COVER TAGLINE:
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TITLE:
Claim Jumping
STORY ARC:
No Man's Land
RELEASE DATE:
April, 1999
COVER DATE:
July, 1999
WRITER:
Greg Rucka
PENCILER(s):
Mike Deodato Jr.
INKER(s):
Wayne Faucher
COLORS:
Roberta Tewes
LETTERS:
Willie Schubert
EDITOR(s):
Joseph Illidge; Jordan B Gorfinkel
COVER:
Brian Bolland
PRICE: $1.99 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Batgirl (Helena Bertinelli); Mackenzie Bock;
Harvey Bullock; Sarah Essen-Gordon; Commissioner James Gordon;
KGBeast; Renée Montoya; Oracle (Barbara Gordon); Penguin; Alfred Pennyworth;
Frederick Rhino; Two-Face (Harvey Dent)
PLOT:
Finding themselves at a stalemate during the war for land in the ruins of Gotham City, Two-Face and Penguin forge and uneasy pact. Two-Face devises a plan to lure out the Bat by feeding him false information about a supposed trial by battle going on at City Hall. With the Bat away, this frees up Penguin to move in on Batman's turf.
Realizing the potential powder-keg their current standing puts them in, Gordon brokers a deal of his own once again with his mysterious benefactor. He does his best to keep Sarah in the dark about the deal by using Montoya as a contact person, but she has her
suspicions. Despite a quite vocal disagreement rising up once again from Foley, at the stroke of midnight, Gordon plans on moving in on Penguin's territory with the help of his secretive "devil."
Despite a brief butting of heads between the former and current Batgirls, Batman finds out about Two-Face's supposed trial by battle and plans on putting a stop to it - be it a trap or otherwise! Batman swoops in and rescues a young woman (a plant named Isabella Cheranova placed by Two-Face) who in turn knocks him
unconscious. Gordon and Penguin's troops converge on one main battle sites while Batman remains out cold.
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