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Batman: Caped Crusader – Night Ride

  • Title: Batman: Caped Crusader – Night Ride
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Batman: Caped Crusader - Night Ride

Hmm, okay? The oddest episode of the First Season of Batman: Caped Crusader introduces a ghostly anti-Robin Hood terrorizing the poor of Gotham City by robbing from charities and the like. While the episode’s B-story continues to play out the seediness of Gotham City in Harvey Dent (Diedrich Bader) falling behind in the polls and accepting the help of Rupert Thorne (Cedric Yarbrough) which will have repercussions in the final two episodes of the season, this ghost story certainly seems a bit out of place. The ghost does weave into Harvey’s story, giving him another public black eye and causing the candidate to take a hard look at Thorne’s offer.

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Batman: Caped Crusader – The Stress of Her Regard

  • Title: Batman: Caped Crusader – The Stress of Her Regard
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Batman: Caped Crusader - The Stress of Her Regard

After seeing Harleen Quinzel (Jamie Chung)  as a recurring character in the previous episodes, you knew sooner or later we were going to get a Harley Quinn episode. Far less wacky than her introduction in Batman: The Animated Series, the version we get in Batman: The Caped Crusader plays on the psychologist’s cold calculation and drive to make the wealthy men of Gotham City pay. Both Batman (Hamish Linklater) and Barbara Gordon (Krystal Joy Brown) will uncover how the psychologist spends her free time breaking down the minds of men, brainwashing them, and driving them insane.

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Batman: Caped Crusader – Night of the Hunters

  • Title: Batman: Caped Crusader – Night of the Hunters
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Batman: Caped Crusader - Night of the Hunters

Following the events of the previous episode, Batman (Hamish Linklater) is now public enemy number one with Montoya (Michelle C. Bonilla) being put in charge of a new task force to take down the vigilante. She brings in Harleen Quinzel (Jamie Chung) for her take on Batman as well as stages fake muggings to bring him out of the shadows. When those fail, Flass (Gary Anthony Williams) and Bullock (John DiMaggio) decide on a more dangerous tactic that earns the ire of Gordon (Eric Morgan Stuart) but skewed public perception puts the crooked cops in charge of capturing Batman from this point on.

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Batman #243

Batman #243

Throwback Tuesday takes us back more than 50 years to Batman‘s pursuit of Ra’s al Ghul around the world ending at a secret base high in the Himalayan Mountains and the first appearance of the Lazarus Pit. Written by Dennis O’Neil and drawn by Neal Adams, Batman #243 begins with Batman besting Lo Ling in combat forcing the other man to help the Dark Knight Detective find the illusive Ra’s al Ghul leading the pair to Switzerland and a run in with Ubu and Talia (one of who treats him much more warmly than the other) before storming the refuge of the Demon’s Head only to learn of Ra’s recent passing. 

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The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #8

The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #8

Mystery, Inc. help Batman on an odd case where it appears a giant has stolen oversized objects from the museum’s new exhibit, although the evidence left behind is inconclusive. The issue also introduces Fred‘s hero trap creator Eivol Ekdal who designed several of the artifacts in the museum. In a typical Scooby twist, but without the last-minute unmasking, it turns out Ekdal is actually behind the the fake giant and tricks our heroes, trapping inside a giant pinball machine while he and his henchmen attempt to make off with the wealth of riches he has hidden in one his creations.

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