Comic Title: Detective Comics #584
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1988
On Sale Date: December 8, 1987 Shipping Date December 8, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #46

Shipping Date December 8, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #130

Copyright Date December 29, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

Newsstand Date December 31, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #130

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Fever Break"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

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

Reprinted In:
Legends of the Dark Knight:Norm Breyfogle Vol. 1 HC (2015)
Batman:The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 2 TPB (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #583; next appearance in Suicide Squad #10)

Villain(s)

• Ventriloquist (last appearance in Detective Comics #583; next appearance in Detective Comics #610)
• Scarface (last appearance in Detective Comics #583; next appearance in Detective Comics #610)
• Rhino (last appearance in Detective Comics #583; next appearance in Detective Comics #610)
• Fatman (dies in this story; last appearance in Detective Comics #583; no further appearances)
• Solly (Scarface's lawyer; no further appearances)
• Scarface's gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Tony (a waiter; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Detective Comics #583.

Synopsis:
After learning that Scarface and the Ventriloquist are responsible for the distribution of a new drug, fever, in Gotham City, Batman confronts the crooks in their club. He plants a bug in the head of the Scarface puppet. Using the bug Batman learns that another shipment of the drugs are scheduled to arrive. They have been smuggled into the country inside the body of Fatman, a dead member of Scarface's gang.

Batman raids the funeral home where the body is being picked up. During the fight with the crooks, Batman is accidentally exposed to the drugs. He goes berserk and is barely able to restrain himself from killing the crooks. Eventually he is able to defeat them all. He then stumbles to the Batmobile before the police arrive.