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Batman 527

BATMAN #527

Cover Date: February 1996
Cover Price: $1.95

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Kelley Jones (signed)
Inks: John Beatty (signed)


Story: "The Face Schism" (22 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDoug Moench
PencilsKelley Jones
InksJohn Beatty
ColorsGregory Wright
Color separationsAndroid Images
LetteringTodd Klein
EditingDennis O'Neil

Feature Character(s):

Batman (last in Robin Vol. 2 #26; also in flashback to his first year as Batman)

Supporting Character(s):

Alfred Pennyworth (last in Action Comics #719; next in Batman: Shadow of the Bat #48)
Robin III (last in Robin Vol. 2 #26; next in Batman: Shadow of the Bat #48)
James Gordon (last in Detective Comics #694; also in flashback to Batman's first year; next in Catwoman Vol. 2 #31)
Sarah Essen-Gordon (in between Detective Comics #694 and #697)
Marion Grange (last in Detective Comics #694; next in Robin Vol. 2 #28)

Villain(s):

Two-Face (last in Underworld Unleashed: Batman - Devil's Asylum #1; also in flashback to Batman's first year)
Jermiston Lockhart (first appearance; head of the Lockhart Circus)
Deadeye Dagger (first appearance; a knife-thrower)
Mega-Max (first appearance; a strong guy)

Other Character(s):

Frankie (first appearance; a guard at New Arkham)
George (first appearance)
Schism the Skinner Twin (Mal and Cal; first appearance of both; conjoined twins, an attraction at the Lockhart Circus sideshow)
Big Bertha (first appearance; an attraction at the Lockhart Circus sideshow)
Skeletor (first appearance; an attraction at the Lockhart Circus sideshow)

Comment(s):

Story continues in the next issue.

Synopsis:

Two-Face makes good an escape from Arkham, and mayor-elect Marion Grange proposes to the current commissioner that she work directly for her, enabling James Gordon to return to the position. Batman catches up with Two-Face at a circus, where the villain is after a man who got away with murder, and is going to use a pair of conjoined twins to carry out his plot.


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