps Leslie Thompkins establish the Thomas Wayne Memorial Clinic.