Batman: Dark Victory
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Batman: Dark Victory is a twelve part limited series comic book story about Batman published by DC Comics, written by Jeph Loeb and pencilled by Tim Sale from 1999 to 2000. The story focus on how did Batman met Robin.
The story is set after Batman: The Long Halloween in parallel with Catwoman: When in Rome and starts in October of Batman's fourth year and ends a year later. It introduces Robin and describes the final triumph of the "freaks" (customed supercriminals) over the mobsters who run the city and the final fate of several characters introduced in Batman: Year One and The Long Halloween.
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- Batman / Bruce Wayne - He allies with Gordon and Dent bring down the organized crime and stop Holiday while dealing with his rogues gallery. As Bruce wayne he is st up by Poison Ivy to aid Carmine Falcone to get a bank account.
- Commissioner James Gordon
- Selina Kyle / Catwoman - She keeps her own mysterious agenda.
- Alfred Pennyworth -
- Dick Grayson / Robin
- Barbara Eileen Gordon - She leaves James Gordon with their son, but return around the end of the series.
- Gilda Dent - She is the ever supporting wife of Harvey Dent / Two-face, she has disappeared from Gotham City.
- Sophia Falcone Gigante - She is the right hand of her father, Carmine while havin an affair with Sal Maroni. She is aparently accidentally killed by Catwoman.
- Mario Falcone
- Alberto Falcone - With an Oxford education he is expected to succed aoutside the family bussiness, which makes him feel useless and unwelcomed.
- Tony "Fats" Zucco
- Pino Maroni
- Umberto Maroni
- Carmine Falcone - Former head of the falcone family, his body is stolen from the grave by Two-face's gang and frozen with Mr. Freeze's technology.
- Ed Skeevers
- The Hangman - A mysterioys killer that eliminates several cops involved in Harvey Dent's cases around the time he was Distric Attourney.
- Two-face / D. A. Harvey Dent
- The Joker
- The Scarecrow
- Calendar Man
- Solomon Grundy
- The Riddler
- Poison Ivy
- The Penguin - He steals from Tony Zucco and Skeevers.
- The Mad Hatter
- Police Chieff Clancy O'Hara
