Comic Title: Batman #438
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1989
On Sale Date: July 18, 1989 Shipping Date July 20, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #168

Shipping Date July 18, 1989
Source: Previews, #5

Direct Market Date July 20, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #106, #108

Copyright Date July 18, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Turnabout"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Marv Wolfman
Penciller: Patrick R. Broderick
Inker: John R. Beatty
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Batman:The Caped Crusader Vol. 2 TPB (2019)
Tales of the Batman:Marv Wolfman Vol. 1 HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #437; next appearance in Batman #439)

Guest Star(s)

• Nightwing (last appearance in Batman #437; next appearance in Batman #439)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #437; next appearance in Batman #439)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #436; next appearance in Detective Comics #604)

Villain(s)

• Anthony Zucco (dies in this story; last appearance in Batman #437; next appearance in Batman #439)
• Taft (last appearance in Batman #437; next appearance in Batman #439)
• Several crime bosses (Mr. Agoura and Grenada named; last appearance in Batman #437; no further appearances)
• Drexel (An employee of Zucco; next appearance in Batman #439)

Other Character(s)

• Detective Frye (no further appearances)
• Connie (a reporter; next appearance in Batman #439)
• A prison warden (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Robin (Jason Todd; in flashback)
• Joker (in flashback to the death of Jason Todd)

Comments:
Year 3 Chapter Three

This story is continued from Batman #437 and continues in Batman #439.

Synopsis:
Batman confronts the city's mob bosses in an attempt to gain their cooperation in finding the assassin targeting them. He fends off their initial attack, then makes a deal with them. With information supplied by the bosses and the help of an informant, Batman traces the killings to Anthony Zucco, who is being released from prison.

Elsewhere, Nightwing uses detective work and analysis to draw the same conclusion as Batman. Both arrive at the prison just as Zucco is being released. The moment Zucco steps outside the walls, a helicopter appears in the sky and guns him down.