Comic Title: Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams Vol. 2 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2004
On Sale Date: June 16, 2004 Direct Market Date June 30, 2004
Source: Previews, Vol. 14 #4 (#184)

Direct Market Date June 16, 2004
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 240
Editor: Robert Greenberger

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Paint a Picture of Peril"
Pages: 15

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Dennis J. O'Neil
Penciller: Neal Adams
Inker: Dick Giordano

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #397 (1970)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #193; next appearance in Brave & the Bold #89)

Villain(s)

• Four armed thieves (Nick named; no further appearances)
• Orson Payne (a wealthy recluse; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Caterina Valance (a cleaning woman; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman attempts to stop four thieves from robbing an art exhibit on the waterfront. He is wounded during the fight and must abandon his pursuit of the crooks. He discovers that they took only one painting that was not significantly valuable.

When Batman returns to his penthouse as Bruce Wayne, he hears a news report concerning Orson Payne, a wealthy recluse. Once he is recovered from his injury, he sets out after the crooks whose trail leads to Payne's mansion. The man has been driven mad by the loss of his fiancee years earlier. Payne is now hiring men to steal artwork which contain images resembling his former love. After narrowly avoiding a death trap, Batman captures Payne.

Later at his penthouse, Bruce Wayne makes the connection that his cleaning woman Cathy is really Payne's former fiancee.