Batman: Fortunate Son

([October] 1999)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 3 pages (report information)

Letters

typeset

Fortunate Son (Table of Contents: 2)

Batman / comic story / 90 pages (report information)

Script

Gerard Jones (credited)

Pencils

Gene Ha (credited)

Inks

Gene Ha (credited)

Colors

Gloria Vasquez (credited); Digital Chameleon (credited) (separations); Matt Hollingsworth (credited) (additional colors and separations pages 4 and 96)

Letters

Willie Schubert (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Last night I heard the truest rock-and-roll guitar since the antediluvian funk of Chuck Berry and Scotty Moore.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Isaak Crowe; Joker; Riddler [Edward Nigma]; Two-Face [Harvey Dent]

Reprints

• in Batman: Fortunate Son (DC, 2000 series) (1999 [August 2000])
• in Batman: Fortunate Son (RW Uitgeverij, 2013 series) (2013)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script

Gerard Jones (credited, signed); Gene Ha (credited, signed)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

When Archie Goodwin first suggested a rock-and-roll Batman story, we responded with a ton of ideas, but no central thread.

Indexer Notes

Brief essay on the origins of the story, and Archie Goodwin's influence. Goodwin died during the early stages of the project.