Batman (Stone Arch Books)

"The Penguin purchases Gotham's largest media company. Meanwhile, a crime wave hits the city. Batman soon learns that these events are related. After the Dark Knight stops a crime, the Penguin's TV news channel edit the security tapes and police reports to make Batman look like a criminal. People begin to fear the Dark Knight. If he can't prove his innocence, the hero will end up in prison, and the Penguin will fly free"--P. [4] of cover.

Billionaire BRUCE WAYNE is asked to support the military's newest weapon, the ParaBomb X, a high-tech orb that emits a paralyzing light. But during the weapon's demonstration, a general grabs the orb, crashes through the window, and falls to the street below. BRUCE WAYNE is stunned. When he looks down at the street, he sees the thief turn into a gooey pile of mud and slip down a storm drain with the stolen weapon. He wasn't a general at all, he was...

Junior high school student Tim Drake is tired of being being a hero-in-training. He's ready to become the full-time sidekick of Batman, Gotham's greatest crime fighter. The Dark Knight, however, has one final test for his anxious apprentice, and it won't be easy. Tim will need the help of Nightwing, Batman's former partner, to complete the timely task and become the next Robin.

BATMAN has been kidnapped by the RIDDLER! The crook has left behind one of his infamous riddles, addressed to ROBIN. If ROBIN can solve the puzzle, he will locate the CAPED CRUSADER. But that first riddle leads to another. Then the RIDDLER turns off all the lights in GOTHAM CITY. What, ROBIN wonders, is the point? When will the riddles end? If the BOY WONDER cannot find his partner by the next sunrise, BATMAN will be gone forever.

"Many years after the death of his parents, Bruce Wayne comes face to face with their murderer, Joe Chill. While chasing down this cold-blooded crook, Bruce recalls the story of his own past and the evolution of his alter ego-- Batman"--Unedited summary from book.