Comic Title: Batman #433
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: May 1989
On Sale Date: March 21, 1989 Shipping Date March 23, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #161

Shipping Date March 21, 1989
Source: Previews, #1

Copyright Date March 21, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Direct Market Date March 23, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #91

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

Title: "Period of Mourning"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: John L. Byrne
Penciller: Jim Aparo
Inker: Mike DeCarlo
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Batman:The Many Deaths of the Batman TPB (1992)
Batman:The Caped Crusader Vol. 2 TPB (2019)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Starman #10; next appearance in Batman #434)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Starman #9; next appearance in Batman #434)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Starman #9; next appearance in Batman #434)

Villain(s)

• Penguin (last appearance in Detective Comics Annual #1; next appearance in Secret Origins Special #1)
• Two-Face (last appearance in Invasion #3; next appearance in Batman Annual #13)
• Fredrick Stone (a demolitions expert; name not revealed in this story; behind-the-scenes; next appearance in Batman #434)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Dick Grayson (last appearance in New Titans #55; next appearance in Secret Origins Annual #3)
• Starfire (last appearance in Blasters Special #1; next appearance in Secret Origins Annual #3)

Other Character(s)

• Two police officers (no further appearances)
• A homeless man (no further appearances)
• A team of doctors (no further appearances)
• A morgue attendant (no further appearances)
• A reporter and his editor (no further appearances)
• LaSalle (a body builder; name not revealed in this story; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• A man believed to be Stone (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
"The Many Deaths of the Batman" Chapter One

This story is told almost entirely without dialogue or captions. Only a single word balloon is used.

This story continues in Batman #434.

Synopsis:
Two police officers find the body of Batman in an alley. They rush him to the hospital where doctors try to save his life. Their efforts fails, and Batman dies. His body, still masked, is taken to the morgue where a reporter takes a photograph.

The story appears in the newspaper. In Arkham Asylum, Penguin and Two-Face are upset that they were not personally responsible for their enemy's death. Dick Grayson mourns the loss of his mentor when he sees the headline. Alfred rushes to the Batcave after reading the morning paper. He finds it empty.

When Commissioner Gordon receives the news he enters the morgue to examine the body. He removes the mask, revealing a blond man underneath. He then activates the Bat-Signal.

Across town, a slightly pudgy man in a Batman costume is propped up on the roof of the Gotham Plaza Hotel. The building then explodes.