Bruce Wainwright, a comic book-reading kid obsessed with the Caped Crusader, loses his parents in a violent crime. Young Bruce sees grief and rage build inside himself...until something strange starts taking wing in the Gotham night! Something similar to the comics he's been reading his whole life. As life begins to imitate art, will Bruce Wainwright be able to live up to his fictional namesake? This is a standalone story set outside of regular continuity in 1968 Boston, Massachusetts.

"Batman created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger" "Originally published in single magazine form in Batman: Creature of the Night 1-4."--Title page verso.