Batman #590 [Direct Sales]

(June 2001)

Close Before Striking: Act Three (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Brian K. Vaughan (credited)

Pencils

Scott McDaniel (credited)

Inks

Karl Story (credited)

Colors

Roberta Tewes (credited); Wildstorm FX (credited) (separations)

Letters

John Costanza (credited)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Batman [Bruce Wayne; "Matches" Malone]; Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Oracle [Barbara Gordon]; Ventriloquist; Scarface

Synopsis

Batman tracks the Ventriloquist, intent on killing him. As the physical conflict goes on, he fights an inner battle between his persona and "Matches". In the end he is able to shrug off the "Matches" persona and just take Ventriloquist into custody.

Reprints

• in Batman (Panini Deutschland, 2001 series) #16 ([August] 2002)
• in Batman: False Faces (DC, 2008 series) ([April] 2008)
• in Batman: False Faces (DC, 2009 series) ([April] 2009)
• in Batman by Brian K. Vaughan (DC, 2017 series) ([May] 2017)

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

Bat-Signals / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Michael Wright

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Christopher T. Gladstone, Matt Rosenfeld, Terry Upp, John Hefner, Scott D. Randel and Brendan Walsh.

[various] (Table of Contents: 3)

advertisement / 12 pages (report information)

Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Synopsis

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