Batman: Nosferatu
Batman: Nosferatu | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Format | One-shot |
Genre | |
Publication date | Randy Lofficier |
Artist(s) | Ted McKeever |
Batman: Nosferatu is a
The story of Batman: Nosferatu is "patterned" after the classic films
Characters
DC characters which appear in the story (in order of appearance):
- Bruss Wayne-son/the Nosferatu
- Dirk Gray-son
- Alfred Pennyworth
- Dr. Arkham
- Eschevin Gord-son
- Chancellor Hender-son
- Jimmy Ol-son
- Hugo Strange
- Vicki Vale
- Barbera Gord-son
- the Laughing Man
- Lutor (flashback)
- Bane
- Clarc Kent-son/the Super-Man
- Lois Lane
- Arkham Asylum
- the Penguin
- the Man-Bat
- Poison Ivy
- Killer Croc
- the Scarecrow
- the Ventriloquist and Scarface
Plot
Under Clarc Kent-son and Lois Lane's enlightened rule, Metropolis has begun to progress. Some resist that progress, such as Dr. Arkham, the head of an asylum, who holds "psychomantic" seances for the entertainment of the depraved rich of Metropolis. The star of these is the "Laughing Man", a white-faced, murderous creature, a prototype cyborg built by Lutor from one of Arkham's patients. Many
Wayne-son discovers Arkham is in league with the new Chancellor, Hender-son, and that the two are manipulating the city's aristocrats via knowledge of their secrets and the shows in the cabinet. He also hears the two plotting to kill both himself and Barbera with the Laughing Man. During an attempted escape by the inmates in the asylum, he is captured and thrown into a great pit, at the bottom of which lie vast, sentient computers who once built Metropolis and still sustain it and watch over humanity. They turn Wayne-son into the "Nosferatu" and send him back to the city above.
The Nosferatu saves Barbera and kills the Laughing Man, before attacking Arkham in his asylum. As he fights the orderlies, the inmates hail him as "the Master". While confronting both Dr. Arkham and Hender-son, the latter armed with a gun scavenged from Lutor's old lair and powered by the green stone that was taken from Lutor's chest, the Super-Man appears to investigate at Wayne-son's behest and is wounded by the weapon before the Nosferatu hurls Hender-son from the tower.
He is then confronted by the Super-Man, who believes there is no place for creatures of shadow in his city of light, while the Nosferatu calls him naïve and claims the inmates as his responsibility. They fight, eventually falling down into the Underworld. Their battle is inconclusive, with each mortally wounding the other. However, the ancient computers reveal themselves to the Super-Man and he realizes that there can be no light without shadows. The Nosferatu's job is to catch these shadows. The computers restore both combatants and the Super-Man accepts the Nosferatu's control over the night. Bruss Wayne-son ends up in charge of the asylum where Arkham is now a patient, trying to convince anyone who will listen that the new director is the Nosferatu.
Publication
- Batman: Nosferatu (64 pages, 1999, ISBN 1-56389-379-7)
Trilogy
This is the second part of a trilogy:
- Superman's Metropolis
- Batman: Nosferatu
- Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon
Writer