BATMAN #573

COVER TAGLINE: Shellgame: 1 TITLE: Shellgame, Part One: Gambits STORY ARC: No Man's Land RELEASE DATE: November, 1999 COVER DATE: January, 2000 WRITER: Greg Rucka ARTIST: Sergio Cariello INKER: Mark Pennington COLORS: Wildstorm FX; Pamela Rambo LETTERS: John Costanza EDITORS: Joseph Illidge; Dennis 'Denny' O'Neil; Darren Vincenzo COVER: Doug Mahnke PRICE: $2.25 U.S./$3.00 Canada CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Harley Quinn; Huntress (Helena Bertinelli); Joker; Lex Luthor; Oracle (Barbara Gordon); Robin (Tim Drake) PLOT: LexCorp moved into NML overnight to begin rebuilding Gotham City. Jobs were offered promised to anyone who would take them. Batman visited Luthor and claimed to have inside information on him. Luthor thought he was bluffing. Bruce Wayne contacted Lucius Fox about the status of their property in Gotham. Joker made his first move.

Continued From Batman: Shadow of the Bat #93 Continued In Detective Comics #740

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SUGGESTED ADDITIONAL READING: Road to No Man's Land Aftershock Cataclysm