Comic Title: Batman #418
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: April 1988
On Sale Date: December 15, 1987 Shipping Date December 15, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #47

Shipping Date December 15, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #131

Newsstand Date January 7, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #131

Copyright Date December 15, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

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

Title: "Ten Nights of the Beast Part II"
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 #417; next appearance in Batman #419)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #417; next appearance in Batman #419)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #417; next appearance in Batman #419)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Detective Comics #582; next appearance in Batman #420)

Villain(s)

• KGBeast (last appearance in Batman #417; next appearance in Batman #419)
• Nabih Salari (last appearance in Batman #417; next appearance in Batman #419)

Other Character(s)

• Andrei Yevtushenko (last appearance in Batman #417; next appearance in Batman #419)
• Keith Parker (last appearance in Batman #417; next appearance in Batman #419)
• Ralph Bundy (last appearance in Batman #417; next appearance in Batman #419)
• Several FBI agents (Leonard named; last appearance in Batman #417; next appearance in Batman #419)
• Silvia Brrows and John Kahill (a math expert and her boyfriend; both die in this story; no further appearances)
• Ben Wilder (a presidential advisor; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Guests at a fundraising dinner (all die in this story; no further appearances)
• Arty, Benny, Ralphy, Raoul, and Lin (informants; no further appearances)
• Senator Dayle (behind-the-scenes; replaced by a dummy; next appearance in Batman #419)

Comments:
Ten Nights of the Beast Part 2 of 4.

This story is continued from Batman #417 and continues in Batman #419.

Synopsis:
Batman, the Gotham Police Department, FBI, and CIA are all working to protect potential targets from a Soviet assassin, the KGBeast. The Beast kills Silvia Burrows using poison before the police can place her under protective custody. The police then stake out a fundraising event where Ben Wilder is scheduled to speak. Despite their efforts, the Beast and his assistant poison everyone in the room.

Batman has his first face-to-face meeting with the Beast. However, he is forced to stop pursuit to save a bus load of children. He then stakes out the hotel room of Senator Dayle. The KGBeast fires a rocket into the room, but the senator was only a dummy. Batman and the Beast fight again, but the Beast proves to be a formidable opponent and escapes.