Comic Title: Batman:Gothic TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1992
On Sale Date: June 9, 1992 Shipping Date June 9, 1992
Source: Previews, Vol. 2 #3 (#39)

Direct Market Date June 10, 1992
Source: Usenet, Capital City : MISC: New Books-6/10/92

Shipping Date June 9, 1992
Source: Direct Currents, #52

Direct Market Date June 11, 1992
Source: Comic Shop News, #258, #261

Cover Price: $12.95
Page Count: 128
Editor: Michael Charles Hill

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Burning Nun"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist: Klaus Janson
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Steven J. Buccellato

Reprinted From:
Legends of the Dark Knight #8 (1990)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #7; next appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #9)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #7; next appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #9)

Villain(s)

• Mr. Whisper (last appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #7; next appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #9)
• Morgenstern (last appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #7; next appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #9)
• Henry (Morgenstern's henchman; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Conrad (an evil monk; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Several Capuchin monks (die in flashback; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The burning nun (last appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #7; next appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #10)
• Several Austrian monks (no further appearances)
• A group of nuns (die in flashback; no further appearances)
• The headmaster of a boys school (no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Mr. Whisper (aka Manfred; 300 years ago; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #9)
• The burning nun (300 years ago; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #6)

Comments:
Gothic Volume Three

This story is continued from Legends of the Dark Knight #7 and continues in Legends of the Dark Knight #9.

Synopsis:
Following Batman's encounter with Mr. Whisper, Bruce Wayne reaches out to his former school and gains possession of recordings of poetry readings by the former headmaster Winchester. Using the recordings, Batman determines that Winchester was Austrian. He also discovers the voices of his parents on the tape. His father mentions Lake Dess.

Batman heads to Austria to investigate the drowned monastery there. He meets a monk who tells the story of a corrupted monk named Manfred who sold his soul to the devil for 300 years of life. Though the other evil monks perished in a flood, folklore contains information that Manfred escapes their fate. Batman also finds a connection in the monastery linking the legend to a cathedral in Gotham which is being restored.