Comic Title: Detective Comics #598
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1989
On Sale Date: February 7, 1989 Shipping Date February 7, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #13

Shipping Date February 7, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #158

Copyright Date February 7, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Direct Market Date February 9, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #76, Page 1

Direct Market Date February 9, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #85

Cover Price: $2.95
Page Count: 80
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Blind Justice"
Pages: 60

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Sam Hamm
Penciller: Denys B. Cowan
Inker: Dick Giordano
Inker: Frank McLaughlin
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Blind Justice TPB (1989)
Batman:Blind Justice TPB (1992)
Batman:The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 3 TPB (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #431; next appearance in Detective Comics #599)

Supporting Character(s)

• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #430; next appearance in Detective Comics #599)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #431; next appearance in Detective Comics #599)

Villain(s)

• Bonecrusher (no further appearances)
• Mitchell Riordan (a Waynetech Director of Research; next appearance in Detective Comics #599)
• A gang of drug smugglers (no further appearances)
• Kenneth Harbinger (a scientist; next appearance in Detective Comics #599)

Other Character(s)

• Jeannie Bowen (next appearance in Detective Comics #599)
• Nick Katsikis (a nightwatchman; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• T-Bone (a homeless man; next appearance in Detective Comics #599)
• Roy Kane (next appearance in Detective Comics #599)
• Mr. McAteer (a private detective; no further appearances)
• Tommy (a young parapalegic; no further appearances)
• Theodore Lund (Harbinger's assistant; next appearance in Detective Comics #599)
• Two homeless men (no further appearances)

Comments:
Chapter One:"The Sleep of Reason"
Chapter Two:"The Kindness of Strangers"
Chapter Three:"The Price of Knowledge"

This story continues in Detective Comics #599.

Synopsis:
Batman tangles with a hooded villain who calls himself Bonecrusher. The killer has sonic weapons that can literally shake matter apart. After Batman disables the sonic weapons, Bonecrusher throws himself off a roof to his own death.

At Waynetech, Jeannie Bowen comes to the offices in search of her lost brother Roy Kane. Mitchell Riordan denies that Kane worked for Waynetech. Julie contacts a private detective who puts her in touch with Bruce. He questions employees and learns that Roy did work for the company, but disappeared six months earlier.

Batman then has another encounter with Bonecrusher. Once again the villain kills himself rather than risk capture. At the same time, a homeless man is arrested having exhibited the same behavior as the killer. The homeless man is Roy Kane.

Bruce takes Kane out of police custody and reunites the amnesiac with his sister. He also learns of a secret project within Waynetech to develop remote controlled soldiers. Another Bonecrusher tries to silence Bruce, but Alfred shoots him with a tranquilizer.

Bruce learns that Dr. Harbinger was controlling the host Bonecrusher bodies. However, the scientist evades capture by transferring his consciousness to one of the hosts. Harbinger's partner Riordan then tries to blackmail Bruce into silence. When Bruce refuses, Riordan has Bruce arrested as a communist spy.