Dates
- Cover date
- November 2009
- On sale
- September 23, 2009
- In stores
- September 23, 2009
- Pages
- 44
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #857 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 72527430465357
This edition’s page
Story arc: Batman: Reborn
This is part 21 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 4: Rubato! · 22 pages
Batwoman battles Alice in a military plane over Gotham to prevent Alice from releasing a chemical weapon that will kill most of the people in Gotham.
- Pipeline, Chapter One / Part Four · 8 pages
The Question breaks into Chandles' mansion to find more information on the human trafficking operation he is running.
Publisher’s description
Batwoman faces off against Alice in an attempt to stop the villainess from unleashing a toxic death cloud over all of Gotham. But Alice has more up her sleeve than just poison, and Batwoman's life will never ever be the same again!
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)