Comic Title: Detective Comics #591
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: October 1988
On Sale Date: July 5, 1988 Shipping Date July 5, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #6

Shipping Date July 7, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Newsstand Date July 30, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Copyright Date July 5, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date July 5, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760, #762

Newsstand Date July 19, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760, #762

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

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 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 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.