Story: "Trash" (22 Pages)

Credits: Alan Grant (plot, script); Norm Breyfogle (pencils); Steve Mitchell (inks); Todd Klein (letters); Adrienne Roy (colors); Dan Raspler (associate edits); Denny O'Neil (edits)

Feature Character: Batman

Supporting Characters: Vicki Vale (in between Batman #447 and #450), Alfred Pennyworth

Villains: Tony Kruden (dies) and employees of Krudco (Kruden's company, corporate trash collectors)

Other Characters: Mike Dell (grade 8 schoolboy, dies), Harvey Dell (his father, a trash collector), Jane Dell (Harvey's wife/Mike's mother), Roy, Chally (employees of Dell's Dispo, Harvey's company; first appearance of all)

Synopsis:

Bruce Wayne has a date with Vicki Vale and watches a confrontation between Krudco, a trash firm with mob backing, and Harv Dell, an independent trash collector. That night, as Batman, he witnesses another confrontation, in which Dell's 13-year-old son is shot by one of Tony Kruden's men, and Kruden himself is killed when he falls into a trash compactor.