

- Batman comes across Catwoman committing another burglary. Bruce worries that Batman encourages dramatic villainy.
- Catwoman smells a girl's perfume on Batman, and runs off after scratching him. Batman tries to follow, but can't as he's been drugged.
- Julie Madison is waiting outside store for Bruce. Alfred Pennyworth arrives and tells her that Bruce can't make it. Upset, Julie goes home.
- James Gordon is waiting atop GCPD for Batman. While waiting, three of Commissioner Grogan's cops arrive, and ask what he's doing. Despite claiming that's he's just out for smoke, they attack him. Batman arrives and stops them. Jim say something new has arrived and takes Batman to the morgue to see multiple bodies with their throat's ripped out and blood drained.
- Julie arrives home. Her father, Norman Madison, tells her that they need to lie low. She wonders what's gotten him so shaken.
- In a nightclub, a young woman from out of town gets chatting with another, Dala. Dala knocks the girl out with her "perfume". Dala has her loaded into a hearse.
- Dala says "Tonight, the blood moon shall be filled."


Batman and the Mad Monk, Part 1

#1 - Batman and the Mad Monk, Part 1



- Dala is leading the blood communion for the Brotherhood of Eternal Night. The Mad Monk enters and bites the victims neck, draining the blood into a chalice for the Brotherhood to drink.
- Norman Madison visits Sal Maroni to discuss his debt. To is confusion, Maroni tells him that Batman squared his debt.
- In Harvey Dent's office, Batman and Dent discuss the action against Falcone and Maroni. Batman explains that he's trying to locate a shipment of heroin Maroni lost. Dent tells him that if he can get evidence on Maroni, he can get him convicted.
- Outside Wayne Manor, Julie is on stakeout to find out what Bruce is up to. She doesn't see him leave for his supposed "business", and she doesn't believe the scratches she saw on his body him were from a rake.
- James Gordon is called to the scene of another body, Dala's victim. Batman arrives and deduces that the killings seem ritualistic. Batman takes a sample from the tired tracks they find, then leaves.
- Dala asks the Monk when she can harvest the blood. She and the rest of the Brotherhood are impatient for eternity. The Monk tells her to wait a little longer.
- In the Batcave, Batman deduces that the tire tracks are from a hearse. He also detects neurotoxins in the sample.
- Julie arrives home, were her father is acting strangely. In his dreams, Norman is being pursued by bats.
- Batman has traces the hearse to a disused factory were several delinquents are meeting, and discussing how the Brotherhood isn't delivering.


Batman and the Mad Monk, Part 2

#2 - Batman and the Mad Monk, Part 2



- Batman is interrogating on of the low-life members of the Brotherhood of Eternal Night, but they are too afraid of the Monk to talk.
- Julie Madison goes out with two of her friends. Another woman in the bar, Dala, over-hears her talking about her troubled father and gives her a business card - with the Monk's name (Niccolai Tepes) on it, claiming that her boyfriend offers confidential counseling.
- When Sal Maroni arrives back at his office, he finds Carmine Falcone waiting for him. Falcone says that Norman Madison came to him, about a debt owed to Maroni, and tells Maroni to deal with it.
- Julie comes home to find the locks changed on all the doors.
- Batman is concentrating on the missing heroin shipment, but cannot find it, and is preoccupied by the murders committed by the Monk.
- Julie goes to see Dala's boyfriend, the counselor, and finds an impressive castle as his home. Niccolai carefully listens while she explains about her father's paranoia, and that she's worried he won't admit he needs help. Julie drinks some drugged tea, and finds herself remembering the night she met Bruce Wayne. Later, Dala asks Niccolai why he let Julie go. He says it was so she can learn her father's business secrets to enrich the Brotherhood.
- Later, Julie is on a date with Bruce. She removes her scarf, revealing a vampire's bite-mark.


