Batman: Nine Lives - Tapa dura

Visit Elseworlds: where familiar characters appear in unfamiliar situations, their appearance or natures subtly altered or changed dramatically, where a tiny difference in what we know as the DC Universe can result in amazing new realities...In a 1950's noir-styled Gotham City, Selina Kyle, the "Cat-Woman", is dead. The list of suspects is huge - arrogant millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne; small-time card-sharp Jack "Joker" Napier; vicious, disfigured killer "Clayface" Hagen; timid bank clerk Edward "Riddler" Nygma; crime lord Oswald "Penguin" Cobblepot; the "Bat-Man" who is beginning to plague Gotham's criminal underworld - even a nameless "Alligator Man" who appears to live in Gotham's sewers. Can Dick Grayson, ex-cop turned "Boy Wonder" private eye, find the killer and solve the mystery of Kyle's murder? Or will he, too, find that even nine lives can run out?

Dean Motter wrote and created DC / Vertigo's Terminal City, as well as an adaptation of classic British TV serial The Prisoner, and his own Mister X. Michael Lark's work includes Airwaves and DC / Vertigo's acclaimed Terminal City.