Comic Title: Batman:The Caped Crusader Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2018
On Sale Date: August 15, 2018 Direct Market Date August 15, 2018
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Direct Market Date August 15, 2018
Source: Previews, #356

Direct Market Date August 15, 2018
Source: DC Previews, #1

Cover Price: $29.99
Page Count: 320
Editor: Jeb Woodard

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Wall"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: James C. Owsley
Penciller: Jim Aparo
Inker: Mike DeCarlo
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted From:
Batman #431 (1989)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Power of the Atom #9; next appearance in Detective Comics #598)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Detective Comics #596; next appearance in Detective Comics #598)

Villain(s)

• Ralph Stuart (a criminal; no further appearances)
• Mugs Clifford (a criminal; no further appearances)
• Thaddeus Gladden (a broker for assassins; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Four assassins (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Tanja Lloyd (a murder victim; no further appearances)
• Several guards (no further appearances)
• An unnamed apartment tenant (no further appearances)
• Kirigi (a martial arts master; no further appearances)
• Linda Riley (a federal prosecutor; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Bruce Wayne (in flashback to his training; last appearance in Secret Origins of the World's Greatest Super-Heroes TPB; next appearance in Detective Comics #599)

Synopsis:
Batman has criminal Ralph Stuart under surveillance. The crook turns himself in after witnessing a murder committed by four ninja assassins. Batman locates the victim and the man who put out the hit, Mugs Clifford. He then tracks down the assassins who used a technique known as the vibrating palm. Batman is one of the few people in the world who knows the move.

Following the capture of the assassins, Batman seeks out Kirigi, the master who taught him the move. The master makes no moral judgment concerning others than he trained, but the Batman does.