COVER TAGLINE: Aftershock: Special 75th Issue! Featuring the Return of Mr. Freeze and Clayface!
TITLE: Aftershock 1: By Fire...or by Ice?
STORY ARC: Aftershock
RELEASE DATE: April, 1998
COVER DATE: June, 1998
WRITER: Alan Grant
PENCILER(s): Mark Buckingham
INKER(s): Wayne Faucher
COLORS: Pam Rambo; Android Images
LETTERS: Bill Oakley
EDITOR(s): Dennis O'Neil, Jordan B. Gorfinkel
COVER: Glen Orbik
PRICE: $1.95 U.S./$3.00 Canada
CHARACTERS: Batman; Ultimate Clayface; Mr. Freeze; Walter Smith
PLOT:
After stopping a man from committing suicide, Batman soon finds out that the quake has freed both Mr. Freeze and Clayface. Eventually Batman tricks the two into taking each other out. Batman uses Mr. Freeze's own freeze-gun to
encase him in a block of ice and has Gordon alert S.T.A.R. labs to come and pick the two up.
Also in this issue is a back-up story about the man, Walter Smith, in the
beginning of the story and what drove him to want to end it all. After crippling his own son and almost losing his marriage and his business
Walter finally seems to be getting everything under control. That is at least until the quake that destroys Gotham and kills his entire family including his crippled son who speaks for the first time since the accident saying, "Catch Me Daddy!" the same words he said right before
the accident.
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