1996 in Comics: Batman: Legacy, Heroes Reborn, the Final Night, Batman: Contagion, Fire From Heaven

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Batman: Legacy" is a crossover story arc in the Batman comic book series, which is a sequel to another Batman story arc, "Batman: Contagion" and also serves as a follow-up to the "Batman: Knightfall" story arc. TagLine: "The stakes are higher than they've ever been as Batman and his outnumbered forces race to solve a riddle from the distant past that threatens to erase all of mankind's tomorrow." The story concerns the returning outbreak of a lethal disease in Gotham City, and Batman's attempts to combat it with his closest allies by discovering its origin in the Middle East. The disease is known as the Apocalypse Plague, the Filovirus, Ebola Gulf A or in its more popular nickname: The Clench. An unlikely alliance searches the world for a possible cure including: Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Oracle,...