Comic Title: DC Universe by Neil Gaiman TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2018
On Sale Date: February 21, 2018 Direct Market Date February 21, 2018
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Direct Market Date February 21, 2018
Source: Previews, #350

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 224
Editor: Scott Nybakken

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Pavane"
Pages: 14

Writer: Neil Gaiman
Artist: Mark Buckingham
Letterer: Agustin Mas
Colorist: Nansi Hoolahan

Reprinted From:
Secret Origins #36 (1989)

Feature Character(s)

• Poison Ivy (full name Pamela Lillian Isley revealed; last appearance in Swamp Thing Annual #4; next appearance in Suicide Squad #33)

Other Character(s)

• Stuart (a recruiter for Task Force X; no further appearances)
• Paula Goldblum (a prison guard; no further appearances)
• Several prison guards (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Jason Woodrue (in flashback)
• Batman (in flashback)
• Robin (in flashback)
• Mr. and Mrs. Isley (Poison Ivy's parents; in flashback)

Comments:
This story reveals that it was Jason Woodrue who experimented on Pamela Isley not the frenchman Legrand.

Synopsis:
A recruiter for Task Force X named Stuart poses as a prison inspector. He interviews Poison Ivy and becomes enchanted by her. He has a brief relationship with one of the female prison guards which ends when his thoughts of Ivy cause him to call out her name in bed. Eventually, Stuart takes Ivy into the prison yard to talk. She touches and poisons him, then uses the plants to ensnare him. The guards stop her, but Stuart is humiliated. He leaves the prison with Ivy still in his thoughts. He recommends that she be returned to Arkham Asylum.