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Detective Comics # 600 1989 Blind Justice: Part Three, Chapter Seven: Ulterior Motives pg 55 by Denys Cowan & Dick Giordano

Artists: Denys Cowan (Penciller) , Dick Giordano (Inker) , Todd Klein (Letterer) , Sam Hamm (Writer)

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Title:	Detective Comics # 600 1989 Blind Justice: Part Three, Chapter Seven: Ulterior Motives pg 55 by Denys Cowan & Dick Giordano
Artist:	Denys Cowan (Penciller)
Artist:	Dick Giordano (Inker)
Artist:	Todd Klein (Letterer)
Artist:	Sam Hamm (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	834
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	12/9/2015
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Detective Comics # 600 May 1989
"Blind Justice: Part Three,Chapter Seven: Ulterior Motives " pg 55
Ink over pencil on DC art board
Pencils: Denys Cowan (Signed lower left in panel)
Inks: Dick Giordano
Writer: Sam Hamm
Letters: Todd Klein

Chapter Five: Hidden Agendas

The manhunter, Henri Ducard has been called to Gotham City, to testify againts Bruce Wayne. In the meantime, Dr. Harbinger, who transferred his mind into the body of the hobo man who shot Bruce Wayne, has changed his appearance.

At the Hospital, Bruce recovers from his coma, but the doctors tell him that he might not be able to walk again. Bruce leaves the hospital in a wheelchair and Alfred drives him home. Roy accidentally opens a secret door behind the book shelf in the library. Bruce and Alfred arrive at the Batcave and notice that the alarm has been triggered. Soon they realize that Roy has discovered the secret entrance to the Batcave and Bruce asks him to keep the secret. Roy agrees with one condition: he wants to help Bruce by being his remote controlled soldier using Harbinger's technology, but Bruce refuses.

Elsewhere, Ducard has finished analyzing Batman's history and motives and has come to the conclusion that Batman and Bruce Wayne are too similar to be a coincidence.

Chapter Six: Covert Operations

Alfred and Roy have convinced Bruce to use the mind controlling device in order to make Batman appear during his time in a wheelchair. Roy wears the Batsuit and Bruce uses his body to reach the GCPD Headquarters and talk to Gordon, who was flashing the Bat-Signal. His reappearance convinces Gordon and the police that he is fine and back for good, but Bruce can feel Roy's body growing weary and tired as the night passes. When Roy returned to the Batcave, he feels wasted but he desires to carry on.

Ducard tells Riordan of his experience with a young Bruce Wayne and how all the past events lead to one and single truth: Bruce Wayne is Batman. Riordan couldn't agree with Ducard because in that day's newspapers, Batman was sighted and stopped crimes the night before, whereas Bruce Wayne is still in a wheelchair. Ducard thinks that he might be for once mistaken, but when he is outside and thinking clearly, he realizes that Bruce must be using the mind control device and another body to impersonate Batman and eliminate suspicions.

Bruce uses Roy's body again, and first he tries to make Jeannie see the truth about her and Bruce, but she wouldn't listen. Bruce then decides it's time to get Roy in the Bat-Suit, one last time.

Chapter Seven: Ulterior Motives

Roy, in the batsuit and controlled remotely by Bruce is waiting outside Riordan's place and he follows him to the cartel's secret lab, infiltrates the building and takes down some of the guards when he is surrounded by many Bonecrushers, including Harbinger. While Batman fights them all, he notices that one of them is leaving with a briefcase and he follows. They both land on the railroad tracks, but Batman's leg is trapped when one of the wood tracks and Harbinger notices the chance to eliminate Batman once and for all. Bruce can't make Roy's leg loose and so he decides to switch the frequency and control Harbinger's body instead. Bruce controls Harbinger's body now and Roy regains control of his body, but is in pain and shock for finding himself against Bonecrusher. Bruce tries to make him understand but Roy fights him back and as they fight, a train gets closer to them. Bruce is unable to control Roy and they are both hit by the train, and off the tracks to the street down below to their deaths. Bruce witnessed it all from another body and the experience left him in rage and pain.

The police arrive and find the bodies along with all the legal information exonerating Bruce Wayne from any charge. Bruce tries his best to explain to Jeannie of how her brother died helping him and the city, but she is far too hurt to understand and she blames Bruce of everything that happened.

When Riordan is being transferred to jail, Henri Ducard kills him with a clean shot to the head, as the cartel asked him to and then he leaves Gotham, but leaving a letter for Bruce before going away. In the letter, Ducard congratulates Bruce for having surpassed his own skills and tells him to remember an important lesson: "It's easy to become your enemy, but the trick is to remain yourself".

A few weeks later, Bruce starts his recuperation and Gordon visits him to see how he is doing. Gordon questions him about Roy being in the Batsuit. Gordon knows that Roy wasn't Batman because he saw the two of them together, and also tells him that if Batman decides to take a break for a while, he would understand.

When he finally recovers, Bruce burns the Harbinger device and destroys every evidence left behind. Alone in Wayne Manor, Bruce realizes that if Batman must survive, Bruce can't ever have a normal life, and he accepts it, for justice is blind; blind as a bat.

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Damon Wright
Member Since 2008

Posted on 12/9/2015

Cool page from a classic story!

Michael Molinario
Member Since 2011

Posted on 12/12/2015

Damon Wright wrote:

Cool page from a classic story!

Thanks, I liked what this page had to offer. Seeing a character die, Bruce vulnerable and getting the business from Gordon. I was 10 when this came out and this page brings me right back.

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