Comic Title: Batman:Shaman TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1993
On Sale Date: December 29, 1992 Shipping Date December 29, 1992
Source: Previews, Vol. 2 #10 (#46)

Direct Market Date December 31, 1992
Source: Usenet, (Capital City) : New releases: December 29-31, 1993

Shipping Date December 29, 1992
Source: Direct Currents, #59

Copyright Date December 29, 1992
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1992

Cover Price: $12.95
Page Count: 136
Editor: Bob Kahan

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Shaman Book Five"
Pages: 25

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Dennis J. O'Neil
Penciller: Ed Hannigan
Inker: John R. Beatty
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Richmond Lewis

Reprinted From:
Legends of the Dark Knight #5 (1990)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #4; next appearance in Catwoman #3)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #4; next appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #6)
• Capt. James Gordon (last appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #2; next appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #11)

Villain(s)

• Thomas Woodley (dies in this story; last appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #4; no further appearances)
• Carl Fisk (last appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #3; no further appearances)
• Followers of Chubala (last appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #2; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An Inuit shaman and his granddaughter (the shaman is revealed to have died behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Legends of the Dark Knight #4; no further appearances)
• A victim of the Chubala cult (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Legends of the Dark Knight #4.

Synopsis:
Bruce Wayne returns home to find Thomas Woodley waiting for him. The two struggle. Woodley is wounded and flees into the woods surrounding Wayne Manor. Instead of following him, Batman goes after Carl Fisk, the leader of the Chubala cult. Using miniature explosives planted on Fisk's vulture priest outfit, Batman disgraces Fisk in the eyes of his followers. He then provides evidence and a confession to Gordon which proves that Fisk is behind the drug connection between Gotham and Santa Prisca.

Later, Batman searches the woods for Woodley, who was wounded worse than believed. He fell on his own knife and has succumbed to blood loss. As a final act, he gives the bat mask to Batman. Bruce returns the mask to Alaska where he learns that the shaman has died. His granddaughter tells Bruce to keep the mask and become the mask. It becomes the first trophy in Batman's new Bat-Cave.