Dates
- Cover date
- January 2022
- On sale
- November 16, 2021
- In stores
- November 16, 2021
- Pages
- 44
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Christian Ward Minimal Trade Dress Cardstock Variant Cover
Barcode 76194137419200131
This edition’s page
Story arc: Fear State
This is part 20 of 25. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Batman: Fear State: Alpha #1
- Batman #112
- Batman #113
- Catwoman #35
- Nightwing #84
- Detective Comics #1043
- Harley Quinn #7
- Batman #114
- Batman: Urban Legends #8
- I Am Batman #2
- Batman #115
- Catwoman #36
- Nightwing #85
- Detective Comics #1044
- Harley Quinn #8
- Batman #116
- Batman: Urban Legends #9
- I Am Batman #3
- Batman #117
- Batman Secret Files: The Gardener #1
- Nightwing #86
- Catwoman #37
- Detective Comics #1045
- Harley Quinn #9
- Batman: Fear State: Omega #1
Creators
Stories
- The Gardener · 30 pages
The Gardener reveals herself to Batman and explains her past history with Poison Ivy and why she is worried about Ivy's current state of mind. However, knowing that Batman will ignore her warning, Bella takes her own actions to help Ivy.
Publisher’s description
She is shrouded in mystery, her motives a secret, and one cannot help but ask: Who is Bella Garten, a.k.a. the Gardener, really? Green-thumbed storytellers James Tynion IV and Christian Ward dig deep into her past and unearth the secret origin of the latest addition to Batman’s rogues gallery. Learn not only how Bella Garten came to know Pamela Isley, but how she was integral to the origin of the woman who would one day be known to all as Poison Ivy.
Reprinted in
Batman: Fear State Saga (2022), Batman: Secret Files (2022), Batman: Fear State Saga (2023)