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Batman: Gotham Knights 31

BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS #31

Cover Date: September 2002
Cover Price: $2.50

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Cover Credits:
Art: Dave Gibbons (signed)


Story: [Bruce Wayne: Fugitive Part Seventeen]: "Clean" (22 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDevin K. Grayson
PencilsRoger Robinson
InksJohn Floyd
LetteringBill Oakley
ColorsGloria Vasquez
Color separationsWildstorm FX
EditingLysa Hawkins

Feature Character(s):

Batman (last in Azrael: Agent of the Bat #92)

Villain(s):

Robert Amherst (last in Detective Comics #772; next in Batman Vol. 1 #605)
Robert Deren (first appearance)
Scott Wilson (first appearance)
Dana Kellerman (first appearance)
Eli Goldman (first appearance)
Gregory Baithswane (first appearance)
their unnamed leader (first appearance)

Comment(s):

Bruce Wayne: Fugitive continued from Detective Comics #772 and concludes in Batman Vol. 1 #605.

Synopsis:

Robert Amherst is convinced that after years of being a government agent, someone has decided that he is a security risk and he's about to be 'cleaned'. However, it is Batman that is pursuing him, for he was the one that hired a certain 'Mr. Smith' to kill Vesper Fairchild. When the two men meet, Amherst tells Batman that his orders were to perform a character assassination on Bruce Wayne, and that these orders came from the top: the White House...


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Second Story: "Hands" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryScott Peterson
ArtDanijel Zezelj
LetteringBill Oakley
EditingMark Chiarello

Feature Character(s):

Batman

Villain(s):

Nails Greig (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

Celia Patricia Nielsen (first appearance; dies in flashback)
her grandfather (first appearance; dies; also in flashback)
her father (first appearance)

Synopsis:

While chasing a criminal, Batman comes across an old skeleton of a young girl. He digs into the past to find out who killed her, and discovers that she was not killed, she just fell off a train platform because her grandfather did not hold on to her while the train approached.


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