Comic Title: Detective Comics #608
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: 1989
On Sale Date: September 26, 1989 Shipping Date September 26, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #171

Copyright Date September 26, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Shipping Date September 28, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #9

Direct Market Date September 28, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #116, #118

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Letters to the Editor"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Alan Grant
Penciller: Norm Breyfogle
Inker: Steve Mitchell
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Batman:Anarky TPB (1999)
Legends of the Dark Knight:Norm Breyfogle Vol. 2 HC (2019)
Batman:The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 4 TPB (2021)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #442; next appearance in Detective Comics #609)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #442; next appearance in Detective Comics #609)

Villain(s)

• Anarky (Lonnie Machin; first appearance; next appearance in Detective Comics #609)
• Three drug dealers (no further appearances)
• Johnny Vomit (a drug smuggling guitar player; no further appearances)
• Three street dealers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Dave Stang (an elderly woman; no further appearances)
• Warren Bates (owner of a chemical factory; no further appearances)
• Mike and Roxanne Machin (Lonnie's parents; next appearance in Detective Comics #609)

Comments:
Anarky in Gotham City Part One

This story continues in Detective Comics #609.

Synopsis:
Batman visits a night club where he waits for a band led by Johnny Vomit to leave the stage. He catches Johnny delivering drugs to some dealers which he smuggled into the country. The dealers attack Batman, allowing Johnny time to run. When he gets outside Johnny is electrocuted by a masked man in a red cape. The man is gone by the time Batman has returned.

Later that night, the masked man, known as Anarky, breaks into a chemical factory. He the poisons the owner with the same toxins which the factory puts into the water supply. Although Batman agrees with Anarky's motives, he believes the new vigilante has gone too far outside the law.