COVER TAGLINE: None
TITLE: The Apocalypse Plague
STORY ARC: Contagion
RELEASE DATE: January, 1995
COVER DATE: March, 1996
WRITER: Alan Grant
PENCILER(s): Vince Giarrano
INKER(s): Ray McCarthy
COLORS: Pamela Rambo
LETTERS: Bill Oakley
EDITOR(s): Dennis O'Neil
COVER: Brian Stelfreeze
PRICE: $1.95 U.S./$3.00 Canada
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Tim Drake); Azrael (Jean Paul Valley); Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner Andrew Howe, Mayor Armand Krol;
PLOT:
Azrael contacts Batman with troublesome news - a deadly filovirus has been released and is on its way to Gotham City. As Batman investigates a militiary enclave where the virus, Ebola Gulf A (also known as the Clench), has been studied, the residents of Babylon Towers in Gotham, alerted to the threat of the Clench by one of their own, elect to seal themselves in their climate-controlled building, paying off their servants, believing this to be their only hope of surviving the plague. Batman learns there is no known cure for the virus, and if there is, such a cure will no doubt reside in the blood of a survivor.
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Continued inDetective Comics #695
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