Dates
- Cover date
- October 2009
- On sale
- August 26, 2009
- In stores
- August 26, 2009
- Pages
- 44
Values
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #856 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 72527430465356
This edition’s page
Story arc: Batman: Reborn
This is part 16 of 23. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Batman #687
- Red Robin #1
- Batman: Streets of Gotham #1
- The Outsiders #19
- Detective Comics #854
- Gotham City Sirens #1
- Batman #688
- Red Robin #2
- Batman: Streets of Gotham #2
- Gotham City Sirens #2
- The Outsiders #20
- Detective Comics #855
- Batman #689
- Red Robin #3
- Batman: Streets of Gotham #3
- Detective Comics #856
- Gotham City Sirens #3
- Batman #690
- Red Robin #4
- Batman: Streets of Gotham #4
- Detective Comics #857
- Gotham City Sirens #4
- Batman #691
Creators
Stories
- Elegy, Part 3: Affettuoso · 22 pages
Kate attends a party thrown by her step-mother where she meets Maggie Sawyer and also the villain Abbott. Alice and her gang capture Colonel Kane.
- Pipeline, Chapter One / Part Three · 8 pages
Renee must escape from a sinking car.
Publisher’s description
Batwoman unites with an unlikely ally to momentarily defeat the fairytale villain known as Alice. But when Kate is forced to attend a high society event, she soon finds her worlds colliding, as Alice's plans for Gotham's elite put Kate's father directly in harm's way.
Reprinted in
Batwoman: Elegy The Deluxe Edition (2010), Batwoman: Elegy (2010), The Question: Pipeline (2011), Batwoman by Greg Rucka and J. H. Williams III (2017), Batman Giant (2019), Batwoman: Elegy (2019), Batwoman Omnibus (2021)