Batman #509

Dates

Cover date

July 1994

On sale

May 26, 1994

Pages

52

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #509 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Direct Sales

  Barcode 76194120005750911

  Source ↗
• Knightsend Boxed Set

  This edition’s page
• Newsstand edition

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 07098930430707

  This edition’s page

Story arc: KnightsEnd

This is part 1 of 13. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Batman (1940) #509
2. Batman: Shadow of the Bat (1992) #29
3. Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1992) #62
4. Detective Comics (1937) #676
5. Catwoman (1993) #12
6. Robin (1993) #8
7. Batman (1940) #510
8. Batman: Shadow of the Bat (1992) #30
9. Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #63
10. Detective Comics (1937) #677
11. Catwoman #13
12. Robin #9
13. Showcase '94 #10

Creators

Stories

• KnightsEnd Part 1 Spirit of the Bat · 40 pages

  Recovered from his injuries but not at full fighting strength, Bruce Wayne goes to Lady Shiva for training. He refuses to accept her insistence on killing opponents, so she frames him for the death of the Armless Master, knowing that his followers will seek Bruce out for revenge. Meanwhile, Jean-Paul as Batman is pursuing a gang of gunrunners but the pressure is getting to him and he believes that his father and Saint Dumas are communicating with him.

Publisher’s description

Bruce Wayne turns to his old foe, Lady Shiva, for help in retraining. Meanwhile, moving in on an arms dealer, Batman discovers that the perpetrator might actually be an old and deadly enemy of the Order of St. Dumas.

Reprinted in

Batman: Knightfall (1993), Batman: Knightfall (2012), Batman: Knightfall Omnibus (2017), Batman: KnightsEnd (2018)