Determining that Moxon's blimp business is a front for illegal activities, Batman pursues him in Thomas Wayne's costume after his own is damaged.
Regaining his memories and believing Batman to be Thomas' vengeful ghost, Moxon panics and runs into the street, where he is hit and killed by a truck.
[2] Lew Moxon is reintroduced into post-Zero Hour continuity as an aging mob boss with failed political aspirations who returns to Gotham City after years in self-imposed exile.
[8] During the Golden Age of Comic Books, Lew Moxon was established as the man who hired Joe Chill to kill Bruce Wayne's parents.
The canonical presence of the character is reinforced in the feature story in Detective Comics #500, "To Kill a Legend", when Batman and Robin are sent to a parallel Earth to avert the murder of that version of the Waynes.