Batman: Contagion
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Cover of Batman: Contagion (1996), trade paperback collected edition. Art by Rodolfo Damaggio.
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| Publisher | DC Comics | ||
| Publication date | March – April 1996 | ||
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| Main character(s) | Batman | ||
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"Contagion" is the name of a story arc that ran through the various Batman family comic book series. It concerns the outbreak of a lethal disease in Gotham City, and Batman's attempts to combat it. The events of this story lead into "Batman: Legacy" and "Batman: Cataclysm", which itself leads into "No Man's Land". It ran from March through April 1996.
Azrael sends a report to Batman that a plague connected to the Order of St. Dumas is on its way to Gotham City. Robin finds that a private plane from has just landed in Gotham from Africa. The passenger, Peter Maris, enters his exclusive condominium complex, Babylon Towers. Believing that the plague is about to infect Gotham, he proposes to the other homeowners that they dismiss their servants and seal the building, which is entirely self-sufficient, and they agree. What Maris does not know is that he's already infected, and has passed the infection to his pilot, who joins the servants entering the city. Batman infiltrates a military facility where the Ebola Gulf-A virus, also known as "The Clench", was being studied. The military's head of research, General Derwent, has been accidentally infected and is slowly dying.
Batman and Robin checked out a possible carrier who lived in a self-sustained condo neighborhood for the extremely rich. They confirmed he had been infected and began seeking a survivor from a previous outbreak. The residents of Babylon Towers also sought this person out. They pooled their riches and hired bounty hunters. Robin and Alfred arrived in Canada to find him. Catwoman was already there.
Robin and Catwoman teamed up to find the survivor as the plague spread in Gotham City. Batman asked Azrael to follow and watch out for Robin. He and Catwoman found the survivor only to come in second to a man calling himself Tracker. He hit them from behind; Azrael appeared.
Robin tried to get the survivor to safety, but they were ambushed outside the cabin. The survivor did not survive. Robin was able to get a blood sample from him after he mentioned two other possible survivors.
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