A Gruesome Discovery Kicks Off A New Case in Batman: Dark Patterns #4

By Chad Burdette

on March 11, 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.

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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

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Batman: Dark Patterns #4

CASE 02:

There is a strange tower in Gotham City where the voices of the living and the dead echo. Its inhabitants are in a standoff with the police — with one officer dead and another held hostage inside, a riot seems all but guaranteed… unless Batman can navigate the building and save the missing police officer. But what the Caped Crusader discovers is that the people of the tower are following the direction of a single, strangely familiar voice that thrums throughout the building… and the voice wants blood.

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