Comic Title: Batman #422
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1988
On Sale Date: April 19, 1988 Shipping Date April 19, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #3

Shipping Date April 19, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #138

Newsstand Date May 12, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #138

Copyright Date April 19, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Newsstand Date May 3, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #752, #754

Shipping Date April 19, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #752, #754

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

Title: "Just Deserts"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Jim Starlin
Penciller: Mark D. Bright
Inker: Josef Rubinstein
Inker: Steve Mitchell
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Reprinted In:
Batman:The Caped Crusader Vol. 1 TPB (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #421; next appearance in Batman:The Killing Joke #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batgirl Special #1; next appearance in Batman Annual #12)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #421; next appearance in Batman:The Killing Joke #1)

Villain(s)

• Karl Branneck (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Vito Procaccini (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Charlie (a pimp; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Judy Koslosky (no further appearances)
• Brodsky (a defense attorney; no further appearances)
• An unnamed prostitute (no further appearances)
• Several police officers (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Batman #421.

Synopsis:
Batman and Robin follow Karl Branneck and Vito Procaccini who are suspected in the murders of more than ten women. Branneck knows that Batman is following and manages to elude pursuit. When Vito has done the same with Robin, the two crooks reunite. Branneck then kills his partner to prevent him from talking.

A short time later, Batman turns up at Karl's apartment. He has recovered the murder weapon and has Branneck arrested. However, when the case reaches court, the defense attorney is able to get the weapon thrown out as evidence since Batman was the one who found it. Without that evidence, the case is dropped.

Branneck goes free and plans to leave Gotham City. Before leaving, he plans to kill another woman. He decides to make it a blond woman that he has seen repeatedly. When he tries to drag her into his van, the woman pulls a razor from her purse and slashes his throat. The police find Branneck dead a short time later. The woman, Judy Koslosky, is the sister of one of Branneck's previous victims. She found Branneck before Batman and was baiting him to try to kill her. She is arrested, but she believes that no jury will convict her.