Comic Title: Detective Comics #599
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: April 1989
On Sale Date: March 7, 1989 Copyright Date March 7, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Shipping Date March 9, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #160

Shipping Date March 9, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #2

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

Title: "Citizen Wayne"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Sam Hamm
Penciller: Denys B. Cowan
Inker: Dick Giordano
Inker: Frank McLaughlin
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Blind Justice TPB (1989)
Batman:Blind Justice TPB (1992)
Batman:The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 3 TPB (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #598; next appearance in Detective Comics #600)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Detective Comics #598; next appearance in Detective Comics #600)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Detective Comics #598; next appearance in Detective Comics #600)

Villain(s)

• Kenneth Harbinger (last appearance in Detective Comics #598; next appearance in Detective Comics #600)
• Mitchell Riordan (last appearance in Detective Comics #598; next appearance in Detective Comics #600)

Other Character(s)

• Jeannie Bowen (last appearance in Detective Comics #598; next appearance in Detective Comics #600)
• Roy Kane (last appearance in Detective Comics #598; next appearance in Detective Comics #600)
• Jim Butcher and Jack Baker (talk show hosts; no further appearances)
• Chu Chin Li and Tsunetomo (martial arts masters; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Theodore Lund (last name revealed; dies in this story; last appearance in Detective Comics #598; no further appearances)
• Henri Ducard (in flashback; first appearance; next appearance in Detective Comics #600)
• T-Bone (last appearance in Detective Comics #598; no further appearances)
• Two lawyers (both die in this story; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Bruce Wayne (during his training in the Far East; last appearance in Batman #431; next appearance in Detective Comics #600)

Comments:
"Blind Justice Chapter Four"

This story is continued from Detective Comics #598 and continues in Detective Comics #600.

Synopsis:
Bruce Wayne is arrested and charged with espionage. The charges are the result of false records planted by Mitchell Riordan at Waynetech. Bruce's legal team question him about his involvement in the Far East. Wayne is unable to tell them the truth. He was receiving the training he needed to become Batman. As public sentiment grows against Bruce, a homeless man tries to kill him. Bruce's lawyers are killed, and Wayne is rushed to the hospital.