Comic Title: Batman #439
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1989
On Sale Date: August 1, 1989 Shipping Date August 1, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #169

Shipping Date August 1, 1989
Source: Previews, #5

Direct Market Date August 3, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #110

Copyright Date August 1, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Resolutions"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Marv Wolfman
Penciller: Patrick R. Broderick
Inker: Michael Bair
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Batman:The Caped Crusader Vol. 2 TPB (2019)
Tales of the Batman:Marv Wolfman Vol. 1 HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #438; next appearance in Swamp Thing Annual #5)

Guest Star(s)

• Nightwing (last appearance in Batman #438; next appearance in New Titans Annual #5)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #438; next appearance in New Titans #58)

Villain(s)

• Anthony Zucco (as a corpse; last appearance in Batman #438; no further appearances)
• Taft (dies in this story; last appearance in Batman #438; no further appearances)
• Drexel (dies in this story; last appearance in Batman #438; no further appearances)
• Louis and Jose (mobsters; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Connie (last appearance in Batman #438; no further appearances)
• Mary Elizabeth (last appearance in Batman #437; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Bruce Wayne (during Dick Grayson's custody hearing; last appearance in Batman #436; next appearance in Batman #437)
• Dick Grayson (during his custody hearing; last appearance in Batman #436; next appearance in Batman #437)
• Alfred Pennyworth (during Dick Grayson's custody hearing; last appearance in Detective Comics #578; next appearance in Batman #437)
• Mary Elizabeth (during Dick Grayson's custody hearing; last appearance in Batman #436; next appearance in Batman #437)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Robin (Jason Todd; in flashback)
• Joker (in flashback)

Comments:
Year III Chapter Four

This story is continued from Batman #438.

Synopsis:
Batman and Nightwing stand outside a prison and are witness to the execution of Anthony Zucco. Dick thinks Bruce knew that this would happen, but Batman denies it. The death of Zucco results in a gang war as various mobsters search for Zucco's secret ledger which detailed all their crimes. Zucco had used the ledger to blackmail them.

Batman puts a stop to the gang war, then begins his own search for the ledger. Nightwing finds it first, but Taft, the member of the parole board who got Zucco released follows him. Taft tries to kill Nightwing and take the ledger which shows that he bribed a judge. In the struggle with Nightwing, Taft falls to his death, and the ledger is destroyed. Batman is impressed that Nightwing solved the case before he did. After the caper is settled, Dick visits the graves of his parents.