Cover: Graham Nolan & Scott Hanna

Detective Comics #678

Sep 1994 · DC · 1.50 USD; 2.10 CAD; 0.70 GBP

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“Yesterdays Gone”

In "Yesterdays Gone," Batman confronts a haunting alternate reality in Detective Comics #678, where the tragedy that forged him never happened—Thomas and Martha Wayne live, and young Bruce Wayne is the one who died. Written by Chuck Dixon and brought to life with stark, atmospheric art by Graham Nolan, this pivotal issue explores the weight of a life rewritten, as Batman tracks Joe Chill through a world where his own past is a ghost. The cover, by Graham Nolan and Scott Hanna, captures the grim determination of a hero facing a past he can't change.

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writer Chuck Dixon · artist Graham Nolan · inker Bob McLeod · colorist Adrienne Roy · letterer John Costanza · cover Graham Nolan, Scott Hanna

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Full credits

writer Chuck Dixon

artist Graham Nolan

inker Bob McLeod

colorist Adrienne Roy

letterer John Costanza

cover pencils Graham Nolan

cover inks Scott Hanna

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Batman finds himself in an altered timeline where Thomas and Martha Wayne survived the mugging that instead claimed the life of young Bruce Wayne. Batman hunts Joe Chill to avenge the death of young Bruce.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).