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: "The Ratcatcher"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Alan Grant
Writer: John Wagner
Penciller: Norm Breyfogle
Inker: Ricardo Villagran
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #585 (1988)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #420; next appearance in Detective Comics #586)

Villain(s)

• Ratcatcher (next appearance in Detective Comics #586)
• Pinder and Tubbs (arms dealers; no further appearances)
• Two unnamed weapons buyers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Wyatt Hogan (a judge; dies in this story; next appearance in Detective Comics #586)
• Cornelius Budd (name given only as Budd in this story; next appearance in Detective Comics #586)
• Stanley Konik (not named in this story; next appearance in Detective Comics #586)
• Sam Bellow (called Sarge in this story; next appearance in Detective Comics #586)
• Several unnamed police officers (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Detective Comics #586.

Synopsis:
Batman stakes out a warehouse waiting for crooks to arrive. Soon, Pinder and Tubbs, a pair of arms dealers arrive to conduct an illegal transaction. Batman moves in to stop them.

The fight is briefly interrupted when an old man emerges from the sewers. He is swarmed and killed by rats. Batman believes the rats were under human control. After leaving the crooks for police, he enters the sewers.

Batman spots a blond man in a gas mask in the tunnels. He confronts the man who calls himself the Ratcatcher and learns that other men are being held captive in the sewers. The Ratcatcher then orders his rats to attack. Batman drives them away with a blinding light, but the distraction allows his foe time to open the water main and begin flooding the tunnel.