Story: "Officer Down, Part Seven: The End" (23 Pages)

Credits:

Greg Rucka (plot, script)
Rick Burchett (pencils)
Rodney Ramos (inks)
Willie Schubert (letters)
Digital Chameleon (colors, color seperations)
Bob Schreck (edits)

Feature Character:

Batman

Supporting Characters:

James Gordon
Renée Montoya
Harvey Bullock
Crispus Allen
Mackenzie Bock (appointed Chief of Police)
Michael Akins (appointed Commissioner)
Stacy
Joely Bartlett
Vincent DelArrazio
Eric Cohen
Andi Kasinsky
Tommy Burke
Dagmar Procjnow

Villain:

Jordan Reynolds

Synopsis:

It's been over two weeks since James Gordon was shot by Jordan Rich, and the man responsible has walked away scot-free and is suing the city for wrongful arrest. Gordon is slowly on the mend, but has nevertheless made the decision to retire from the police force - a decision that saddens the major crimes unit and angers Bullock. Mike Akins is to take over permanently as Commissioner, with Bock receiving the promotion to Chief of Police. Detective Montoya blames herself for what happened - she and Allen had the opportunity to get Rich convicted and let the opportunity slip through their fingers.

On the roof of the GCPD building, Gordon introduces Batman to the new Commissioner. Batman does not take the news of Gordon's retirement well. The next day, Montoya calls in sick...and Bullock gets a bad feeling about it. His feeling is deserved, as Montoya makes her way determinedly to Rich's apartment. She bursts in, gun in hand, willing Rich to attack her so that she can kill him in self-defence. However, Bullock arrives and talks her out of wasting her career on a nothing like Jordan Rich, reminding her of what Gordon told them the night he was shot...that a police officer's greatest power is to deprive someone of freedom, not of life.

That night, Batman and Gordon meet at Gordon's house, coming to an understanding about what has happened. Their working relationship is over, but the two men will remain friends. Elsewhere, Jordan Rich's apartment is empty, with splashes of what looks suspiciously like blood on the floor. Unaware of this, Bullock and Montoya meet in Kelly's Plough. She complains that there is no justice, but is consoled by Bullock.

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Second Story: "Funny Money" (8 Pages)

Credits:

Harlan Ellison (plot, script)
Gene Ha (pencils, inks)
Ken Lopez (letters)
Mark Chiarello (edits)

Feature Character:

Batman

Supporting Characters:

James Gordon
Alfred Pennyworth

Villain:

Mr Sweets

Other Characters:

Packer
Kielczewski (first appearance of both; treasury agents)
Kaes Poppinger (first appearance; a master engraver)

Comment: This story takes place at an unspecified point in Batman's career.

Synopsis:

Batman is asked by Commissioner Gordon to have a few words in his office. Here he meets US treasury agents who inform him that not only has a consignment of "the paper from Dalton" (used to manufacture US currency) been stolen, but a master engraver from Switzerland has just been arrested at Gotham airport. Batman pays the engraver, Kaes Poppinger, a visit in his cell, and persuades him to tell all. Some time later, Batman, disguised as engraver's assistant Dirks Baekert, accompanies Poppinger and the plates necessary to create money to the arranged meeting point, and from here watches the progress of the plates until they have been used to print the money. He, the police and the treasury crash the scene, but it looks like the money printers are going to get away with what they've done. However, Batman directs them to a specific spot on the plates, and in one of the windows depicted on the notes, they discover a miniature Batman waving at them...they've printed 'funny money' and the law has them.