Batman Confidential #8 is an issue of the series Batman Confidential (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 2007.
Synopsis for "Lovers & Madmen (Part II) - Peace In Arms"
Batman finds the body of a dead guard. A note is pinned to his chest, thanking Batman for "making his day". Batman is frustrated with the new enemy that has been cutting a bloody swathe across the city. All the work Batman has accomplished is slowly unraveling.
The gangster Maletesta tells Batman that he met "Jack" when he was a shooter for the Berlanti crime family. Maletesta wants to see him eliminated just as much as Batman and offers to finish the job if he needs help taking Jack out of the picture.
Batman returns home to the Batcave where Alfred has been laboring to put together an elaborate computer network. As the computer is not yet ready, he advises Bruce to pay a visit to Lorna Shore. After a dinner date, Bruce brings Lorna back to Wayne Manor, and she spends the night with him.
Days later, Bruce returns to the Batcave and finds that Alfred has finished hooking up the new computer. After feeding information into the system, they extrapolate what Jack's most likely target will be: the Gotham Museum of Art.
Appearing in "Lovers & Madmen (Part II) - Peace In Arms"
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Other Characters:
- Lorna Shore
- Mister Maletesta
- Tubby
- Phineas Barrow (Single appearance)
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Notes
- The tagline to this issue is "Wicked Funny".
- Earliest chronological appearance of the Batcomputer, nick-named Dupin in this issue.
- Collected in Batman: Lovers and Madmen.
Trivia
- Alfred names the Batcomputer "Dupin" after literary figure C. Auguste Dupin. Dupin was a detective created by pulp writer Edgar Allan Poe and featured in the short story Murders in the Rue Morgue. Dupin is often regarded as the father of modern criminology and has paved the way for characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Batman.
See Also
Recommended Reading
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- The Joker (Volume 1)
- The Joker (Volume 2)
- The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing (Volume 1)
- Batman: The Killing Joke
- Batman: The Man Who Laughs
- "Batman: Lovers and Madmen"
- "Batman: A Death in the Family"
- Joker: Devil's Advocate
- Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
- "The Joker's Last Laugh"
- "Superman: Emperor Joker"
- "Superman/Batman: With a Vengeance!"
- The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told
- Joker (graphic novel)