Dates
- Cover date
- Summer 1996
- On sale
- May 30, 1996
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #5 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 07098930871862
This edition’s page
Creators
pencils: Howard Chaykin, Dick Giordano, Brian Stelfreeze, Tommy Lee Edwards, Scott McDanielinks: Tommy Lee Edwards, Wade von Grawbadger, Karl Story, John Paul Leon, Ray McCarthycolors: Melissa Edwards, Heroic Age, Mark Chiarello, Roberta Tewesscript: John Ostrander, Kim Yale, Howard Chaykin, Tommy Lee Edwards, Alan Grant, Darren Vincenzoletters: John Costanza, John Workman
Stories
- Oracle--Year One: Born of Hope · 18 pages
The origin of Oracle.
- Decoys · Lieutenant James Gordon · 10 pages
A story from when James Gordon was a cop in Chicago.
- Of Mice and Men · 10 pages
A story set during Bruce's younger days, before his parents were murdered.
Reprinted in
Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told (2005), Batgirl: A Celebration of 50 Years (2017)