COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Batman 84 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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2097236001
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Owner:
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ParadoxTremors
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Purchased on eBay from "kelt_7332" on 11-28-2020.
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Overview: In the penultimate issue of the City of Bane arc, Thomas Wayne’s roll in the story comes into focus.
Synopsis (spoilers ahead): The story opens in the study of Wayne Manor, with Thomas Wayne and Batman facing off, with Thomas getting in the first punch. The story then flashes back to the end of Batman #74 with Thomas Wayne crawling out of the Nain pit, reciting to himself a vow to war against anything that would cause his son harm. The story then flashes back further to Thomas standing before Bane’s thrown of skulls, offering to help. When Bane questions Thomas, he explains to Bane that he knows what is best for his son.
The story then flashes further back to Batman #49, where Thomas stands over the wounded Joker at the church, asking where he had heard that his son was getting married. The story then shows a series of flashbacks as Thomas watches from the shadows as Selina steals her wedding dress, Batman and Catwoman go on a double date with Superman and Lois, and stands in the rain as he watches his son propose to Catwoman.
The story then flashes back earlier, with Thomas waking up on a rooftop to the Reverse-Flash standing over him, telling him that as revenge for killing him in the Flashpoint universe, he has brought him to a world where his son became Batman. The story then flashes further back to the events of “The Button” storyline, where Thomas gives his son advice to be a father to his son and give up being Batman and runs off into the light as his world collapses. The story then flashes back further, to a wounded Thomas laying on the ground at the end of “Flashpoint”, speaking about how he cannot live knowing that his son becomes Batman as the Reverse-Flash lays dead beside him. The world goes white and then Thomas finds that he is still alive and nothing has changed, quietly saying “no” to himself.
The story then flashes back to Thomas drinking in his dead son’s bedroom, addressing Bruce as he talks to himself about how his mother killed herself after learning how in another world Bruce became Batman and goes on to explain that he intends to end the world.
The story then flashes further back to Thomas and Catwoman walking up the stairs to the Batcave, only to open the door to Wayne Manor to find Martha Wayne’s Joker at the top of the stairs, who shoots Selina dead. The story then flashes to a sequence of showing Thomas and Selina as a crime-fighting team, including a splash page of Thomas and Selina arguing over how they met. The story then flashes back to Thomas holding a gun on Catwoman, with her saying to pull the trigger as she is ready to die, to which Thomas puts down his gun and tells Catwoman his real name and that he had a son who would be about her age.
The story then flashes back further to Thomas executing the various rogues of Gotham, including Bane, Kite-Man, and Mr. Freeze. The story then flashes further back to Thomas on the floor, next to Alfred’s dead body, his throat cut by Martha Wayne’s Joker for not helping her find her pearls. The story then flashes back further to Thomas beating Joe Chill to death for the murder of his son. The story flashes back further, with a young Bruce Wayne dying in Crime Alley as Thomas does chest compressions as his wife rambles about losing her pearls. The story then flashes back further to Thomas sitting on a chair in his son’s bedroom as Bruce sleeps, as Thomas utters the same vow to war against anything that would cause his son pain.
Back in the present, after getting in the first punch, which sends Batman to his knees, Thomas tells his son that Alfred is dead and Bane is in a coma and to take off his mask, marry Selina and find some peace, with the issue ending as he tells his son to stay down....
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