Can the Dark Knight Detective Quell The Flames Threatening Gotham in Batman: Dark Patterns #12

By Chad Burdette

 on November 9, 2025

Set during the early years of Batman’s career, the series will focus on a new cycle of crimes for the World’s Greatest Detective to crack covering four mysterious cases! Told as a series of four self-contained, street-level, evergreen Batman mysteries that explore the early days of Batman’s place within Gotham City and his healing presence within its streets.

Set early in his career as he attempts to cement his place as Gotham City’s protector while the city itself fights back against him, yhis is the Dark Knight Detective at his most stripped-down core, a man relying on his wits, his skills, and little else as he tackles some of the most twisted mysteries Gotham City and its protector have ever encountered.

Comic Watch Review: Batman: Dark Patterns #1: Nails in the Dark

Following the tradition of books such as Year One, The Long Halloween, and Dark Victory. Writer Dan Watters (Nightwing) teams up with the incredible Hayden Sherman (Absolute Wonder Woman) to tell a series of three-part, standalone mysteries set in the early days of Batman’s career, as the detective comes to accept and embrace his own place as a new part of the mythology of Gotham

Don’t miss Batman: Dark Patterns #12, the final installment of the run.

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Batman: Dark Patterns #12

CASE 04: The Child of Fire

Can the Dark Knight Detective quell the hungry flames threatening to erase Gotham before the city is no more, or will the Child of Fire’s inferno devour it all?

Can the Dark Knight Detective quell the hungry flames threatening to erase Gotham in Batman: Dark Patterns #12 on shelves & digital platforms on November 12, 2025, from DC Comics