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: "Rat Trap"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: John Wagner
Writer: Alan Grant
Artist: Norm Breyfogle
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #586 (1988)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #585; next appearance in Justice League International #13)

Supporting Character(s)

• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #420; next appearance in Batman #421)

Villain(s)

• Ratcatcher (last appearance in Detective Comics #585; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Wyatt Hogan (as a corpse; last appearance in Detective Comics #585; no further appearances)
• Straub (a police officer; no further appearances)
• Nat Devino and Mr. Woller (a sanitation department employee and his boss; no further appearances)
• Cornelius Budd (a witness; dies in this story; last appearance in Detective Comics #585; no further appearances)
• Stanley Konik (a warden; last appearance in Detective Comics #585; no further appearances)
• Sam Bellow (a police sergeant; last appearance in Detective Comics #585; no further appearances)
• Several unnamed police officers (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Detective Comics #585.

Synopsis:
Batman awakens in a sewer tunnel after the Ratcatcher flooded them in an attempt to kill him. The Caped Crusader is injured, but instead of heading to the surface for medical attention, he begins searching the sewers for his foe. When he is swarmed by rats he sets them on fire.

Meanwhile Commissioner Gordon has identified the body of Judge Wyatt Hogan. He and his detectives link Wyatt's disappearance five years earlier to Flannegan, a sanitation department rat catcher who was sent to prison by the judge. Three other men associated with the case also disappeared and are being held captive in the sewers. Gordon sends his men into the tunnels.

The Ratcatcher returns to his prisoners. He blames them for the judge's escape. He shoots Cornelius Budd, the key witness in the case against him. The echoing gunshot leads Batman to the prison cells before Flannegan can execute his next victim. Batman then apprehends the Ratcatcher and releases the other two men.