Batman / Catwoman: The Gotham War: Battle Lines#1
Cover: Jorge Jiménez
Batman / Catwoman: The Gotham War: Battle Lines #1
“The Gotham War [Chapter 1]: Battle Lines”
writer Tini Howard · writer Chip Zdarsky · artist Mike Hawthorne · inker Adriano Di Benedetto · colorist Romulo Fajardo Jr. · letterer Clayton Cowles · cover Jorge Jiménez
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Full credits
writer Tini Howard
writer Chip Zdarsky
artist Mike Hawthorne
inker Adriano Di Benedetto
colorist Romulo Fajardo Jr.
letterer Clayton Cowles
cover pencils, inks Jorge Jiménez
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After being worn down from his recent battles with Failsafe, Red Mask, and Insomnia, Batman awakens from a 8-week long sleep. He finds that in his absence crime has gone down, with the major villains not being able to hire enough henchmen to pull off their crimes. He soon learns that Catwoman is responsible for hiring away the underlings and planning profitable non-violent crimes for them. She makes a proposal to the Bat-family to let her continue her operations that have resulted in making the city safer, but Batman refuses to consider her offer, placing them at odds.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).