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: "Aborigine"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

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

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #591 (1988)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #424; next appearance in Batman #425)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Green Arrow Annual #1; next appearance in Batman #425)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #424; next appearance in Batman #425)

Villain(s)

• Umbaluru (an aborigine; no further appearances)
• Kerry Rollo (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Jim Howke and his partners (Piker named; Howke dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Bain and Scuz (a drug buyer and his assistant; no further appearances)
• Two drug dealers (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Bruce Wayne attends a charity exhibit hosted by Kerry Rollo who has put his collection of antiquities on display. One such item is the power bone, a 50,000 year old relic from Australia. An aborigine named Umbaluru has come to America to retrieve the bone which was stolen from his people. He finds and kills one of the men in Rollo's employ who took the bone.

Batman finds the murder scene and deduces the aborigine connection. He returns to see Rollo after the party. The aborigine has already arrived and is attempting to take the bone from Rollo. Batman intervenes. When, Umbaluru senses that his opponent is a man of honor, he stops fighting to explain his cause.

Batman agrees to bring Rollo to justice, but the aborigine must answer for the murder. Unsatisfied with the justice of the white man, Umbaluru continues the fight to retrieve the bone. He falls out the window of a tall building with Rollo. The collector dies, but Umbaluru escapes alive with the bone.