Comic Title: Batman:The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2018
On Sale Date: October 17, 2018 Direct Market Date October 17, 2018
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Direct Market Date October 17, 2018
Source: Previews, #358

Direct Market Date October 17, 2018
Source: DC Previews, #3

Cover Price: $29.99
Page Count: 280
Editor: Jeb Woodard

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Fever"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: John Wagner
Writer: Alan Grant
Penciller: Norm Breyfogle
Inker: Kim DeMulder
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #583 (1988)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Blue Beetle #22; next appearance in Detective Comics #584)

Villain(s)

• Ventriloquist (next appearance in Detective Comics #584)
• Scarface (next appearance in Detective Comics #584)
• Louis the Lump (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Rhino (Scarface's henchman; next appearance in Detective Comics #584)
• Fatman (an associate of Scarface; next appearance in Detective Comics #584)
• Four teenaged drug users (Joey and Jack named; no further appearances)
• Several drug dealers (Chally named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A security guard (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Detective Comics #584.

Synopsis:
Batman catches a gang of young kids who have attacked a security guard while high on a new street drug known as fever. He learns where the drugs are being sold. The police have raided the building multiple times, but the dealers have thwarted them each time. Batman stages a raid of his own. He breaks into the building and catches one of the dealers with the drugs. He learns that the supplier is Scarface.

Scarface is actually a dummy controlled by a crime lord known as the Ventriloquist. The insane criminal issues orders and commands via the puppet, while he himself acts meek. Angered that two of his men have failed, Scarface executes one and sends the other to Mexico to help with the drug smuggling operations.