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BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS #6
Cover Date: August 2000
Cover Price: $2.50
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Cover Credits:
Art: Brian Bolland (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Devin K. Grayson |
| Pencils | Paul Ryan |
| Inks | John Floyd |
| Lettering | Bill Oakley |
| Colors | Jean Segarra |
| Color separations | Wildstorm FX |
| Editing | Dennis O'Neil |
Feature Character(s):
- Batman (last in Detective Comics #747)
- Oracle (last/next in ???; also in flashback)
Supporting Character(s):
- Alfred Pennyworth (last in ???)
- James Gordon (in between Detective Comics #747 and #748; also in flashback)
- Harvey Bullock (in between Detective Comics #747 and #748)
- Renée Montoya (last in Detective Comics #747; next in Catwoman Vol. 2 #83)
- Roger Gordon (in flashback)
- Thelma Gordon (in flashback)
Villain(s):
- Councilman Sherwin Waldemar (first appearance)
- Bentley Stuart (first appearance)
- Penguin (last in Young Justice: Sins of Youth #2; next in Batman Vol. 1 #582)
- Rudy (one of the Penguin's men)
- Gantz (one of the Penguin's men)
- Rolo (one of the Penguin's men)
Synopsis: - Through his social contacts as Bruce Wayne, Batman learns of the terrible actions of a Gotham City councilman who diverted a shipment of 'Contagion' antidote for his own financial gain. The documents that prove this were buried in the cataclysmic earthquake. Batman finds the vault and discovers Waldemar's box empty, along with a box belonging to Barbara Gordon, who is anxious that its contents don't fall into the hands of the police. So Batman investigates alone, finding that the trail leads first to the Penguin and then to Bentley Stuart, another of Wayne's acquaintances, who was working for the Penguin, but decided to blackmail Councilman Waldemar alone. He is able to save Bentley from the Penguin's hired guns, and hand him and most of his findings over to the police. However, he takes an envelope addressed to Jim Gordon back to Barbara. Although he hasn't read it, she tells him what it contains - a letter from her mother to Jim (Barbara's father's brother) which suggests that he might actually be Barbara's natural father. She isn't going to tell him about this, as it reflects to badly on the past of all her family.
Credits:
| Story | Walter Simonson |
| Art | John Paul Leon |
| Lettering | John Workman |
| Editing | Mark Chiarello |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Riddler (last in Action Comics #760; next, as Enigma, in Adventures of Superman #582)
Other Character(s):
- Sir Richard Pettifogger (deceased billionaire; behind the scenes)
- Machlan (a police officer)
Comment(s):
- This story takes place at an unspecified point in Batman's crimefighting career.
Synopsis: - A wealthy Gothamite with a huge collection of Lewis Carroll memorabilia has died. It is rumored that in his possession he has Carroll's answer to the Wonderland riddle 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' and this is an irresistible target for Edward Nigma, the Riddler. He breaks into the house and negotiates his way through a maze of Wonderland and Looking Glass animatronics, until he finds himself at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, where the answer is in the teapot. However, Batman is waiting for him and captures him. And, as a final blow, tells Nigma that this is not the correct answer to the riddle, but rather one that Batman planted there, making the Dark Knight the only living person who knows the solution.