BATMAN #636

COVER TAGLINE: The KING of Gotham City! TITLE: Under the Hood, Part 2: First Strike STORY ARC: Under the Hood RELEASE DATE: January, 2005 COVER DATE: March, 2005 WRITER: Judd Winick ARTIST: Doug Mahnke INKER: Tom Nguyen COLORS: Alex Sinclair LETTERS: Rob Leigh EDITORS: Michael Wright; Bob Schreck COVER: Matt Wagner PRICE: $2.25 U.S./$3.00 Canada CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Black Mask; Oracle; Mr. Freeze; Nightwing (Dick Grayson); Red Hood (Jason Todd); Amazo COVER ART: PLOT: Black Mask has a shipment of some illegal material coming in and both Batman and Red Hood want to stop him. Batman and Nightwing fight through some guards with a high-tech weapons to find that the crate is filled with gimmick weapons like Captain Boomerang's boomerangs and Penguin's umbrellas. It's then blown up by a second crate containing a bomb activated by Red Hood. Batman and Nightwing chase Hood down but when they think they've cornered him, they only find Amazo.

Continued From Batman #635 Continued In Batman #637

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SUGGESTED ADDITIONAL READING: A Death in the Family War Crimes