The Ugly American is a brutal chauvinist who thinks everyone who disagrees with his twisted brand of Americanism deserves death. He's on a rampage in Gotham City, and Batman doesn't know how to stop him!

Batman isnÕt the only masked crusader in town-and Arkham Asylum has many, many cells beyond those detaining the Penguin, the Joker, and Poison Ivy. But this is not the dark, dismal Arkham Asylum of old-this modern Arkham is run by the son of the original founder, Jeremiah Arkham. He is determined to improve on his fatherÕs methods, and in doing so walks perilously close to the abyss of madness himself. Can Jeremiah cure the Dark Knight when Batman is committed to Arkham for killing a cop? Writer ALAN GRANT (DETECTIVE COMICS) joins artists TIM SALE (BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN), NORM BREYFOGLE (BATMAN), and more in these stories about the men and women in shadow-the shadow of the Bat! Collects BATMAN: THE SHADOW OF THE BAT #1-12!

Enjoy this great comic from DC’s digital archive!

Enjoy this great comic from DC’s digital archive!

Every year, on the same date, a murder is committed in Gotham—each the work of the same killer. The time has come for another victim, but Batman is determined that, this year, the killings will come to an end.

Leaves of Grass' part 1! Freed from Arkham Asylum, Poison Ivy unleashes a genetically enhanced drug on the streets of Gotham, where one of Robin's closest friends is about to become its victim.