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BATMAN #589
Cover Date: May 2001
Cover Price: $2.50
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Cover Credits:
Art: Scott McDaniel (signed)
Colors: Patrick Martin
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Credits:
| Story | Brian K. Vaughan |
| Pencils | Scott McDaniel |
| Inks | Karl Story |
| Lettering | John Costanza |
| Colors | Roberta Tewes |
| Color separations | Wildstorm FX |
| Editing | Bob Schreck |
Feature Character(s):
- Batman (also in flashback preceding main story and in flashback to early in his career as Batman)
Supporting Character(s):
- Oracle (also in flashback)
- Nightwing II (also in flashback)
- Alfred Pennyworth (in flashback to several years ago)
- James Gordon (in flashback to several years ago)
- Harvey Dent (in flashback to several years ago)
Villain(s):
- Ventriloquist (in flashback)
- Scarface (in flashback)
- Matches Malone (dies in flashback preceding issue #588; also in flashback to several years ago preceding flashback to death)
- Carver Malone (first appearance; Matches' brother; dies in flashback)
- Lester (first appearance; in flashback to several years ago)
- Dougie (first appearance; in flashback to several years ago)
- Joker (in flashback to several years ago)
Synopsis: - Matches Malone is dead, and Batman is none too happy about this. It had generally been assumed that Malone was simply an assumed ID, but as Batman tells Nightwing, there really was a Malone many years ago, one of a pair of arsonist brothers. When his brother Carver died, possibly at his hands, Matches committed suicide and Batman took over his identity. However, Malone had faked his death and took on another life elsewhere. When he heard about the possible stool pigeon with his name, he decided it was time to come back to Gotham, only to find himself in serious trouble with Scarface.