The Batman Adventures #4 [Newsstand]

(January 1993)

Riot Act (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Martin Pasko

Pencils

Bradley Rader

Inks

Rick Burchett

Colors

Rick Taylor

Letters

Tim Harkins

Genre

superhero

Characters

Batman; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Summer Gleeson; Commissioner Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; Scarecrow [Jonathan Crane] (villain)

Synopsis

The Scarecrow unleashes an "Illiteracy Plague" on Gotham causing everyone to lose the ability to read.

Reprints

• in Batman: The Collected Adventures (DC, 1993 series) #1 ([December] 1993)
• in Batman: O Desenho da TV (Editora Abril, 1994 series) #2 (Abril 1994)
• in Batman Magazine (Semic S.A., 1994 series) #4 (octobre 1994)
• in Batman (Semic, 1994 series) #4/1994 ([november] 1994)
• in The Batman Adventures (DC, 1998 series) (1993 [June 1998])
• in Batman Annual 2006 (Pedigree Books, 2005 series) (2005)
• in Batman Adventures (DC, 2014 series) #1 (2014 [January 2015])
• in Batman Aventures (Urban Comics, 2016 series) #1 (mars 2016)
• in DC Classics: The Batman Adventures (DC, 2020 series) #4 (November 2020)

Indexer Notes

Continued next issue. Story told in three acts.
Act One: Panic In the Streets (9 pages).
Act Two: Help On the Wing (6 pages).
Act Three: Robin Takes a Fall (7 pages).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Batman Adventures / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Scott Peterson

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Neil Ahlquist, Patrick J. Bohlander, Steve Beery, Aaron Cullers, Jonah Matthew Horwitz and Chris Bonner.