Batman and the Monster Men

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Batman and the Monster Men is a six part miniseries about Batman published by DC Comics, written and pencilled by Matt Wagner. It is the first part of the Batman: Dark Moon Rising limited series and the story focus on Batman's first encouter with Professor Hugo Strange, one of his earliest enemies from the golden age of comics, in the current continuity.

The story is set in a period in Batman's life after Batman: Year One and the Red Hood events revealed in the flashbacks of Batman: The Killing Joke, and before Batman: The Man Who Laughs and Batman: The Long Halloween. The fate of the characters of this story is told in Batman and the Mad Monk, the second part of this series.

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• Batman / Bruce Wayne
• Professor Hugo Strange
• Julie Madison
• Sal Maroni
• Norman Madison
• Police Captain James Gordon
• Alfred Pennyworth
• Sanjai
• Commissioner Peter Groagan

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While Bruce Wayne is dating Julie Madison, a socialite law student, crime boss Sal Maroni lends money to both her wealthy father, Norman Madison, to cover some debts of his business, and to Professor Hugo Strange, who need founds for his genetic experiments. After sal sends his loan sharks to put presure on the Professor Hugo, mad scientist respods by sending one of his creatures to kill everybody at one of his gambling establishments and rob the money he would need to pay Sal off. When Sal realizes Strange might be responsible of the attacks, he sends further enforcers to pressure and intimidate the geneticist to prevent more unlikely events around the time of his next payment. However, infuriated, Strange decides to eliminate Maroni sending all his Monster men to kill him. Maroni is saved by Batman, who as a favor to Julie Madison, forced him to call Norman's debt square.

In order to protect himself from Batman, Professor Strange decides to become a public celebrity by criticizing Batman on TV.

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