By Dennis O'Neil, Ed Hannigan, and John Beatty[2] Bruce Wayne and a bounty hunter climb a mountain in Alaska as they try to capture a murderer named Thomas Woodley.

By Doug Moench, Paul Gulacy, and Terry Austin Batman must contend with the brilliant but deranged psychiatrist Hugo Strange, who foments a massive smear campaign against him and attempts to uncover his secret identity.

By Dennis O'Neil, Russell Braun, Trevor Von Eeden, and José Luis García-López When Batman fails to save the life of a young girl held for ransom, he decides to try a new experimental steroid-drug designed by her father called Venom.

Note: First regular DC Universe appearance of the island nation of Corto Maltese, which was introduced in the pages of the out-of-continuity Batman: The Dark Knight Returns miniseries.

By James Robinson and Tim Sale While Batman is distracted with a serial killer who targets senior citizens, a new vigilante, the swashbuckling Cavalier, begins his own war on crime.

By Bo Hampton and Mark Kneece Batman meets another costumed vigilante from Norway who dresses like a Viking, and learns an ancient tale of a Norse hero known as the Bat Man.

By Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, and Colin MacNeil In his early days, Batman trained a female rookie cop, Mercedes "Mercy" Stone, to fight in hand-to-hand combat.

By Alan Grant and Kevin O'Neill A junkie criminal turned Arkham Asylum inmate, Bob Overdog, claims that the events leading up to his imprisonment were orchestrated by an imp from another dimension (the titular Bat-Mite) who idolizes and attempts to emulate Batman.

By Doug Moench and Russ Heath When Thomas Blake starts murdering young women, Batman and Catwoman form an uneasy alliance to stop him.

By Robert Loren Fleming and David G. Klein A highly skilled hitman whose rule is to only fire a single shot targets Batman and Gotham's other defender, the Ragman.

As a result, his insane mind returns to sanity and the Ace of Knaves forgets his bloodstained past, starting a new life as the average citizen "Joseph Kerr".

By Mark Millar, Steve Yeowell, and Dick Giordano On Christmas Eve, Batman combs the city for a gang known as "the Chessmen", who have been stealing presents from a multitude of wealthy households, including Wayne Manor.

By Paul Jenkins and Sean Phillips Batman must track down a new serial killer on the street who murders prostitutes with a crossbow, with the only witness to the case an autistic teenager.

By Dennis O'Neil and Dave Taylor When a married acrobatic couple are killed during a performance, Batman adopts their son, Dick, and trains him to become his sidekick, Robin the Boy Wonder.

Henderson, Trevor Von Eeden, and Josef Rubenstein When the Joker is broken out of Arkham by a terrorist group while Batman is working on a case in the Middle East, Captain James Gordon and Sergeant Harvey Bullock must find a way to stop the madman without the help of the Caped Crusader.

By James Robinson, Dan Brereton, and Tim Bradstreet Batman makes the foolish mistake of blindly confronting a professional mob assassin from Chicago on the latter's home turf, resulting in him suffering multiple wounds and becoming trapped in the slums of the Windy City.

By Darren Vincenzo and Luke McDonnell Following a devastating earthquake and the manipulations of Lex Luthor, Gotham City is disowned by the United States government.

By Doug Moench, Paul Gulacy, and Jimmy Palmiotti Professor Hugo Strange resurfaces and breaks Dr. Jonathan Crane (the Scarecrow) out of Arkham Asylum to terrorize Batman and Catwoman.

By Chuck Dixon, Jim Aparo, and John Cebollero Ra's al Ghul recruits the Joker in his latest scheme to kill off 95% of the world's population and the Ace of Knaves is all too happy to accept.

By Doug Moench and Barry Kitson By J. M. DeMatteis, Trevor Von Eeden, and José Luis García-López By Mike Baron and Bill Reinhold By Dwayne McDuffie, Val Semeiks, and Dan Green Batman teams up with a man who can see through the eyes of others in order to track down the leader of an underground snuff film ring.

By John Ostrander, David Lopez, and Dan Green Captain James Gordon has been kidnapped and brought back to his hometown of Chicago to be tortured into revealing the name of the last surviving eyewitness to a grisly murder.

By John Arcudi and Roger Langridge The Joker, deeming Gotham's newspapers inadequate to represent his "true self", enlists the help of Buddy Kantor, a highly eccentric comedian/filmmaker, to chronicle his exploits.

By Dwayne McDuffie, Val Semeiks, and Dan Green By Bill Willingham and Tom Fowler By Tom Peyer, Tony Harris, and Wade von Grawbadger By John Wagner and Chris Brunner By Devin Grayson, Jean-Jacques Dzialowski, and George Rodriguez By A. J. Lieberman and Greg Scott By Dylan Horrocks, Ramon Bachs, and Jon Holdredge Oracle enters a virtual world to investigate a series of murders.

Note: As it was with "No Man's Land", Legends of the Dark Knight stepped away from the usual self-contained story-arc structure for a few issues to cross over with the other Batman books for the War Games storyline.

By J. H. Williams III, Dan Curtis Johnson, and Seth Fisher When Captain Gordon refuses to give him access to GCPD files on a major criminal, Batman takes things into his own hands and assembles a private team of investigators.

By Christos N. Gage, Ron Wagner, and Bill Reinhold By Justin Gray and Steven Cummings By Bruce Jones and Ariel Olivetti By Adam Beechen, Steve Scott, and Nathan Massengill A socially awkward high school student gets more than he bargained for when he invites a date to watch Batman from a local rooftop.

By Christos N. Gage and Phil Winslade Famed assassin Deadshot returns to Gotham, following the events of Infinity Crisis, to kill a witness who is set to testify against a corrupt businessman.

By Dennis O'Neil, Jim Aparo, Keith Giffen, Malcolm Jones III, Joe Quesada, Josef Rubenstein, Tom Lyle, Ty Templeton Dan Spiegle, James Blackburn, and Michael Golden; cover artist: Mike Mignola Batman has illusions about the metaphorical "burden" he has to carry.

By Alan Grant, Barry Kitson, and Vince Giarrano By James Robinson, Steve Yeowell, and Russ Heath By Damon Lindelof and Jeff Lemire By Jonathan Larsen and J.G.

Jones By Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott By B. Clay Moore and Ben Templesmith By Steve Niles and Trevor Hairsine By T. J. Fixman and Christopher Mitten By Andrew Dabb and Giorgio Pontrelli By Jonathan Larsen and Tan Eng Huat By Joshua Hale Fialkov and Phil Hester By Jeff Parker and Gabriel Hardman By Michael Avon Oeming By Rob Williams and Juan Jose Ryp By Joe Harris and Jason Masters Technically, most of the stories in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight are in the accepted Batman continuity, albeit with a number of exceptions.