Batman: Nosferatu
| Batman: Nosferatu | |
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Cover to Batman: Nosferatu. Art by Ted McKeever.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Format | One-shot |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | 1999 |
| Number of issues | 1 |
| Main character(s) | Bruce Wayne Dirk Gray |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) |
Jean-Marc Lofficier Randy Lofficier |
| Artist(s) | Ted McKeever |
| Creator(s) |
Jean-Marc Lofficier Randy Lofficier |
Batman: Nosferatu is a DC Comics comic book and a Batman Elseworlds publication. It is the middle of a trilogy based on German Expressionist Cinema, proceeded by Superman's Metropolis and succeeded by Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon. It was written by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier, and illustrated by Ted McKeever. The story of Batman: Nosferatu is patterned after the classic films The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis and, to a lesser extent, Nosferatu.
Under Clark and Lois' enlightened rule, Metropolis has begun to progress. However, some resist that progress, such as Dr. Arkham, the head of an asylum, who holds "psychomantic" seances for the entertainment of the depraved rich of Metropolis. The star of these is the "Laughing Man", a white-faced, murderous creature, a prototype cyborg built by Lutor from one of Arkham's patients. Many other patients in the asylum are also experiments of Lutor, driven mad by his work. When Eschevin Gordon tries to close Arkham down, the doctor sends the Laughing Man to kill him. Attorney Dirk Grayson becomes suspicious of Arkham, but he, too, is killed by the Laughing Man. Dirk's friend, Bruss Wayne, and their mutual love-interest Barbera Gordon, are then drawn to investigate Arkham, after being turned down by the police and apparently ignored by the Super-Man and Lois, who have greater concerns that require his attention.
Wayne discovers Arkham is in league with the new Chancellor, Henderson, and that the two are manipulating the city's aristocrats via knowledge of their secrets and the shows in the cabinet. He also hears the two plotting to kill both himself and Barbera with the Laughing Man. But, during an attempted escape by the inmates in the asylum, he is captured and thrown into a great pit, at the bottom of which lie vast, sentient computers who once built Metropolis and still sustain it and watch over humanity. They turn Wayne into the "Nosferatu" and send him back to the city above.
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