Enjoy this great comic from DC’s digital archive!

Enjoy this great comic from DC’s digital archive!

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!

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.

A ZERO HOUR tie-in, continued from BATMAN #0. While surveying the aftermath of his decisive showdown with Azrael, Bruce Wayne looks back on his solitary youth, recalling years spent honing his body and mind for the day he would take his grief and rage to the streets of Gotham City. Continued in DETECTIVE COMICS #0.

Solomon Grundy has been sighted in Slaughter Swamp just outside Gotham City, as Batman searches for missing tourists last seen in that area.

As the 'Illusions' end, any chance Commissioner Gordon and Bruce Wayne have of proving their innocence depends on Batman's escaping the onslaught of a very eager S.W.A.T. team.