Comic Title: Batman:The Cult #2
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: June 7, 1988 Shipping Date June 7, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #5

Shipping Date June 7, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760, #762

Shipping Date June 7, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #140

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

Newsstand Date June 21, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

Newsstand Date June 20, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756

Cover Price: $3.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Capture"
Pages: 46

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Jim Starlin
Artist: Bernie Wrightson
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Bill Wray

Reprinted In:
Batman:The Cult TPB (1991)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman:The Cult #1; next appearance in Batman:The Cult #3)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman:The Cult #1; next appearance in Batman:The Cult #3)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman:The Cult #1; next appearance in Batman:The Cult #3)

Villain(s)

• Deacon Joseph Blackfire (last appearance in Batman:The Cult #1; next appearance in Batman:The Cult #3)
• Jake Baker (last name revealed; last appearance in Batman:The Cult #1; next appearance in Batman:The Cult #3)
• Members of Blackfire's cult (Ratface named; last appearance in Batman:The Cult #1; next appearance in Batman:The Cult #3)
• A mafia don and his men (no further appearances)
• Two-Face (dream appearance)

Other Character(s)

• The Gotham City mayor (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Holmes (dies in this story; last appearance in Batman:The Cult #1; no further appearances)
• Otis Johnson (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Batman:The Cult #1 and continues in Batman:The Cult #3.

Synopsis:
Batman has joined the cult of Deacon Blackfire after being broken mentally using a combination of drugs and psychological manipulation. He joins the Deacon's followers on a raid against a Gotham City mafia leader. When the raid is over, he returns with the others to the sewers until the homeless man named Ratface takes Batman to carry out a personal vendetta.

When Ratface is caught by the police, Batman wanders away and begins to regain his senses. The police question Ratface and learn about Blackfire's plot which now includes killing the mayor and city council.

Batman, still suffering from the psychological torture, returns to the sewers where he discovers that Blackfire's opulent chambers. However, he is caught and can't fight back in his weakened state. The cultists lead him away, but he falls into the sewer pipeline and is carried away. Robin who has infiltrated the sewer convertly, dives into the water to follow. He finds the Batman atop a pile of bodies in a mind-rattled state.