Bob Schreck (original editor); Michael Wright (original associate editor)
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman (also in flashback); Alfred Pennyworth (flashback); Huntress [Helena Bertinelli]; Sasha Bordeaux; Mallory Moxon (introduction, also in flashback); Thomas Wayne (flashback); Martha Wayne (flashback); Lew Moxon (also in flashback); Barbara Gordon; Philo Zeiss; Deadshot
Synopsis
At a society party, Bruce Wayne encounters Mallory, a woman he met as a young girl in his own childhood at a summer camp--the girl with whom he shared his first kiss. Mallory introduces Bruce to her father--who turns out to be gangster Lew Moxon. Oracle reports to Bruce that Moxon has had extensive surgery to increase his reflexes and brainpower. When Deadshot sends sniper fore into the party, Bruce changes to Batman and swings to intercept. Deadshot targets Batman's swinging line, shoots and severs it...leaving Batman plummeting to the street below.
Bob Schreck (original editor); Michael Wright (original associate editor)
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman (also in flashback); Deadshot; Sasha Bordeaux; Lew Moxon; Mallory Moxon (also in flashback); Philo Zeiss; Angelo Benetti (introduction); Antonio Benetti (introduction); Alfred Pennyworth (flashback)
Synopsis
His shoulder dislocated from the fall, Bruce dines with Mallory and Lex Moxon. Mallory shares a childhood memory of the summer at camp with Bruce. Later, Batman finds Mallory is entwined in her father's criminal empire. Staking out Moxon's penthouse to apprehend Deadshot, Batman faces off against Moxon's bodyguard Zeiss. Deadshot enters the penthouse, shoots Lew Moxon and Batman, both non-fatally. Moxon is paralyzed and unable to speak; Mallory vows vengeance on both Deadshot and Batman. In the back garden of Commission Gordon's former house, Batman soliloquizes on his failure.