Batman #413
Batman #413
Cover Credits
Penciller: Ed Hannigan
Inker: Walter Simonson

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Title: "The Ghost of Masahiko Tahara"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Mary Jo Duffy
Penciller: Kieron M. Dwyer
Inker: Mike DeCarlo
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Batman:Second Chances TPB (2015)

Feature Character(s)

Supporting Character(s)

Villain(s)

  • Yoshio Tahara (a descendant of the Tahara family; no further appearances)
  • Dr. Lucius Pitts (curator of the Gotham Museum; no further appearances)
  • Toshihiko Kikkawa (a Japanese criminal; no further appearances)
  • A gang of thieves (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

  • Kay Doran (a television reporter; no further appearances)
  • A museum guard (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
An exhibit is on display at the Gotham Metropolitan Museum featuring Japanese weapons and costumes from the Tahara clan. Batman receives information about a potential robbery at the museum, so he increases his watch in the area. Reports of a ghost begin to surface after a guard is injured. One night, Batman stops a robbery of the museum curator outside the museum by streets punks. A costumed samurai also helps fight the crooks, then disappears.

Batman visits the dojo of Yoshio Tahara, the man who is responsible for the exhibit. He challenges the man to a fight which he wins. He then returns to the museum to speak with the curator. The masked samurai returns and this time attacks Batman. The curator tries to help the samurai, but Robin stops him while disguised as the ghost. Batman then defeats the samurai and unmasks him as Yoshio. The curator and Yoshio were using the legend of the Japanese ghosts and the attention of their exhibit to draw attantion away from the other exhibits from which they were stealing.


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