THE BATMAN CHRONICLES #5

COVER TAGLINE: None COVER DATE: Summer, 1996 COVER: Howard Chaykin, Tommy Lee Edwards, Melissa Edwards, Heroic Age EDITOR(s): Darren Vincenzo; Jordan B. Gorfinkel PRICE: $2.95 U.S. TITLE: Oracle: year One - Born of Hope WRITER: John Ostrander; Kim Yale PENCILER(s): Brian Stelfreeze INKER(s): Karl Story COLORS: Mark Chiarello LETTERS: John Costanza CHARACTERS: Oracle (Barbara Gordon); Batman (Bruce Wayne); Richard Dragon; James Gordon; Ashley Mavis Powell PLOT: Barbara Gordon recounted her first months after being shot in the spine by the Joker. She took her first case against a computer genius that her father was having a hard time arresting. She had a dream where she was the Oracle of ancient Greece and became more and more comfortable in that role. She trapped the cyber-criminal and got her to make a full confession.

TITLE: Decoys WRITER: Howard Chaykin; Tommy Lee Edwards PENCILER(s): Tommy Lee Edwards INKER(s): John Paul Leon COLORS: Melissa Edwards LETTERS: John Workman CHARACTERS: James Gordon; Lt. Paul Pendergast; Sergio D'Gioia PLOT: Lt. James Gordon worked a case in his early days in Gotham City. He was helping move a mob snitch who escaped during a shootout.

TITLE: Of Mice and Men WRITER: Alan Grant PENCILER(s): Scott McDaniel INKER(s): Ray McCarthy COLORS: Roberta Tewes LETTERS: John Costanza CHARACTERS: Bruce Wayne; Thomas Wayne; Martha Wayne; Alfred Pennyworth PLOT: A story set during Bruce's younger days, before his parents were murdered. Alfred helped young Bruce Wayne with a bully problem at school while contemplating his future at the Wayne home.

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