"Fire & Ice": Amid a devastating snow storm, Gothamites have begun looting. Batman and Robin try to get the situation under control, and Robin's violence makes Batman think back to his own early days as Robin. One man brings his reluctant young son with him when he robs an electronic store. When
Sometimes the hardest lessons are learned in the midst of a storm. Batman (Dick Grayson)
Batman 80-Page Giant 2010 #1 is a one-shot with a cover date of February, 2010.
Synopsis for "Fire & Ice"
Amid a devastating snow storm, Gothamites have begun looting. Batman and Robin try to get the situation under control, and Robin's violence makes Batman think back to his own early days as Robin. One man brings his reluctant young son with him when he robs an electronic store. When Batman and Robin try to stop him, he draws a gun on Batman, and his son jumps in between them and is shot instead. Batman stabilizes the boy until paramedics arrive. Batman thinks maybe it was worth it if the man realized his mistake.
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Synopsis for "Pure as the Driven Snow"
Alfred Pennyworth treats a prostitute to a night of dinner and dancing at the Wayne Foundation Winter Ball. They are asked to leave after Alfred gets into a fight to defend her honor. He takes her up to a hotel room, where she changes into a new outfit to take the bus home to Sioux Falls. He tells her he's doing this to honor his friend who has died and was always trying to help people. Back at Wayne Tower, Alfred admits to Dick and Damian that he did spend the evening with a prostitute. Damian thinks he's kidding, but Dick says you never know with Alfred.
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- Rhonda
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- Jack
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Synopsis for "The Hero of Orphan Alley"
Three men discuss Batman's supposed death and the story about Batman fighting Batman, and they figure there isn't one Batman but several guys working together. They figure they can become a hero too and protect Orphan Alley, which the Batmen have neglected recently, allowing Black Mask to recruit from the orphanage. They successfully stop a robbery and decide to wait for the people they've saved to name their hero.
When they see a downed school bus, they fail to realize it's a trap by Killer Croc, who's working for Black Mask, until it's too late. He kills Grady before the police arrive and he escapes. Colin removes Grady's costume to protect their secret as the news names the previously unknown vigilante "the Saint of Orphan Alley."
Appearing in "The Hero of Orphan Alley"
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- Colin
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- Grady (Dies)
- Ryan
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- Black Mask (Behind the scenes)
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- Gotham City
- Orphan Alley
- Saint Jerome's Church and Orphanage
- Central High School (Mentioned only)
- Orphan Alley
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Synopsis for "Reveiled"
The Face of Gotham struggles to understand her visions, which are coming too quickly for her to understand them. She stops a mugger from killing his victim and talks to him about his dead mother's hopes for him, convincing David to go home. She takes Charles Stradford to her theater to get him new clothes from the wardrobe department, and he identifies her as the actress Millicent Mayne. She explains her visions to him, and he realizes she could have saved his kidnapped granddaughter Mary. He storms off, and when she chases after him, she is held at gunpoint by David. Charles knocks him out with a baseball bat, and they make amends.
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- The Face of Gotham (Flashback and main story)
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- Charles Stradford
- Mary (Mentioned only)
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- David
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- Gracchus (Flashback only)
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- Gotham City
- Narrows Theater
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Synopsis for "No Two Alike"
Catwoman is going to take down the diamond smuggler Snow Queen when she sees an elderly couple on their way to the hospital. She helps them there, but with the power out, it is an eighteen hour wait for evaluations. She stops people who try to skip the line as the couple reminisces about their life in their underground lab before Fiona passes away. Wilson tells Catwoman that they had been hiding from the Snow Queen for forty years, since the last blizzard this bad hit Gotham, but Catwoman figures out this Snow Queen is unrelated to the one she knows. She promises the Snow Queen she'll take her down another time and brings Wilson somewhere safe to live. She wishes the deceased Bruce Wayne a "Merry Christmas."
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- The Snow Queen (Single appearance)
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- Fiona (Dies)
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Synopsis for "The Wilt"
Poison Ivy is mistaken for a deceased Jane Doe because she has no vital signs and brought to the morgue. She soon regains consciousness and escapes, but without the sun or plant life for sustenance, she doesn't get far before collapsing again. She devours the people who come to help her, but flees when more come. She hides in a power station where she dies and is reborn. She thinks spring has come, but when she leaves, she discovers it is still snowing and is frozen still. She is found by two police officers who bring her in.
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Synopsis for "What Falls Below"
Mr. Freeze escapes his prison transport when the truck overturns and kills the guards. The weather is so cold and icy that he doesn't need his suit. He kills two henchmen working for Black Mask and leaves a note for Commissioner Gordon with the last body. Gordon meets him at the ice rink where Freeze suggests Gordon allow him to remain free as long as the storm lasts and he will return of his own free will when it's over. Gordon refuses, and Freeze attacks him. Gordon is burdened by the weight of his winter gear, and Freeze is quicker and stronger without the weight of his suit; he wins and again suggests he allow Freeze his freedom. Gordon again refuses, and Freeze is arrested by Gordon's backup.
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- Batman (Dick Grayson)
- Black Mask (Mentioned only)
- Two-Face (Mentioned only)
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- Gotham City
- Robinson Park
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Synopsis for "Snow Patrol"
Batman has arrested Scarecrow and the Penguin, but many more villains have escaped in the blizzard. He frees Man-Bat from where he has been frozen on a rooftop like a gargoyle and thinks, “Three down.”
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