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Crowe saw unfurled another world
a realm of murder and despair
within the vestige truths untold
the secrets of the Gods of Old
- — Etrigan
Batman and Robin (Volume 3) #22 is an issue of the series Batman and Robin (Volume 3) with a cover date of August, 2025. It was published on June 11, 2025.
Synopsis for "The Gotham Cycle, Part Three"
Appearing in "The Gotham Cycle, Part Three"
Featured Characters:
- Batman (Bruce Wayne) (Also as an illusion)
Supporting Characters:
- Damian Wayne (Infected)
- Etrigan (Jason Blood) (Also as an illusion)
- Gotham Irregulars (Real name revealed)
- Lazlo/"Laz"
- Lucy the Monkey (Cameo)
- Police Nationale
- Lt. Katherine Lautrec
Antagonists:
- Memento/"The Blood Thief"
- Prof. Atticus Blye (Brainwashed) (Flashback and main story)
- Nicodemus Crowe's son (Unnamed) (Appears only as a corpse) (Possessed)
- The Old Ones (First appearance) (Flashback only)
Other Characters:
- Edmund Crowe (Single appearance) (Flashback only) (Dies in a vision) (Also as a spirit)
- Indian Police Service (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Gotham Organized Crime
- Penguin (Behind the scenes)
- Penguin's Gang (Cameo)
- Tiger Shark (Behind the scenes)
- Tiger Shark's Gang (Cameo)
- Penguin (Behind the scenes)
- Metropolitan Police (Flashback only)
- Nicodemus Crowe (Single appearance) (Flashback only) (Dies in a vision)
- Dr. Rayyan Singh (Indian detective) (Single appearance) (Flashback only)
- Daniels (Former Metropolitan Police DCI) (Mentioned only)
- Daniels' father (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
- The Devil (Mentioned only)
- Devils (Mentioned only)
- God (Mentioned only)
- Gotham City Police Department (Mentioned only)
- Rayyan Singh's son (Memento's former host) (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
- Scarecrow (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Greater Omniverse
- Infinite Frontier (Behind the scenes)
- Multiverse-1 (Flashback and main story)
- Earth 0
- 1892
- United States of America
- Gotham City (In a vision)
- Park Row (In a vision)
- Gotham City (In a vision)
- United States of America
- 20th Century
- India
- Mumbai (Flashback only)
- Azad Maidan (Mentioned only)
- Mumbai (Flashback only)
- England
- London
- Scotland Yard (Mentioned only)
- London
- India
- 2024
- United States of America
- Gotham City
- Gotham Sewers
- Jason Blood's House
- Squattertown Ruins (Unnamed)
- Gotham University
- Scarecrow's Old Lab (Mentioned only)
- Gotham City
- England
- Newcastle (Mentioned only)
- France
- Paris (Mentioned only)
- Japan
- Tokyo (Mentioned only)
- Morocco
- Marrakesh (Mentioned only)
- Russia
- Saint Petersburg (Mentioned only)
- Spain
- Madrid (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
- 1892
- Mindworld
- Sphere of the Gods
- Hell (Mentioned only)
- Earth 0
- Multiverse-1 (Flashback and main story)
- The Old Ones' Hell Dimension (First appearance; unnamed) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- The Void (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Infinite Frontier (Behind the scenes)
Items:
- Batsuit
- Gravedigger's Poppy (Flashback and main story)
Vehicles:
Events:
- Great Fire of Mumbai (Mentioned only)
- The Cataclysm (Mentioned only)
- Memento Murders (Mentioned only)
Concepts:
- Magic
- Hellfire (As an illusion only)
- Summoning
- Time Travel (Behind the scenes)
Notes
- This story features the first real appearance of the Old Ones–prominent figures in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulu Mythos– in the DC continuity.
- This story hints to the Old Ones' extradimensional nature, suggesting that they hail from a plane of existence outside the Divine Continuum. This is further implied in the next issue.
- Memento is implied to be an Old One. This is eventually confirmed in the next issue.
Trivia
- Before the Flashpoint, the Old Ones were only mentioned as the mastermind behind "Dark" Conrad Constantine's actions from Swamp Thing (Volume 2) #114–115.
See Also
Links and References
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