Comic Title: Batman #417
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1988
On Sale Date: November 17, 1987 Shipping Date November 17, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #46

Shipping Date November 10, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #129

Newsstand Date December 3, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #129

Copyright Date December 8, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Ten Nights of the Beast"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Jim Starlin
Penciller: Jim Aparo
Inker: Mike DeCarlo
Letterer: Agustin Mas
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Batman:Ten Nights of the Beast TPB (1994)
Batman:The Caped Crusader Vol. 1 TPB (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Justice League International #12; next appearance in Batman #418)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #582; next appearance in Batman #418)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Secret Origins #23; next appearance in Batman #418)

Villain(s)

• KGBeast (Anatoli Knyazev; next appearance in Batman #418)
• Zhores Kunaev (head of a secret KGB operation; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Nabih Salari (an Iranian terrorist; next appearance in Batman #418)

Other Character(s)

• Andrei Yevtushenko (a KGB agent; next appearance in Batman #418)
• Keith Parker (an FBI agent; next appearance in Batman #418)
• Ralph Bundy (a CIA agent; next appearance in Batman #418)
• Several DEA agents (die in this story; no further appearances)
• Michael Roberts, Terry Cavanaugh, Jason Greene, and Dennis Kane (victims of the KGBeast; all die in this story; no further appearances)
• Several FBI agents (MacDonald, Leonard, Perry, Stout, and Greely named; next appearance in Batman #418)

Comments:
Ten Nights of the Beast Part 1 of 4.

This story continues in Batman #418.

Synopsis:
KGB agent Andrei Yevtushenko visits Gotham City. He meets with the CIA, FBI, and Commissioner Gordon to tell them about a rogue KGB killer known as the KGBeast who has come to Gotham City. The Beast has already murdered two men affiliated with the SDI program. Gordon wants to add Batman to the case, but the FBI refuses to allow him access.

Batman has eavesdropped on the meeting. He identifies and locates the Beast's next target Jason Greene, but he arrives too late to save the man's life. He does retrieve a list of potentional targets from Greene's files which he delivers to Gordon.

Gordon and CIA agent Ralph Bundy attempt to put the remaining targets in protective custody. They are unable to find Silvia Burrows, and they are too late to save the Beast's fourth kill, Dennis Kane. The final name on the list is the President.