Legacy

Batman: Legacy is a story arc in the Batman comic book series, which is a sequel to another Batman story arc, Batman: Contagion and also serves as a follow-up to Batman: Knightfall story arc. It concerns the returning outbreak of a lethal disease in Gotham City, and Batman's attempts to combat it with his closest allies by discovering its origin in the Middle East. There, Batman faces two of his deadliest foes: Ra's Al Ghul, who created the virus centuries ago, and Bane, the man who crippled him. The Gotham Knights travel throughout the world as they race to stop The League of Assassins from releasing the pure strain of the virus across the globe, and Gotham itself would be a place for the rematch between the Dark Knight and Bane. The events of this lead into Batman: Cataclysm (though there was a gap of over a year between the two story arcs), which itself leads into No Man's Land.

Story
Former Mayor Armand Krol is found dead in his study. He had been killed by another strain of the Clench. Azrael provides [[Bruce Wayne (New Earth)|Batman more information on where the plague originated from, Sudan. Batman, Robin, and Richard Grayson (New Earth)Nightwing head to Sudan, while Huntress is temporally in charge in Gotham. In the desert Batman finds his way to a marked location. The perpetrator of the entire plague was none other than Ra's al Ghul. Ra's orders the heroes killed, and a fight breaks out. Ra's downloads the information from the Wheel of Plagues to his database and escapes. Ra's new Ubu reveals himself as Bane. The Demon escapes with Bane and Talia. Catwoman, prisoner of Ra's escapes as well. Batman goes to Edinburgh, while Robin and Nightwing go to Paris in hopes of intercepting Ra's men with the vials of plague. Batman after stopping the Demon's men in Scotland goes to Calcutta, and with Lady Shiva stops an outbreak there as well. The Batsquad returns to Gotham, to stop Ra's from diseasing the city. Batman discovers the target is the Aventine Casino. While Batman arrives at the casino and runs into Bane. Batman keeps the strongman preoccupied while the gas he released builds up to ignite the building. The Casino explodes taking the plague with it. Batman and Bane fight off the pier. The Dark Knight is able to vanquish his nemesis, but Bane is taken out to sea. Meanwhile, Huntress, Robin, and Nightwing track Ra's boat. While Huntress and Nightwing fight off Ra's and his men, while Robin, downloads Ra's data to Oracle who copies it and deciphers it. She gets all the data just in time. The Batsquad flee the burning boat, Ra's and Talia also escape. Gotham is saved once again.

Legacy reading order:

* Prelude: Shadow of the Bat #53 * Prelude: Batman #533 * Part 1: Detective Comics #700 * Part 2: Catwoman #36 * Part 3: Robin #32 * Part 4: Shadow of the Bat #54 * Part 5: Batman #534 * Part 6: Detective Comics #701 * Part 7: Robin #33 * Epilogue: Detective Comics #702 * Epilogue: Batman: Bane (one-shot)