Batman and the Mad Monk, Part 3

#3 - Batman and the Mad Monk, Part 3



- Although none of the low-life Brotherhood thugs revealed anything to Batman, the group punishes them anyway an the Monk feeds them to his wolves.
- In Wayne Manor, Bruce researches vampire legend and makes silver batarangs.
- Across town, Julie Madison and answers her phone. The voice on the other end tells her to come to the castle. She uncharacteristcally obeys without question. Watching, Batman wonders where she'd be going after 3A.M. He follows.
- James Gordon is dreaming. He sees his family threatened, because of his association with Batman. He worries that it may come true.
- Batman follows Julie to Rallstone Castle. When he tries to sneak in, he is attacked by wolves. He subdues one, but is forced to kill the other after it wounds his leg. He binds the wound, but feels dizzy from the gas he used to subdue the wolf.
- The Monk is sucking Julie's blood when Dala interrupts to tell him that something disturbed the wolves. He tells Julie to get her father's account numbers and passwords, and goes to investigate the disturbance.
- Below, Batman triggers a trick stair, and ends up in a cell. Spikes come out of the walls, and they start to close in.


Batman and the Mad Monk, Part 4

#4 - Batman and the Mad Monk, Part 4



- The Mad Monk and Dala are looking at the trap, but they cannot see who is in it. Meanwhile, in the trap, Batman wedges batarangs under the sliding walls to slow them, then blows open the trapdoor with plastique and escapes (although with injuries from the spikes). He sees that Julie Madison's car is gone, and he leaves.
- James Gordon is waiting atop GCPD, wondering why it's taking him so long. Batman appears, injured. Gordon tells Batman that they ID'd the Monk's victims, and the only commonality: they were all only children.
- Batman checks on Julie, and finds she's sleeping peacefully. He goes home to get his wounds sorted. Norman Madison watches him leave, in paranoid terror.
- In the Batcave, Alfred Pennyworth sews up Batman's wounds while Batman researches Rallstone castle. Although he is reluctant to believe in actual vampires, he is willing to consider it.
- Norman has a talk with Julie. He tells her that he may have to do something disastrous, and gives her a copy of his will and documents about his business. He thinks that saying a possible goodbye to her was the hardest thing he's ever done, and now he has to do the second hardest. Julie scarcely notices - the Monk's treatments have left her confused and sleepy.
- The Monk and Dala are about to go to sleep when Julie arrives, with her father's bank details. The monk knocks her out, and tells Dala to summon the Brotherhood.
- Bruce wakes up from a dream about his dead parents, suddenly sure Julie is in danger. He goes back to the castle.
- At the castle, the Monk tells the Brotherhood of Eternal Night that he will now make them immortal, and the final sacrifice is Julie.


Batman and the Mad Monk, Part 5

#5 - Batman and the Mad Monk, Part 5



- The Mad Monk's vampire cult has captured Julie Madison and is preparing her for sacrifice. Batman arrives with knockout gas pouring from the Batmobile, greating thinning the attacking crowd.
- Batman fight through the crowd, throws batarangs at the monk and Dala, and reaches Julie.
- The Monk grabs a spear and a mace and attacks Batman. He soon realizes that he cannot defeat the Caped Crusader and tries to flee. Batman chases him outside into a storm, Lightning strikes the Monk and he falls from roof of the castle, seemingly to his death.
- Batman returns inside just as Dala is again preparing to sacrifice Julie, who is now fighting back. Madison strikes Dala, who falls onto her own sacrificial blade and dies. To calm the hysterical Julie down, Batman reveals his true identity.
- Meanwhile in Gotham City, Norman Madison decides to take drastic measures to get out from under the thumb of Boss Maroni. He surprising Maroni and his goons and opens fire on them with a revolver, but Madison is a bad shot. Maroni's men return fire, killing Norman.
- Some time later, Julie Madison writes Bruce Wayne a note saying she left Gotham after discovering that the death of her father was caused by his fear of Batman. She decides to get a fresh start and joins the Peace Corps in Africa.
- Meanwhile, Batman reflects and realizes that letting someone in his life was a mistake and that it should not happen again. (Yet, we see a panel with a Haly's Circus ad). There is a new threat in Gotham and Batman must continue his crusade.


Batman and the Mad Monk, Part 6

#6 - Batman and the Mad Monk, Part 6



Batman and the Mad Monk is a six-issue limited series. It is the second part of the Dark Moon Rising series. The series re-imagines the classic Gardner Fox and Bob Kane tale that was originally published in [Detective Comics #31](https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_31)-[32](https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_32).


Batman and the Mad Monk (October, 2006 - March, 2007)

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