Detective Comics Annual Vol 1 2

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"Blood Secrets"

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Detective Comics Annual Vol 1 #2
1989

Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn

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There's law -- and there's justice. What have you gained by all this? Nothing. You've put yourself in your own prison. And I'll always be around to make sure you stay there. That's the promise I made -- and that's the promise I'll keep. For the rest of our lives.

-- Batman

Appearing in "Blood Secrets"

Featured Characters:

Batman (Also in flashback)

Supporting Characters:

Harvey Harris

Villains:

Ben Carr
Michael Falk

Other Characters:

Amos
Charlotte
Chu Chin Li (In flashback only)
Cloris Hunt-Pratt
Deke Burnley
Dewey
Jake
Lamar Nelson
Maybelle (In flashback only)
Morrison
Mrs. Sykes
Nolan
Ralph J. Hopkins
Richard Hunt (In flashback only)
Sheriff Roy
Wallace Sykes (deceased)
Wright (deceased)

Locations:

Huntsville

Nolan's

Items:

Vehicles:

Synopsis for "Blood Secrets"

Batman speaks to a stranger about an incident that took place when he was only a teenager. Bruce Wayne had found an aging detective named Harvey Harris, and begged him to take Bruce under his wing and teach him how to be a detective. Harvey let Bruce tag along with him, and together they began investigating a string of grisly murders in a town called Huntsville. Harvey and Bruce discovered that the murders were related to a group of white supremacists that terrorized a nearby shantytown over forty years ago. The mastermind behind these deaths was the crippled physician Dr. Michael Falk. Falk was the son of the supremacist movement's founder and town elder Richard Hunt. His mother was a black servant named Maybelle. Richard Hunt murdered his mistress to cover up his infidelity and also crippled his own son. To get revenge upon the surviving members of the supremacist group, Falk hired a maniac named Ben Carr to systematically slaughter them one by one. Bruce and Harvey cracked the case and Carr was exposed. In an ensuing firefight with police, a bullet struck Harvey Harris and he died soon after. It was some time later that Bruce made the connection between Ben Carr and Dr. Falk. He confronted Falk and told him that he had learned the truth. However, there was no evidence to implicate him in the murder conspiracy. Now, many years later, the Batman the aging Michael Falk at Harvey Harris' tombstone. He visits him once every year to torment his conscious and remind him of the pain and death that his actions had caused.

Notes

Includes "Who's Who" profiles of the Joker, Catwoman, Penguin, Riddler, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Clayface (Basil Karlo), Clayface (Matt Hagen), Clayface (Preston Payne), Clayface (Sondra Fuller), Ra's al Ghul and Two-Face.

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